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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:49:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By denverdan: I've got a truck/RV combo I'll sell ya. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:55:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By eagarminuteman: JLP3 is too busy saving for a few more harbor freight tarps and bear deterrent  |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:56:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Live-Free: Everything jonny762 says is true. I am one of the larger landlords in Findlay, OH and sit on the mayor's "immigration task force" that is trying to deal with this situation. Recent immigrants are stressing our town's resources. We simply don't have the housing, schools, medical capacity, transportation, funding, etc. and are struggling to handle the influx. Many are from Haiti as well as Central and South America. 80% of the people contacting us to rent an apartment or house do not speak English. We see about 25 Haitians per day. That is really incredible for our little rural town of 40,000. Some of you asked what is drawing them here. Jobs. The policies out of Washington create situations where Americans don't have to work anymore to live and eat, so local factories are hurting for labor. Surprise, Washington also has a solution -- open borders. A temp agency out of Dayton is literally bringing Haitians by the truckload to Findlay. For the time being they are largely housing them in Lima and Toledo and commuting them to Findlay daily for work. Hundreds and hundreds of them (possibly thousands) also live in the local lower-end motels in sad conditions. Our quiet little town has become a border town. Well there it is, OP. Get the fuck out of Findlay |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 11:05:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mudholestomper: The part he failed to acknowledge is that, yes, minimum wage isn’t $4.25 as it was 30 years ago. It’s a whole $7.25.  Minimum wage hasnt been $7.25 since 2015 here. Not sure what you've got going in texas. It's been at least $10 since 2021. |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 11:35:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: but why move to OH? at least move somewhere enjoyable for a few years. then once saddled with crippling debt, a job you hate, and kids then move to the rust belt. This comment hurt my feelings 
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:25:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:34:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By STJ: You want nice, start thinking $2k plus Very dependent on area. I'm sure it doesn't take 2000 a month in Ohio. |
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ID, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:46:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Giltweasel: Minimum wage hasnt been $7.25 since 2015 here. Not sure what you've got going in texas. It's been at least $10 since 2021. Its $7.25 here in Idaho |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:48:25 AM EDT
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Minimum wage in Ohio is $10.45/hr
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Posted: 4/29/2024 1:46:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OregonShooter: Looks like a great place to be... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_crime_JPG-3200980.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_diversity_JPG-3200981.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_work_JPG-3200983.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_housing_JPG-3200984.JPG I used to live in a city with similar stats. I lived in an apartment complex that went through a transformation almost exactly like what OP described. Rent went up by higher percent than OP's, got very diversified. The rest of the town looked better than that Stat sheet. |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:23:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Precious87: I'm about as riled up as a sleeping cat Did I use the word "feelings", don't think I did. @jeffg have a beer man, or a lemonade, settle down and relax a bit. Best of luck to you and I mean that. |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:24:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Precious87: @jeffg and I will be here all night, please put a tip in the jar. Like. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:31:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jeffg: Only an idiot rents a place to live. So I downsized and sold my home and I am now renting a condo. Renting gives me the freedom to do what I want when I want or to pack up and move somewhere on a whim. 
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:36:03 AM EDT
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$650 / month
1990's called and want your post back In the very expensive NoVA, I don't think you can get a room for that much. all the aparments are 2000/month and they are pretty much what you describe. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 6:41:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Twitchy: Rent that cheap is sure to attract people that don't value their own neighborhood. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:05:54 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By cmw: **** Picked one at random and it last sold for $25k less than 4 years ago - listed now at $82,500 -The down payment he'd need to avoid PMI is only 66% of that previous sale price- So don't worry everybody - Bootstraps! Nothing has changed. It's kind of irrelevant what it sold for 4+ years ago. Those numbers are only good for complaining about it now, and pointing out how it would have been better to have been an owner than a renter over the past 4 years. People have several choices, sit on the side lines or get in the game. Today's prices and rates are what we have to deal with. Period. Higher rent or a house payment. With 10 million illegals in the past several years and more coming, all needing a place to live. And they're not moving into the middle and upper end of the real estate market. They are taking up everything at the bottom, therefore raising demand and prices. And what do you think rent will be in another couple years? I still think the OP should buy a place. If necessary, rent a room or two out to some college kids to make it work. Or get a sugar momma. And just think if he had bought four years ago, he'd be sitting on 50K+ in equity, with a rate around 3%. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:09:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: OH is cheap. a shitty studio in a bad part of town in montucky is at least $1300/mo. Try Zootown. Most people are paying as much or more for rent as I pay for my mortgage. 
