Re: [MBZ] And you don't have to be a genius to work on them! -- '03 Mercedes E320 Wagon - $4, 450 (Raleigh)

2021-04-28 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
A POS by any other name. On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:51 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/raleigh-03-mercedes-e320-wagon/7313781856.html > > -- > --FT > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To

Re: [MBZ] If Only the Best Will Do - $6,200 (Irmo)

2021-04-28 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
And that is an understatement. On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:48 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Impressive automobile. Arguably the finest open road car ever > manufactured. Premium condition. 100% complete. Everything works as it > should. The best is never cheap. >

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-04-28 14:58, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: Housing prices and rents are out of sight here as well. The city's response is mainly demands for developers to build "affordable" housing. They are typically ignorant of the realities of economics. Some places they demand 'affordable

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Housing prices and rents are out of sight here as well. The city's response is mainly demands for developers to build "affordable" housing. They are typically ignorant of the realities of economics. Allan Max Dillon via Mercedes writes: > The inflation is coming.  In your place, I'd put a

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Mitch Haley via Mercedes writes: > Some places they demand 'affordable housing units' as part of million > dollar McMansion developments. So, on the far corner of the property, a > high density section 8 apartment building gets built, satisfying the > local government's need for a criminal

[MBZ] And you don't have to be a genius to work on them! -- '03 Mercedes E320 Wagon - $4, 450 (Raleigh)

2021-04-28 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/raleigh-03-mercedes-e320-wagon/7313781856.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Here, there is a special fund set aside for housing developments that builds new wings on one of the many prisons located out in the desert "High Security Housing Fund"... cuts out all the middle men in the process... you know, to "save the children"... On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:35 PM Allan

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
The City of Flagstaff requires builders to earmark a certain percentage of new construction as subsidized housing (they have a better term for it, I don’t recall what it is) that can only be sold to City employees at a reduced amount. I looked at a couple of the homes being built in a

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
Californians are destroying any chance an Arizonan has on getting a house here in AZ. I started paying some attention a little over two years ago when we had pretty much decided that we wouldn’t have a condo down here in Phoenix for the winter, and a condo or a house up in the mountains for the

[MBZ] If Only the Best Will Do - $6,200 (Irmo)

2021-04-28 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Impressive automobile. Arguably the finest open road car ever manufactured. Premium condition. 100% complete. Everything works as it should. The best is never cheap. *1991 Mercedes 300d 2.5 Turbo Diesel* https://columbia.craigslist.org/cto/d/columbia-if-only-the-best-will-do/7313967336.html

Re: [MBZ] If Only the Best Will Do - $6,200 (Irmo)

2021-04-28 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Yes but might be one of best MB diesels made. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 5:17 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > And that is an understatement. > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:48 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com>

Re: [MBZ] And you don't have to be a genius to work on them! -- '03 Mercedes E320 Wagon - $4, 450 (Raleigh)

2021-04-28 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-04-28 16:50, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/raleigh-03-mercedes-e320-wagon/7313781856.html Final year S210, after they quit making W210s. If that was 4Matic I might think about it for $4k. I wish I could have afforded that low mile Alpine Green

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
That and planning boards. "Build affordable housing!" "Well don't build it there. We don't allow high density in that zone." even if they will let you build there it'll get tied up in committee for 3 years, then they'll lose all the paperwork so you can start over. Of course right now you

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> Left coast is hemorrhaging people. I noted that the U-Haul sign in downtown Spokane was trumpeting going-west specials. That tells you something right there. The blind offer letter I just got in the mail is offering me a 6x profit on my bare land parcel, after 25+ years. (Has it really been

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
The inflation is coming.  In your place, I'd put a small portion of the proceeds into an inflation hedge, such as precious metals (GLD is the ticket symbol for an ETF that tracks the price of gold).  Land is another good hedge but has more risk as external forces can play a big role. Max

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
That was for double digit interest payments though right? When we bought in 2006 I think the smart money was suggesting 3x income. The bank said we "could afford" 4x but I refused that idea. -Curt On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 7:23:58 PM EDT, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: In high

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Yeah mine was like 1981, 13.75%, $34k loan. It was a Bawstun “triple dekka” with 2 rentals, I was making more after I bought it than before as I had no rent and the rent from the two apahtments was more than mortgage and taxes and such. Thanks Jimmuh for that --FT Sent from iPhone > On Apr

