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RootDKJ

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  1. Just now, Schif said:

    While I get the appeal of low interest rates, the inflation of home prices washes that right out so I really don't understand why the market is still so hot. 

    My concern is that people who have overpaid and locked in good mortgage rates will now sit on these houses for longer than they typically would because 1. Their next move will give them a higher rate 2. It will be difficult to get the price they paid for the house back out of it

    The extreme lack of inventory is driving prices up. Coupled with stupidly low interest rates has people buying second homes for investing/rental purposes too.

  2. 2 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

    Im glad i bought/sold in 2019, before things went completely stupid.  I did really well selling mine, which was just dumb luck that i bumped into the right person that just wanted to buy any house in that neighborhood, and paid me more, and had zero contingencies to ensure she got it.  i probably would not have ended up in the house i ended up buying, which would make me sad.  

    A friend was buying during all of this, he was going after houses towards his max number, but after being outbid by tens of thousands, he had to change his strategy to go after houses $50,000 below his max.  that was what finally netted him a house.  

    It was pretty crazy, with some homes going under contract sight unseen.  Others went under contract before we could arrange a trip to PA. One home we put an offer on went for $75K over asking. I was stunned. We even considered renting and then moving twice. I’m glad we didn’t do that.
     

    We went over budget, but also bought more home and land then we were initially looking for too. We got lucky with the for sale by owner because I think it fell off most peoples (aka realtors) radar. The neighbors told us that the sellers only had one other offer and they liked us better. We had an inspection contingency but the biggest issues were a light and electrical receptacle not working. Both had disconnected wires, so they were easy fixes.  
     

    Our NJ home sold almost immediately by the first person to look at it. Full price cash offer.  The buyer spent 6 minutes inside the home. 

  3. On 10/10/2021 at 2:12 PM, momskeeztoo said:

    And congrats to no longer being a two-plater👍👍. I have a lot of family in Jersey, I don’t know how they can afford the property taxes. When did you buy a house? Kind of a crazy time to buy, isn’t it? 

    It’s a really tough time to buy. Every home we made an offer on, we got out bid by a ridiculous amount. We lucked out and found a for sale by owner and closed in early August. 

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  4. 23 hours ago, saltyant said:

    @RootDKJ Reach around talk

    Hi Salty and gang. Whew! It’s been a busy year. I’ve finally moved into PA!!! I’m not sure what is worse, packing or unpacking. Either way, I’m not moving again for a long time. 
     

    I’m super looking forward to pulling into the upper lot for the first time without a front plate on my car haha. 
     

    Lots to do, dethatching and fertilizing the lawn today.  Anyone have any recommendations on a tree removal company in Bucks/Mont?  

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  5. 31 minutes ago, Justo8484 said:

    Man i'm glad i just write code and don't have to deal with the physical infra stuff. Though i'm sorry you have to deal with juniper networks. Any time i've had to deal with their software it's been a pain.

     

    On a snowier note... snow was easily 12oz deep here, closing in on 16oz. It's since switched over to sleet/freezing rain, so barring a change back to snow, I don't think it's getting any deeper. 

     

     

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    I’m glad I’m the guy who builds the infrastructure, installs, tests and launches the routers, servers and transport systems, and not the guy who has to fix them.  

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  6. 39 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

    The FCP in FCP slot 1 is bad. They wanted to move the uplink XFP into the open slot on the MIC in working FCP2, but I convinced them that moving the entire MIC to the open slot in that FCP was a better idea. We did that and they rewrote the config to get the MEG back up to the SUR, as well as all the 10-gig customers on the XFPs. Unfortunately dozens of customers are still down that are coming of the SFP card in MIC1 of FCP-1, but there was no other slot to move the MIC to. Juniper is RMA-ing one to my house to take to replace it, but UPS shut their warehouse down for the weather, so no ETA.

    It’s gonna be expensive.

    Nice job.  I saw the last of all the down customers, sucks. I’m surprised we don’t have one in one of the local spares depo’s. 

  7. 10 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

    Just got home after a pretty treacherous drive in a rear wheel drive van from the Service Electric headend atop the mountain in Bethelham. Bad day and time for a critical piece of equipment to fail.

     

    Putting in a guess of 19” flat. I know it’s too late to be official, but I’m fine with that since I don’t drink beer.

    I joined that outage bridge for a bit since I was getting spammed every few minutes on the Bucks Headend disto and it connects to my SUR in Sellersville. What was the final fix on the Juniper MEG?

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  8. 14 minutes ago, theprogram4 said:

    Does anyone know if it still has exposed rebar?

    I don’t think so. We were talking about this in the lot on Saturday and the general consensus was to let someone else go first and find out. 
     

    It would be boner city if blue actually removed them and the trail was in play for the first time. 

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  9. 3 hours ago, JFskiDan said:

    a day or so ago they were marginal.  how quickly the forecast can change in the winter.  

    oh, 2 awesome things happened today.  no more construction on 476.  And, season pass found!

    It was such a relief to find my season pass. Congratulations!

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