Well Clay, It was a great idea while it lasted... ha.. So much for brilliant advise, huh.
Seems to the casual observer [myself] that a move of some sort is in your future. Glad you avoided unwilling hold in psych ward. That would cut into your parts hunting trips in a big way. Grant "I used to be rich. I spent most of it on fast cars, young women, and old whiskey, the rest I squandered." On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:19 PM Clay Monroe via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I am having issues with the MacPro and mail. It does not want to send > mail using the iPhone as hotspot. My interwebs were canceled when I left > town. Lucky for me, the macbook still does mail. > > ANYWAY. > There is nothing within any reasonable distance that would serve as “work > space” for working class person money. I know a fellow who was in the same > situation as I am about four years ago. His work around was to cash part > of his retirement and purchase a small town garage. This way he gets to > play with his mercedes, and the shop works on customer cars that may not be > DBAG. He has no children and a very understanding partner. He drives 30 > miles from his suburban home to the garage in the next county. > > Seattle does not suffer from a dearth of clapped out properties. There > are all manner of brown fields and thrashed commercial structures. > Property is stupid expensive and property owners think they will hit the > lotto if they hold onto land. A great amount if the spaces are in less > than desirable areas, so they will be paying taxes for a while. > > My home has appreciated very much. Last assessors notice was for more > than 5x our purchase price. With the added remodel costs, it is still > over three times our investment in 25 years. > > SWMBA is on the path to off loading the house as soon as my stuff is > removed. She will then be removing the accumulation furniture and dross > acquired while married. Her home in AK has no space to take it. I would > like to have my tools. > > clay monroe > > > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what > I'm looking for didn't fall out. > > > > > On May 14, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Possibly. It’s not so much that there’s development, just that land > prices in general have just gone crazy because of the influx of highly paid > professionals into the area. I’m betting Clay could sell his house right > now for many times over what he’s got in it. > > > > What the people I know there say is that as far as private housing you > better have a big chunk of change ready to plop down on something when it > comes on the market, and expect a bidding war. I can’t speak for commercial > property, but in situations like this I would expect it to be much the same > unless the area it’s in is really nasty. > > > > Let’s see what Clay says….he’ll be the one that knows for sure. > > > > -D > > > > > >> On May 14, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 14/05/2019 1:37 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > >>> 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 > >>> > >> > >> But, might there be temporary places he could rent cheaply while they > await development? > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> 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