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:09:38 PM EDT
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Under $1100 a month payment. Rent the other room out for $4-500 a month.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1518-Parkside-Pl-Findlay-OH-45840/78975086_zpid/ |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 4:16:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MADMAXXX: I owned my home for many years then decided I was tired of doing home maintenance, lawn maintenance, etc. So I downsized and sold my home and I am now renting a condo. Renting gives me the freedom to do what I want when I want or to pack up and move somewhere on a whim. I had too much to drink yesterday, sorry if I offended anyone. @MADMAXXX |
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LA, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 4:27:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jonny762: It blows my mind that $825 is considered cheap for rent now. Mind you, when I moved in three years ago this was one of the higher end places in town at $650 (advertised as "luxury apartment homes"). I didn't think I'd have any issue finding another place under $800, but times they are a-changin' I guess. I am paying $850, +2 to 6 hours of yard work this time a year, to rent one of the units in my mom's triplex. I have the one in the back with the yard. The other two are going for $1000 and $1400. All the other buildings on the street are running between $1100 - $1500. ... and they still have attracted a bad element! Rent has been going up here ever since Hurricane Katrina and it doubled after Hurricane Ida. All three of us got a rent increase when insurance premiums doubled. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 10:52:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: not_sure]
[#21]
It happens
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Posted: 4/30/2024 10:56:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JoeJeeps: Of course not. You've actually been quite lucky to be living as cheaply as you have been. $800/mo was "fairly nice" for a 1 bedroom apartment 25 years ago. It has to be absolutely terrible now. My advice: double or triple your budget and get a roommate. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JoeJeeps: Originally Posted By jonny762: Didn't start saving until too late, didn't get while the gettin' was good. Live alone. Found a fairly nice place three years ago for $650. Lease is up at the end of next month. So now I have 30 days to find a new place. I go online and filter under $800, which is about my price point, and there's basically nothing. Of course not. You've actually been quite lucky to be living as cheaply as you have been. $800/mo was "fairly nice" for a 1 bedroom apartment 25 years ago. It has to be absolutely terrible now. My advice: double or triple your budget and get a roommate. I was paying $850 for a duplex with 2 bedrooms, a basement with washer and dryer and a 1 car garage in early 2011. Far western burbs of Chicago. (then I bought a house) I doubt OK is going to be more expensive unless you are downtown OKC. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:12:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OregonShooter: Looks like a great place to be... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_crime_JPG-3200980.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_diversity_JPG-3200981.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_work_JPG-3200983.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_housing_JPG-3200984.JPG They seem to like rape.  (insert blazing saddles meme here)
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:22:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OregonShooter: Damn Ohio is cheap. Here is a low-mid level apartment in Portland, OR https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/apartments_JPG-3200472.JPG |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:32:19 PM EDT
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With your $800-ish budget you should be able to find a nice room for rent in an actual house, especially in the Midwest.
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Posted: 5/1/2024 7:56:20 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Alacrity]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By slappomatt: probably close to double that for San Diego. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By slappomatt: Originally Posted By OregonShooter: Damn Ohio is cheap. Here is a low-mid level apartment in Portland, OR https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/apartments_JPG-3200472.JPG It's not Portland or San Diego Findlay is a small (45k pop) market, an hour away from major metros. Marathon Oil legacy companies (MPC, what else hasn't moved to Houston and elsewhere), Cooper Tire, Sanoh America are the big employers. Ohio in general was dirt cheap at one time. That's changed - for a good bit in Major markets and it's now seeping into surrounding. During a recent run of a number of years you were seeing double digit rent increases in the majors. Large MSA in Ohio shake down like this anymore for a two bedroom. Lowest quartile is under $1100, 50% in the middle $1100-1600, top quartile is over $1600. A Class assets in desirable sub-markets in a city like Columbus - is tough to find under $2k. Smaller markets and rural are less for obvious reasons. It's been good for for the industry as most assets have been able to reinvest and upgrade appointment and amenities. I'm sure shockergd has benefited, tho it makes easy acq a bit harder. Many assets being upgraded a class or two over the last few years, For renters, there's very little low rent options any longer. Even small, older (pre '80) assets (75 units or less) have been snatched up, improved and re-tenanted. You've easily had some assets quadrupling their asking rents over the last 15-20 years. It's a bit softer right now, but demand is still high, new product isn't out of line with demand (as you've seen with some Texas and Florida markets) so rent increases will merely slow to maybe 4-5% this year. Once Intel comes on line the north-eastern corridor of Columbus will see some additional heightened interest. It's already seen strong movement. The rest of the State should continue with its solid run, unless some serious economic issues emerge. Keep in mind this rent run initiated with the early 2000s financial crisis, so there's not always a correlation.  