[Tzu]

Take a good luck. Crappy shot of the field next door. The church wants to buy the property for a gymnasium and parking lot addition that needs more room. They thought my price was too high but I was giving them a discount. They would like to tear it down and did it to a house next door with a tree thru it. Perfect for them. Too bad they think my BRICK solid house is not worthless.
The wood in these homes is at least twice as strong as your new house is right now. Probably 3x's. That is why you see them being moved all the time nowdays. They are strong enough to move. I should have taken a cut out shot of the last dumper like this. It was twice as strong and had mutliple layers of plywood. Iw was unbelievable to me. Just is some the old craftsmanship vs. today.
I usually start off by burning everything. Now I am in burn everything mode to clean things out inside and out. You can make burn piles here in all the surrounding areas.
The inside of the house was so bad that I took a bunch of shots for you guys to see them later on. I put on gloves. Mostly paper trash stuff . Lots of poor man pot(schwag) roaches and stems everywhere. I even found an old setup I think was used to grow pot in the back. I know it was as a matter of fact. Hoses and everything.
Here is the funny part. They had 2 old buildings in the back. I think they caught the building on fire from their dope setup. It completely burnt down the building and this huge tree is burnt to the crisp all the way up. The fire department just let it go out and the neighbors got some beers and watched. I will snap some phots to show you. It is so funny.
There are some PVC pipes etc. that are half melted in a pile in the back. It just adds up that this is what happens. I bet it was hilarious to watch the guy freak out...

I have some hilarious shots of other stuff I will share later on. The guy I bought the house from had pamphlets for gum ball machine business and other crap. He had 4 houses and was 25. His LLC business went under obviously. The couple even left the financial paperwork, loan book, credit card and bank statements on the floor. What idiots.
I was told the church offered to buy the house but they wanted to much. Ironically, I already found out the price from the other neighbors and my price was 50k instead of the 65k he was losing his business over trying to get.
I have calculated he had "at least" 50k in the house. I got it for 33k.
Watch how I tear this thing apart step by step. Some day when prices are low in your area and the market is strong, you can think of this as a hopeful option to some degree.
The bigger the dump can sometimes mean the largest profits IF you know what to look out for etc. That is the case here.

bought wednesday at the auction. Think 3 years from now in your areas I guess. Just showing some ideas for the future. Jokes highly welcome.
I can only do this on 30k dumpers so remember that key point.
1 month and 3k and I can rent for 700 per month. 36k so far. Taxes insurance and interest will be at the end. The key here is that if I paid someone else to do the work it would cost 25k and I couldn't do this at this time with housing like it is.
Lower housing prices would help me tremendously. Not higher prices.

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[Tzu]

I can go right now in the morning and show you guys 100 illegal immigrants working for cash with no green cards. There is a massive project going on here in town where complete subdivisions are being built. Yeterday, for the first time, I heard it called, "Little Mexico".

Nobody gives a crap here and who cares about a law if nobody enforces it.

We had some wood floors priced to be redone at a historical building here.
Local people wanted 7,000 bucks to redo the downstairs and the stairs.
The little Mexico gangs wanted 3,500. They even have fake paperwork given to them by the city to make it look legit it seems...Real businesses around here seem to be using "contractors" to profit from the boom. Why not? They didn't know, it was the LLC contractor.
If it was my project I could do it for 300 bucks tops. It was take about 3-4 weeks. Do the math. Even 3500 dollars is insane. That is right. It is mostly labor and that labor should only be worth 10 bucks. Guess who makes the fortune? I have never used help from anyone fwiw. That is where I make the money from.
There are tons of things like that around here.
I bought a house after the storm for 23k. It had a tree IN it. The estimate he got was for 33k. He valued the home at 55k. I spent 3 months and 3 bucks. My dad bought out my portion and rented it for 850 per month to a professor.
I made the profit from the repair, not the vlaue of the home and not even really the lower HIGH RISK auction buys. It is easier to go direct to the person.
I say this so some day soon you when the rest of the housing markets in the USA catch up you will be better prepared. Sorry guys, it is already to late. I could go on for days but will of course not be politcal although I am usually pretty accurate just taking guesses.

Save housing and the blue collar skilled worker is probably fixing to outpace everyone. Revenge of the self-employed blue collar man.
Nobody will do the work at the bottom anymore so everyone is pushed forward. Illegal immigrants not only will make a killing, they will do it tax free. Give in, change the laws, throw in the towel or watch it get worse. Watching it get worse is all that will probably happen.
Unless you guys would like me to go to the immigration office and do an on camera interview of why they are being told to leave "Little Mexico" alone. Then I could just go to "Little Mexico" and show you for yourself.
Then I can go to downtown Houston near the medical area and museum and show you 1000 more.
Then I can go to Home Depot and Austin and take 400 pictures of everyone in town.

Don't mean to rant but this is completely all related and there is absolutely no other way to fit this puzzle together while ignoring all thee other thing at this specific time. Ying/Yang and all. I just don't see any other way.

[Tzu]

Just think how good rental income will be when the value of the dollar bottoms. 1 year? 3? I am not concerned. At some point honest work will outpace dishonest market gambling and people will leave all together.
This will be in effect, the downfall of the rich. The think they are smarter than billions of people and that that will last in todays society.