LinvilleGorge

Oh, I'm not buying anything anywhere close to Charlotte, that's for sure.

It's nearly twice as big as anything I'd ever consider. I don't want anything over 2500 square feet. Don't want to clean it, maintain it, etc. Don't need it.

We bought four years ago. Our annual appreciation averages out to 7% per year based on our selling price.

We've been thinking about getting off the Front Range for the past 2-3 years and were definitely gonna do it in the next 2-3 years so we're jumping the gun now because I think we're about to get rocked for awhile economically and it seems like 95% of people are completely oblivious to it. Cash in my chips now and buy at a heavy discount a year from now.

Yep, I've had enough. We're buying on the western slope or Montana probably around this time next year. I'm pushing for Montana but if the wife is set on the western slope I'm not gonna fight it too hard.

I can buy an actual fuging mansion in Charlotte for what I'm selling my 3 bed, 2 bath 2000sqft house for. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14232-Carlton-Woods-Ln-Charlotte-NC-28278/80457354_zpid/?

You'll have to forgive me for not getting too excited over anything coming out of China right now. I still remember them shipping a bunch of faulty COVID tests all over the world barely a month ago.

There's not going to be a vaccination by this fall. Not in meaningful quantities anyway.

Yep, we already saw it play out with testing. The common person couldn't get a test even if they were exhibiting textbook symptoms yet how many reports did we hear of asymptomatic politicians, celebrities, and athletes getting tested?

It's cheap. The house I'm selling in Colorado for well over $500k could be bought all day long in the Charlotte area for half that.

Seemed pretty relevant to the public health of Charlotte. I don't consider public health to be a political issue, despite the fact that everyone else is trying really hard to make it one. Seems like something that would receive widespread bipartisan support. If you support it, be sure to be there. Hug your friends and family tight afterwards.

Trump is threatening to pull the Republican National Convention out of NC because he wants assurance he can have a full arena. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-warns-may-move-republican-133918437.html Sports are likely to be played this fall without fans, but this guy wants a full arena of his supporters to massage his own ego no matter what.

I really wish the world was this pipedream. Sadly, it's not.

I don't disagree that there are a lot of similarities in the reactions. My disagreement is that society largely just ignored the Black Death and went about life as usual. It resulted in wide sweeping societal changes.

History major here. Do you honestly think that is an accurate portrayal of how society as a whole reacted? Because, wow... it's wildly inaccurate.

The entire globe implemented extraordinary measures to curb this pandemic and it has still infected 5.5M people killing 350k on half of a cold/flu season despite those extraordinary measures. Some people see this as "proof" that this was nothing to worry about all along. I swear to god if we continue to devolve intellectually at this pace our grand children will have to rediscover fire.

My wife is from a small town not far from Ocean City. It's basically Myrtle Beach.

Oh, I don't know... practically every virologist and epidemiologist in the world?

It's amazing how we as a species are so fast to forget history. Highly infectious novel respiratory diseases don't simply go away without second waves. But, then again, most of the folks thinking this is all over now are probably used to ignoring history after so often finding themselves on the wrong side of it.

I'll have a LOT more than that after the sell of this house closes. We'll net a little over our combined gross annual income.

I think my wife and I have been laid off a total of five times combined over the last 13 years. It sucks. It's why I'm bound and determined to get my business up and running to the point that it can sustain us. I'm tired of relying on others for a paycheck

I think I'd probably hold off on stocks. I think there will be a sucker's rally over much of the summer.

How in the hell do you end up with a credit score in the low 600s anyway? I've always been in the high 700s and I don't do anything to try to manage my credit score, just live within my means and pay my bills and it takes care of itself.

As of May 4th... https://loans.usnews.com/reviews/bankofamerica-mortgage Qualifying for a Bank of America Mortgage You'll need a FICO credit score of at least 620 and a maximum debt-to-income ratio of 55% to qualify for a conventional mortgage with Bank of America.