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Maybe I should buy a condo
cbxjeff
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Last week is was the moss on my shop roof but there is also all the mowing, weed eating, A/C repair on my rental, clean gutters, and the list goes on. I can't keep doing this and I can't find anyone to pay to help. When I was a kid I would jump at a chance to make money during the summer. The last guy that was here I paid $20.00/hr to mow & weed eat. Haven't heard anything from him since.
Anyone else have this situation?
OK, I shut up now. 😀
It's too late for me, save yourself.
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Will never live in a condo, too close to neighbors now and they are at least 1/4 mile away and out of sight.
Ditto on anyone to do the things I use to do, mow, weed eat, you name it. My mustard cutter is about done for.
Folks won't work no matter the wages, not even in a pie factory as a taster and they are serving their favorite pie.
Jeff, please don't shut up! There are plenty of member's I'm tired of hearing from (I disposed of one yesterday) but not you!
I've always lived in condos or townhomes. I hate yard work. I like letting the association take care of it.
MC, I just hit 2,000 posts, what do I win?
I have considered the same.
Currently:
HOA dues (annually)
yard guy (weekly)
bug guy (quarterly)
pool guy (weekly)
house keeper (bi-weekly)
It all adds up!
The privilege to give away a gun!
Congrats and count me in on this generous giveaway.
Or...
Live a 1/2 mile away from anybody.
Shoot out of any window of the house she who shall be obeyed let's you.
Don't have anyone tell you how to take care of your property.
Hang deer on your kids swing set in the front yard if you have a mind to.
Shoot out in the back forty any time you want to.
Neighbors call and ask if they bring beer, can they join.
City living ain't for me.
I grew up in town ( well a very small town ) even as a kid I wanted to be in the country when I got married my wife and I moved into the country and have done so 42 + years .
honest now that i am old and all the yard work and up keep does get a bit old (LOL ) also
I live on a state route not far from a nice lake north east of me maybe 20 miles and a smaller lake 5 miles south of me in the summer I will be mowing and see countless bike riders / clubs in groups , campers bass boats , pontoon boats , all headed out to enjoy there time off if if just for a weekend .. while I am mowing, trimming bushes , trees , doing maintince on the place or a mower or ? . but I still choose it over living in town
I can not help but think of a old co-worker buddy many years ago maybe 20 + years had a real nice house and sold it him and his wife ( kids were grown and left ) bought a condo . my question are you crazy ? . so he was explaining to us one day he said he does nothing just goes home enjoys all his time off goes on vacations takes a lot of short trips no up keep no yard work no tools to upkeep to do the work , the place has people do all the work , all his and his wife free time is just go out and enjoy
not that i could change now ( I could but could not bring myself to do it ) But I do see a lot of advantages of doing so
I think of all the hours and money spent just to mow the grass the on going up keep of the house and buildings the yard equipment . as a start
we do go on a vacations and weekend trips don't get me wrong unlike a lot of farmers who are tied to the land 24/7 for the most part we have family and friends over we have back yard shoots , I can and do most any thing I want .
however I can see how such a life would be a easy choice for many . not there avoiding work but chose to use there one life and money to get out and see and do things other than property upkeep
will add as a side note ( sorry Mark) just being honest when I 1st started on GB I saw Marks post at the time I knew nothing about him or for that matter a lot about the internet . Mark ( an d I am sure others ) posted photos of them self in all different country's and settings , I remember telling my wife there's some fellow on here who cut's and pasting his photo on sorts of back grounds around the world .. it did not take long to realize how wrong I was 😯and honest a bit jealous of the people doing so
I work 60 hours a week. In town.
Teaching my daughters to wrench on our equipment, and take care of our little slice of heaven is much more relaxing than being around a bunch of idiots on a lake, or campground.
We have a state park, in our backyard. We go fish and play around over there. But damned if I'll hang out with a bunch of city slickers that want to hang out in the country, on a lake, on the weekend.
Balderdash!
I thank the good Lord daily my ancestors settled where they did, Ole Daniel Boone is a distant relative.
Small town just east of here carries his name sake.
Many folks had to move to the city, Detroit, Baltimore, New Yauk and on and on to find employment. Pickens were scarce around here 70 plus years ago.
I did say my closest neighbor was a 1/4 mile away just to the south of me. To the south west, west and north west ain't much of nothing but national forest for miles. Most likely could fire off a .50 BMG round in those directions and not harm a soul.
On a sad note the city slickers are flocking to hills to escape the hustle, bustle, and lawless big city's.
The "hills" and wilderness are yielding to homes, traffic and pavement.
