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Insurance is insanely expensive, they are always somehow justifying that, yet insurance companies are among the richest entities in human history.  I have a high deductible. I figure there's not a whole lot that can go wrong with a house like this that I can't fix myself.  I don't know how it breaks down but for 3 car and this little house, it's like $1200 every other month...7200 a year. That's crazy. On top of everything else we pay. It's no wonder no one can afford to save anymore.

You never think it will be your house on the TV news...  I sure stuck them this time, by the time it is all said and done, near double, maybe more, than what I paid for the house in the first place. But I am still out of pocket for some of it.

That's how my house is. I think electricity was a retro-fit. I just pretend it's not happening.

Built in '75, things moved and things added over the years. None of it by an electrician apparently. sloppy work, bad work, dangerous work.  It's correct now.

I worry more about my barn because it's irreplaceable. If it burned down or collapsed in a storm, they'd pay for a metal pole barn to replace it. But it's the genuine article, a real 1800's variety red barn made of trees cut down on the lot. It's a community asset. I don't want a metal barn.

Barns aint cheap no more. Neighbor's have a old little one that has become a neglected catch all for 3 families' equipment and some want it torn down I rant at them not to do it, it really just needs new siding and paint.

If you do go metal, remember condensation and build for it. i have actually had it rain inside my carport here in the holler. That sucks.

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Actually this house is well built. They didn't have the technology or materials to build cheap houses 100 years ago - vastly different from the million-dollar McMansions that I work on - pressed paper, hollow doors, plated hardware...
This is wet plaster, old growth studs that are actual 2" by 4".  It's solid.

The farm house was like that. Had it been taken care of it might have lasted another hundred years. I suspect that at the time it was built, it was one of the nicest in that area.

There’s a blizzard in Louisiana.

To them it's a novelty. They enjoy it.

Hey, Mark, you talk about Elon, but what about your people?

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