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Thats what yard guys and maintenance men are for. I haven't taken care of my yard since I bought this house.
What do you do?
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Thats still a hassle in my mind. I dont want to have to worry about any of that even for a second.
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You sure got plenty of Mesicans for that. Is your service legit or rock'in illegals like the one Romney used?
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Legit, white guy foreman! I have no idea if his workers are illegals. Don't care.
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Her sister lives on Lake Travis. I went and visited. I looked up the house next door since it was for sale. Only $16 million. Nice house, but it didn't do anything for me. If I live where I pay $16 million for a house I don't want to see neigbhors, and damn near not close enough to have a conversation with if they are standing outside.
The office/shop is located between Austin and San Antonio. I drive in from the hill country. What I always find "interesting" are the poeople in $250k houses that live in a gated community. Sure it has a gate but it doesn't stop anyone. You just wait to get in or everyone in town has the code you put in, since they give it out to delivery drivers etc...
I guess I have too much white privelage, I don't see the point of a gated community unless there's an actual person checking you as you drive in. Of course I live out in the sticks and I have a gate.
I thought about getting a house near the office. What gets me while just glancing is they stick a 4,000 square foot on a 1/10th acre lot with 6 bedrooms and then you wind up having to park on the street. Sure the house is nice, but nothing screams low end tract housing than having the street full of cars on both sides all the time. Looks trashy even in $400k neighborhoods.
I'm looking at something similar to this, small town with a 3-5 minute commute to work and I can't fathom living in a house where you can stand with one arm on yours and almost touch your neighbors. I know people like living like that, I just couldn't do it.
20637 Wahl Lane, Garden Ridge, TX 78266 - HotPads
Or I could go much cheaper, an older style house and add 1 minute to the commute and a little larger property. I really don't care about the style of the house since I'm single and too old to get married and have a long term girlfriend who lives 45 minutes away.
21714 Tommy Trail, Garden Ridge, TX 78266 - HotPads
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Borzak
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I don't understand it, rather have a smaller house and a bigger lot big enough to have a garage to park the cars in rather than the road. Not a fan of houses with the garage in the front either. Looks like they designed the house around the garage. I realise lots of people can't afford the option, but in a lot of places here it looks like that picture in areas with $750k homes where $250k buys you a nice house, not exactly the ghetto.Low end tract housing indeed.
Joking with someone the other day that soon they are going to have to go to 3 story houses as the norm here because they have run out of room for 4,500 square foot houses on 8,000 square foot lots. The houses listed above on an acre plus which aren't exactly ghetto houses are < 5 minutes from the San Antonio city limits, I35 and the 1704 loop. Not exactly running out of land.
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I understand it in highly populated areas. But these are suburbs pretty much in the middle of nowhere, you can drive 5 minutes in a couple of directions on be where houses are on multiple acres (sometimes LOTS more). You drive thru the hill country of nothing but ranches and then boom, 200 houses stuck in what used to be a pasture on 8,000 sq. ft. lots and you can touch your house and your neighbors house at the same time.
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I guess, but you know exactly why they build them this way. $.
And it honestly makes no sense to build everything so spread out anyway.
This is not my street, but very close to my house. This is representative of all the residential streets in the town. This is about as spread out as I can conceive of building houses and have it not be a waste of land. I'm not some sustainability eco-freak, but honestly the density in TX is sad and our overall infrastructure costs could be a lot lower if we'd densify.
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I guess if you like living 3ft. from someone and literally in a lot of these subidivisions you can touch your house and your neighbors house at the same time and it's a $300k+ house.
My biggest issue is real estate agents who don't understand not everyone likes to live like that. I give them a price and tell them I need a shop bigger than those lots and they go into shutdown mode. You couldn't park all my shit on an 8,000 sq. ft. lot and it blows their mind. One lady took me to a fucking town home after I told her I wanted 4+ acres and a shop and HAD to have room to park multiple trailers in a shop plus all my equipment, something around 15,000 sq. ft. or more. A fucking town home lol where the only parking was on the street.
I don't care if that's your thing, good for you. But for reason they can't fathom someone living 5 minutes away (I have about a 5 minute commute) and having room to park more than a smart car.
One friend bought a $350k house in Houston and when it rained the rain ran off the neighbors house so hard they couldn't sleep when it slammed up against the side of their houses lol.
