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  1. Most people can’t drive wake boats worth a crap, thrusters on the big ones make sense to dock/trailer. The concept of very little steering in reverse is hard for some people to deal with.
  2. Pretty popular in our area. I know of a number of people that built them and lived in them while main houses were being built and that still live in them or use them as cabins on a separate farm. I built a 60x40 shop on our farm and then we added a 30x40 apartment on to the side of it with a breezeway connecting it for my parents. We went off the side rather than finishing out the upper level of the shop mainly for ease of access and because the shop is full of tractors, boats, atv’s, etc so we didn’t think we could isolate the noise very well. Based on current build prices it was much more economical than building/buying them a house as we are under $90 a foot for it. It's pretty basic, but it serves their needs and if they decide they don’t like it the kids will have a place to crash at the farm. The same guy that built the shop did it, so everything matches from the outside.
  3. In, send me your Venmo. I think I have it, but want to check it.
  4. Make sure to use your rear tie downs on your trailers. Buddy slammed on the brakes on the interstate yesterday to keep from hitting someone in front of him and his new Supra didn’t stop with him. Ended up on the side of the interstate with the tell-tale broken front strap and not much left of it after it hit his truck and rolled.
  5. I think the majority of people fall in the middle, I would think more liberal socially and more conservative financially. All of that has been blown up in the last few years and we’ve handed the microphone to the crazies. I’m not sure how you reel it back in, but I’m going to align myself with the group that is trying to create a better country not tear it down. I should have added, having two girls changed my political views more than anything. I don’t feel good about what’s going to be left for them, so I if I have to pay more taxes, lose a few guns, etc to get there then so be it.
  6. I find this interesting every time you throw it out. To one of those 15 you are literally saying that your ability to have a specific type of gun (not even guns in general) is more important to you than the ability of her to live the same life you do. It’s kind of fascinating where your line is and that you don’t see that. I’m also not condemning you in any way. I (and a few others here I’m sure) were similar when I was younger, but the school shootings, the 2015/2016 election cycle, lots of other eye opening things made me realize that the greater good was more important than guns, taxes, etc. Mine didn’t matter if the country crumbled around me. There are plenty of D policies I don’t agree with including the way student loan forgiveness was handled, but the greater good outweighs everything individually and every f-Ing person in the US should have the same rights I do to marriage, seeing their significant other in the hospital, raising their kids in peace, etc
  7. I would be sitting and waiting right now or making lower reasonable offers, prices are going to check up with everything going on. Boat dealer I used for service on last two boats has 23 new boats sitting on the floor. I haven’t seen a new boat there in 2 years. Checked a few others regionally and it looks the same.
  8. Best bet right now is keeping any eye on the dealers that sell what you want and finding something that someone else backed out on when it came in. I’ve seen some really good deals on new boats (at least when compared to used) because people aren’t walking in to buy off the floor because everyone is ordering and waiting. It just hasn’t been anything I’m looking for. Financing is going to have changed a lot since people ordered 6/12/18/24 months ago, so it will be interesting to see what happens with inventory. Used boats have slowed quite a bit too in the markets I pay attention to. Some of that is time of year where I’m looking, but some has to be price related and market related. The toy market is going to be interesting with the Fed pushing rates a projected 2-3 more times this year. Edited to add: Checked the dealer I have used for the last few boats, they have 7 Scouts sitting on the floor right now. I haven’t seen one on the floor in 2 years. I’m not buying one, but it is a change.
  9. Books around Pine Avenue and you have decent restaurants and no public parking. Makes for a much better trip to AMI.
  10. Should be able pull the hard cover dividers on either side of the engine and it opens up the space to get around when the whole back area is opened up. I changed the starter on my first v drive without noticing those came out, life got much simpler after that.
  11. Most say every other year depending on hours, as long as it is used regularly it’s not at a significant issue of deteriorating early. I change every year when I pull the boat out of storage because I’ve had one come apart and one get stuck. They are a pain to deal with when they fail.
  12. Have had a place on Sanibel for years, it depends on the ages and interests of the kids. We have found that a lot of couples with kids that come visit us don’t like the beaches. They only know the panhandle white sands and clear water, so crushed shell and sometimes murky/sometimes clear water aren’t their thing. Saying that, it’s been the only beach we want to go to. That is mainly because of the island itself and the lack of corporate restaurants, hotels, etc. and we know the owners,servers, and others at all the places we go. We sold recently and are trying to decide whether to buy there again or try something else. The island has changed a lot post Covid and it is overrun with people instead of being that laid back, community feel it has always been.
