The Stock Market Is Not The Economy Thread II

**Kaslo** · 2021-05-04 14:58

Originally Posted by thetruepandagod

mine is almost 3M on zillow and i aint even got a bedroom door

**archibaldcrane** · 2021-05-04 15:06

Originally Posted by thetruepandagod

mine is almost 3M on zillow and i aint even got a bedroom door

yours, or your ma's?

**Andalusian girls** · 2021-05-04 15:35

panda don't own nothing but when his ma dies he's gonna inherit like 10 mill in property gg

**archibaldcrane** · 2021-05-04 15:56

Yeah but it has a wetroom, gross

**archibaldcrane** · 2021-05-04 15:57

Socks getting wet because you went to take a piss no thank you

**Ayn** · 2021-05-04 16:23

Originally Posted by Xno Kappa

It sounds nuts but doesn't really mean shit unless you plan on moving completely out of the area altogether.

This. Every time one of my friends brags about their home value I'm like "Cool, selling anytime soon then?"

Crickets.

To Daydreamer's point -- sounds like crap going on in the Bay Area. . which is where a lot of people buying in Austin seem to be coming from.

**arus2001** · 2021-05-04 18:16

Clearly it's time to invest in brick, stone, or even clay.

**Xno Kappa** · 2021-05-04 18:56

You need to diversify your bonds.

**Ayn** · 2021-05-04 19:20

Originally Posted by Xno Kappa

You need to diversify your bonds.

Spoiler: show

**thetruepandagod** · 2021-05-04 19:48

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

Socks getting wet because you went to take a piss no thank you

not having shower slippers, absolute peasantry.

there will be a comfy pad to hopefully avoid this

**Jaybar** · 2021-05-04 20:00

Originally Posted by arus2001

Clearly it's time to invest in brick, stone, or even clay.

The superior building materials.

**synistar** · 2021-05-04 20:07

Originally Posted by Jaybar

The superior building materials.

Except in earthquake country.

I guess that's another reason why California's housing market will continue to suck.

**thetruepandagod** · 2021-05-04 20:13

every day i die a little more inside knowing my house is a hollow piece of shit and not a concrete bunker

**archibaldcrane** · 2021-05-04 20:41

Originally Posted by thetruepandagod

every day i die a little more inside knowing my house is a hollow piece of shit and not a concrete bunker

Gotta get that earthquake retrofit, the feds will give you $3k for it.

**thetruepandagod** · 2021-05-04 20:53

my house is a hollow drywall shitbox on stilts on a hill, i feel like retrofitting would be quite costly

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...r-3-000-grants

It involves houses built before 1980, but especially before 1940, that are a few steps off the ground and have a crawl space between the living space and the ground the house sits on.

The problem is the homes haven’t been properly braced and bolted to the foundation. Walls and wood beams that keep the house off the ground aren’t fastened tightly to the ground, and the lack of grip can cause the home to be shoved off the foundation

well this describes my foundation to a t, i guess i have another thing to do after the bathrooms

**Kaslo** · 2021-05-04 22:17

https://twitter.com/NathanTankus/sta...743454721?s=20

**archibaldcrane** · 2021-05-04 22:32

Originally Posted by thetruepandagod

my house is a hollow drywall shitbox on stilts on a hill, i feel like retrofitting would be quite costly

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...r-3-000-grants

well this describes my foundation to a t, i guess i have another thing to do after the bathrooms

Put in your application now, they do rounds of acceptances, usually takes 6-12 months. When was the house built? If it's on stilts and piles it's probably at least somewhat to earthquake code unless it's quite old. At my current house they just bolted the cripple walls in the crawlspace to the foundation, but my old house is on a slope and they had to do an "engineered" solution where they also sheathed the cripple walls with plywood to prevent horizontal shearing. Cost like $4200 for the old house and $3300 at the new one, but got $3k of that back from the feds.

Apply here: https://www.earthquakebracebolt.com/

**thetruepandagod** · 2021-05-04 23:04

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

When was the house built?

1954 lol

**Byrthnoth** · 2021-05-05 04:46

Originally Posted by Kaslo

https://twitter.com/NathanTankus/sta...743454721?s=20

This place is simultaneously weirdly retro and also fine. Their milkshakes were a solid B+.

I feel a little bad that their employees were making $7.25/hr now though.