FRAMING A HOUSE ! $10.00 A FOOT! WOW! WTH

[lostchild]

They say you only have to know two things to do. Plumbing ship will not run uphill and don’t bite your fingernails

I worked with an old plumber one summer.
His motto was "your sh*t is my bread and butter".

 

[roundhouse]

Speaking of disasters,
Guy down here was building his dream home overlooking the beach. Two story to get that great ocean view.
All framed up, He's upstairs one day, checking on the progress and that beautiful view. Plumber's torch catches the insulation on fire, it spreads so quickly he's trapped on the second floor, has to jump into a pile of sand to escape. That was last year, it still sits, a charred eyesore, I guess because of insurance issues.

That’s the best part about pex

No torches in the house .


I had some friends that owned a beachfront house in SC but didn’t own the land it sat on , it was a long term lease .
The landowner wouldn’t sell the land , only lease it


Few months later a big hurricane comes thru and blew away their house , which was covered by insurance, but it totally WASHED away the land the hoise sat on .

Hoise sat on a little strip of land between the highway and the ocean and it was just gone . Vanished .

Sucked for the landowner cause there isn’t any insirance for your land washing away .

 

[basstracker89]

Not even surprised. Paulding is gonna be another Woodstock/Cherokee County in another 10 years, guaranteed. Seven Hills will be the Towne Lake Hills of Dallas and I bet we see those homes go for close to 7-figures one day.

It makes me wish we could have afforded these gorgeous houses in Dallas for pennies back before the pandemic; course, then the property taxes would come back to bite us.

It's always somethin......

 

[basstracker89]

That’s the spot I’m in now. I live in south Paulding. Bought my really nice 2bed 1 bath 1200sqft 4 sided brick ranch with detached garage for $126,000 in 2018. It was a recent remodel so everything in the house had been updated. In 2019 my property taxes were $700. Now in 2025 they’re $1400 over $900 of that for school tax and I don’t even have a kid going to the ****ing school system and never will and never have. I love my house, it was built in 1978 when brick masons and other trades took price in their work. In 2025 they valued my house at $225,550 and I think to myself, ain’t no effin way this house is worth that. I had offers on my door 2-3 days a week from someone wanting to buy for $200k+ I should have sold and walked away and built a house with the profit.

We bought our first home new for $78k. Today that home is worth nearly $400k. You're not alone

 

[wildbill1973z28]

We bought our first home new for $78k. Today that home is worth nearly $400k. You're not alone

I don’t know if worth is the right term. The value of it is at 400 but you know yourself it’s crazy world.

 

[roundhouse]

We bought our first home new for $78k. Today that home is worth nearly $400k. You're not alone

Paid $99k for my house in 2001

It was a fixer upper and needed a lot of work . Most houses in the neighborhood were selling for $150k

Now most in the neighborhood are valued at $600k.

Mines a little harder to calculate since we have done a major addition to it , but the county tax appraisal after the addition was $850k and we protested that and they reduced it to $750k

The housing market is just nuts .

But , you gotta remember that the population of the Atlanta metro area has DOUBLED since 1996

That drives the prices up

And as y’all know from the ammo or gasoline prices

Doubling the demand for something doesn’t double the prices

It causes the prices to go up 5X or 6x

and the sad reality of it is that it ain’t ever gonna stop

Everyone wants to live in or near a big city .

You can go to middle of nowhere alabama to a town that used to have a factory or mill that was destroyed by NAFTA , and buy a house for next to nothing because there’s vacant houses everywhere because there’s no jobs .

 

[basstracker89]

Paid $99k for my house in 2001

It was a fixer upper and needed a lot of work . Most houses in the neighborhood were selling for $150k

Now most in the neighborhood are valued at $600k.

Mines a little harder to calculate since we have done a major addition to it , but the county tax appraisal after the addition was $850k and we protested that and they reduced it to $750k

The housing market is just nuts .

But , you gotta remember that the population of the Atlanta metro area has DOUBLED since 1996

That drives the prices up

And as y’all know from the ammo or gasoline prices

Doubling the demand for something doesn’t double the prices

It causes the prices to go up 5X or 6x

and the sad reality of it is that it ain’t ever gonna stop

Everyone wants to live in or near a big city .

You can go to middle of nowhere alabama to a town that used to have a factory or mill that was destroyed by NAFTA , and buy a house for next to nothing because there’s vacant houses everywhere because there’s no jobs .

Housing is definitely nuts. I laughed a little about the appraisal. Taxes are real!! I kept saying our old starter home ain't worth that!! You wana bet......Thing is, it'd cost far more to build it new than what you could sell it for used. I'm ashamed at what our current place is worth. Thank goodness I don't pay school taxes

 

[basstracker89]

I don’t know if worth is the right term. The value of it is at 400 but you know yourself it’s crazy world.

It is. But I had no trouble when I went to sell it. That initial $78k turned into a gold mine for us

 

[wildbill1973z28]

It is. But I had no trouble when I went to sell it. That initial $78k turned into a gold mine for us

That’s a great feeling, isn’t it?

 

[lostchild]

That’s a great feeling, isn’t it?

Until you price a replacement home.