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How do you find cheap land like this? I would love to own 20 unimproved acres in rural Washington.
Umm, Zillow with the right filters. All the 20 acre plots you want for $20K. You better have a vehicle with some ground clearance.
I just built a home. One thing I noticed: Some builders are really stupid about reading the market and knowing what people are willing to pay. They load homes up with luxury features and then wonder why their homes sit vacant. My builder has a vacant home in my neighborhood. He ran Ethernet to all rooms, and put in other silly features, and just couldn't comprehend why his price was too high.
> He ran Ethernet to all rooms, and put in other silly features Isn't this normal by now? My house is only a few years old but wasn't particularly expensive. When I bought it, it was already wired up with ethernet - I just had to replace the wall plates (they were RJ11 outlets instead of RJ45) and hook up an ethernet switch. From what I've seen of other homes, it appears to be common for electricians to use ethernet…
I am quite convinced it would be possible to build a pleasantly-looking development of $25,000 sale-value housing at 50 or 70 miles away from the urbanized area and connect it with a fast transit rail to the main urbanization. Empty land should be cheap. Buyers should be plentiful. The reason why this does not happen, is because the bureaucracy prevents it. There seems to be a strong political necessity to make accom…
$25,000 can EASILY be spent, and triple that, just on getting well water, septic and electrical services to a rural property. I could buy 20 acres in Okanogan county WA right now for $18,000 but it'll be at the end of a dirt road, with no sewer, no water, and looking at $30k to extend grid electrical to it (or build a $20k off-grid photovoltaic system). I'm guessing from your comment that you've never actually done t…
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> He ran Ethernet to all rooms, and put in other silly features Isn't this normal by now? My house is only a few years old but wasn't particularly expensive. When I bought it, it was already wired up with ethernet - I just had to replace the wall plates (they were RJ11 outlets instead of RJ45) and hook up an ethernet switch. From what I've seen of other homes, it appears to be common for electricians to use ethernet…
Because 90% of non-tech people don't like wires. Nobody runs ethernet cables to all their devices. They don't want to have to worry about an Ethernet switch in the basement or a closet. Having a Wi-Fi router/cable modem in the bedroom is the most they want to worry about. With wireless networking they can have their devices wherever they want, without extra wires.
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So would I, since wired networking is my jam. But I get the point the GP is making. The pool of potential buyers who would appreciate the value of that additional investment is small and (presumably) only getting smaller with time. Anecdote: I realized how out of the mainstream I was when recently viewing a video produced by a high-profile gamer on Youtube showing off the specifications of his desktop gaming rig via…
Modern 5ghz wireless can fully saturate most home broadband connections, and if a good router is used, the added latency is trivial. If the house isn't already wired for CAT5, wireless makes sense.
Still, for me, I can't fathom investing the kind of money this fellow had on a gaming rig to then pair it with wireless networking. The scenario in brief: On one hand, I've opted for a blistering no-compromises frame rate, but on the other, I am tolerating a few more milliseconds of lag. Does not compute.
I remember enjoying the analysis that Riot did comparing wireless and wired gaming [1]. The chart showing the percentage of players using wired versus wireless at each of their ranking tiers is especially interesting.
In my home, I use Ubiquiti UniFi wireless access points. Comparing my workstation (wired) with my laptop (wireless, situated about 10 feet from an access point), pings to Google are delayed ~1.5ms by wireless with a few more random hiccups. Is that a big deal? No, not really for me. But then, I don't really game nor do I have dual RTX 2080s.
[1] https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/ethernet-vs-wifi-ping...
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> The Federal Reserve (which orchestrates interest rates to manage inflation and achieve full employment [two of its mandates]) is not part of the US government Yes, it is. It's established by US statute, its board of governors is appointed by the President, and its personnel are paid by the US government. It is not considered part of any of the usual three branches of the US government (legislative, executive, judic…
To be fair you are both right. The board of directors is appointed by government officials and the bank was established by the Federal Reserve Act. The bank is also privately owned and not by any government. I learned this because a technology director at the Dallas bank works with me in our side job.
I just built a home. One thing I noticed: Some builders are really stupid about reading the market and knowing what people are willing to pay. They load homes up with luxury features and then wonder why their homes sit vacant. My builder has a vacant home in my neighborhood. He ran Ethernet to all rooms, and put in other silly features, and just couldn't comprehend why his price was too high.
How expensive is Ethernet to all rooms? That decision strikes me as a no brainer for any newly built house. Even if no one actually wants Ethernet in all rooms, it guarantees that Ethernet is present in the particular room(s) that the eventual buyer will want it in. And it will still be present in the particular room(s) that the next buyer will want it in. In contrast, if a room is missing Ethernet, it would be far m…
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Even as a DINK millennial couple with a combined low six figure income a home purchase feels like a poor investment. Not only the down-payment of $100k+ but the property tax increases and then having to pay that mortgage for 30 years. Since we expect mobility and a certain level of future uncertainty it just doesn’t make sense for us and many more of our generation to tie ourselves to such and expensive geographic an…
You can rent out that investment if you move. Paying rent is also expensive where home prices are expensive.
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Almost everyone thinks a crash is coming. There has never been a crash where almost everyone has seen it coming. Therefore there will not be a crash at least in the near future. Prices might pullback but it won't be a crash.
Bitcoin? Everyone saw that coming.