LOL! Despite numerous offers of marvelous gifts, as well as being promised dinners in Las Vegas for my girlfriends and myself during the SHOT Show, during the 18 years I've spent on GB I've actually received one free hat. If you want that hat I'll part with it. Regardless, You've been a welcome addition to our forum.
Some said I should do a free give away.
Let me think on that, might just do it, now what might it be.
Thanks for the hat offer, don't wear one.
My saying, when you leave this world all you take with you is what you gave away.
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have to tell this
my wifes sister lived in the country early on they build a modest house on a couple acres of land that was once here mom and dads
my wife grew up there ( about 20 acres if I remember ) any way early on ( she lives in town now ) her 1st husband and her bought a camper then a bigger one then a even bigger one then the last one was pulled back for lack of payments I think they had a "permanent " paid year around spot at a camp ground about 20 miles north they would go just about every weekend to park doo to door with other campers ..
of Couse we ask why and WTH ? go camping to get out of the country where it was quiet and peaceful they replied to get away for the weekend ..that always got me, they lived back a lane a couple neighbors they had grown up some what close by no means next door with do what ever they pleased . but they chose to go with the rat race campers packed like rats to get away . my only guess I think they like the party style of the campers drinking smoking and company they got it just never made sense to me but to each there own
Favorite wife and I half joke about moving to Aruba or one of the other little hurricane trashed islands. I bet I could cash out the mountain house and get a beater bungalow on enough beach to have peace and quiet, and afford pineapple and mangos for another 30 or 40 years. ‘Course then we’d find ourselves missing the snow...
I tip my hat to you for missing the snow . i enjoyed it as a kid in winter but not so much any more I could go the rest of my life and not miss it LOL
I will agree its makes for a beautiful landscape so peaceful and like a fresh beginning and the great north would be a place I would love to "visit "
Yeah and then this happens overnight. That's my behemoth snow blower on tracks. No match. Nature wins.
we bought a snow blower maybe 10 to 15 years ago ( wife got tired of shoveling ( LOL ) we also bought a old 8n ford tractor and then bought a mower , scraper blade on so on for it it , the tractor gets the most use for snow removal but i would guess between it and the snow blower I doubt over the years a total 40 or 50 hours of continues use would be a guess on how much we have used them and I am not upset over it 😁 every late fall i get out the snow blower check it all out fuel it up change oil get it ready to sit most years its still better to have than not have , then in springs I drain the fuel run to its empty wipe it down spray it down with wd 40 or similar and park it till next season . the tractor does 98% more mowing then any snow moving .
I understand wanting to live up north free from most BS the lower 48 has to deal with and the great out doors hunting ,fishing ,privacy, is just feet away from your front door , for that I am bit envious
I would like to see the norther lights in person but will have to settle for internet and TV
Back in 87 when we got married, we lived in a condo/townhouse in So Cal and didn't even know the neighbors we shared a wall with... got the chance to move to Texas (I had lived here before we were married for a about 4 years in San Antone) .
Anyways got a rent house in a suburb of Dallas and searched for a property to build on, thought 4-5 acers would be more than we could handle, ended up getting 10, built the house, got a tractor 8n and bought some horses, raised a couple of steers for beef, after 6 years we sold it for twice what we paid.
Moved 70 miles west and got 20 acres and started the building process again.(lived in a singlewide that was on the property until we finished the new house). Point is I guess, yes it takes a lot of work to maintain and I ain't getting any younger, yes harder each year to get anyone to help work the place, so I do what I can on my own for the most part. However, when we lived in Calif. we would go camping at a minimum once a month for the weekend to the beach/lakes/mountains/desert etc. just to get away from the city and unwind. 30 years ago give or take, once we got our first county place, we never went camping again, no need, I was away from the city every day once the hour commute was done...
Now as I'm retiring I sometimes think I'd like to sale the place, it's worth about 7 times what I got into it, and buy a beach house... but then I think, being near the water would be nice, but I couldn't shoot when ever I want and I would have to see other people everyday, so probably will die here on this land.
Oh yes, the joys of home ownership. I don't care what you do/did for a living, when you retire, you become a full time maintenance man.
bullshot, that's above my pay grade.
😕
My house was built in 1887.
I have a full time job on the side ..
Heck, it's worth that in the lumber alone. 😉
Try taking care of property 650 mile away. Yard service mowing the yard. Never met them.
Condo's have too many HOA Fees and other costs. Buy an old house in an unrestricted neighborhood and you can have a stroke but still let the grass grow and the paint job wither without rip off fees coming at you. If you go in a nursing home they are going to steal your house anyway and bring in a virus to collect any thing left sooner than later! 😁
serf
We've got you all beat, with all the free building materials on hand. The roof tends to leak in the Spring.
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