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‘Really Tan Portland Ken’ puts glass mansion up for sale at $9,495,000
The prominent modern mansion in Portland’s West Hills is famous for sporting a sign honoring Portland Trail Blazers Jerome Kersey.
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More real estate doom and gloom
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Paywall‘Really Tan Portland Ken’ puts glass mansion up for sale at $9,495,000
The prominent modern mansion in Portland’s West Hills is famous for sporting a sign honoring Portland Trail Blazers Jerome Kersey.
"rich guy sells house"
“HOw dArE He!!!”
"news"
The guy with a martini glass for Christmas lights listed his house for just shy of $10M.
It's a very well known house here, it has 4 mountain views and overlooks downtown.
JFC, our neighbors just rented their house (basically the same as ours) for $9,000 a month for six months. They are going to spend the winter at their parents beach house in Hilton Head.
FFS, it’s obscene and absurd.
FFS, it’s obscene and absurd.
These people are the new ‘ski bums’.
That's good timing, because:
Did the Pandemic Finally End the Modern-Day Ski Bum?
Ski-town restaurants are in dire need of workers, but ongoing housing crises are making it impossible for staff to live where they work
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I think it's airBnB more so than the pandemic, but why not both?!
The housing crisis isn’t a new issue for ski towns like Jackson, Aspen, and Crested Butte, where the local workforce has been struggling with an expensive, unstable, and competitive housing market for decades. “The last year homes were affordable to the local workforce in Jackson, meaning the median home sale correlated to the median earning household, was 1987,” says April Norton, Teton County Housing Director. “But people are starting to hit their breaking point.”
That's good timing, because:
Did the Pandemic Finally End the Modern-Day Ski Bum?
Ski-town restaurants are in dire need of workers, but ongoing housing crises are making it impossible for staff to live where they work
“A lot of our staff has lost their rentals and no one can move here because of the housing shortage,” says Josh Hirschmann, General Manager of Local Restaurant and Bar, who recently announced they’d be closed on the weekends to protect the mental health of their already overworked staff.
Hooray massive income inequality!!!
Hey Josh. Here's an idea. Charge those fuckers $100 for a burger and $40 for some 'local craft' IPA which probably sucks and get your local businessmen and women to do the same.
the problem with that thinking here is that there iare only six months a year that you can command premium pricing. The other six months it’s the locals and service industry folks keeping the restaurant’s afloat. It already is sort of that way, in the spring and fall, most restaurants do two for one’s to get the locals out, and keep the doors open.
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In Hawaii there seems to be two prices for everything. Tourists pay sticker, locals get a steep discount. At least that is what I experienced when I stayed with a friend who lived there.
"the way it should be"
anyone who knows even a little bit about the czarist overthrow in russka should see some very distinct similarities with our current situation.......
So for those 20 americans......teeheeheee (I know, right?) They're complaining about the service again.....heehee
I was looking at fancy houses in LA on redfin last night. I realized that if I had $1,000,000 cash to buy a place in LA and live the rest of my days with no mortgage payment, I'd still owe about $1,000 a month in property taxes. With the Trump tax law change for deductions, there's no real deduction benefit for that, so it is what it is.
Factor in the cost of healthcare and the idea of winning a million bucks in the lottery and walking away from a day job forever seems less attractive. I need cash flow and coverage.
Factor in the cost of healthcare and the idea of winning a million bucks in the lottery and walking away from a day job forever seems less attractive. I need cash flow and coverage.
I think the SALT limit is $20k. So unless you are already paying a shit ton of taxes there is a benefit.
Well, don't *you*, as a new homeowner, need to make up for all the folks benefiting from Prop 13? I think that's how it goes...
$10k was the number, and I don’t think it changed.
Edit - the individual standard deduction is $12,550 for 2021. So the choice is obvious, unless you’ve got a bunch of other itemized items.
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Right. In CA if you earn about $100k on a W2 job you’ll cap out on taxes from that alone. $100k is pretty good income but you’d need that to afford an “average” house in SoCal. Of course that average house will cap you out on the prop tax deduction.
My simplified hypothetical was based on a “lottery winning” scenario of stumbling into $1,000,000 after tax and thinking you could buy a house and never have a mortgage payment, only to find out the property taxes would be significant. That’s not even counting regular maintenance and upkeep.
I think you have to own half of google to do that.Perhaps emigrate to a civilized nation?
Is that squeeb ball joke?
Google billionaire Larry Page is an NZ resident, Government confirms
Billionaire Google co-founder and the sixth-richest person in the world, Larry Page, is a New Zealand resident, the Government has confirmed.
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LOL, national news again.
I love these pieces that ask the people contributing greatly to the degredation how to fix the degredation. An upscale real estate broker enjoying bigger commissions and retailer who's expanded his shop by orders of magnitude in the time he was making zoning decisions. Both on town council.
That former mayor deliberately left a part of the area that served primarily locals to go cash in on the tourist corridor. When he first got on the town council his brilliant ideas included "license outdoor weed grows so people can pay for their rent"
If you watch that video pay close attention to what's cited as the median income for the area. I know it's hard to imagine that a place that you go to only for vacation and fucking around, isn't just full of people exclusively on vacation and fucking around. These places were functional communities not too long ago with real people doing real jobs for each other (westy!)
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I love these pieces that ask the people contributing greatly to the degredation how to fix the degredation. An upscale real estate broker enjoying bigger commissions and retailer who's expanded his shop by orders of magnitude in the time he was making zoning decisions. Both on town council.
That former mayor deliberately left a part of the area that served primarily locals to go cash in on the tourist corridor. When he first got on the town council his brilliant ideas included "license outdoor weed grows so people can pay for their rent"
If you watch that video pay close attention to what's cited as the median income for the area. I know it's hard to imagine that a place that you go to only for vacation and fucking around, isn't just full of people exclusively on vacation and fucking around. These places were functional communities not too long ago with real people doing real jobs for each other (westy!)
search terms: killdozer
interesting choice of emoji......
like a lone sick survivor calling out in anger one last time......
like a lone sick survivor calling out in anger one last time......
I have mixed feelings about this.Google billionaire Larry Page is an NZ resident, Government confirms
Billionaire Google co-founder and the sixth-richest person in the world, Larry Page, is a New Zealand resident, the Government has confirmed.
NOW WE'RE TALKING!
/subfuckingscribed
The greatest proof of community failure is that there's not a giant bronze statue of the killdozer in downtown granby.
I’m pretty clear about my feelings about him.
I haven't bought a copy of your memoirs yet so I can only assume.
tell him I said hi when you see him this weekend
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The subscribe banner at the top of website is fucking hilarous
That is some sweet, fecund irony.
Because Portland.
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These hot Portland homes sold for way over the asking price: One owner pockets $605,000 more than expected
If your home is priced correctly, in good shape and clutter free with a maintained yard, "you will likely get multiple offers,” said Lynda O’Neill with Exceptional Homes by John L. Scott Lake Oswego.
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It ain't just portland. Not by a long shot.Because Portland.
These hot Portland homes sold for way over the asking price: One owner pockets $605,000 more than expected
If your home is priced correctly, in good shape and clutter free with a maintained yard, "you will likely get multiple offers,” said Lynda O’Neill with Exceptional Homes by John L. Scott Lake Oswego.
Ah yes, this thread is a great reminder that we are no closer to being able to afford a house. Guess we'll continue squatting above my in-laws garage. 