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denis4x4
ParticipantI quit following the Padres after Luke Easter retired!
A couple of thoughts on energy effeciency….We own a 12 unit building in PB and started switching all outside lighting to the floresecents. BUT…now the new bulbs won’t fit in the existing fixtures, including the $18.00 spotlights. Retro-fitting the fixtures is not cost effective.
Telluride CO passed a law requiring that all houses over 5,000 SF would be required to have an employee unit to help solve the affordable housing issue. Check the MLS and you’d be amazed at the number of 4,950 SF houses on the market there!
ParticipantI quit following the Padres after Luke Easter retired!
A couple of thoughts on energy effeciency….We own a 12 unit building in PB and started switching all outside lighting to the floresecents. BUT…now the new bulbs won’t fit in the existing fixtures, including the $18.00 spotlights. Retro-fitting the fixtures is not cost effective.
Telluride CO passed a law requiring that all houses over 5,000 SF would be required to have an employee unit to help solve the affordable housing issue. Check the MLS and you’d be amazed at the number of 4,950 SF houses on the market there!
ParticipantFor what it’s worth, I’m meeting with a group of investors on Monday to discuss the purchase of my 9 patented gold claims (I’m keeping one for myself). The interest in mining claims has never been higher. There is gentleman from San Diego that is attempting to reopen a small mill operation near my claims. Tree huggers are pulling out the stops to prevent the county from issuing a permit to operate.
Reclamation of existing tailings has proven to be very profitable. The concensus is that $500 per ounce makes an extraction process profitable. One only has to look at the processing machinery used a 100 years ago and you’ll agree with a lot of knowledgable people that early day miners probably got 50% or less of the gold and other precious metals on the first go around.
ParticipantFor what it’s worth, I’m meeting with a group of investors on Monday to discuss the purchase of my 9 patented gold claims (I’m keeping one for myself). The interest in mining claims has never been higher. There is gentleman from San Diego that is attempting to reopen a small mill operation near my claims. Tree huggers are pulling out the stops to prevent the county from issuing a permit to operate.
Reclamation of existing tailings has proven to be very profitable. The concensus is that $500 per ounce makes an extraction process profitable. One only has to look at the processing machinery used a 100 years ago and you’ll agree with a lot of knowledgable people that early day miners probably got 50% or less of the gold and other precious metals on the first go around.
ParticipantI’m 66 years old and a high school graduate. I’ve not seen one mention in this string of creating a business or filling a niche. In 50 years of working, 48 of those years were spent working for myself and creating jobs as well as products and services. The rewards include a nice collection of cars, RV’s, an apartment building in PB with an owner’s suite, a ranch in Colorado and piece of mind as everything is paid for and has been for the last 25 years.
It’s been said that a high school graduate in the 1950’s got an education at least equal to two years of junior college. For the record, in the San Diego Unified School District, the dollar amount spent per student was $396 for the 1959-1960 school year. Today that number exceeds $7,000 and at least half of the students entering college have to take remedial math and English!
If there’s one constant theme running through this string, it’s the idea that someone else is to blame. Suck it up people and take responsibility for your life.
ParticipantI retired at 49 and sold out at the bottom of the market in Mt. Helix in 1991. I live in a small town in SW Colorado and write a check to 12 different local charities in the same amount as my monthly SS check.
My giving will be curtailed if nasty Nancy and her bleeding heart liberal friends raise the rate on dividends and unearned income.
My parents were strong belivers in the charitable giving of time and money. Seems the more I gave, the more I got. Some of you guys on the fast track might give that some thought.
ParticipantWe built a second home in Telluride in 1985 and then sold our Mt. Helix home in ’92 (bottom of the market). Did a giant remodel in Durango using Helix and Telluride money and are mortgage free. With over $2 million dollars in accessed value, our property taxes are about $4500 a year and CO income tax is less than 5% of AGI.
BTW, we bail out of the Durango winters and spend 8 weeks in PB!
No bargains here as the median house price is almost $500,000. $750,000 will get you a nice condo over looking the Animas River.
March 7, 2006 at 5:21 AM in reply to: Advice needed on mobile home purchase – right choice for first time buyer? #23591ParticipantSeveral years ago I purchased a single wide on 1 acre of land in Durango CO for $93,000. It was the definition of trailer trash! I replaced it with a cedar sided double wide at a total cost of $72,000 (net after selling the singlewide). By installing the unit on a permanent foundation, we qualified for conventional financing. As a rental, I used a 12 year depreciation schedule. We sold the property for $235,000 two years after the intial purchase.
Moving a trailer isn’t all that difficult, even units on a permanent foundation. As more and more parks enforce CC&R’s and set up co-ops to own the ground, mobile homes are fast becoming affordable entry level housing.
Quite frankly, I’d rather see the mobile home park on east Mission Bay than another highrise hotel.
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