Posted on 05/03/2024 5:10:58 AM PDT by Libloather
My 25 year old John Deere lawn tractor is giving me electrical problems. Which I can not figure out what is wrong with it.
Also, I can not seem to get a guy over to look at it. Meanwhile, I have watched a dozen YouTube videos on how to fix it. I certainly have gotten my money’s worth out of it. It was $3300 when I bought it new in 1999.
However, the size of my lawn now takes the above 42” mower two full hours to mow. So, I may just buy a Skag 52” or 61” commercial mower. $11-12K.
Did builders forget how to build big houses?
And move where??? And pay Biden’s ridiculous capital gains taxes?
All that’s going up around me are apartments. I haven’t seen a new single unit house. It’s all apartments and town homes. You’ll own nothing and like it, or not...
'Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike will also hit many families when parents pass away,' Kartch added. 'Biden has proposed adding a second Death Tax (separate from and in addition to the existing Death Tax) by taking away stepped-up basis when parents die. This would result in a mandatory capital gains tax at death – a forced realization event.'
Lol...there’s no room left in the rented space at the gated storage facility. The good side...all of that crap is carefully boxed/labeled...and will make it easy for the kids to carry it directly to Goodwill. I predict they’ll never even open the first box.
Her Twitter (currently known as X) is locked.
“You ought to get them appraised.”
My brother and his wife who inherited the place are in the process of doing that. They’re familiar with how to research these things, and have made quite a bit of money doing that over the years.
When he bought a Singer Featherweight sewing machine for $20 at a yard sale, researched it, and sold it for a few hundred, he was severely reprimanded (by me), as I really want one? :)
There are towns throughout the U.S. with large homes on tree-lined streets. As the urban center caught up to the neighborhood, the large homes were converted to multi-family dumps and slid into ruins.
Good idea.
Condolences on your loss.
Yo Carbonaro,GFYS
Why would ANYONE give up a house on the river, with acreage, for a home in a development with an HOA? That’s just crazy to me. Hubby and I knew way back in the 80’s no way were we ever going to get a house in a development. We wanted LAND. Now have just under 2 acres, right up against a protected forest/wetland that the housing development BELOW us pays for so it stays that way. Our dog gets to play all day in the forest, chasing rabbits, etc.
They still want to have room to have their children and grandchildren over for weekends and holidays; they paid for it and they earned it.
“This is a better arrangement, comrades. More just.”
Good point.
Yeah, the way it’s written is more like an editorial than news.
I’m a landlady...surely you jest. Hopefully you were being sarcastic. Insurance has doubled, property taxes have at least doubled, maintenance/building materials/repairs again doubled. Utilities have easily tripled. I don’t think you’d want my water bill that I pay for my tenants.
I am in no way “greedy.” In fact my tenant’s units are better than the one we live in.
BINGO! And then there is the horrific tenant pool since the Eviction Moratoriums ™ All of them have Emotional Support Animals and can even feed themselves. 80 to 90 % are on some sort of assistance, are extremely entitled and try to boss you around before they even fill out an application.
They all complain about “black mold” (98% housekeeping issue) and stuff they caused. They all have terrible credit but tats, well manicured fingers, pedicures, exotic hairdos and smokes/vapes.
They all think that paying rent is optional and should be abolished. The last one I didn’t renew with literally complained that he was getting his neighbor’s mail... TO ME as an excuse to pay rent late which, in my book, is a no no unless you’re literally DEAD.
And now we have “Good Cause” which will only hurt the handful of good tenants left.
“Why would ANYONE give up a house on the river, with acreage, for a home in a development with an HOA?”
That was my mindset when Hubby decreed that we would move. (It’s good to be King, y’know.) That’s why I cried when we moved, and for weeks after that.
No way would I have gone along with that. If we both can’t agree, it doesn’t happen. My hubby occasionally expresses the desire to move to CANADA (of all places.. Vancouver Island specifically) mainly cause of his concern about Mt. Rainier blowing it’s top (pretty much in our backyard). I told him he’ll be living by himself. No freaking way am I moving to that commie country. I love my home and have no desire to move, even though I live in true blue Puget Sound.
As much as I would love to move 4 hours south to the Hill Country, it's not happening. My 3 grandkids live within 30 minutes of me, and my grandson is even closer, attending a middle school a few minutes from our house. I'm still working full time, a few more years if the health holds out.
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