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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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. 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". -- pyotr filipivich "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know." Groucho Marx |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On 4/18/2021 6:07 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
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. 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". That would be hoarding. There IS unobtainium, but it means something different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: 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. 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". donatritus donate + detritus John T. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: 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. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
pyotr filipivich wrote in
: 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote in : 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper The opposite is Unobtainium. The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. The new normal is for the seller to put a date/time in the listing stating when all offers will be reviewed. Anyone interested puts in their offer, the seller and listing agent sit around a table at that date/time and pick the one they like the best. My son just (this weekend) signed a contract to buy a house that he is going to turn into an Airbnb. It never really even hit the market. He spoke to the listing agent as soon as he got the alert and the agent said "Write up your offer and I'll get it right over to the seller for his signature." (My son already owns a house that is a full-time Airbnb and he basically hasn't had an empty night since November 2020. It covers all his expenses and still returns some profit.) There's a trick to this "full asking price, cash offer with no contingencies" game. The laws, at least where he lives, heavily favor the buyer. Even though a buyer might not put a home inspection in the contract as a contingency, there are usually words related to "due-diligence" in the contract. Essentially, the buyer has (typically) 48 hours to get out of the contract for any reason. What my son did was have one of his inspector friends "on call" to be available within 48 hours of the contract signing. His friend inspected the house and found some issues. My son sent a repair request to the sellers agent along with a request to extend the due-diligence period until "both buyer and seller agree that the repair request has been fulfilled". If the seller didn't agree to the request (he did) they could have negotiated further or my son could have walked away. Now it's just a matter of having the repairs done to my son's satisfaction or he can still get out of the contract. And of course there's the final walkthrough just before closing to ensure that the property is still the "same" as what he has contracted to buy. It's a tough market right now, no matter where you live. It helps if you know how the game is played. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. 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). The new normal is for the seller to put a date/time in the listing stating when all offers will be reviewed. Anyone interested puts in their offer, the seller and listing agent sit around a table at that date/time and pick the one they like the best. No bidding war? In some places, once a full-price offer with no contingencies is made, the house is "sold". That rarely happens though. My son just (this weekend) signed a contract to buy a house that he is going to turn into an Airbnb. It never really even hit the market. He spoke to the listing agent as soon as he got the alert and the agent said "Write up your offer and I'll get it right over to the seller for his signature." (My son already owns a house that is a full-time Airbnb and he basically hasn't had an empty night since November 2020. It covers all his expenses and still returns some profit.) Good deal if you can swing it. I know there a lot of those at beaches and such. Most are through VRBO, or some such. We've rented a few over the years. It's a whole lot better than a timeshare! There's a trick to this "full asking price, cash offer with no contingencies" game. The laws, at least where he lives, heavily favor the buyer. Even though a buyer might not put a home inspection in the contract as a contingency, there are usually words related to "due-diligence" in the contract. Essentially, the buyer has (typically) 48 hours to get out of the contract for any reason. What my son did was have one of his inspector friends "on call" to be available within 48 hours of the contract signing. His friend inspected the house and found some issues. My son sent a repair request to the sellers agent along with a request to extend the due-diligence period until "both buyer and seller agree that the repair request has been fulfilled". If the seller didn't agree to the request (he did) they could have negotiated further or my son could have walked away. Now it's just a matter of having the repairs done to my son's satisfaction or he can still get out of the contract. And of course there's the final walkthrough just before closing to ensure that the property is still the "same" as