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[quote=Arraya][quote=briansd1]I don’t see why people are calling for regulations.

The government does not need to regulate more. The government needs to stop bailing stupid business decisions and bad business models.[/quote]

I think you need to watch this documentary.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/etc/synopsis.html

We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] — who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country’s key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. “They were totally opposed to it,” Born says. “That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?”

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.[/quote]
Agreeing with Arraya. That frontline was awesome. I just watched it a few nights ago (tivo’d it.)

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[quote=Arraya][quote=briansd1]I don’t see why people are calling for regulations.

The government does not need to regulate more. The government needs to stop bailing stupid business decisions and bad business models.[/quote]

I think you need to watch this documentary.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/etc/synopsis.html

We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] — who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country’s key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. “They were totally opposed to it,” Born says. “That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?”

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.[/quote]
Agreeing with Arraya. That frontline was awesome. I just watched it a few nights ago (tivo’d it.)

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[quote=Arraya][quote=briansd1]I don’t see why people are calling for regulations.

The government does not need to regulate more. The government needs to stop bailing stupid business decisions and bad business models.[/quote]

I think you need to watch this documentary.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/etc/synopsis.html

We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] — who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country’s key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. “They were totally opposed to it,” Born says. “That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?”

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.[/quote]
Agreeing with Arraya. That frontline was awesome. I just watched it a few nights ago (tivo’d it.)

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I like the small house movement.

But then again – we just went through building a 696 sf, 1br, detached companion unit. It’s got PLENTY of space for 2 people (my in-laws) and takes into consideration my father-in-law’s wheelchair. (Can’t have narrow doors or small bathroom if you’re accomodating a wheelchair.

We regularly have dinners with 6 people (my in laws, my kids, hubby and I.) Lots of room, don’t feel cramped. The bedroom is big enough to accomodate a motorized bed (and room around it) as well as all the other typical furniture (dressers, chair, etc.)

I can’t address the issue of whether wheels gets you out of the permit process… But I can see where these houses COULD be built to code and permited.

Like I said – we built a small (by most people’s standards) 1 br house that is MORE than spacious enough. If it didn’t have to accomodate the wheelchair we could have easily stripped out a lot more space and still been livable and not cramped. We could have stripped a lot of space from the bedroom and bathroom if we didn’t need to accomodate the wheelchair.

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I like the small house movement.

But then again – we just went through building a 696 sf, 1br, detached companion unit. It’s got PLENTY of space for 2 people (my in-laws) and takes into consideration my father-in-law’s wheelchair. (Can’t have narrow doors or small bathroom if you’re accomodating a wheelchair.

We regularly have dinners with 6 people (my in laws, my kids, hubby and I.) Lots of room, don’t feel cramped. The bedroom is big enough to accomodate a motorized bed (and room around it) as well as all the other typical furniture (dressers, chair, etc.)

I can’t address the issue of whether wheels gets you out of the permit process… But I can see where these houses COULD be built to code and permited.

Like I said – we built a small (by most people’s standards) 1 br house that is MORE than spacious enough. If it didn’t have to accomodate the wheelchair we could have easily stripped out a lot more space and still been livable and not cramped. We could have stripped a lot of space from the bedroom and bathroom if we didn’t need to accomodate the wheelchair.

[UCGal]

I like the small house movement.

But then again – we just went through building a 696 sf, 1br, detached companion unit. It’s got PLENTY of space for 2 people (my in-laws) and takes into consideration my father-in-law’s wheelchair. (Can’t have narrow doors or small bathroom if you’re accomodating a wheelchair.

We regularly have dinners with 6 people (my in laws, my kids, hubby and I.) Lots of room, don’t feel cramped. The bedroom is big enough to accomodate a motorized bed (and room around it) as well as all the other typical furniture (dressers, chair, etc.)

I can’t address the issue of whether wheels gets you out of the permit process… But I can see where these houses COULD be built to code and permited.

Like I said – we built a small (by most people’s standards) 1 br house that is MORE than spacious enough. If it didn’t have to accomodate the wheelchair we could have easily stripped out a lot more space and still been livable and not cramped. We could have stripped a lot of space from the bedroom and bathroom if we didn’t need to accomodate the wheelchair.

[UCGal]

I like the small house movement.

But then again – we just went through building a 696 sf, 1br, detached companion unit. It’s got PLENTY of space for 2 people (my in-laws) and takes into consideration my father-in-law’s wheelchair. (Can’t have narrow doors or small bathroom if you’re accomodating a wheelchair.

We regularly have dinners with 6 people (my in laws, my kids, hubby and I.) Lots of room, don’t feel cramped. The bedroom is big enough to accomodate a motorized bed (and room around it) as well as all the other typical furniture (dressers, chair, etc.)

I can’t address the issue of whether wheels gets you out of the permit process… But I can see where these houses COULD be built to code and permited.

Like I said – we built a small (by most people’s standards) 1 br house that is MORE than spacious enough. If it didn’t have to accomodate the wheelchair we could have easily stripped out a lot more space and still been livable and not cramped. We could have stripped a lot of space from the bedroom and bathroom if we didn’t need to accomodate the wheelchair.

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I like the small house movement.

