Golden Jubilee
Posts: 8937
Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:45 pm
Location: Canada's left Coast
Re: A Non IH Truck Video
My wife and getting around $3 an hour and I was at $7.76. There was no extra money for restaurants and holidays so we both took all of the overtime that was offered. Our first priority was to pay the mortgage off.
The guy next door bought into the 'hood nearly 30 years ago at about $100K. He replaced the original two bedroom house with a 7 bedroom, 7 bathroom two floor brown and black trimmed monster with two basement suites he now rents out. He said he expects to get over three million dollars when he sells. Good luck to him.
The real-estate prices in this area are what they are because of wealthy offshore "investors" willing to pay and getting into a bidding competitions. It is not uncommon for a million dollar asking price to get bid up by several hundred thousand dollars and an extra million for the right location.
The only way to win in this market is to be the first person to sell and leave this area. Those who choose to sell and relocate have inflated the real-estate prices along the way as they moved east and to Vancouver Island.
The neighborhood has changed from neighbors greeting neighbors and the occasional block party to high fences with power gates and monster houses bristling with CCTV cameras and motion detection lights. One of my new neighbors walked down the lane to tell me to stop watching "us" . I had never seen this person until this visit. "She". Has a CCTV camera focused on my garage because, as she says, " I don't like Harley bad boys". I offered her a beer and some Tim Bits and I got F bombed. The chocolate Tim Bits go the best with an IPA from Black Kettle Brewing. It is very unlikely she will ask to borrow my tools. LOL.
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