Because 90 percent of the rentals are owned by foreign nationals; specifically the Chinese and Indians. They enjoy squeezing our young people. Wake up, America—and then take America back.
Soon we may have to. But. Why should we have to? Oh, right! Because our government wants to bankrupt our nation, spending money like it’s water. Which means runaway inflation and a disappearing middle class.
The thing is that the Book of Revelations tells us that the Mark of the Beast and the anti-Christ are coming up. So we need to STICK WITH GOD and STICK TOGETHER.
The ultimate battle is not just for survival. It's to die to ourselves and become alive to Christ forever, so that we can be in the presence of God and fellowship with Him.
A college friend and I split a big Beacon Hill basement studio with 2 walkin closets so big we used them as bedrooms. Rent was $225 each. 1986. Larry Bird. Ray Flynn. Buzzy's Roast Beef til 4am.
I bought my first home in 1987 for $19,500 at the age of 19. It was a broken down mess that needed about $5000 in upgrades/repairs but it came on two city lots and I deeded the second lot to my parents who built their second home together there, starting them on a path of home building that was quite lucrative for them at the time. In exchange they helped me (I did the work with their help and they paid for it with my $5000 lot budget) remodel it into a nice little starter home that I later sold for a small profit, netting the down payment on some property in the county for my second home. My payments were never above $250/mo even though the interest rates at the time were very high compared to now. There is NO WAY a 19 year old could do the same now. A comparative starter home dollar for dollar now would be roughly $50,000 and those homes DO NOT EXIST. That first home I bought---zillow zestimate is $150,000. WTF. It is 800 sq ft, with cinder block and crawl space "basement" NO CONCRETE and original build somewhere in the 1870's. NO WAY it is worth that.
Crazy! So many people say that if they sold their home, they would not be able to buy it back.
You were so ahead of your time! How adorable that you had your own place at age 19! And you are right ~ there's no way for that to happen these days.
Your parents were smart to make a go at building houses! How fun! And we see that real estate is usually better than money in the bank... plus you have a place to stay.
Yes they did well for themselves, building and moving for the first 5 or 6 homes and then building for specific buyers once they got to know the folks in the real estate and building arenas. Never more than one home at a time and they built nice custom homes. It was in the 90's housing boom though. Huge mega builders eventually took over this niche. I was a bit ahead of my time, esp for a female. I didn't want to go to college out of high school because I saw no point of spending money I didn't have for a degree in hotel management or something equally stupid. And I didn't want to have to depend on someone else to be able to afford to live on my own so my goal was to buy and I saved every penny I could from graduation at 17 to get to be a buyer at 19. My mom thought it was such a good idea she made my stepsister do the same thing two years later! She was not as happy about it as I was...I did eventually go to college and put myself through pharmacy school as a single mom/homeowner. Don't ask me how! I still marvel at the tenacity and hard work that both my son and I put into getting that hard earned degree. Made him appreciate higher education and working hard to better your own life! Couldn't have done any of it without the support of those awesome parents though! Such a blessing to have family willing to work along with you to help you make your dreams come to fruition!
I was also a single parent through all of my training in anesthesiology and critical care. Those were such crazy times! So I feel you!
And you became a pharmacist! That's a lot of education! Do you feel that back then, medicine was more 'real', or were we just blinded by it falsehoods?
-Ugh Dr Aranda. That's tough. I do feel like it was more real then but could almost see it being usurped in real time after I graduated in 1997. I can 100% promise you from talking to more recent graduates at my alma mater that they are not getting the same education that I received. It was a well oiled machine for me that my brain loved learning. Pharmacy school itself built upon the chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology blocks in ever widening circles that made a lot of sense to me back then. But even then I was alarmed at the utter lack of education regarding nutrition. And we were taught very little about vaccines other than they were necessary (don't remember being taught that they were "unavoidably unsafe" so we made up a new law forcing people to be lied to about it---but that's what happened isn't it?). We WERE taught that you did NOT need one for a disease you ALREADY HAD which is one of MANY alarms bells set off for me in 2020/21.