But then again – we just went through building a 696 sf, 1br, detached companion unit. It’s got PLENTY of space for 2 people (my in-laws) and takes into consideration my father-in-law’s wheelchair. (Can’t have narrow doors or small bathroom if you’re accomodating a wheelchair.

We regularly have dinners with 6 people (my in laws, my kids, hubby and I.) Lots of room, don’t feel cramped. The bedroom is big enough to accomodate a motorized bed (and room around it) as well as all the other typical furniture (dressers, chair, etc.)

I can’t address the issue of whether wheels gets you out of the permit process… But I can see where these houses COULD be built to code and permited.

Like I said – we built a small (by most people’s standards) 1 br house that is MORE than spacious enough. If it didn’t have to accomodate the wheelchair we could have easily stripped out a lot more space and still been livable and not cramped. We could have stripped a lot of space from the bedroom and bathroom if we didn’t need to accomodate the wheelchair.

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[quote=patb]depending upon how big it is, 40K would be okay
for an undamaged shell, with land, I suspect
they went bust or the construction financing was pulled.

They are whack if they think a giant stack of firewood
is worth more then $2K[/quote]
Another scenario – their contractor took their money – spent it on other stuff -and abandoned the job. They are cutting their losses.

Not saying that’s happened here. But it’s within the realm of possibilty. We considered cutting our losses when our first contractor abandoned with lots of our $$ in his pocket. But it was before framing – so no wood to sell.

(Yes – I have contractor issues. But they are based on real, expensive, life lessons.)

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[quote=patb]depending upon how big it is, 40K would be okay
for an undamaged shell, with land, I suspect
they went bust or the construction financing was pulled.

They are whack if they think a giant stack of firewood
is worth more then $2K[/quote]
Another scenario – their contractor took their money – spent it on other stuff -and abandoned the job. They are cutting their losses.

Not saying that’s happened here. But it’s within the realm of possibilty. We considered cutting our losses when our first contractor abandoned with lots of our $$ in his pocket. But it was before framing – so no wood to sell.

(Yes – I have contractor issues. But they are based on real, expensive, life lessons.)

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[quote=patb]depending upon how big it is, 40K would be okay
for an undamaged shell, with land, I suspect
they went bust or the construction financing was pulled.

They are whack if they think a giant stack of firewood
is worth more then $2K[/quote]
Another scenario – their contractor took their money – spent it on other stuff -and abandoned the job. They are cutting their losses.

Not saying that’s happened here. But it’s within the realm of possibilty. We considered cutting our losses when our first contractor abandoned with lots of our $$ in his pocket. But it was before framing – so no wood to sell.

(Yes – I have contractor issues. But they are based on real, expensive, life lessons.)

[UCGal]

[quote=patb]depending upon how big it is, 40K would be okay
for an undamaged shell, with land, I suspect
they went bust or the construction financing was pulled.

They are whack if they think a giant stack of firewood
is worth more then $2K[/quote]
Another scenario – their contractor took their money – spent it on other stuff -and abandoned the job. They are cutting their losses.

Not saying that’s happened here. But it’s within the realm of possibilty. We considered cutting our losses when our first contractor abandoned with lots of our $$ in his pocket. But it was before framing – so no wood to sell.

(Yes – I have contractor issues. But they are based on real, expensive, life lessons.)

[UCGal]

[quote=patb]depending upon how big it is, 40K would be okay
for an undamaged shell, with land, I suspect
they went bust or the construction financing was pulled.

They are whack if they think a giant stack of firewood
is worth more then $2K[/quote]
Another scenario – their contractor took their money – spent it on other stuff -and abandoned the job. They are cutting their losses.

Not saying that’s happened here. But it’s within the realm of possibilty. We considered cutting our losses when our first contractor abandoned with lots of our $$ in his pocket. But it was before framing – so no wood to sell.

(Yes – I have contractor issues. But they are based on real, expensive, life lessons.)

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[quote=waiting hawk][quote=Drew]Has anyone had any roofing work done recently?

I’m curious as to how much I should expect to spend to re-roof a 1900sqft, single story home with a two car garage and light-sloping roof. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy[/quote]

I inspect roofs for large shingle/roll manufacture. Do not get a warranty from a roofer their life spans are 2 years in this economy. [/quote]
Are you saying the roofers (licensed company) only last 2 years in this economy. (Vs the roof itself) If so – I have to say you have a good point.
The folks who did our roof issued an extended warrenty just a few months after it was installed (because we had concerns about the materials used being different than the bid set called for.) But they’d already lost their license at the time they gave the warrenty… so the warrenty was totally null/void/worthless.

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[quote=waiting hawk][quote=Drew]Has anyone had any roofing work done recently?

I’m curious as to how much I should expect to spend to re-roof a 1900sqft, single story home with a two car garage and light-sloping roof. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy[/quote]

I inspect roofs for large shingle/roll manufacture. Do not get a warranty from a roofer their life spans are 2 years in this economy. [/quote]
Are you saying the roofers (licensed company) only last 2 years in this economy. (Vs the roof itself) If so – I have to say you have a good point.
The folks who did our roof issued an extended warrenty just a few months after it was installed (because we had concerns about the materials used being different than the bid set called for.) But they’d already lost their license at the time they gave the warrenty… so the warrenty was totally null/void/worthless.

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