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LebongJames

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  1. Midland being close to Horseshoe Bay is a pretty good stretch. Corpus is closer to Horseshoe Bay.
  2. Whole Milk Heavy Cream coke zero Natures Path Pop tarts Ain’t getting anything else.
  3. Yes it was
  4. Forgot to take a photo but at the Rangers game this weekend in the assigned parking lot and this asshole in a LWB 350 with his hitch still on, not just a ball but an anti sway hitch was backed into our spot about halfway. We were in my BiL’s tundra so we ended up almost blocking the aisle. People threw beer cans all over his truck when in reality it was the 350.
  5. Let’s take this off line.
  6. Bucees are nice but still a fucking gas station. 2,4 8 all day
  7. Black Biscuit
  8. I live in Austin and don’t know much about Bloomfield. We do plumbing, HVAC and electrical for both Weekley and and Highland. Both of them have a good reputation and build a nice move up home.
  9. This is definitely a higher end spec than a lot of their communities.
  10. What market? In Texas DFW West and San Antonio are the best run divisions?
  11. It’s kind of a mixed bag. Over the last few years they have used their size to force manufacturers to give them rebates which allow them to put better products in their homes. They are mostly using the same contractors as nicer builder because there just aren’t that many. We do Horton, Pulte, Kb but we also do custom, Perry, Toll Brothers, Taylor Morrison and other move up builders. But they are the largest builder in the US, although with all of Lennars acquisitions they are giving them a run for their money, so they cut a lot of corners to same money. HVAC will be the cheapest Carrier system they can put in. Windows will have the lowest rating that they can get away with. The house will have T Ply as sheathing, so Hardie-TPly-your homes insulation. They will have a very low spec with Moen, Kohler, tile, cabinets and countertops that will run a good amount to upgrade. Express series has no options. They use very few plans and exterior claddings so you have to be ok for the neighborhood to look the exact same. They have gone mostly to 35 ft lots but in the $600k range I hope I am incorrect about that. The final thing is their builder in the field, they hire entry level kids right out of A&M, TxState and Tech’s construction science programs and incentivize them by low salaries and bonuses for how quick they can build the house. This is where most issues come in. If you go this route you need to be at your house at least once a week being a PITA. They may not like it but the house will be much better off because of this.
  12. I hate to make it more broad but it is a lower wage employment issue not just restaurants. My wife is a NP and her medical practice here in Austin can’t find or keep MA’s. You know why they pay $15/hr. I have been looking for supers ( this is not low income this more of an industry skilled labor shortage) and entry level helpers for months and have received very few super applications and less than five for helpers. There is a major shortage in the low income hourly work place.
  13. I’m going with no by August. We still don’t have material that we needed for the 1st quarter and plenty of our 2nd quarter material is no where in sight. We have paid ransoms on steel pipe of over $100k just to get material. One major issue I see coming down the pipe is the back log of housing closings. We are in all 4 major markets and did over 13000 houses of plumbing last year plus another 8000 of HVAC and electrical, so we have a pretty good sample size for the Texas market. We keep getting grounds released but we aren’t getting top outs builders are starting record number of houses but they are just sitting for weeks or even months depending on the builder at stages they never used to. Build times are getting even longer. For instance KB used to build in 100-110 days consistently but now we have houses that have taken 160-180 days. The time just keeps creeping up. Also it seems to be a new issue every week that then creates a different material shortage and that in turn causes more delays.
  14. I mean if you are TE or an OL and you have the opportunity for ND right now it would be hard to pass up with their recent success in the draft.
  15. This made me look up the value on my 2016 with 70k miles. KBB claims it’s worth 33k I paid 42k in December 2015.
  16. Although there is a very short toll lane on 71 going past the airport.
  17. Ya I’m going to have to agree with Hayden here.
  18. I’m digging that backyard for an AirBNB. Where is it and do you have the ID number?
  19. The problem is that is from 2018. The last year has accelerated the California migration even more.
  20. Lease terms are not great right now. Money is cheap
  21. Builders don’t have land or materials. I deal with builders on a daily basis. There are some who are actually slowing down not speeding up. Builders may catch up but it won’t be within a year. Also I don’t think sitting out helps anything. Prices aren’t going down.
  22. Lil pup getting big and loving the neighborhood greenbelt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  23. What’s funny about who the Packers drafted? No pick last night was swaying Aaron one way or another. Did you watch the NFC Championship game? Kevin King got burned over and over again. They need to build the best roster and the secondary is a weakness. The Packers had the number one offense in football last year.
  24. I thought this way and didn’t buy in Austin for years because I wasn’t ready to move out Barton Hills where we had a great rental that was pretty much rent controlled. Finally built a house off of Wm Cannon in 2017 sold in last year at the beginning of the pandemic and made $120k after everything. Houses in that hood are now selling for an additional $100k and the house we bought in Westlake is worth $200k more than we paid for it last year. If we would have never bought the first house we never would have been able to buy the house we are in now. I was 32 and my wife was 30 when we bought the house of Wm Cannon.
  25. I used Golftec here in Westlake and they have been very good. Prices the same as golf galaxy or PGA super store but I was able to customize my shafts a lot more for my woods and driver than they will do at the big box stores.
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