I remember being disgusted by pharmaceutical giants and their heavy handed manner of inventing the same drug over and over again (how many ACE inhibitors are really necessary after all??) for profit. And as biologics came along, seeming like great ideas but really just being band aids for problems created by over-vaccination (didn't know that then but was alarmed by the increasing rate of autoimmune diseases) and at WHAT A PRICE! I got more and more into "alternative" means of health, I opened my own pharmacy and did compounding for hospice and natural HRT and did a lot of talking with pharmacists who were really out there helping people with smart nutritional advice that MADE A DIFFERENCE. So I went down my little road of health and nutrition and reading more and more about lies my Big Pharma told me I became pretty disillusioned. I sold my business after 5 years because medicare part D and USP 797 rules were out for the blood of independents (just as they were for independent doctors). Wish I would have just converted it all into wellness but I didn't so I basically try my best now to teach people to stay away from doctors and prescriptions (lol seems like a contradiction huh?) . If I had it to do all over again I think I would still be a pharmacist, but I would look for a good business partner and have gone further down that alternate path. It would have been a lot more rewarding for me in the end. I would prefer to spend my time getting my patients on the right nutritional path vs on the right pharmaceutical. It's what I'm doing in my own life and what I advise anyone who will listen to me. My doctor is a DO who quit taking insurance and doing standard practice to pursue lab based nutritional assessments and healthy aging. We inspire and teach each other things all the time. I wish I were younger and able to join her or someone like her in something along those lines.
So similar to me, except I did big Ivy League academic (cutthroat) medicine and had ideas stolen, papers stripped of my name, etc... and by the time Covid came, I went all-cash and had a pain clinic.
I still do many supplements through Metagenics and vetted suppliers for augmented NAC and others. In the US, of course, the FDA doesn't regulate that NAC has to be in a bottle of NAC, so it's important to use good products.
I also believe that being alternative or integrative would have been a much better fit for me, especially as for you - knowing what I now know. And I have great respect for those doing supplements and natural therapies, because they are ahead of the curve.
I did the Cenegenics course in age management, and love my knowledge base. We are growing our own veges and looking at getting chickens, canning, and doing all those things our grandmothers used to do for "every day" living, not just for "survival".
I think there is more to it than just the 15 min city. 15 min cities are most definitely real, they are popping up all over the Portland metro area. Large project like apartment buildings that offer absolutely no shade from the heat oddly ( well since we are so concerned about climate change, you would think they would want less air conditioning). They have restaurants and grocery stores built right in on the lower levels, and they land right inside organs opportunity zone ( even scarier ). Also something that goes hand and hand with a high cost of living and a low wage ( with the added debt ) is working longer hours to make ends meet. People are much to busy to question the motives of state and governments officials / law makers. They are keeping us in a place where we are less likely to fight back. They are keeping our schedules fully booked so we are too tired to stand against them. Everything caused by this kind of attack should be really obvious, I could make a list of negatives, but it would go on forever. Another thing they are doing is flooding areas were people who can’t meet the cost of living increases are becoming homeless, is flooding these areas with fentanyl and blaming it on the voters ( genius ). So what do we do? We vote for more security (control) to fight the drug problem and get the homeless people off of our streets ( the homeless people that state and government officials put in that position ). There foot is on the gas people, they are taking advantage of us from every direction, and they are tricking us into voting for it. This is the sound of your alarm, it’s time to wake up!!!!
Something scary yet comforting out of all of this is that the time line coincides directly with the Bible. If you go digging for answers you come across the 13 garbage bloodlines ( very scary ) but it lead to my belief in god. I’ve always been able to see the lie, as a child all my questioning of authority lead me to be diagnosed with ADHD / Behavioral issues but I never took what they were trying to feed me. I thought I was free of what the education system was trying to put into my mind, but it still took me down the wrong path. One of the strongest tools used to keep us from god is the interpretation we are given about the cosmos, super dangerous if you think about it!!!! I had to realize that the evil was real, and track its origin to find the truth. I was headed down the energy can never be created nor destroyed quantum physics path! It’s funny that entire fields of study have been made up and thrown in front of us as road blocks, really anything in organic is a road block and all things condense down to right and wrong!!!
When you get into there belief structure of creating the thesis and the anti thesis it all comes together, but how do you explain that in way that can open eyes, without tripping over yourself? It’s so incredibly clever what They are doing!!
