Is the dirt full of gold dust or sumpin?
You can get 5 acres here for $200-300K.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 2:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
A neighbor of ours is rebuilding their garage and putting an ADU above it. It
is a little bit special because the garage part is surrounded with dirt on 3
sides; so those three sides are reinforced concrete. The ADU is walk in above
that; not fancy at all. Kind of a large studio for all intents and purposes.
The total building footprint is about 750-800 square feet and they're paying ~
$1600 per square foot. The cost of building up here in the hills is just
staggering.
bp
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On 8/7/2020 1:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
I blame my wife. She was the one meeting with the architect 12 years ago.
At that time we also owned the general contractor that built it. So I was not
too worried about expenses. The head guy of the contracting company stopped me
one day and said “Chuck, have you looked at those plans your wife is working
on”. Nope, I was trying hard to ignore it. We were living in a double wide on
a basement at the time and I was just fine with that. He told me I really
needed to take a look.
She had a master bedroom that could fit a tennis court I think.... I don’t
think she had much spatial awareness. I had to scale it back a whole bunch
and it is still a whole bunch too large. But I kinda like it. Not ready to
sell yet. It is my own version of the Winchester House. It has a place for a
future elevator shaft so when I get to feeble to do the stairs we have that.
It is 100% ADA compliant. Get the pool in. I have enough room for about a 125
yard driving range if I ever get that far.
But it is embarrassing. I am afraid that after I die God is gonna say:
“Chuck, do you know how may refugees you could have fed with that money”...
From: James Howard
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 1:55 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
Of course you could fit their lots in your basement garage…….
From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 2:12 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
In my area, they move out to a 5 acre plot. They end up with a house and
4.5 acres of highly flammable weeds. Then they take legal action against
land developers wanting to create more customers for me claiming 1 acre home
lots are "high density". And they claim to know what the local residents
"want". I have lived here for 20 years and they have lived here for 2 years
but they know what I want...
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:58 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
Worse are the people who move to the country then try to 'improve'
things because they know how to do it better, having lived in the city
their whole life.
On 8/7/2020 1:54 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> I also notice the real estate market is really hot right now.
>
> I'm not sure if it's low mortgage rates, or people trying to move away
> from
> Covid.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umS3XM3xAPk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com%3e On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 1:37 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:af@af.afmug.com%3e
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>
> Gee, move even farther out from the city and you will have to drill your
> own
> well and put in a septic tank.
> Even farther and you will be doing off grid solar and generators.
> Even farther you will have to commute with a helicopter.
>
> Never understood folks that move out into the country but expect city type
> of infrastructure.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Burke
> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:33 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>
> I just had a guy this week move out of the city. 'I was getting 350mb for
> what you want for 20mb, your price is too high'. I refused to move. He
> signed up anyway. Normal user traffic pattern of <5mb/s.
>
> On 8/7/2020 1:23 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>> My latest challenge (and the kids aren't even back to school yet) is
>> people wanting more upstream. Because 3 people in the house are on
>> Zoom conferences, stuff like that. Or they are live streaming events
>> on Facebook.
>>
>> The other thing, maybe a trend, I'm getting customers saying this
>> other WISP is advertising a higher speed or a lower price, and wanting
>> me to match it.
>> I think it's similar to Nate's problem, people are wanting to do more
>> things (like 3 simultaneous Zoom calls) and have more devices and
>> streaming services, but they don't want to pay more. So they shop
>> around, and want your steak to match a competitor's sizzle so they can
>> get more without paying more or doing any work.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com%3e On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
>> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49 PM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:af@af.afmug.com%3e
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>>
>> Yep, watched two partial baseball games in the last week.
>> The Houston/Arizona game had an odd audio artifact.
>> Sounded like they were broadcasting from inside a culvert.
>> It might have been a misguided effort to simulate crowd noise but it
>> was annoying.
>>
>> No pixilation here. I love that the computer now not only shows the
>> strike zone, but sometimes it calls balls and strikes as well as
>> giving the speed.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nate Burke
>> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 11:26 AM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> Subject: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
>>
>> I've seen a big uptick in traffic over the last 2 or 3 weeks. Aren't
>> major sports starting up again? I'm guessing all the people who
>> switched to streaming only over the summer are now streaming the sports.
>>
>> I've been dealing with one guy, he is on our lowest plan, and keeps
>> complaining that his sports are pixelated. And he's just gotta have
>> sports and just doesn't understand why it's not working perfect on his
>> 4k TV. I can see he's maxed the connection 'My speed test is only
>> 0.25mb and nothing in the house is running now, `still maxed traffic`,
>> well the TV is on'
>> I'm
>> guessing that the Variable bitrate codecs takes more for sports than
>> normal TV. I told him to upgrade his package, he said he didn't want
>> to spend any more money on Internet. He's on Hulu + live TV + Sports,
>> so that's already costing him more than what he's paying us, probably
>> close to what satellite costs. Then He wanted to know what TV to buy
>> to make it stream better, I told him that wouldn't help. Then he
>> wanted to know what WIFI extender to buy to make it stream better, I
>> told him that wouldn't help. But he's claims he is on a tight budget
>> and can't afford any more for internet. I told him to put up an
>> Antenna 'But then I can't get the sportsnet channel'
>> I told him to go find a new provider and stop calling me then. 'But
>> I don't like Comcast...' Tough, but I'm not talking to you anymore if
>> you're complaining about streaming. Priorities people have....
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