what he has contracted to buy. I'm surprised that with a market that hot, that the seller didn't tell him to put the offer where the sun don't shine. When we sold our previous house, we sold with as a purchased house with a one-year lease. I had my attorney draw up the contract such that they bought the house but that were deferring full payment for a year (for a price $2500 x 12). An issue came up with a retaining wall (just a pile of boulders, really) washing down. They wanted to back out but I reminded the agent that we had a contract and that they'd already bought the house. We ended up fixing it, just as it was before (no requested improvements). Essentially, we had a "forever" warranty on it because it had come down once before after we were in a couple of crossfire hurricanes. ;-) It's a tough market right now, no matter where you live. It helps if you know how the game is played. There is *so* much building around here right now that when the next bubble bursts it's going to make 2008-2012 look like a picnic in the park. I'm sure glad that I've already burned my mortgage. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:43:34 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote: pyotr filipivich wrote in : 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper The opposite is Unobtainium. The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for something that you can't get rid of. ;-) |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:48:35 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. 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). The new normal is for the seller to put a date/time in the listing stating when all offers will be reviewed. Anyone interested puts in their offer, the seller and listing agent sit around a table at that date/time and pick the one they like the best. No bidding war? In some places, once a full-price offer with no contingencies is made, the house is "sold". That rarely happens though. It's happening all the time these days, at least where I live and in Vegas where my son works. Some people are submitting offers over full price, hoping to win when that specific date/time review of all offers is done. My son put in an offer on a different house last week. Full price, no contingencies, pre-approved mortgage commitment letter showing about 10% down. He came in second to the exact same offer except their mortgage commitment letter showed 20% down. 20%, 10% or 0% down *shouldn't* matter to the seller since there was a commitment letter for more than the selling price in both cases. The fact that the other buyer's offer looked more "solid" (?) than his, was enough for his offer to be rejected. It was basically a toss up, so the seller had to use something to tip the scales. He choose the one with the higher down payment. My son just (this weekend) signed a contract to buy a house that he is going to turn into an Airbnb. It never really even hit the market. He spoke to the listing agent as soon as he got the alert and the agent said "Write up your offer and I'll get it right over to the seller for his signature." (My son already owns a house that is a full-time Airbnb and he basically hasn't had an empty night since November 2020. It covers all his expenses and still returns some profit.) Good deal if you can swing it. I know there a lot of those at beaches and such. Most are through VRBO, or some such. We've rented a few over the years. It's a whole lot better than a timeshare! SWMBO and I stay at Airbnb's all the time now. She hates hotels. Family get- togethers for Christmas and vacations are all at Airbnb's too. SWMBO and I will sometimes get an Airbnb just a few hours away so we can spend the weekend hiking in some park or going to a museum, crafts show or concert. We recently stayed at a small-town church that has been converted to 4 Airbnb apartments, 2 up, 2 down. Based on the outlines of the pews that could be seen on the wainscoting, it was obvious that the bed was "on the alter". Yes, that was a little weird. ;-) My son's place was recently featured in a VRBO Facebook promotion. Airbnb, VRBO, booking.com...you can list your property on multiple platforms. Gorgeous Las Vegas home with RV parking https://www.vrbo.com/2155063?noDates...unitId=2719599 There's a trick to this "full asking price, cash offer with no contingencies" game. The laws, at least where he lives, heavily favor the buyer. Even though a buyer might not put a home inspection in the contract as a contingency, there are usually words related to "due-diligence" in the contract. Essentially, the buyer has (typically) 48 hours to get out of the contract for any reason. What my son did was have one of his inspector friends "on call" to be available within 48 hours of the contract signing. His friend inspected the house and found some issues. My son sent a repair request to the sellers agent along with a request to extend the due-diligence period until "both buyer and seller agree that the repair request has been fulfilled". If the seller didn't agree to the request (he did) they could have negotiated further or my son could have walked away. Now it's just a matter of having the repairs done to my son's satisfaction or he can still get out of the contract. And of course there's the final walkthrough just before closing to ensure that the property is still the "same" as what he has contracted to buy. I'm surprised