Attached FileThis is a new development in lease up not far from Intel tho not in New Albany or Johnstown proper. OP - I'm not sure the answer since the markets have moved upwards pretty comprehensively. Best bet might be find a small holder with sub market rents who will value a good tenant. Treetop has a good suggestion. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 5/1/2024 8:02:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: OH is cheap. a shitty studio in a bad part of town in montucky is at least $1300/mo. I then realize I can put up with her shit for at least another decade, until my kid is an adult
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Posted: 5/1/2024 8:06:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LRShooter: It's kind of irrelevant what it sold for 4+ years ago. Those numbers are only good for complaining about it now, and pointing out how it would have been better to have been an owner than a renter over the past 4 years. People have several choices, sit on the side lines or get in the game. Today's prices and rates are what we have to deal with. Period. Higher rent or a house payment. With 10 million illegals in the past several years and more coming, all needing a place to live. And they're not moving into the middle and upper end of the real estate market. They are taking up everything at the bottom, therefore raising demand and prices. And what do you think rent will be in another couple years? I still think the OP should buy a place. If necessary, rent a room or two out to some college kids to make it work. Or get a sugar momma. And just think if he had bought four years ago, he'd be sitting on 50K+ in equity, with a rate around 3%. Buying a house at current interest rate is dumb. A single dude would be better off living in a van and getting a gym membership for shower access. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 8:30:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheRX7Project: Every once in a while when the wife is REALLY pissing me off, I'll do a craigslist search for apartments. I then realize I can put up with her shit for at least another decade, until my kid is an adult 
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Posted: 5/1/2024 10:24:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brasscrossedrifles: Buying a house at current interest rate is dumb. A single dude would be better off living in a van and getting a gym membership for shower access. Interest rates under what we have now were an abnormality over the past 100 years. These are low rates. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 10:35:09 AM EDT
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Renting to third world booger eaters is all part of the plan. They're probably not even citizens, or even thinking about citizenship.
I've watched numerous neighborhoods that used to be fairly nice, nothing fancy, but you could let your kids play outside, turn into violent third world shitholes in the last 30 years. It's depressing, and it's all part of the plan. Socialism is the feudalism of the future. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 10:38:30 AM EDT
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You need to go over to that tiny house thread that the GD millionaires were pooping in.
When Biden wins in Nov because of all your apartment complex mates and their voter cards, you’re gonna wish you lived in the boonies. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 10:46:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OregonShooter: Looks like a great place to be... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_crime_JPG-3200980.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_diversity_JPG-3200981.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_work_JPG-3200983.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/76/findlay_housing_JPG-3200984.JPG @OregonShooter What website did you use to generate these stats, please? |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 10:52:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LRShooter: Interest rates under what we have now were an abnormality over the past 100 years. These are low rates. Either prices (compared to inflation and how wages track with it) have to go down, or interest has to go down, or its the wrong time to buy a house. If neither go down we are in a lot of trouble, but that's probably the case anyway. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 11:09:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brasscrossedrifles: Either prices (compared to inflation and how wages track with it) have to go down, or interest has to go down, or its the wrong time to buy a house. If neither go down we are in a lot of trouble, but that's probably the case anyway. @killerb6 |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/1/2024 11:12:31 AM EDT
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Is there any place left to run to?