Having built homes for forty years, the culprit in housing affordability is OVER-REGULATION! All in the name of protecting the consumer, layers upon layers of regulation are added EVERY YEAR forcing the American dream of home ownership out of the reach of most of us. This comment box isn't large enough to expose all of the dumb stuff the Feds have come up with, but here are just a very few of the most ridiculous: silt fencing - heaven forbid my dirt should wash onto your dirt during construction (add $2,000 - 8,000 depending on jobsite size); over inspection - for every phase of construction there's a City inspection, we wait, and we wait, and we finally get an illegible "red tag" for ridiculous items. Time is money, the interest clock never stops ticking, and over inspection adds probably an extra month or two to the the building process (add $10-30,000 for a grossly inefficient process - I mean, really, do I need to have the nailing/screw field on sheetrock inspected to make sure I have a a zillion nails or screws in one sheet of sheetrock?); energy compliance and inspections - WAY out of hand. Submit a plan before construction telling them how you're going to insulate, hire a third party compliance firm for design, buy all kinds of hi-tech insulation products, have multiple inspections before sheetrock, and submit to a "blower door" test at completion to see how tight the house is (add $15 - 40,000 to construction cost); low VOC paint to minimize off-gases; energy efficient water heaters, HVAC equipment, appliances, ad-nauseam; interior sprinkler systems - don't even get me started; and thousands of "Mickey Mouse" adds like hurricane clips (in Dallas?), and one of my favorites, 1.28gal commodes (which you have to flush 3x to take care of business) to replace the old 3gal commodes so we can save water. Sorry this got long, but believe me, it's only the tip of the iceberg!
My parents paid 59,000.00 for there house fee simple, they ended up loosing it over refinancing. I know a house is not something that will ever be practical for my family of four.
That's so sad. Many people I know have cared for a single elderly man or woman who had no family. And they received their home. So I will pray that something somewhere can also work out for you.
Because 90 percent of the rentals are owned by foreign nationals; specifically the Chinese and Indians. They enjoy squeezing our young people. Wake up, America—and then take America back.
And you see that many of our poor live in nice homes, with 6-7 people all sharing costs. Americans don't seem to want to do that as much...
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Soon we may have to. But. Why should we have to? Oh, right! Because our government wants to bankrupt our nation, spending money like it’s water. Which means runaway inflation and a disappearing middle class.
🤷♀️ They just do whatever they want, and they also control the population. Communism.
They want to go back to the days pre-French Revolution, when the peasants dressed in rags and the 1 percent rode around in gilt carriages.
They would do well to remember the eventual fate of that 1 percent.
The thing is that the Book of Revelations tells us that the Mark of the Beast and the anti-Christ are coming up. So we need to STICK WITH GOD and STICK TOGETHER.
The ultimate battle is not just for survival. It's to die to ourselves and become alive to Christ forever, so that we can be in the presence of God and fellowship with Him.
Amen. We war not against flesh and blood but powers and principalities in high places—and we know who has already won.
Keep calm and witness on.
1976. I rented a house with three other girls, a big two-story with four bedrooms, I paid $52.50 a month.
WOW, same year. What a GREAT living arrangement!
$145/mo - Studio apt - Beacon
St. - Backbay, Boston - 1975
WoW! NICE!
A college friend and I split a big Beacon Hill basement studio with 2 walkin closets so big we used them as bedrooms. Rent was $225 each. 1986. Larry Bird. Ray Flynn. Buzzy's Roast Beef til 4am.
Nice! Great price! Did you get any studying done?
1990. My rent was $225 a month in Winston-Salem, NC.
Nice. That's still pretty good!
I bought my first home in 1987 for $19,500 at the age of 19. It was a broken down mess that needed about $5000 in upgrades/repairs but it came on two city lots and I deeded the second lot to my parents who built their second home together there, starting them on a path of home building that was quite lucrative for them at the time. In exchange they helped me (I did the work with their help and they paid for it with my $5000 lot budget) remodel it into a nice little starter home that I later sold for a small profit, netting the down payment on some property in the county for my second home. My payments were never above $250/mo even though the interest rates at the time were very high compared to now. There is NO WAY a 19 year old could do the same now. A comparative starter home dollar for dollar now would be roughly $50,000 and those homes DO NOT EXIST. That first home I bought---zillow zestimate is $150,000. WTF. It is 800 sq ft, with cinder block and crawl space "basement" NO CONCRETE and original build somewhere in the 1870's. NO WAY it is worth that.
Crazy! So many people say that if they sold their home, they would not be able to buy it back.
You were so ahead of your time! How adorable that you had your own place at age 19! And you are right ~ there's no way for that to happen these days.
