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  1. DavisStraight
    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.
  3. DavisStraight
    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.
  8. DavisStraight
    Conn Valley snow hole is apparent
  9. DavisStraight
    That must have freaked some people out.
  10. DavisStraight
    Current values are above 2005 in most of New England, you should be good now plus you had 15 years to pay it down.
  11. DavisStraight
    Give me a good second half of Jan and most of Feb and I'm good with that.
  12. DavisStraight
    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.
  13. DavisStraight
    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.
  15. DavisStraight
    He hasn't dug the holes yet, it takes a while with those hand augers, I'd rather chip it than use those augers
  16. DavisStraight
    Safe ice on the smaller ponds here, saw some ice fishermen today and some kids playing hockey on another, also saw the bigger ponds/lakes with open water. Maybe the cold that's on it's way will put a good coating on the bigger ones.
  17. DavisStraight
    Decent snow shower when I was in Holden earlier, they still have some snow on the ground, actually looks winterlike up there.
  18. DavisStraight
    Part 2 this week, it was very good.
  19. DavisStraight
    You can make an igloo
  20. DavisStraight
    I'm going to try garlic this year, usually do tomatoes, peppers and cukes and some basil and oregano.
  21. DavisStraight
    Cleveland making a run here, might be a game.
  22. DavisStraight
    Where are you located? Closer to the mountain?
  23. DavisStraight
    I got s coating last week, I think north Worcester got a bit more, I was up there earlier this week and they still had a solid coating on the ground.
  24. DavisStraight
    He's ok, I like the potential on the 26th
  25. DavisStraight
    I belonged to a ski club back in the early 80's, I remember it being a year like this and once we got up to the Loaf there was 3 feet of snow, not a banner year but decent pack up there.
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