DavisStraight
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A few years back when I first moved into my home my neighbors kid has a party, I live on a dead end street near the woods, the night of the party I let my dog out and there were a couple of HS kids doing the nasty in my yard.
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At least it looks and feels like winter
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Just started here too, another day, another coating
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I'm white, maybe 1/4 inch but looks like winter. Be nice to get a thicker pack though.
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You got a healthy pack now, it wasn't long ago it was 5-6 inches.
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Same in Worcester, three deckers were going for 100k in 08-10 and now they're 500K+, rents have doubled since then, I know a couple of smart guys that bought 10 and the other guy bought 12 for 100K and under, now they're living la vida loca. You could have bought 1 or 2 and doing well right now, I kick myself.
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Gonna have to spend a weekend at powderfreak land soon, need to see some winter and the wife needs a weekend away.
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Same here
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Anyone else just get the accuweather channel? Just got it this week on my cable package. Don't know yet if its better than the weather channel.
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I agree with that, that area is certainly different than where I work in central Mass and western Mass is a different market then cent Mass.
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Nice flurry in sturbridge earlier, whitened the ground and roads were slippery. Looked like winter.
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Dont know about 5 years, these boom periods generally last 5 years and we're almost 5 years now. People have short memories but I'll admit this latest boom is different
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If I knew that I'd be a millionaire, guess is this spring.
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We caught a lot of pike but I wouldn't eat them, was afraid to choke on a bone.
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Same here, more buyers than sellers, so if you sell your place for a nice price you have to pay for your new place and you have a lot of competition. If you could sell and find a rental or temporary place to live you could wait it out and buy back when things cool down. I;ve seen this cycle play out a few times in my career and it's always the same story albeit on a larger scale each time.
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Yeah, they made it much harder to break in, after you do all the course work you need to be a trainee and the problem is finding someone who has time to train you. There were plenty of appraisers back in the 2001-2005 boom but after the slowdown half of them left the profession. It was good for the one's that stayed because it was less volume but only 50% of appraisers still working. During that time they made the requirements much more stringent.
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When I was on vacation in Alaska I visited a gold mining place that taught you how to pan for gold and they had a room that they kept at -50 so you could experience what the miners did in the Yukon. Minus 50 hurts. I've experienced minus 35 once and that hurt right to your bones.
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That's what I do, I got my CT license and Mass and have to turn down more work that I get because I can't keep up, been working 6-7 days a week since covid, been working nights too and last night I fell asleep working and woke up at 4am with the mouse in my lap. The checks coming in make up for the fatigue though.
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January 16 2021 - Inland runner Rain/Snow/Wind
DavisStraight replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
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That must have freaked some people out.
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Current values are above 2005 in most of New England, you should be good now plus you had 15 years to pay it down.
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Give me a good second half of Jan and most of Feb and I'm good with that.
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The chisel my uncle gave me is also handmade, he made it when he worked at Pratt & Whitney. Ice usually insnt too thick here so I chop a hole pretty quickly, one year it over two feet thick and took awhile to chop through that.
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Most of Mass too, most are going above asking price. There's a crunch, people know they can sell their house quick but then they need to find another home to move too and there's competition up the ying yang, people are getting top dollar for their homes so they're willing to pay top dollar for the next one, very unusual market, it's not going to last, never does.
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Thought it was a hand auger, that's pretty cool, never saw an electric one. We used to catch a lot of pike ice fishing, some perch too. Used to go with my uncle a lot, when he moved down south he gave me all his ice fishing stuff, the tips I got are from 1950 but they work well.
