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Default what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:55:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
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On 4/21/2021 7:18 AM, G Ross wrote:
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
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On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM,
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
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On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich
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Came across a lovely word describing all the materials you find
along the way, aka "salvage", thinggummies, doohickeys, junk,
'parts',
yard sale score, "it was just sitting there with a 'Free' sign", I
could use that for something some day - "Obtainium".

Now I'm wondering if there is an antonym, for when you have too
much obtainium and are downsizing. It's still good for something,
but
you have no room for it, anymore.
Dumpster
We're going to be moving, it will be smaller, some of it can find
new homes, other is just too "specialized" as to be easily
"rehomed".
SMBO is wondering why we have such a big house (3600ft^2) but I
remind
her that she wants a formal dining room, a large kitchen and master
bedroom, and space for a lot of tools. We really don't need five
bedrooms but one is over the garage so doesn't really count.

Basements are hard to come by here. Hell, everything is hard to come
by now. A realtor told her that there were only 27 homes worth buying
in a neighboring county (don't know about ours). Three homes went up
for sale in our neighborhood and were sold before the sign was
planted.

My son is a real estate agent in Las Vegas. Bottom line is that if
you don't
put in a full asking price, cash offer with no contingencies your
offer won't
make the cut. Much of it is Covid related. Most people just don't
want to
sell at this time. He said that the normal 6 months worth of
inventory is
down to about 2 weeks. I'm hearing the same thing about my area.

It's at least partially covid related.* The other motivator is money
at less than 2%. To your point, Clark Howard on his podcast said the
60% of home sales were over the Internet.* Sight unseen.* That's up
from 50% last year and 40% from the year before.* The buyer's attitude
is that if they don't like the house, they'll just turn around and
sell it.

Interest rates are favorable but are being offset in the home prices
going up, way up, on a twice a week basis from new home builders.
My wife and I went into contract with a builder in September of last
year. 2 weeks later the builder canceled the contract because he
could not get materials at a price point to afford him the profit
margin he wanted.* The builder literally canceled all contract builds
and is only selling spec homes.* Those spec homes are going up 20% in
price from the beginning of the build to completion, 3/4 months.

Over 30 years, three or four (or six) percent adds up to some real
money. I see all sorts of new builds going well before completion.
Many are sold before breaking ground.* I'm sure it's not only
materials going up faster than the homes can be built but there has to
be a shortage of subs and subs are having trouble finding the trades.

We probably could have fought this in a back logged court system but
we were not willing to risk less than what we were expecting,
construction quality wise.

Or a delay until the next century.


And yet the houses in our are cannot be built fast enough.* I see a
housing crash, similar to the one in 2008, on the horizon.* Once the
government stops sending every one stimulus checks that building boom
may slow.

Oh, so do I but I think it's going to be far harder.* This time maybe
not so much for the buyer as the lender.* At 2% interest now, lenders
are going to be in a squeeze if/when interest rates go to 5% or (maybe
far) above.

I had more or less the same attitude when I bought this house in 2011.
I needed someplace to live. I was working as a contractor at the time
with some promise of permanent employment.* The market in 2011 more
than sucked and I bought a foreclosure so in the worst case I thought
I'd lose less on the house than I would on the $1500/mo x 12months
that I was paying for rent, if anything.* My wife was still living in
the old house because she needed to continue at her old job (that
insurance thing).

About the same here but we built in late 2010 and moved in Dec. 24,
2010.* Our house appreciated in value about 50% thru September of
last year, almost 10 years.* In the last 5~6 months its value has
gone up to about 60% more than what we paid.

Ours is up almost 150% from what we paid (we actually bought in early
2011).

Think about taxes.* Our old house was valued at $130 thousand in 2019,
and $189 thousand in 2020 with taxes going up comparably. I filed a
protest and got it down to
$140,000. This is just county taxes.



Yeah taxes are a big consideration.


My taxes are about the same as they were then, or maybe a little less.
We're both over 65 now. ;-)