that with a market that hot, that the seller didn't tell him to put the offer where the sun don't shine. The seller has already moved out and needs to sell. Obviously the selling agent wants to close the deal, so agent-to-agent, he let my son know that he wants to move this along. Most of the repair issues are small enough that my son asked for $1500 off of a $350K offer. However, one was a big one - one that it turns out the seller knew about but didn't fully disclose. His disclosure doc had the "No" box checked for plumbing issues but a handwritten note in the "If any Yes box is checked, please explain" saying this: "water leak outside seller fixed" (that's word for word, I saw the document.) That confused both my son and the inspector, so they made sure to take a hard look at the plumbing. When they got to the house, the main shutoff inside the house was off. They turned it on and got no water into the house. They shut it off to be safe and went outside to check the shut off at the street. It too was off. The meter for the house is in between the street shut off and the inside shut off. When they turned the street valve on, the meter started turning. :-O Turns out that there is a leak between the street shutoff and the interior shut-off. When my son mentioned this to the selling agent, he was told that the seller had already arranged for the leak to be repaired, not expecting the house to sell immediately upon listing. We'll see. My son stipulated in the repair request that the repair was to be done by a licensed contractor. He's trying to avoid a a duct tape fix that's going to fail right after he closes. As of now, we don't know if it's as simple as a leak in the irrigation system or if the driveway/ front yard needs to be ripped up. Whatever they tear up has to be returned to at least the same condition as what my son signed the contract for. If it's not, he will negotiate further or walk. When we sold our previous house, we sold with as a purchased house with a one-year lease. I had my attorney draw up the contract such that they bought the house but that were deferring full payment for a year (for a price $2500 x 12). An issue came up with a retaining wall (just a pile of boulders, really) washing down. They wanted to back out but I reminded the agent that we had a contract and that they'd already bought the house. We ended up fixing it, just as it was before (no requested improvements). Essentially, we had a "forever" warranty on it because it had come down once before after we were in a couple of crossfire hurricanes. ;-) It's a tough market right now, no matter where you live. It helps if you know how the game is played. There is *so* much building around here right now that when the next bubble bursts it's going to make 2008-2012 look like a picnic in the park. I'm sure glad that I've already burned my mortgage. I've got a small low-interest HELOC left on my house that I could pay off right now if I wanted to, but I'm making more on my investments than I'm paying on the loan. SWMBO's birthday is coming up in a few months so I'm going to have her sit down at the computer and click the button to transfer the payoff amount first thing that morning. That'll make her happy. ;-) |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:50:01 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:43:34 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote: pyotr filipivich wrote in : 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper The opposite is Unobtainium. The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for something that you can't get rid of. ;-) It's actually a multi-word phrase: https://[your-city-name-here].cr...uff/search/zip They tell me that Facebook Marketplace has a free stuff section too. I've given away lots of stuff on CL, stuff not worth "selling". The emails come in almost immediately after posting. Within minutes sometimes. Some folks post "curb-alerts" when they put stuff out for the waste haulers. '"Come look before Thursday!" |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:57:00 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:50:01 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:43:34 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote: pyotr filipivich wrote in : 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper The opposite is Unobtainium. The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for something that you can't get rid of. ;-) It's actually a multi-word phrase: https://[your-city-name-here].cr...uff/search/zip They tell me that Facebook Marketplace has a free stuff section too. I've given away lots of stuff on CL, stuff not worth "selling". The emails come in almost immediately after posting. Within minutes sometimes. Some folks post "curb-alerts" when they put stuff out for the waste haulers. '"Come look before Thursday!" Some of the free stuff on Craig's List is worth getting if it's close enough. Most of the "bad" UPS units just need batteries. The last two UPS units that died here (true death, not batteries) were replaced with Craig's List freebies. I've also gotten the occasional battery powered tool - guess some people can't find batteries at anything other than "List" price - on the other hand, I've also rebuilt some battery packs. There was this hand vacuum that used a 10.8 volt stack of Ni-MH cells and a 12.6 volt charger and I had a new laptop battery (3s3p lithium) arrive DOA. Seller replaced the bad laptop battery and I salvaged 6 cells from it for a 3s2p pack for the hand vacuum. A $2 BMS (20 Amps for the startup current to the motor) took care of the lithium battery voltage limits during charge and discharge and the new pack is twice the AH of the old one. The lithium pack is 11.1 volts nominal and the charge voltage is 12.6 so everything was close enough to work like new. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:45:38 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich ... No bidding war? In some places, once a full-price offer with no contingencies is made, the house is "sold". That rarely happens though. It's happening all the time these days, at least where I live and in Vegas where my son works. Some people are submitting offers over full price, hoping to win when that specific date/time review of all offers is done. My son put in an offer on a different house last week. Full price, no contingencies, pre-approved mortgage commitment letter showing about 10% down. He came in second to the exact same offer except their mortgage commitment letter showed 20% down. 20%, 10% or 0% down *shouldn't* matter to the seller since there was a commitment letter for more than the selling price in both cases. The fact that the other buyer's offer looked more "solid" (?) than his, was enough for his offer to be rejected. It was basically a toss up, so the seller had to use something to tip the scales. He choose the one with the higher down payment. That makes perfect sense. I agree, it *shouldn't* matter but there is a higher probability of "shouldn't" happening to someone with more than 20% down. With the 80-10-10s. and all, there are three lenders to screw things up. My son just (this weekend) signed a contract to buy a house that he is going to turn into an Airbnb. It never really even hit the market. He spoke to the listing agent as soon as he got the alert and the agent said "Write up your offer and I'll get it right over to the seller for his signature." (My son already owns a house that is a full-time Airbnb and he basically hasn't had an empty night since November 2020. It covers all his expenses and still returns some profit.) Good deal if you can swing it. I know there a lot of those at beaches and such. Most are through VRBO, or some such. We've rented a few over the years. It's a whole lot better than a timeshare! SWMBO and I stay at Airbnb's all the time now. She hates hotels. Family get- togethers for Christmas and vacations are all at Airbnb's too. SWMBO and I will sometimes get an Airbnb just a few hours away so we can spend the weekend hiking in some park or going to a museum, crafts show or concert. We recently stayed at a small-town church that has been converted to 4 Airbnb apartments, 2 up, 2 down. Based on the outlines of the pews that could be seen on the wainscoting, it was obvious that the bed was "on the alter". Yes, that was a little weird. ;-) Rosemary's baby weird. ;-) |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:45:38 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:48:35 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: ... I'm surprised that with a market that hot, that the seller didn't tell him to put the offer where the sun don't shine. The seller has already moved out and needs to sell. Obviously the selling agent wants to close the deal, so agent-to-agent, he let my son know that he wants to move this along. Most of the repair issues are small enough that my son asked for $1500 off of a $350K offer. However, one was a big one - one that it turns out the seller knew about but didn't fully disclose. His disclosure doc had the "No" box checked for plumbing issues but a handwritten note in the "If any Yes box is checked, please explain" saying this: "water leak outside seller fixed" (that's word for word, I saw the document.) That confused both my son and the inspector, so they made sure to take a hard look at the plumbing. When they got to the house, the main shutoff inside the house was off. They turned it on and got no water into the house. They shut it off to be safe and went outside to check the shut off at the street. It too was off. The meter for the house is in between the street shut off and the inside shut off. When they turned the street valve on, the meter started turning. :-O Turns out that there is a leak between the street shutoff and the interior shut-off. When my son mentioned this to the selling agent, he was told that the seller had already arranged for the leak to be repaired, not expecting the house to sell immediately upon listing. We'll see. My son stipulated in the repair request that the repair was to be done by a licensed contractor. He's trying to avoid a a duct tape fix that's going to fail right after he closes. As of now, we don't know if it's as simple as a leak in the irrigation system or if the driveway/ front yard needs to be ripped up. That sounds bad. Really bad. The irrigation system shouldn't be between the shutoffs or at least there should be a valve on the irrigation system. Whatever they tear up has to be returned to at least the same condition as what my son signed the contract for. If it's not, he will negotiate further or walk. It's difficult to unzip a lawn and zip it back closed without it showing. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:28:16 -0400, ads wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:57:00 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:50:01 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:43:34 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote: pyotr filipivich wrote in : 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper The opposite is Unobtainium. The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for something that you can't get rid of. ;-) It's actually a multi-word phrase: https://[your-city-name-here].cr...uff/search/zip They tell me that Facebook Marketplace has a free stuff section too. I've given away lots of stuff on CL, stuff not worth "selling". The emails come in almost immediately after posting. Within minutes sometimes. Some folks post "curb-alerts" when they put stuff out for the waste haulers. '"Come look before Thursday!" I've heard that putting it out on the curb with a $10, whatever price, is a good strategy. Some won't take free stuff. "If it's free it can't be any good." ...then hope they steal it. Some of the free stuff on Craig's List is worth getting if it's close enough. Most of the "bad" UPS units just need batteries. The last two UPS units that died here (true death, not batteries) were replaced with Craig's List freebies. I've also gotten the occasional battery powered tool - guess some people can't find batteries at anything other than "List" price - on the other hand, I've also rebuilt some battery packs. There was this hand vacuum that used a 10.8 volt stack of Ni-MH cells and a 12.6 volt charger and I had a new laptop battery (3s3p lithium) arrive DOA. Seller replaced the bad laptop battery and I salvaged 6 cells from it for a 3s2p pack for the hand vacuum. A $2 BMS (20 Amps for the startup current to the motor) took care of the lithium battery voltage limits during charge and discharge and the new pack is twice the AH of the old one. The lithium pack is 11.1 volts nominal and the charge voltage is 12.6 so everything was close enough to work like new. I just threw away a bunch. I don't like NiMH batteries. I've had horrible luck with them. The rebuilt units have been the worst. The self-discharge is so bad that they're dead when I want to use them. A few recharges from there, and they're dead. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
Puckdropper on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:13:07 GMT
typed in rec.woodworking the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I want to hassle with it. Like I said, not much resale value in pallet wood. But I will keep it in mind. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... If it works ... B-) I'd been saving scrap brass & copper "cause I know I can find a use for it sometime." Well, some time came, and I sold it for gas money. "Okay, that works." I heard a story of the guy who had one Jeep on a trailer behind his New Jeep. New Jeep engine seized, so he swapped jeeps and headed home. Gets in an accident, his jeep is totaled. Buys it back from the insurance company and parts it out. Files a claim for the engine (under warranty), gets a bigger engine installed. End of the month, he's got a bigger engine in New Jeep, he's parted out the old jeep and is ahead a thousand bucks. -- pyotr filipivich This Week's Panel: Us & Them - Eliminating Them. Next Month's Panel: Having eliminated the old Them(tm) Selecting who insufficiently Woke(tm) as to serve as the new Them(tm) |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
DerbyDad03 on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:57:00 -0700
(PDT) typed in rec.woodworking the following: The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for something that you can't get rid of. ;-) It's actually a multi-word phrase: https://[your-city-name-here].cr...uff/search/zip They tell me that Facebook Marketplace has a free stuff section too. I've given away lots of stuff on CL, stuff not worth "selling". The emails come in almost immediately after posting. Within minutes sometimes. I have a cartoon of the guy at the dump, getting ride of his junk, picking up some "perfectly good stuff" - 'that's why they call it recycling.' Some folks post "curb-alerts" when they put stuff out for the waste haulers. '"Come look before Thursday!" -- pyotr filipivich This Week's Panel: Us & Them - Eliminating Them. Next Month's Panel: Having eliminated the old Them(tm) Selecting who insufficiently Woke(tm) as to serve as the new Them(tm) |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 9:20:54 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:45:38 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:48:35 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: ... I'm surprised that with a market that hot, that the seller didn't tell him to put the offer where the sun don't shine. The seller has already moved out and needs to sell. Obviously the selling agent wants to close the deal, so agent-to-agent, he let my son know that he wants to move this along. Most of the repair issues are small enough that my son asked for $1500 off of a $350K offer. However, one was a big one - one that it turns out the seller knew about but didn't fully disclose. His disclosure doc had the "No" box checked for plumbing issues but a handwritten note in the "If any Yes box is checked, please explain" saying this: "water leak outside seller fixed" (that's word for word, I saw the document.) That confused both my son and the inspector, so