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541.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The leverage only matters in an appreciation market (which we’ve been spoiled with in the USA since boomertimes). If you distill the math on assumed zero appreciation (or zero “real” appreciation) it becomes not so terribly pretty. It’s rea
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by bombcar 5mo ago
If you treat your house like a rental that you rent to yourself, you can avoid a bunch of headaches - mainly because you’ve given yourself “permission” to spend on it.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
“Mow & snow” will eat most of your life, if you let it.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
The KRAGLE!
545.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The corner grocery store (a regular one literally a block away) is fine for many things for me - 10-20% more is fine and saves a trip. But too many things are literally twice as much and for those the value of a Walmart trip is obvious.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
The IRS allows you to depreciate rental real estate on set terms and ages, and they’re not really giving you much of anything. Houses have a complete and complex list of maintenance items. If they didn’t, living in a rental that the landl
547.
by bombcar 5mo ago
This has more to do with how the neighborhood is going (literally “to the dogs”) than it does with renting - you’d be surprised at the houses that look owner occupied but are actually rentals.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
You can run the numbers relatively exactly. 35% of income is spend on housing, which "disappears" (we can assume this will support some banks and realtors or whatnot), some is spent on this and that, and the remaining spent on &qu
549.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Even where it's allowed (which is more places than you think, look at zoning maps) and some places where it's not (variations exist) the places that do pop up usually die. It takes serious dedication and time to turn a culture aro
550.
by bombcar 5mo ago
This was true but accidental when "we" were growing up, because if I wanted to play a game on the family computer, I had to figure out the right drivers and suchwith to make it work. "Acquainted with computers" is closer
551.
by bombcar 5mo ago
> Of course that opens the question: why should real estate be a continually appreciating asset? There are other countries where it isn't. Over time, real estate just is inflation - if it's more than inflation it eventually e
552.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The "yearly pizza shooting" is as absurd to some people as "the town rapist" would be to others. There doesn't seem to be anything mandatory about cities having proportionally more crime.
553.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The key is always setbacks - if you have to have ten feet on each side of every building, you can only get "so dense" without going for apartments that consume an entire block. The problem is introducing the zero-setback designs o
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by bombcar 5mo ago
You often can "go down the block" for some value of "block" (often within walking distance, if not perfect walking conditions; definitely within bike range) but the store you find is likely expensive, small, and limite
555.
by bombcar 5mo ago
I feel with larger school sizes and online capabilities we've lost the friendship of necessity - where you'd be friends with the kids on the block "because you had to" and there wasn't really any other option. The
556.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Have an unmarked "free candy" type van park across your street from your house day in and day out, moving with just enough regularity to avoid parking too long, and you might begin to understand why "look suspicious but haven
557.
by bombcar 5mo ago
If you enjoy that, get a Deuce and a Half - not much worse on gas (lol) but the shift pattern is something else entirely.
558.
by bombcar 5mo ago
People think that everyone spends hours and hours deliberating over the car they buy - and some do, but those are the same people who likely have discussions about how the iPhone 17e is significantly different than the iPhone 16 (ooo "
559.
by bombcar 5mo ago
This is the Apple Car. Now we know what it would have looked like.
560.
by bombcar 5mo ago
I'd like to see a "pimp my ride" that focused on making the bottom car look as nice as possible - new wheels, disc brake upgrade with colored calipers, some cleanup, I think it could look significantly better.
561.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Wernher von? At least his Ferrari would be fast and arrive quickly.
562.
by bombcar 5mo ago
It's nice and I like the admission that the driver is the most important human who ever lived, so the touchscreen is angled towards him ;) Not sure about the cupholder position. I wonder if the G-force is customizable (e.g, all the scr
563.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Agreed - it's a great starting point at least, and looks nice. Then again, I'm the definition of "not the target market" as that thing costs more than a California house.
564.
by bombcar 5mo ago
> Ferrari really isn't a car known for interiors. To be fair, what, three, four people will see the interior? But thousands see the exterior.
565.
by bombcar 5mo ago
A $650k car could be fueled by dandelion farts and angel's tears and the target market wouldn't care much.
566.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Missteps both in music and in other areas don't usually kill something that wasn't already moribund. The trashcan Mac Pro didn't kill Apple; Procol Harum's cover of Eight Days a Week didn't kill them or the Beat
567.
by bombcar 5mo ago
If you get every iPhone ever released, in black or black-adjacent, and lay them camera-side down and off, it would be difficult to line them up in the correct order. Not much has really changed with them, and I'm not sure much really
568.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Jobs ability to say no to someone like Ive and not have him quit in a huff was 90% of his power, imo. It's a difficult line to hoe.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
I'm starting to wonder exactly what designs Ive really had that weren't just "bland rectangle". I'll give him the Apple Loop and the iMac.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Sounds to me like LoveFrom didn't spend enough time learning about Ferrari first.

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