Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, and Relationship Advice.

I can usually howz about 3 of those containers when I do it. I’m definitely a fat kid when it comes to sushi. And beer. And ice cream. Ok. I’m just a fat kid.

 

I just need him to get his satellite internet rolling because trying to rely on a Verizon hot spot at the lake is killing me.

 

He's got it rolling for Ukraine right now.

 

Ok - I’ll let that one slide.

 

Don’t worry, max ambient operating temps of 120° for the equipment are great for the southwest…

 

The night is young. I’m sure there will be other things that I will finish tonight that the kids don’t because I hate throwing things away. Thats my excuse at least.

 

yeah - kind of how I feel. been pre-paid for beta for over three years now and still "coming late next year"

 

So as with everything else that clown promises, it is right on schedule.

 

What's Beta?

 

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-starlink-beta-test-how-to-sign-up/amp

 

What Adam said

I got signed up in late ‘19, so I guess 2-1/2 years ago.
After over 15 years of the crap internet and crap cell service at my house, I had hope this might finally be a solution.
But I also know better than to wish in one hand and shit in the other…because we all know which one will fill up faster.

 

Oh yeah, Starlink.
Shit Casey, if I would of known I could of got you this for $500. A guy at work got his in the same week he found out he was getting Fiber internet to his road.
He put it on Craigslist and it got snatched up in a day.

 

Well the housing market in Phoenix is officially freaking insane. We listed our house for sale Friday morning, showed it 19 times over the weekend, and have 5 offers over asking and a few that our agent talked the buyer's agent out of submitting because they were either at asking or lowballs. Should be under contract by noon today.

 

Congrats. You're selling at the right time, for sure. I expect the bubble to be similar the the previous one and for prices to drop. Challenge is knowing when.

 

We've already got an offer accepted on a new home, on an acre. Luckily we're coming in with pretty good equity so a market correction shouldn't be too big of an issue for us. Hoping there's some money left to build my shop, or get my FIL to chip in on that and a lift

 

Congrats!! That’s awesome!! I think it’s every man’s dream to have a shop with a lift. It’s on my list at least.

 

Thanks! Definitely didn't think it was in the realm of possibility, but we've been pretty fortunate over the last few years with work and some investments. Already planning some build days and garage parties for the local Tundra crew I run with here.

 

It won't be for a while with the amount of construction going on down there. We're mobilizing to be part of about $4b worth of work on just one site...our staff are having hard times finding places to rent even.

 

It's insane. My neighbor is a director of infrastructure for one of the major builders here. I'll just say he's been busy for the last year or so.

 

No worries.

 

Some N.TX burbs were like that when we were buying/selling several years ago, and it's definitely on an uptrend again. Our agent teased our house being on the market for 6 or 8 days prior to its being listed and us having an open house showing. We had cars lined up and down the street before 8a on the day we had the open house, which was the first day of listing. It was open for 4 hours, and offers were tendered before COB that day. We got 15% over asking.

On the buying end, we put offers of more than 10% over asking on a couple of houses we liked, and lost to other bidders. The one we got was really the most advantageous location-wise, but IIRC our bid was 14% over asking. Since then our appraisals (and taxes) have gone up 40%.

A bunch of pundits are saying there's a housing bubble, but I don't see it. It's not the same as 2008 banking-wise, so there's not an artificial element to why prices are rising. Non-prime mortgages were 28% of originations in 2007, with a bunch of non-primes from previous years being bundled into weird derivatives that hid risk profiles. Since lenders didn't see or didn't care about market risks, loans were easy to come by; and since money was cheap, house prices rose. They don't/can't package loans that way anymore, and non-prime originations are 19% now compared to that previous number. Between low inventory and inflation, the rise in prices looks more organic to me. We're just going to be paying more for houses for a while.

 

I blame all the Kalifornians with their inflated housing price expectations lol. But we've already covered that topic in other threads...

 

The other side of that coin is all the locals that see Kali $ signs and cash in.

Congrats on the new place! Is it out of city limits?

 

Oh I'm more than happy to take their money... just sucks for some of the people living out here on normal wages, trying to get into a new house.

It's in the city limits but on a county island, no HOA, and a very "rural" feel to the area. I love it. I'm already looking at go karts, SxSs, golf karts, etc to run around the neighborhood in.

 

Yep, totally agree. Along with people on fixed incomes watching their taxes raise.

That sounds like a blast, can't wait to see some pictures. HOA's are just like PMI in my book, LAME!

 

Yup. All this spike in value has increased build costs before the covid, and now the supply issues are driving building pricing higher and extending build times. 2 years ago I had hoped to be looking to plan a build, but it's all skyrocketed so much I may as well have taken a 30% pay cut for what I can afford to build. I've had to completely reevaluate multiple times, and at this point I'm so burnt out that I don't even care. Give me a small A frame kit and be done with it, but even that is expensive as hell.