(06-21-2018 04:31 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(06-21-2018 01:54 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(06-21-2018 10:34 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  The cost it's going to take to replace my asphalt driveway really grinds my gears. Sum'***** that is not a check I am looking forward to writing later this summer.

Right there with you, we’ve gotten so much rain of late, like everyday a deluge, a spring has spouted not only through the asphalt drive but somehow, somewhere water is seeping up through the cement slab in the garage...

Likely be 10-15 grand between the two.

Ima move to a condo...

that sucks dude... improper grading/drainage is a problem waiting to happen....

plumbing underground is in the same boat in an aging environment.....

I posted earlier about a 6.7k outlay a week ago.....it turned into 8.7k.....

it's fun getting old, eh?

#costaTIME

You guys just aren't using your "cabezas". If you live in flood prone areas, hurricane and tornado alleys, winter "wonderlands" you do not buy a house. Sure, you'll get equity on them but at what cost? The money you spend on bringing those houses up to snuff (not counting the mental anguish) when the disaster rolls over is not worth it. You'll be spending more and in the end just getting what you put in. RENT! When you rent any headaches that will arise will have to be borne (?) to the renter. You just move on to the next rental home. You'll probably say, "but I'm not getting anything from all the money I paid for renting". True, but you'll be avoiding all those problems I stated above. Besides, what are you REALLY getting after you pay the TAXMAN?

For instance, here in El Paso we hardly ever get natural catastrophes like some of you do so here it's a sorta wise decision to buy but we still have the TAXMAN and in my case I pay approximately $7,000 a year to him. With that money plus a few more I could rent a great place (which in the end soon we probably will because of age). We'll just invest our equity and spend what we would have anyway to the taxman and get rid of all those problems. I've told my wife that if we ever moved to your neck of the woods it would be a rent thingy. But, with her medical problems I doubt we'll ever move from good ol' Hot El Paso.