  13. If you haven’t had them change the impeller since you bought it, it would be a good time to knock that out. Hopefully a hose split or blew off which is what it sounds like with that much water in there and the boat still running. The couple of other things that put hot water in the bilge get really expensive really fast.
  14. Have a client currently getting criminally prosecuted by the state for buying a vehicle and registering it in Montana to avoid sales tax. His plates are what got him looked at because they are auditing out of state registrations.
  15. I don’t plan to stay out of it long, just going to be weird not having a wake boat. I’ll have a bay/offshore boat within the next 12 months I think. Hopefully my oldest will know whether UNC is going to work out or not by late spring and then we’ll decide where to buy. Really was focused on the Keys and SWFL again but now we’re thinking about coastal Carolina or even one of the north GA lakes. Even looked at condos in Chicago recently for something different. High school age kids are a bit of a beating on the hobbies, they have too much going on to get out and do much on the water any more.
  16. Isn’t that what both sides do depending on where control lies, they just have differing opinions on what “fixing shit” looks like?
  17. Sucked to see my boat leave behind another truck and know that’s the end of the line on wake boats and probably boats for a little while since I dumped the pontoon also. Bought my first Mastercraft around 19 and have had one for almost 25 years other than the Covid summer. Kind of nice to just have a couple of vehicles and a house and have taken advantage of recent trends and sold off toys that weren’t getting used and the properties that went with them. Nice to be liquid as the kids figure out where they are going to college and we figure out where we may want to end up. However, adulting and making smart decisions kind of sucks.
  18. Ours has the pee in the tube device, but I’m going to pass on that. Not to mention the thought of sitting in a Cessna for 18 hours sound horrible. I’m not flying commercial to Hawaii because I hate being on a plane for very long, much less a Cessna.
  19. It is a thing, but I mean a much more simplified approach. Teaching is driven by targeted low income schools and is a fixed balance, public service is driven by 120 consecutive monthly payments, etc. We know we have shortages and needs, make them much more simplified and driven by service over 3-5 years and adjusted to higher amounts then advertise the hell out of it.
  20. Not a fan of an arbitrary $10k income based one time outlay, it doesn’t resolve the problem that got us here or deal with all of the people currently in college or a multitude of other issues. There are so many issues with the lack of financial education, the costs of college, etc that need to be dealt with. It’s fine everyone is getting the one time hit and good for them, but it’s just another check written without resolving any of the underlying issues that are going to catch the next round of graduates. Incentivize teachers, public service, nursing, other arrears of need with obligation based forgiveness, but the lady that did our tour at GA 2 weeks ago that is triple majoring in Caribbean studies and two other BS majors needs to just pay her loans back (assuming she has them.) Also, this mindset of it’s better than the other side is dumb. Everyone doesn’t have to line up 100% behind one side or the other. We can still disagree with individual policy decisions.
  21. That is a big old nope for me. Every time I fly on our plane, I have to take a leak like an hour into it. 5 hour flight commercial, no problem. 2 hour flight on our C90, I’m counting down the minutes. It’s all in my head, but it is stuck there at this point.
  22. You would be amazed at the number of operating entities that don’t have worker’s comp. Most states require it now but still exempt out operations with fewer than 5-10 employees. People just assume they will bankrupt the business out of any claims if anything happens and start over. $350k in payouts over 6 years seems like a pretty high dollar amount for someone that was working in a food truck back then.
  23. Several at our office have moved to the Remarkable device for note taking. I prefer typed notes, but I know of several partners I have that are using them.
  24. Rearranged or replaced, something is always getting moved. My siblings have all decorated their houses with our old furniture. When something shows up at the house, they lay claim to it now so they know who gets it when it’s replaced.
  25. Patios, sidewalk edges, and coping are all very light almost solid white so tile guy recommended sealing. Contractors had made a mess of it tracking mud across it. We’ll see what it looks like once it fades down. Patio color is another in the long list of things that my wife went with visual look over practicality. She has a keen eye for the most expensive long-term option available.
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