Today’s picture:
BUT for today:
I
read every day that there is a housing shortage in the USA! My head asks: “How
can that be?” AS most know, Sherry and I
are Gypsies. Since I was a small-time
builder for a few years I take note as we circle this great country. We see
houses, condos, apartment complexes going up everywhere we travel.
Our small town of Belmont, NC seems to add a hundred homes/apartments
every month. Thousands a year. The traffic is now so bad many times we wait
thru 2-3 changes before getting under a light.
Concerning occupations. As a builder my preference was the small 3 BR home. Now those are a
thing of the past, it seems the min now is 2000-4000 sqft. I have probably
mentioned it here. A house I built and sold for 80,000 many years ago was
bought for $326,000 and remodeled with an additional $300,000. That shocks me to the core that in our
neighborhood that much money can be spent.
A
house just 200 yards from the one we just moved out of rents for $2000 a month.
3 wage earners live there to afford the rent.
I am blown away that I hear that more apartments have been approved by
the city council with a projected rental of over $3000 a month. My mind cannot
wrap around the salaries required to pay that, a car payment, CC pmt, insurance
along with groceries. Boggles my mind.
Speaking of change. Belmont WAS a Cotton Mill town. Now some of those mills are now hundreds of apartments. Below is the Chronicle Mill's transformation to apartments.
Yeah, I know, I still live in a world where a Pepsi/Coke was a nickel
along with a nickel Milky Way.
WE
still survive of course and paid the increase as the world of camping turned
into RV’ing. When we started a campsite was $5 a night. WE know several now
that get $85 a night. NOPE, we do not pay that much, we find the cheapest. WE
pay yearly for certain parks. But we do pay $40-50 a night if we have to stay
in a roadside park.
Sorry just running my mouth or fingers, LOL. Christmas is near and I
hope you are ready for that. God has
been good to us and we, like the rest of the country, are surviving and living
the best we can.
Take care and smile that we are still above the worms…
I hear that the best
part about assisted living is that I will be able to tell the same joke every
day… and it will be funny every time!"
;-)
Nite
Shipslog
PS:
Be good to your neighbor
they may need to check on you one day!
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6 comments:
God has provided for us in all ways. 40 yrs ago, we were rental property owner, and we managed the properties. A lot of Work!!
The housing prices right now are out of sight, There is constant building here in Texas too, and our traffic is as bad as yours. The apartments, condos and housing developments are selling like crazy even as bad as the cost are. Unbelievable but true!
Have you been listening to our conversations lately? Tom's been alternately fascinated/appalled by real estate prices, both in Chicago and Phoenix. I'm just thankful we were able to find an affordable home when we moved here 8 years ago. Even in small-town central Alabama home ownership is becoming more difficult for the average John and Jane Doe. I don't have any answers, but something's gotta give!
Oh, my goodness I thought you were writing about Atlanta. We have the same thing - apartment after apartment. Town houses. Few real houses going up. How can there be a housing shortage - what happened??
Even my little town has had a few new houses built!
Where we live in North Central Florida it has been relatively quiet compared to the rest of the state. But suddenly there are apartments and condos and more homes going up in various parts of the county and it is a great concern for us. We moved here because of the affordable housing and quiet country living. That is changing too rapidly. Rents here for old broken down trailers is going through the roof! People are desperate for housing. We still have a lot of unpaved very rough roads and woods where people are starting to live in campers and tents for as long as they can get away with it...but that's changing too. The cost of putting in a septic system has gone through the roof too, which makes it difficult for people to build on their own land...too many restrictions as well. There is no such thing as an affordable home anymore. Even the manufactured homes cost as much as a "real house". It's crazy!! I'm glad we found this one when we did, before the boom. Merry Christmas to you and yours, wherever you are!!
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