Your parents were smart to make a go at building houses! How fun! And we see that real estate is usually better than money in the bank... plus you have a place to stay.
Yes they did well for themselves, building and moving for the first 5 or 6 homes and then building for specific buyers once they got to know the folks in the real estate and building arenas. Never more than one home at a time and they built nice custom homes. It was in the 90's housing boom though. Huge mega builders eventually took over this niche. I was a bit ahead of my time, esp for a female. I didn't want to go to college out of high school because I saw no point of spending money I didn't have for a degree in hotel management or something equally stupid. And I didn't want to have to depend on someone else to be able to afford to live on my own so my goal was to buy and I saved every penny I could from graduation at 17 to get to be a buyer at 19. My mom thought it was such a good idea she made my stepsister do the same thing two years later! She was not as happy about it as I was...I did eventually go to college and put myself through pharmacy school as a single mom/homeowner. Don't ask me how! I still marvel at the tenacity and hard work that both my son and I put into getting that hard earned degree. Made him appreciate higher education and working hard to better your own life! Couldn't have done any of it without the support of those awesome parents though! Such a blessing to have family willing to work along with you to help you make your dreams come to fruition!
I was also a single parent through all of my training in anesthesiology and critical care. Those were such crazy times! So I feel you!
And you became a pharmacist! That's a lot of education! Do you feel that back then, medicine was more 'real', or were we just blinded by it falsehoods?
-Ugh Dr Aranda. That's tough. I do feel like it was more real then but could almost see it being usurped in real time after I graduated in 1997. I can 100% promise you from talking to more recent graduates at my alma mater that they are not getting the same education that I received. It was a well oiled machine for me that my brain loved learning. Pharmacy school itself built upon the chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology blocks in ever widening circles that made a lot of sense to me back then. But even then I was alarmed at the utter lack of education regarding nutrition. And we were taught very little about vaccines other than they were necessary (don't remember being taught that they were "unavoidably unsafe" so we made up a new law forcing people to be lied to about it---but that's what happened isn't it?). We WERE taught that you did NOT need one for a disease you ALREADY HAD which is one of MANY alarms bells set off for me in 2020/21.
I remember being disgusted by pharmaceutical giants and their heavy handed manner of inventing the same drug over and over again (how many ACE inhibitors are really necessary after all??) for profit. And as biologics came along, seeming like great ideas but really just being band aids for problems created by over-vaccination (didn't know that then but was alarmed by the increasing rate of autoimmune diseases) and at WHAT A PRICE! I got more and more into "alternative" means of health, I opened my own pharmacy and did compounding for hospice and natural HRT and did a lot of talking with pharmacists who were really out there helping people with smart nutritional advice that MADE A DIFFERENCE. So I went down my little road of health and nutrition and reading more and more about lies my Big Pharma told me I became pretty disillusioned. I sold my business after 5 years because medicare part D and USP 797 rules were out for the blood of independents (just as they were for independent doctors). Wish I would have just converted it all into wellness but I didn't so I basically try my best now to teach people to stay away from doctors and prescriptions (lol seems like a contradiction huh?) . If I had it to do all over again I think I would still be a pharmacist, but I would look for a good business partner and have gone further down that alternate path. It would have been a lot more rewarding for me in the end. I would prefer to spend my time getting my patients on the right nutritional path vs on the right pharmaceutical. It's what I'm doing in my own life and what I advise anyone who will listen to me. My doctor is a DO who quit taking insurance and doing standard practice to pursue lab based nutritional assessments and healthy aging. We inspire and teach each other things all the time. I wish I were younger and able to join her or someone like her in something along those lines.
... such a journey, right?
So similar to me, except I did big Ivy League academic (cutthroat) medicine and had ideas stolen, papers stripped of my name, etc... and by the time Covid came, I went all-cash and had a pain clinic.
I still do many supplements through Metagenics and vetted suppliers for augmented NAC and others. In the US, of course, the FDA doesn't regulate that NAC has to be in a bottle of NAC, so it's important to use good products.
I also believe that being alternative or integrative would have been a much better fit for me, especially as for you - knowing what I now know. And I have great respect for those doing supplements and natural therapies, because they are ahead of the curve.
I did the Cenegenics course in age management, and love my knowledge base. We are growing our own veges and looking at getting chickens, canning, and doing all those things our grandmothers used to do for "every day" living, not just for "survival".
I think there is more to it than just the 15 min city. 15 min cities are most definitely real, they are popping up all over the Portland metro area. Large project like apartment buildings that offer absolutely no shade from the heat oddly ( well since we are so concerned about climate change, you would think they would want less air conditioning). They have restaurants and grocery stores built right in on the lower levels, and they land right inside organs opportunity zone ( even scarier ). Also something that goes hand and hand with a high cost of living and a low wage ( with the added debt ) is working longer hours to make ends meet. People are much to busy to question the motives of state and governments officials / law makers. They are keeping us in a place where we are less likely to fight back. They are keeping our schedules fully booked so we are too tired to stand against them. Everything caused by this kind of attack should be really obvious, I could make a list of negatives, but it would go on forever. Another thing they are doing is flooding areas were people who can’t meet the cost of living increases are becoming homeless, is flooding these areas with fentanyl and blaming it on the voters ( genius ). So what do we do? We vote for more security (control) to fight the drug problem and get the homeless people off of our streets ( the homeless people that state and government officials put in that position ). There foot is on the gas people, they are taking advantage of us from every direction, and they are tricking us into voting for it. This is the sound of your alarm, it’s time to wake up!!!!
Yes, you bring up many good points. It's easy to see it but because it's in plain sight, it's almost invisible!
Let's keep opening eyes!
Something scary yet comforting out of all of this is that the time line coincides directly with the Bible. If you go digging for answers you come across the 13 garbage bloodlines ( very scary ) but it lead to my belief in god. I’ve always been able to see the lie, as a child all my questioning of authority lead me to be diagnosed with ADHD / Behavioral issues but I never took what they were trying to feed me. I thought I was free of what the education system was trying to put into my mind, but it still took me down the wrong path. One of the strongest tools used to keep us from god is the interpretation we are given about the cosmos, super dangerous if you think about it!!!! I had to realize that the evil was real, and track its origin to find the truth. I was headed down the energy can never be created nor destroyed quantum physics path! It’s funny that entire fields of study have been made up and thrown in front of us as road blocks, really anything in organic is a road block and all things condense down to right and wrong!!!
When you get into there belief structure of creating the thesis and the anti thesis it all comes together, but how do you explain that in way that can open eyes, without tripping over yourself? It’s so incredibly clever what They are doing!!
Indeed!!!
Having built homes for forty years, the culprit in housing affordability is OVER-REGULATION! All in the name of protecting the consumer, layers upon layers of regulation are added EVERY YEAR forcing the American dream of home ownership out of the reach of most of us. This comment box isn't large enough to expose all of the dumb stuff the Feds have come up with, but here are just a very few of the most ridiculous: silt fencing - heaven forbid my dirt should wash onto your dirt during construction (add $2,000 - 8,000 depending on jobsite size); over inspection - for every phase of construction there's a City inspection, we wait, and we wait, and we finally get an illegible "red tag" for ridiculous items. Time is money, the interest clock never stops ticking, and over inspection adds probably an extra month or two to the the building process (add $10-30,000 for a grossly inefficient process - I mean, really, do I need to have the nailing/screw field on sheetrock inspected to make sure I have a a zillion nails or screws in one sheet of sheetrock?); energy compliance and inspections - WAY out of hand. Submit a plan before construction telling them how you're going to insulate, hire a third party compliance firm for design, buy all kinds of hi-tech insulation products, have multiple inspections before sheetrock, and submit to a "blower door" test at completion to see how tight the house is (add $15 - 40,000 to construction cost); low VOC paint to minimize off-gases; energy efficient water heaters, HVAC equipment, appliances, ad-nauseam; interior sprinkler systems - don't even get me started; and thousands of "Mickey Mouse" adds like hurricane clips (in Dallas?), and one of my favorites, 1.28gal commodes (which you have to flush 3x to take care of business) to replace the old 3gal commodes so we can save water. Sorry this got long, but believe me, it's only the tip of the iceberg!
Oh ya I work construction where trades are stacked, they have someone paid to pick up literally every element on the chart.
My parents paid 59,000.00 for there house fee simple, they ended up loosing it over refinancing. I know a house is not something that will ever be practical for my family of four.
That's so sad. Many people I know have cared for a single elderly man or woman who had no family. And they received their home. So I will pray that something somewhere can also work out for you.
Amen