My dad spent the last 3 years bedridden. He was miserable. I won’t live like that…
Hi @tomhVallejo, good to “see” you again…
Well, obviously each morning or when I have a free moment, I post anything and everything about RE and other tidbits that I feel may spark contribution and conversation for the folks here. While we should be skeptical about anything that is posted on the internet these days, still, I would like to think that folks more closely to the subject at hand (professionally in some capacity) should be able to provide us with some useful information to take with us on our own, individual journeys. That is the goal of course, 100% of the time, 24/7, 365…
I did not go away. I checked in once in a while. I missed the back and forth.
But, I did not contribute frequently. I have been extremely busy and, napping a lot when I am not. Or sitting in the back yard swing enjoying the view and wine. Slowing down in my old age. I still have trouble saying the word sixty when someone asks me how old I am.
But, I tore out a badly rotted deck late this summer and my 74 year old friend came by for dinner one Saturday night and saw my project. He’s retired and a bit bored.
He took one look at what I had done and begged me to give him a call when I started working on it again so he could come over and help.
He gets excited about physically building things which he doesn’t do anymore. He was an equipment operator for Granite Construction and then he was a plant engineer for many years at a cereal processing mill. He misses being in the center of ongoing projects.
Most of the time we spend together is hanging out at some nearby wineries with our spouses and just talking about projects like my deck.
His enthusiasm for physical labor gives me hope that getting older won’t be as bad as I might think. In fact, it might be more fun than I’ve had in a long time!
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My mom turned 88 this year and is still in relatively good health. But every time I see her or talk to her on the phone, she tells me she is ready to go and that her greatest fear is having a stroke and surviving. She just said that again to me this morning on the telephone.
This is so sad 
That’s why people should do whatever they want to do while they still have the chance. If you want to travel you should do it while your legs are still in tact, not when you are on wheelchair…
My prediction: Stock market reversal for about 15%, which will stall housing values a bit in bay area, but with incoming workforce from new campuses, it might not change anything at all.
Hey, from the Jerusalem Post no less…
Music to my ears…
Las Vegas and Denver are both considered overvalued, but San Francisco is not, as incomes in the tech capital far exceed the national level.
“Now, with the new tax law, I’m predicting a large number of second homes in high tax and high-cost states to hit the market,”
That makes sense. It’s now more expensive to own a second home. There should be more than enough buyers to grab that inventory.
Maybe we will see more of these come onto the market…
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This could actually cause a boom in properties listed on AirBnB. Once the property starts creating income, then the owner can deduct expenses against it.
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Absolutely, and I believe the author suggests that strategy. But then you have cities like my Fab 7x7 that likes to overdo it in the name of saving rental stock for the common man…