they made sure to take a hard look at the plumbing. When they got to the house, the main shutoff inside the house was off. They turned it on and got no water into the house. They shut it off to be safe and went outside to check the shut off at the street. It too was off. The meter for the house is in between the street shut off and the inside shut off. When they turned the street valve on, the meter started turning. :-O Turns out that there is a leak between the street shutoff and the interior shut-off. When my son mentioned this to the selling agent, he was told that the seller had already arranged for the leak to be repaired, not expecting the house to sell immediately upon listing. We'll see. My son stipulated in the repair request that the repair was to be done by a licensed contractor. He's trying to avoid a a duct tape fix that's going to fail right after he closes. As of now, we don't know if it's as simple as a leak in the irrigation system or if the driveway/ front yard needs to be ripped up. That sounds bad. Really bad. The irrigation system shouldn't be between the shutoffs or at least there should be a valve on the irrigation system. Thus the reason for the "both buyer and seller agree that the repair request has been fulfilled" clause and the final walk through just before closing. My son wants this house, but he doesn't need it. If this water issue doesn't get resolved to his satisfaction, he'll walk. Whatever they tear up has to be returned to at least the same condition as what my son signed the contract for. If it's not, he will negotiate further or walk. It's difficult to unzip a lawn and zip it back closed without it showing. Lawn? In Las Vegas? ;-) In this case it would just be a matter of putting the rocks back in place. BTW...He refers all of his clients to this inspector. On the inspection report, the inspector had 2 line items: Inspection: Quantity 1 at $275 each Discount: Quantity 55 at $5 each |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On 4/18/21 7:07 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. 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". Effluvium Removium |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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 2012). The new normal is for the seller to put a date/time in the listing stating when all offers will be reviewed. Anyone interested puts in their offer, the seller and listing agent sit around a table at that date/time and pick the one they like the best. No bidding war? In some places, once a full-price offer with no contingencies is made, the house is "sold". That rarely happens though. In Texas, the offer has to be accepted. Normally several offers are considered before a contract is signed. My son just (this weekend) signed a contract to buy a house that he is going to turn into an Airbnb. It never really even hit the market. He spoke to the listing agent as soon as he got the alert and the agent said "Write up your offer and I'll get it right over to the seller for his signature." (My son already owns a house that is a full-time Airbnb and he basically hasn't had an empty night since November 2020. It covers all his expenses and still returns some profit.) Good deal if you can swing it. I know there a lot of those at beaches and such. Most are through VRBO, or some such. We've rented a few over the years. It's a whole lot better than a timeshare! There's a trick to this "full asking price, cash offer with no contingencies" game. The laws, at least where he lives, heavily favor the buyer. Even though a buyer might not put a home inspection in the contract as a contingency, there are usually words related to "due-diligence" in the contract. Essentially, the buyer has (typically) 48 hours to get out of the contract for any reason. What my son did was have one of his inspector friends "on call" to be available within 48 hours of the contract signing. His friend inspected the house and found some issues. My son sent a repair request to the sellers agent along with a request to extend the due-diligence period until "both buyer and seller agree that the repair request has been fulfilled". If the seller didn't agree to the request (he did) they could have negotiated further or my son could have walked away. Now it's just a matter of having the repairs done to my son's satisfaction or he can still get out of the contract. And of course there's the final walkthrough just before closing to ensure that the property is still the "same" as what he has contracted to buy. I'm surprised that with a market that hot, that the seller didn't tell him to put the offer where the sun don't shine. The Las Vegas economy is all but non existent, at the moment. Probably a good time to buy on spec. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:23:57 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:49:55 -0400 typed in rec.woodworking the following: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:43:34 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote: pyotr filipivich wrote in : 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... Puckdropper The opposite is Unobtainium. The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar. Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for something that you can't get rid of. ;-) Yep. The sort of stuff that if you knew someone who could use it, you'd just give it to them. Like the lawn mower engine, the portable propane fired generator, the son of hibachi, and the cardboard core from a shipment of enameled steel (for making white board.) The gas engine works, I don't know about the propane generator, I've two of the hibachis, and what do you do with a cardboard tube four feet high and two feet in diameter? I've got a 150% of my needed chisels, more pens that I can use, but I don't know where they all are. I just donated a set of high price strap on knee pads because the possibility of me ever doing any tile or other floor work is near zero. Oh, and anyone want several open packages of laminated flooring? Fnord, there's a lot of things I could use, but as step one is "Move everything out" -and if I'm going to do that, why move back? You sound like a hoarder. ;-) I have way too much stuff. I've been going through boxes and throwing away anything that doesn't have special meaning and hasn't been used (and still in the box from the last move). Can you have too many chisels? |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:23:57 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: Puckdropper on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:13:07 GMT typed in rec.woodworking the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I want to hassle with it. Like I said, not much resale value in pallet wood. But I will keep it in mind. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... If it works ... B-) I'd been saving scrap brass & copper "cause I know I can find a use for it sometime." Well, some time came, and I sold it for gas money. "Okay, that works." I heard a story of the guy who had one Jeep on a trailer behind his New Jeep. New Jeep engine seized, so he swapped jeeps and headed home. Gets in an accident, his jeep is totaled. Buys it back from the insurance company and parts it out. Files a claim for the engine (under warranty), gets a bigger engine installed. End of the month, he's got a bigger engine in New Jeep, he's parted out the old jeep and is ahead a thousand bucks. Sounds like a lot of work for $1K. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. -- G Ross |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On 4/21/2021 7:18 AM, G Ross wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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.Â* 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.Â* Sight unseen.Â* That's up from 50% last year and 40% from the year before.Â* 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.Â* The builder literally canceled all contract builds and is only selling spec homes.Â* 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.Â* 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.Â* I see a housing crash, similar to the one in 2008, on the horizon.Â* 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.Â* This time maybe not so much for the buyer as the lender.Â* 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.Â* 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.Â* 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.Â* Our house appreciated in value about 50% thru September of last year, almost 10 years.Â* 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.Â* 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. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:18:58 -0400, G Ross wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. As long as all evaluations rise together, there shouldn't be a problem. Vermont had one (and the only one I can think of now) thing they did right. They had a so called "Grand List" that enumerated every bit of real estate and its evaluation. Then costs of government. Your taxes were then (cost of government) * (your assessment) / Grand list. As housing prices rose, the rates fell accordingly. In theory. Unfortunately the cost of government, primarily schools, is so high that the taxes are outasight (at least 4x my current taxes). |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:55:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote: On 4/21/2021 7:18 AM, G Ross wrote: wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. ;-) |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:19:08 AM UTC-4, G Ross wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. -- G Ross Mixed blessings. Less taxes paid, fewer services available. I know that services aren't always provided/used on a equitable basis, but it would tough to complain about those roads that aren't getting fixed at the same time people are protesting their assessment. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:36:14 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:19:08 AM UTC-4, G Ross wrote: wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. -- G Ross Mixed blessings. Less taxes paid, fewer services available. I know that services aren't always provided/used on a equitable basis, but it would tough to complain about those roads that aren't getting fixed at the same time people are protesting their assessment. OTOH, schools aren't teaching anything useful yet cost 2/3rds of the taxes paid. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:39:59 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: on Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:32:33 -0400 typed in rec.woodworking the following: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:23:57 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: Puckdropper on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:13:07 GMT typed in rec.woodworking the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. 