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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Overvaluing really isn’t an issue causing the housing crisis.

    It is more supply and demand as the real cause. when interest rates were low, investors got involved in buying up homes leading to property values rising even more.

    From a property tax perspective there’s so many variables that contribute to the value of a house that assessment values are based more on average of a neighborhood area instead of on a house by house basis. Unless the house is sold.

    A houses true value is really only known when a sale occurs in the vast majority of cases as the true value is what someone else is willing to pay.

    The last home we lived in was 1200 sqft and assessed at 135k if I remember correctly. We sold at around 230k when our neighborhood caught up to rising property values in the city. New owners stayed for a year adding only a privacy fence and sold for 330k.

    While I think those sale prices are insane, someone else saw the value and agreed to the price.



  • Sort of. The plans we’ve had from at&t for the last 5 years included only 15gb of hotspot usage along with unlimited mobile data.

    Seems like a fair amount of hotspot data except we live in the sticks and mobile has been the only Internet option.

    On the upside were weeks away from gig speed fiber being installed to the house.