THE HOUSING CRISIS

A simple solution.

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[Florida Man]

Dave, you need to purchase your own toilet snake. I suggest one of those realistic looking rubber ones and then everybody will be afraid to use the toilet. Problem solved.

[man tom]

Classic, no really. One of the houses I grew up in, lived there 10 years, was a renter for if I remember correctly, $65 a month. The house was supposed to temporary until some better housing situation could be acquired. The house was 4 rooms. Counting a small hallway/bedroom, a kitchen living room and master suite. Ok, we used a blanket draped covering the entrance as a door to the master suite.

The house had one space heater in the living room with a broken fan. So, to stay warm you had to actually touch the space heater which left 1st degree burns but was better than living in 20 degrees below indoor wind chill. I was plagued with a continuous strep throat as a kid.

My mother would turn the oven on and leave the door in the kitchen so we didn't freeze to death waiting for something hot to warm us, toast. The heat from the did nothing to melt the 2 inches of ice accumulated on the front windows of the house. Then you factor in the dirt floors seemed to never warm thoroughly. I diligently would go crashing through seven inches of iced over snow off to school freezing my ass and my ears off. My mother bought me ear muffs. Didn't stop the crying. Later I trudged through what seemed like Siberia to the school waiting there for the bus to Jr. High. My spirts were high as I stood there in 27 below wind chill praying the bus would come soon. Stepping onto the bus and feeling the heat from the heater on my skin was what I would today feel like if were walking into heaven.

I know, you are asking. why are you tell me all this?

I will most certainly ask my son to read this article. He is in the process of buying his first home. Incredible how I think like Dave does regarding these matter of putting yourself into unimaginable, no-stop suffering and that doesn't include the monthly/yearly cost of upkeep and repairs. I've lived in the house we live in now 38 years. What can possibly go wrong, right? Thank god we don't heave septic tank although the house I lived in for 10 years as a kid did have s septic tank that showed signs of wear at times in the front yard. There really wasn't wood on the house so I can feel Dave's pain as far as wswollen wood goes.

Anyway, my son has a bid in, should find out tomorrow, if the seller accepts my son's counter bid. My son refuses to take on a 25 year loan at 180 a month the owner has on solar. That come s $54,000. Anyway my son is certainly no dumb ass. When He was a kid He said some guy was bothering him on his way skateboarding to see his girlfriend. You the 13 year old kind of long distance lover? I asked my son what happened. He said he broke the guy's arm. No really, I know He broke the guy's arm and escape the scene via skateboard.

So I will absolutely have my son read this article. I didn't know how to tell him all this. Dave conveyed this message letter perfect for me.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Dave, if I remember I will send you a picture of my favorite T-shirt, which says, "It is Not because I'm old. Your Music really does SUCK."

[3 Little Pigs]

The Big Bad Wolf couldn't blow this one down...

[Anthony Hight Stewart]

I bought my first home in 1970. 3 bedroom two bath brick with 2-car garage and a sceptic tank. $21,500 total. If it's still there it's probably $200,000 I don't doubt. The problem is compound interest. And of course HOA's. I'm spending my last years in a single wide mobile home I paid $10,000 for. People need to think small. It works. I just hope my pipes don't freeze.

[Delta House]

Last week my house was on fire. My wife told the kids,

‘Be quiet, you’ll wake up Daddy’.

(Rodney Dangerfield)

[ghost of James Dean]

Maybe I can afford a room here...

[Pullet Surprise]

I fought the Substack and the Substack won.

[kwerty]

Your septic system probably needs a second "leach field." Keep in mind, when you add this, the California Coastal Commission will fine you $10,000 (yes, even in Florida).

[From Allen at Division:]

Apropos of nothing other than the photo, I saw a VERY young Bobby Fuller 4 perform on a local tv station's kids broadcast in the early 60's, wrote perhaps my first fan letter, and got a letter and autographed photo back. :)