OK, let’s lay this out… I would certainly defer to Clay on the details, but having friends who both currently and formerly live(d) in the Sea-Tac region, it’s been described to me as anything property-wise within a reasonable distance (100 miles?) to the area on the western slopes of the Cascades borders on unobtanium unless you’re grossing many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
The expansion of Microsoft in the past as well as the influx of Amazonians in recent years has blown out the property market to stupid proportions. Many of these folks are bailing out and heading east to places like Idaho, driving markets like Boise into overdrive as well. -D > On May 14, 2019, at 2:16 PM, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > "Near" is a relative term, in this case, relative to forced servitude in > frozen AK winter, with zero access to Mercedes, parts, PNP's, or DIY > pleasures. The thought comes that perhaps a shift of residence to an out > lying area with better access to a shop building could be a life adventure > worthy of taking. Sale of the in city property at current value, perhaps, > could finance such adventure. > Just a thought. Since moving all the boxed Mercedes "Stuff" is already > mandated [apparently] .... why not"really move it" to a place workable. > > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:56 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> I doubt there is such a thing in close proximity to Clay. Seattle is much >> like San Francisco, with property values of all types skyrocketing to >> amounts that would make your head spin. >> >> -D >> >> >> >>> On May 14, 2019, at 1:40 PM, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Somewhere near your house there must be an industrial building for cheap >>> rent that would serve as a suitable Mercedes hobby place, has ample parts >>> storage, a fenced area for parking "cars in progress", room for a car >> lift, >>> garage doors, and decent electric supply to run a welder, lights, and air >>> compressor. >>> Seems that might be a viable work around with the project insulted >> spouse? >>> Move everything "Mercedes" to the "new shop", go to "work" every day, >> doing >>> what you love and want to do. Put a glitz polish on the house [landscaper >>> scheduled once a week, house cleaner scheduled once a week, to keep >> spouse >>> content, when she comes by] >>> Marital bliss + doing what you love to do... almost as good as winning >> the >>> lottery? >>> [New shop, of course located not in frozen north of AK] >>> >>> Just a thought. Might be cheaper than a divorce lawyer to rent a suitable >>> shop. >>> >>> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:27 AM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Ah, so that is the issue. You might have got away with it if you had not >>>> started filling bedrooms in the house. >>>> >>>> Randy >>>> >>>> >>>> On 13/05/2019 7:06 PM, Clay Monroe via Mercedes wrote: >>>>> Randy >>>>> >>>>> that is the issue, the garage, basement and two bedrooms are storage >>>> space for all the “spares” I accumulated. A bunch of it was “upgrades” >>>> that were upgraded in turn, seats, relays, carpet, trim, tool kits, >>>> manuals, and bins of many things, the 20 and 30 gallon sort of bins, >>>> stacked. Shelves lined. An indoor iteration of Okie Acres I fear. It >>>> needs to find new homes, and I need to stay in therapy to get over the >>>> collection bug. >>>>> >>>>> clay >>>>> >>>>>> On May 13, 2019, at 8:34 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < >>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Can you get a storage bin somewhere and keep your spare parts? Or, at >>>> least keep the more important stuff in a garage, or basement etc so that >>>> the living space looks presentable for SWMBO? >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
