Jeez. Sure Picked The Wrong Time To Move

[MrSquished]

maybe it's the 4G and the 5G networks

 

[Muse]

yea, its very much a sellers market.
Wife and I have been looking to upgrade from a 960 sq foot small house with a driveway but no garage, and no room for a garage due to setback requirements...
Sure, my "starter home" went up in value by like 50K, but, all the houses I'd consider moving to have gone up by over 100K.
So, we shall wait for market to cool off, eventually.

Saw a story on TV the other day that made my chin drop: they said the price of lumber has tripled! So glad I have sundry wood items, hunks of this and that, squirreled away in my garage and living room! I always have some projects needing wood. Haven't made a Home Depot run for wood in several years. I used to find wood here and there, not lately.

Lumber prices will drop, maybe precipitously, when supply outstrips demand. Not soon, obviously!

 

[highland145]

Covid masks might help. Or vac cards. Stuff should be back to normal soon.

 

[Spacehead]

TBH I've never had an issue in MI with car rust. I had a 2005 civic I kept until 2017, put ~250,000 miles on and never had any rust issues. Not garaged for its first 5 years and never car washed. I have a 2008 and 2013 car now and still no rust issues with either

i wonder if they've started making them better, my 10 year old honda hasn't had any rust issues yet

Do they not use a lot of salt in your areas?
I try to spray off my car as much as i can during the winter. At some point it looks like everyone is driving an off-white car around here.
I also get my car oiled every fall too.

 

[Newbian]

I think part of the issue with rust is they changed the paint formula years back, but also cities salt the roads way more now. Wish they would end that and just tell people to learn how to drive properly in the snow, it's not hard. Use sand instead to create traction.

Sand has many disadvantages over salt and it heavily matters where you live and how cold it gets.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Covid masks might help. Or vac cards. Stuff should be back to normal soon.

*Cries in Canada*

 

[Exterous]

Do they not use a lot of salt in your areas?
I try to spray off my car as much as i can during the winter. At some point it looks like everyone is driving an off-white car around here.
I also get my car oiled every fall too.

Michigan is a pretty heavy salter of roads.

 

[olds]

The two primary reasons to use salt are to lower the freezing point of water and to create a layer between the surface of the roadway and any forming ice (pack) to make the ice easier to remove.

 

[dullard]

Salt hastens car rust, destroys the roads, corrodes bridges, kills nearby plants, and kills animals that eat it.

Sugar (such as beat juice deicer) lowers the freezing point just as well as salt but without as much destruction. They use it on rural roads here instead of just rock salt.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, I recently got an offer from Vroom for $39,000 for my 2018 Ford Mustang GT. That's only about 4K more than what I paid for it three years ago! It has really low miles (around 15,000) because it's mostly sat in the garage for the last 18 months. Thanks, COVID?

 

[ultimatebob]

Saw a story on TV the other day that made my chin drop: they said the price of lumber has tripled! So glad I have sundry wood items, hunks of this and that, squirreled away in my garage and living room! I always have some projects needing wood. Haven't made a Home Depot run for wood in several years. I used to find wood here and there, not lately.

Lumber prices will drop, maybe precipitously, when supply outstrips demand. Not soon, obviously!

Home Depot used to have a bin of cheap scrap lumber that you could take for free. I wonder if they started charging for that stuff now

 

[highland145]

Home Depot used to have a bin of cheap scrap lumber that you could take for free. I wonder if they started charging for that stuff now

That's now at a premium because of rarity.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

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Better get on that! It'll be $599,000 after we have another few rounds of stimulus payments.