My biggest issue is real estate agents who don't understand not everyone likes to live like that. I give them a price and tell them I need a shop bigger than those lots and they go into shutdown mode. You couldn't park all my shit on an 8,000 sq. ft. lot and it blows their mind. One lady took me to a fucking town home after I told her I wanted 4+ acres and a shop and HAD to have room to park multiple trailers in a shop plus all my equipment, something around 15,000 sq. ft. or more. A fucking town home lol where the only parking was on the street.
I don't care if that's your thing, good for you. But for reason they can't fathom someone living 5 minutes away (I have about a 5 minute commute) and having room to park more than a smart car.
One friend bought a $350k house in Houston and when it rained the rain ran off the neighbors house so hard they couldn't sleep when it slammed up against the side of their houses lol.
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About 1/3 of our office are CA transplants since our parent company is located in the bay area. They are in the process of moving more towards TX. The company has built most of the skyline of SF and I met the owner for the first time last week (I've only been there 2 months). We shared a ride in his private jet so I could visit my parents and it was on his way. I looked him up and he was given some award for having gave $200 million in his lifetime to USC along with his wife.
Even he commented on the housing was getting too much for them as a non tech company to pay people to work and own a house to do stuff like accounting etc...They come to TX and they are in shock about what they can afford.
Each their own I guess. I told the owner that if he kept moving people from CA they were going to lose the ability to hire people from within the industry they are trying to get into which is moving from commercial to petro chemical (which is why they hired me). They just aren't going to want to work with a bunch of people from CA who move to TX and then the first thing is they want to change TX to CA.
He said he knew it would be an issue and is looking at separting the office into two locations in TX to address the issue.
Even he commented on the housing was getting too much for them as a non tech company to pay people to work and own a house to do stuff like accounting etc...They come to TX and they are in shock about what they can afford.
Each their own I guess. I told the owner that if he kept moving people from CA they were going to lose the ability to hire people from within the industry they are trying to get into which is moving from commercial to petro chemical (which is why they hired me). They just aren't going to want to work with a bunch of people from CA who move to TX and then the first thing is they want to change TX to CA.
He said he knew it would be an issue and is looking at separting the office into two locations in TX to address the issue.
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Non housing derail. Just saw this.
How much you have to earn to be considered middle class in every US state - Yahoo Finance
I want to know where you live in TX that $35k counts as middle class. I own land and a house in a very rural area in East, TX which is pretty damn poor and $35k isn't middle class there and it's probably in the bottom 10 of 250 TX counties.
How much you have to earn to be considered middle class in every US state - Yahoo Finance
I want to know where you live in TX that $35k counts as middle class. I own land and a house in a very rural area in East, TX which is pretty damn poor and $35k isn't middle class there and it's probably in the bottom 10 of 250 TX counties.
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I think when we as normal people think middle class, we really mean upper middle class.
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Right now I live about 5 minutes or less from the city limits of the 7th most populated city in the US. Not exactly in the middle of nowhere. I own a house that I currently don't livein that's in the middle of nowhere because it went with land that I did a 3 way land exchange for with the US Forest Service, myself, and a timber company so they could consolidate their holdings and the national forest.
When I worked in Baton Rouge I commuted 1-1/2 hours each way so I could live in the middle of nowwhere. But now I live in a populated area and I linked where the houses I was looking at something similar above. They are within 5 minutes of I-35, the loop around San Antonio and the city limits of San Antonio.
And yes I'm bored as shit this week since we're shut down waiting on the engineers in Japan and the US government to work out issues on our project which is money down the toilet. That and MIT did a study and said it won't work. Doesn't matter we can't currently fabricated it.
It is fun to tell all the tree huggers that moved out here from CA in our office who are excited to be saving the environment on our carbon capture project going into a coal plant....and then watch them turn their smile upside down when I tell them they're spraying the exhaust with a liquid and storing it in an effort to use the liquid for fracking purposes.
When I worked in Baton Rouge I commuted 1-1/2 hours each way so I could live in the middle of nowwhere. But now I live in a populated area and I linked where the houses I was looking at something similar above. They are within 5 minutes of I-35, the loop around San Antonio and the city limits of San Antonio.
And yes I'm bored as shit this week since we're shut down waiting on the engineers in Japan and the US government to work out issues on our project which is money down the toilet. That and MIT did a study and said it won't work. Doesn't matter we can't currently fabricated it.
It is fun to tell all the tree huggers that moved out here from CA in our office who are excited to be saving the environment on our carbon capture project going into a coal plant....and then watch them turn their smile upside down when I tell them they're spraying the exhaust with a liquid and storing it in an effort to use the liquid for fracking purposes.