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Posted: 5/1/2024 11:27:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: gonna get worse before it gets worse.gif @killerb6 B**mahs have assured me that everything is fine and the only reason buying a house would be stupid for me right now is because I don't work enough OT. (I'm on week 11 of a 4 week hitch working 84 hour weeks) |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 11:41:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brasscrossedrifles: Either prices (compared to inflation and how wages track with it) have to go down, or interest has to go down, or its the wrong time to buy a house. If neither go down we are in a lot of trouble, but that's probably the case anyway. Oh, were definitely in a lot of trouble. Why do you think all of these corporations are buying up a large part of the lower end of the market and turning them into rentals. A bunch of them will be filled with illegals with some sort of government voucher paying for it. You want lower prices. Send all ten million of them home. H1B visas as well. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 12:55:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AR15Texan: Is there any place left to run to? |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 12:55:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brasscrossedrifles: B**mahs have assured me that everything is fine and the only reason buying a house would be stupid for me right now is because I don't work enough OT. (I'm on week 11 of a 4 week hitch working 84 hour weeks) i feel that, homie. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 1:56:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pj1016: @OregonShooter What website did you use to generate these stats, please? https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/findlay-hancock-oh/ |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 2:24:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By OregonShooter: Originally Posted By pj1016: @OregonShooter What website did you use to generate these stats, please? https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/findlay-hancock-oh/ Thanks. Forgot all about Niche. Used it some years ago when I was researching universities for my sons... |
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USA
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Posted: 5/1/2024 3:26:59 PM EDT
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Raising rent and you lost the pool.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/1/2024 3:29:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brasscrossedrifles: B**mahs have assured me that everything is fine and the only reason buying a house would be stupid for me right now is because I don't work enough OT. (I'm on week 11 of a 4 week hitch working 84 hour weeks) Gen X here, I'm on year 30 of a lifetime sentence of 84-90 hour weeks. Only difference b/t us is, I never knew that wasn't normal so it hasn't been too hard on me mentally. I just keep on keepin' on. Physically, that's another story.
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Posted: 5/1/2024 3:29:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LRShooter: Oh, were definitely in a lot of trouble. Why do you think all of these corporations are buying up a large part of the lower end of the market and turning them into rentals. A bunch of them will be filled with illegals with some sort of government voucher paying for it. You want lower prices. Send all ten million of them home. H1B visas as well. And shut the Fuck!n' gate behind 'em! |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 3:50:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: -CUJO-]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MADMAXXX: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/522423/20210513_083724-2148308.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/522423/20210513_083646-2148306.jpgI pay less than $600 for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath pool view with balcony, furnished condo less then 2 blocks, 8 minutes walk to the beach. I [/[[/img]img]also just pay $40 a month electricity and $20 water.f[/img]https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/522423/20210513_084400-2148324.jpg How are the schools that your kids go to? How is your primary care doc, Optometrist, dentist, etc.? Do your parents live close by so you can give them a hand if they need you? Are your lifelong friends nearby if you need a hand with anything? Support network close by? Good colleges or trade schools to go to? Just kidding. . . Beautiful place! |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 9:03:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RedAngus: Gen X here, I'm on year 30 of a lifetime sentence of 84-90 hour weeks. Only difference b/t us is, I never knew that wasn't normal so it hasn't been too hard on me mentally. I just keep on keepin' on. Physically, that's another story. I'm only working like this because I'm doing the job my field uses as hazing for kids that just graduated college. It's actually a pretty easy job 99% of the time. Busy, but not particularly hard usually. After I get promoted I'll have a job where I just have to wake up and drag my laptop onto my breakfast in bed tray while my wife makes me a coffee. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 9:05:18 PM EDT
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84-90 hour weeks?
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Posted: 5/1/2024 9:06:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TaskForce: 84-90 hour weeks? Correct. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/1/2024 9:14:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrHelper: Well there it is, OP. Get the fuck out of Findlay Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrHelper: Originally Posted By Live-Free: Everything jonny762 says is true. I am one of the larger landlords in Findlay, OH and sit on the mayor's "immigration task force" that is trying to deal with this situation. Recent immigrants are stressing our town's resources. We simply don't have the housing, schools, medical capacity, transportation, funding, etc. and are struggling to handle the influx. Many are from Haiti as well as Central and South America. 80% of the people contacting us to rent an apartment or house do not speak English. We see about 25 Haitians per day. That is really incredible for our little rural town of 40,000. Some of you asked what is drawing them here. Jobs. The policies out of Washington create situations where Americans don't have to work anymore to live and eat, so local factories are hurting for labor. Surprise, Washington also has a solution -- open borders. A temp agency out of Dayton is literally bringing Haitians by the truckload to Findlay. For the time being they are largely housing them in Lima and Toledo and commuting them to Findlay daily for work. Hundreds and hundreds of them (possibly thousands) also live in the local lower-end motels in sad conditions. Our quiet little town has become a border town. Well there it is, OP. Get the fuck out of Findlay Well, there it is indeed. If you have anything decent open up under $800 I have excellent credit and references, shoot me a PM. I wouldn't be surprised if you know my boss. |
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