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
First house in early 80s. 14% if I recall correctly. -D > On Apr 28, 2021, at 7:33 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes > wrote: > > High single digits. 9-10 percent or so. We'll be back there soon, I suspect. > > > Rick > > From: curtlud...@yahoo.com > Sent: April 28, 2021 6:26 PM > To:

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
> Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Truth. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Gadzooks you guys are old ;) Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 9:16 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: Yeah mine was like 1981, 13.75%, $34k loan. It was a Bawstun “triple dekka” with 2 rentals, I was making more after I bought it than before as I had no

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
In high school economics, I learned the rule of thumb for affording a home was two and a half times your annual income. For a $300k home, that is considerably more than $40k. Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: April 28, 2021 4:44 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to:

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
> When we bought in 2006 I think the smart money was suggesting 3x > income. The bank said we "could afford" 4x but I refused that idea. 3x is what I've always heard, of course the amount of other debt a person has can reduce this. If renting, 30% of monthly income is a good "upper bound." When

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Clay via Mercedes
A sad reality. #1 boy is hoping to acquire a plop of land in ND with his cadre of buds. They are thinking farmable parcel and compound for under half mil. Four or five investors, as long as they remain on good terms, could pencil out. Too hard to foresee the future to my myopic eyes on that

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Mrs. Dan and I, as IT professionals, make a nice living. If we spent what the mortgage company said we “could afford” we would have a significant mortgage payment and a house easily 3x-4x what ours is worth. No thanks. That's also why, when I called our mortgage broker when we were buying the

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
High single digits. 9-10 percent or so. We'll be back there soon, I suspect. Rick From: curtlud...@yahoo.com Sent: April 28, 2021 6:26 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: rickkno...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres That was for double digit interest payments though right? When we

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Clay via Mercedes
SEA is allowing/mandating that there be up to three housing units permitted on lots within the city. So, you can build bigger (since they also mandated you could not build residence larger than 2k sqft) if you include a rentable suite in the main home, and then you can toss another residential

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Clay via Mercedes
The chinese are swooping in and leveling homes on lots over 0.25 acre. Then they toss up these slim townhomes that are no wider than a garage. Zoning allows for mass density. Maybe the investor got the property for a million, bulldozes and puts up seven units that sell for $1mm each. One

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Clay via Mercedes
I suspect they will need to set up a condominium agreement. Not my trouble to take on. Grown group of men, let them figure it out, is my view. SWMBA is a helicopter mom, so will most likely make it her affair to meddle in. Foo foo drinks with paper parasols on a beach is my end goal. Keep

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Clay via Mercedes writes: > Four or five investors, as long as they remain on good terms, could pencil > out. I'd highly recommend working with an attorney to very clearly define what happens if/when any of them "want out" of the deal. Allan ___

Re: [MBZ] Should I?

2021-04-28 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Can I put the front seats in my W116? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
It depends on where he is willing to live, northern Maine is still quite affordable. There are 2x 3 unit apartment buildings by my grandmother's house (now owned by my aunt and uncle) for sale, combined price of less than $200,000. -Curt On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 8:25:14 AM EDT, Jim

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-28 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Good. F that liberal shithole!. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 10:00 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > Washington gained one rep and OR also grew in population. CA lost one seat. > >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:35 PM Clay via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> Left coast is

Re: [MBZ] Should I?

2021-04-28 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
ABS and ESP currently unavailable - wonder what that is about and if brake problems are covered under warranty. Low miles. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:15 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >

Re: [MBZ] Should I?

2021-04-28 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Do you have an angle grinder and a welder? --FT Sent from iPhone > On Apr 28, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes > wrote: > >  > > Can I put the front seats in my W116? > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives

[MBZ] Should I?

2021-04-28 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails/39811935?tenant=US=9 I wonder what PARTS ONLY means # Title/Sale Doc: BILL OF SALE (Georgia) # Title/Sale Doc Brand: PARTS ONLY # Title/Sale Doc Notes: NO TITLE/NO EXPORTING -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search

Re: [MBZ] Should I?

2021-04-28 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Can the title be rebuilt? On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:54 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Do you have an angle grinder and a welder? > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > > > On Apr 28, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > >