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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 20, 2021 22:31:47 GMT
I saw a stat in the NY Times yesterday that 1 in 100 people in San Francisco are homeless. Where I live now in Eugene, OR, it's a terrible problem. One of the downtown parks is filled with hundreds of tents and the river walk along the Willamette is dotted with tents also. You can't ride a bike downtown because it will be stolen while you're inside a store and is used as currency among the homeless. From July of this year in Eugene Register/Guard, the local paper: In 2019, Eugene had the highest homelessness rate of any city in the entire country. In a supposedly progressive city — without the insane housing prices of New York or Los Angeles — thousands weather the elements on our streets. Since then, homelessness in Lane County has skyrocketed by about 50% to 3,245 people actively experiencing homelessness, the Register-Guard reported. As a UO student, this increase is hard to miss. Overcrowded tent communities greet me on my way to work. Children ask me for money on the street. And now that the federal eviction moratorium is set to end on August 1, experts warn that thousands more could lose their housing. Why Eugene, though? Are most of these people from out of state? Seems like an awful place to live outdoors. BTW, I remember you posting a picture of a very beautiful house your dad built. Is that still in your family? Second question first. It is not. A friend who still lives in the neighborhood said it went on the market, probably 6 mos. ago. It sold for $2,150,000 last May. The guy we sold it to said they were going to stay there a long time. Mormon family with four kids. I went by it and he told me all the work he was going to do to it. He bought it for $1.5 million. Looking at all the work they did along with demolishing cabin next door, I doubt they made any money on the house. The remodeling look very expensive. When I showed my brother, who owns a property inspection business, he confirmed what I thought. Here's what it looked like at last sale. www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3468-Oak-Knoll-Dr_Emerald-Hills_CA_94062_M18775-04303Why, Eugene? Beats me. Lots of services. The county has built lots of portable housing and allows RVs to park all over the place, along with all the tents. Locals hate that the county is so permissive. Maybe part of it has to do with it being a college town. California has about almost 25% of the US homeless population and it makes sense. I think other Californians can back me up, but coastal towns have had the predominant amount of homeless. Now, they're all over the Bay Area like LA. I was driving in Oakland last year and I saw a tent on a concrete median. Even the very staid suburb I lived in had a fair amount of homeless. Something like 400, if I recall. I lived in the 4th most populated city in Bay Area. When I left, they were considering building a encampment.
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wobblie
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Post by wobblie on Dec 21, 2021 1:03:45 GMT
Are there homeless in Emerald Hills?
Gorgeous place. A little out of my price range.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 21, 2021 15:28:43 GMT
Are there homeless in Emerald Hills? Gorgeous place. A little out of my price range. Now, probably yes. Lots of residents wear MIT and Duke hoodies, but growing up it wasn't like that. The area was originally a summer cabin haven for San Francisco residents who didn't want to go all the way to the Russian River. Some SF people still used their places for that, but many had started to become full-time homes when I was growing up. Our own house was little more than a shack when my mom and dad bought it for a little under $5,000 in 1960. In the '60s and '70s, lots of hippies or disaffected kids used to hang out there. I'm sure some of the abandoned cabins were used to squat in. But then the whole area was way more blue collar then as I've often described. It was close to the suburbs but didn't feel like the suburbs. The closest I can compare it to is a downscale Laurel Canyon without the famous musicians.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Dec 21, 2021 15:34:46 GMT
It sold for $2,150,000 last May. The guy we sold it to said they were going to stay there a long time. Mormon family with four kids. I went by it and he told me all the work he was going to do to it. He bought it for $1.5 million. Looking at all the work they did along with demolishing cabin next door, I doubt they made any money on the house. The remodeling look very expensive. When I showed my brother, who owns a property inspection business, he confirmed what I thought. Here's what it looked like at last sale. www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3468-Oak-Knoll-Dr_Emerald-Hills_CA_94062_M18775-04303wow, incredible house, sloop. did you become an overnight millionaire when you sold it?
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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 21, 2021 15:40:54 GMT
It sold for $2,150,000 last May. The guy we sold it to said they were going to stay there a long time. Mormon family with four kids. I went by it and he told me all the work he was going to do to it. He bought it for $1.5 million. Looking at all the work they did along with demolishing cabin next door, I doubt they made any money on the house. The remodeling look very expensive. When I showed my brother, who owns a property inspection business, he confirmed what I thought. Here's what it looked like at last sale. www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3468-Oak-Knoll-Dr_Emerald-Hills_CA_94062_M18775-04303wow, incredible house, sloop. did you become an overnight millionaire when you sold it? Not in the US, but I could finally put someone money away for retirement and college money for kids and buy this house. I also helped some friends who needed help. Besides retirement funds of $30,000, I had $600 in the bank when I got divorced. You have to remember, except for social security and medicare, which isn't a whole lot, everything else is on us. I've actually thought about buying some fentanyl and storing it away so I can take it once I put dog food on the grocery list. I don't want to be a burden to my kids.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Dec 21, 2021 15:42:35 GMT
wow, incredible house, sloop. did you become an overnight millionaire when you sold it? Not in the US, but I could finally put someone money away for retirement and college money for kids and buy this house. I also helped some friends who needed help. can i just say that i've always had a lot of time for you.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 21, 2021 17:17:53 GMT
It sold for $2,150,000 last May. The guy we sold it to said they were going to stay there a long time. Mormon family with four kids. I went by it and he told me all the work he was going to do to it. He bought it for $1.5 million. Looking at all the work they did along with demolishing cabin next door, I doubt they made any money on the house. The remodeling look very expensive. When I showed my brother, who owns a property inspection business, he confirmed what I thought. Here's what it looked like at last sale. www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3468-Oak-Knoll-Dr_Emerald-Hills_CA_94062_M18775-04303wow, incredible house, sloop. did you become an overnight millionaire when you sold it? My dad built the whole house starting when we were little. He tore out the bottom and built the three bedrooms, bathroom, office and washroom. When I was nine, we went to New Jersey for the Summer with my mom to visit my cousins and he tore off the whole top of the house, where we basically lived. In the original house, my brother and I had a bedroom with bunkbeds and my mom and dad slept in the living room in a roll out couch. When we got back from New Jersey, he hadn't finished so we basically lived downstairs for more than a year. He probably finished when I was in 5th and 6th grade. On the weekend, my brother and my main job was to look out for county building inspectors because the house wasn't quite exactly built to code. In fact, I know why the old owner tore down the cabin next door. My dad had built a sliver of our house on the other property line. Which is the main reason my brother had to sell the family home and rental cabin as one. A lot of work went into that place. The area was originally all septic tanks and when I was 15, the county installed a sewer system My brother and my job was to dig a three foot wide, five foot deep trench all the way to the street so we could pipe it and connect to it. Probably 25-30 yards.
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wobblie
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Post by wobblie on Dec 25, 2021 19:22:04 GMT
A strange though positive experience today. I don't feel I made any difference, though I did make some new friends. Glad to be back home.
Having a look at the Guardian a moment ago and I see that a British real estate agent in southern Florida was murdered by a recently 'evicted tenent'.
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