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fiby41 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:03 am

Congrats but your discoverdata site is down. Consider putting up that content on a forum thread perhaps?

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you can see the futures market for short term rates here: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html -market is pricing in 7 cuts to 3.5% from 5.25% -I think CPI will stay at 3% -equities will go up 10% and long term rates will continue to fall -the best case soft landing...

Alaska. Likely referring to: ERE Fest (California - September): https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=12997 ERE Encampment (Kentucky - March): https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=12981 AK was another missed goal but it's still on my list. When I was 19 my bac...

US documents or Italian? I have a guy who can get the Italian, if needed. My comune ignored my request. He got it in days. That's so kind, thank you! My biggest issue is the Italian side. The city he departed from during immigration is not the commune where he was born it looks like. Sending a DM

When is the movie coming out? Did you get the citizenship? Link in bio for my $99 course of shortcuts in life. Just kidding ;) No passport yet. I had trouble getting a key document (original/notarized birth certificate from 1897) and gave up. I got more time to burn soon so I'm going to give it a 2...

It's unorthodox, high risk and depending on your morals just plain wrong. I know it's not for most. I naturally like risk and that has bitten me in the butt several times, but since we're already a group of eccentrics I figured you might find it amusing. I got exposure to it when I worked in consult...

I didn't post often since there were lots of times even I thought I couldn't do it. couple hiccups along the way: -lost $65k to fraudster in 2019 (at the time it was 30% of all my savings) -was unemployed for several months in 2020 and considered giving up on my career -panic sold all my stocks in b...

- Hit the 1m milestone at 28 this week. Thanks Powell for saying you will cut rates :) - I have a slight confession, the way I was able to start making $250k/yr with a normal office job was by having two remote jobs at once. Shoutout to https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ which is a great online ...

One of the reasons people build tiny houses is that in many places in the U.S., auxiliary structures of less than 200 square ft do not require a permit That's so cool you don't even need a electrical or plumbing permit. That's the main reason the tiny home builders try to keep it under 200 sqft huh?

rube wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:23 am

Some listings of beautiful (and often expensive) strawbale houses in the US: https://strawbale.com/homes-for-sale/

This seems so low cost and logical I'm surprised it's not more common! I learn something new each day

loutfard wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:45 am

Around here, that's much less of a problem. It's quite a common way of building.

what country? Always like to here how other places build.

jacob wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:32 am

It definitely passes in places w/o code.

I've never worked in a US county that has no code. Do people even report their property to tax rolls or even have permits in those areas?

loutfard wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:20 am

On foundations, there's screw pile foundations too. Super fast, diy friendly, zero leveling required. And do check wood framing with old style small square straw bale infill for insulation.

Any idea if straw bale passes code anywhere or is this more common with off-grid eco homes?

Any idea if straw bale passes code anywhere or is this a eco home method without electrical?

most contractors will file the permits with their licence but let you do the work, super common if you are subbing out with cheaper unlicensed/undocumented labor. I love this builder on tiktok and his free content covers the basics and he sells in super detailed course with every fine detail to buil...

Anyone have any experience with directly owning and operating timber land for the purpose of investing? I'm looking for a very chill small business to invest into once I pull the trigger on retirement Pro: -you can get started with small amount of seed money. I'm seeing entry level plots for 120k US...

debt is amazing: -It slowly transfers wealth from old people who hate risk and keep their money in a bank account into the pockets of risk takers who build things we need (homes, businesses, infrastructure and new ideas) -italy is in the middle of a hyper inflation and historically you could get eur...

Be careful with bank preferreds... those tend not to be cumulative, which is one of the beneficial features of preferred over common shares. Thanks I didn't comprehend the implication of cumulative versus non-cumulative and didn't realize that prefrered shares can be suspended and that happened to ...

Been looking into bank and utility preferred shares: Pros: -due to interest rate hikes prices have dropped a lot and now you can lock in 6.8% perpetual dividends and if rates drop you get price appreciation -you get better tax treatment since it capital gains and not interest income (pretty huge if ...

1. Do you see/know about workers of outside EU in your job (or not only white WASPs, ekhm or diversity hires)? I suspect not, prolly due payment/taxes hassles. USA is very multiracial and there is always still racism when hiring, but it's far from a ethnostate. I'm apart of the dominant ethnic grou...