Posted on 09/06/2012 7:46:29 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
Excerpt:
"After losing 70 percent of their business in the housing crash, the nation's home builders are breaking ground again....."
They forgot to mention that it is the LEGAL immigrants that went back to Mexico, due to lack of work.
Most ILLEGALS stayed!
Perfectly stated!!!
It’s hard to compete with the welfare system - seems that not working pays quite well these days. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Yeah, those homes.
“Home Builders Don’t Have Enough Workers to Meet New Demand”
They mean illegal “coolies” from south of the border willing to work for 8-10 dollars an hour in the building trades.
You know, all those trades “anybody” can do.
My niece’s hubby is in construction in Ventura. Same there, he barely works and it has been that way for years.
They are building 3 new single family homes right behind us. They recently sold 3 new ones and as they sell one they start another. So they are building again but cautiously. The days of building an entire subdivision first and selling it later are gone.
Translation: Homebuilders Anxious Again to Exploit Illegal Immigration (so that McMansions are “affordable housing” again).
Wound up taking a gig through Lowes or HD (don't remember). He's doing Kitchen and Bath renovations. Last time I saw him, he said that he had more work than he knew what to do with. People are renovating what they've got, rather than buying all new.
There’s one less in this area.
A senor Chavez was driving drunk and ran over a two year old, breaking her leg and causing internal injuries.
Making bail in three days, he failed to appear for an initial hearing and a warrant was issued.
“Defense attorney John Quirk on Wednesday told Judge Vorhees he could not account for why his client had failed to appear for the initial hearing.”
“Quirk added he and Chavez, who apparently speaks Spanish, have had some communication difficulties.”
And still we can't find enough minimum wage labor!
Oh, the humanity!
By the way...
Remember the first day of registration for the DREAM Act?
Huge mobs waiting in parks, thousands of people lined up, Hard Left political placards, joyous gloating...
Then...
Haven't seen ONE photo or read ONE story about the DREAM Act since that first shocking day.
We're only one election away from blanket Amnesty.
Then Texas turns Blue.
Then American Conservatism dies a slow, painful political death.
Look at it this way, if the choice is between buying a house that’s been owned by someone who’s underwater, or foreclosed upun (and possibly sitting vacant) and building new, what path would you take?
I recently moved, and out of 60+ houses I looked at only two weren’t crap, with most having what I would term serious neglect if not outright malicious damage by the previous owners. Of the two remaining both were very well kept, with one being too small and the other ( which I bought) just about perfect.
If I hadn’t landed the near-perfect house, I absolutely would have built.
These lying reporters already have their job and to keep it they must continue to lie. Shame on them.
Same is happening behind us....but, they are CHEAPER spec homes OR being built FOR a particular buyer.
I understand that in some of the country business is certainly picking-up for construction. And i am grateful for that and glad for those peole and our country. I was recently in Wisconsin and surprised to see hardly any foreclosures and new construction taking place. But here in California - not so much. I primarily do custom homes for individuals on their property , and that has almost completely stopped. I have been through many of these down-turns in my 34 years of running my own business . And I always have faith in it to turn around if the government will simply get out of our way. Unfortunately, here in California - that will not happen. I am 56 and married, and my wife has a good job and will not leave it till retiring. At this time she is still not interested in me moving to another state to work. Meanwhile i have adjusted and do whatever remodel and repair work that comes along.
This election is hugely important. We would be seeing a much different economic picture by now if the government didn't have it's foot on the throats of business.
Some areas such as mine are slowly recovering even with all of what is going on. Our recovery would be much faster with a different group in power.
"They don’t have the luxury of that now," says John Courson, CEO of the Home Builders Institute, an industry training group. "They want workers that are available to them, that come out trained with a skill, and ready to hit the ground working. They don’t want the expense of on the job training.”
Suck it up and train, greedy whiners. (Maybe the guy you train will be a customer some day.)
Welfare only applies to people with children or migrants.
Maybe the shortage is due to a crackdown on illegal aliens.
Unless they have a buyer lined up with an approved mortgage or are financing the construction costs themselves then no one is going to loan them a red cent towards speculation builds now.
It use to be you could get financing for an entire subdivision easier than a duplex it seemed, now its darn near impossible to get a building loan even when you own the land outright and have 15% to put towards it.
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