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". I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I want to hassle with it. Like I said, not much resale value in pallet wood. But I will keep it in mind. You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a box.... If it works ... B-) I'd been saving scrap brass & copper "cause I know I can find a use for it sometime." Well, some time came, and I sold it for gas money. "Okay, that works." I heard a story of the guy who had one Jeep on a trailer behind his New Jeep. New Jeep engine seized, so he swapped jeeps and headed home. Gets in an accident, his jeep is totaled. Buys it back from the insurance company and parts it out. Files a claim for the engine (under warranty), gets a bigger engine installed. End of the month, he's got a bigger engine in New Jeep, he's parted out the old jeep and is ahead a thousand bucks. Sounds like a lot of work for $1K. Maybe it is. But you know how it goes, a thousand here, a thousand there, pretty soon you're talking real money. A day here and a day there, pretty soon you've taken your whole life. There's always more money to be had. Never more life. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 3:14:19 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:36:14 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:19:08 AM UTC-4, G Ross wrote: wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. -- G Ross Mixed blessings. Less taxes paid, fewer services available. I know that services aren't always provided/used on a equitable basis, but it would tough to complain about those roads that aren't getting fixed at the same time people are protesting their assessment. OTOH, schools aren't teaching anything useful yet cost 2/3rds of the taxes paid. Right, so let's protest our assessments so we can lower our school taxes too, further degrading the quality of our educational system. Then we can complain about how terrible our educational system is and bitch about how little we are getting for our tax dollars. It's OK, my daughter and her partner will just dig deeper into their pockets to buy basic supplies for their students. Then they can load the supplies into their cars and drive to school on the crappy roads that didn't get repaired because we all protested our assessments to lower our county taxes. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:59:07 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 3:14:19 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:36:14 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:19:08 AM UTC-4, G Ross wrote: wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:40:02 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote: On 4/19/2021 2:48 PM, wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:36:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:07:05 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: 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. -- G Ross Mixed blessings. Less taxes paid, fewer services available. I know that services aren't always provided/used on a equitable basis, but it would tough to complain about those roads that aren't getting fixed at the same time people are protesting their assessment. OTOH, schools aren't teaching anything useful yet cost 2/3rds of the taxes paid. Right, so let's protest our assessments so we can lower our school taxes too, further degrading the quality of our educational system. Then we can complain about how terrible our educational system is and bitch about how little we are getting for our tax dollars. Exactly. There is nothing *to* fund but we're being charged *enormously* for that nothing. Protest either/both sides. It's OK, my daughter and her partner will just dig deeper into their pockets to buy basic supplies for their students. Then they can load the supplies into their cars and drive to school on the crappy roads that didn't get repaired because we all protested our assessments to lower our county taxes. It has nothing to do with supplies or anything else tangible. There is no interest in teaching kids anything. The purpose of "education" is to enrich unions (not teachers) and indoctrinate (not teach) children. Answer me this - why is civics no longer taught, when "Heather has Two Mommies" is? Or, how our mathematics scores are among the lowest in the western world, and getting worse. Speaking of "western world", why is that such an evil thing in education today. When I was living in Vermont, the state education site (since buried) had statistics for the state education system. The student to "classroom teacher" ratio was 15:1. Not unreasonable. But there was also one "non-classroom TEACHER" for every two classroom teacher. That makes the teacher/student ratio more like 7.5:1. Then, for every two "teachers" there was also a teacher's aid. Now it's more like 3-5:1. That's just teachers. It doesn't include administration. Now, tell me again how that's "not enough money" to teach our little darlings. Yeah, our education taxes are too low. |
what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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what's the opposite of "Obtainium"?
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