The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Current Events

Current Events Help understand the world by talking about things happening in it

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-17-2020, 02:01 AM   #1
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Housing

Everyone on the left and right feels a shortage of housing causes problems, for whom and where is argued to infinitude.

Apparently the builders are more gung-ho than they have ever been in history but buyers not so much. I don't know who the Vegas Book is picking.
Attached Images
  
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-17-2020, 11:30 AM   #2
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
Around here, everyone is having work done on their houses. They are all sitting at home, but they are still working remotely and have the same income, so when they see that project they need doing, they pick up the phone. (I say everyone, but that's an exaggeration. It's only 5 houses on our block of 8 houses.)

We want to build a fence and the fence people won't give us a quote until we are ready to pull the trigger and schedule the work because the materials costs are fluctuating too much, they don't want to get burned.

We can't commit until the tree stumps in the way get ground and the lot plat comes back from the surveyors and we can submit it to the county for a fence permit.

I wonder if the border closure with Canada is contributing at all, or if the lumber can get through.
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-19-2020, 02:12 AM   #3
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Could be the loggers and mills aren't up to normal capacity like a lot of other industries.
Used car prices have been climbing at sometimes double digit percentages per month at Mannheim because new car production has slowed.
And some of the woods are on fire. Oh, and all the cut trees became toilet paper.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:05 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.