Anyone thinking about moving to Atlanta?

[_subgenius]

345,000 doesn't sound like cheap housing to me. Atlanta is a metropolis and in the sunbelt. I don't care for the traffic or higher crime rates of large cities - but it has lots of perks for living there culturally and climate wise.

Yes, you cannot beat humidity in the summer and ice storms in the winter.....you should ask KG why he doesn't live south of 20.

[_MsJack]

345,000 doesn't sound like cheap housing to me.

It costs $330,000 - $360,000 for a brand new three-bedroom townhome in Palatine with an unfinished basement:

http://www.lexingtonchicago.com/illinoi ... ks/welcome

And this is Illinois, the land of Worst Pension Crisis in the Nation, so once you're done paying off your modest townhome, the state government will squeeze you for property taxes.

I agree that the traffic in Atlanta is something else though. I was only there once, for my (now ex-)sister-in-law's wedding at the Atlanta temple. People stuck in traffic just suddenly decided to turn the shoulder into an extra lane, which just created more problems as the people in the make-believe lane had to re-merge on the off-ramp.

Chicago traffic sucks sometimes, but people don't make up fictional lanes. I was stuck for 90 minutes last week, parked on the freeway a hundred yards away from an exploding semi-truck, and everyone stayed in their lanes, waited patiently, and behaved.

[_Jersey Girl]

My wife finds these guys who renovate homes at rock bottom prices. Mexicans and Brazilians of course. I hired one American guy to change the trim on some of the windows and doors and he did a s****y job and charged me $450 for only 4 hrs work. He then came back the next day with a second invoice of $96 for minor things he did that my wife asked him to do, like screw in a broken toilet paper roll holder. Things I would have done and he never indicated he was charging in the first place.

I feel you! People can say whatever they wish about hiring Mexicans and whatever they think that says about me, but we had new flooring installation this past August and the Mexican guys did such an outstanding job that I took their card to call them again in the future.

They were so careful with moving our heavy furniture back and forth, my heavy as heck beast of an antique pot belly stove, such a fine job of caulking edges where needed. They were excellent in every way possible!

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

When I was in NC I contracted through Home Depot to have my kitchen and master bathroom re-tiled. Mexicans showed up and just knocked it out of the park. Looks like Kevin knows who to hire.

- Doc

[_ajax18]

I'm sure it helps to hire under the table as well to avoid those annoying taxes.

[_Jersey Girl]

I'm sure it helps to hire under the table as well to avoid those annoying taxes.

Are you talking to me?

[_ajax18]

I'm sure it helps to hire under the table as well to avoid those annoying taxes.

Are you talking to me?

No I usually keep you on ignore. Go ahead and let loose. I won't read it.

[_Jersey Girl]

When I was in NC I contracted through Home Depot to have my kitchen and master bathroom re-tiled. Mexicans showed up and just knocked it out of the park. Looks like Kevin knows who to hire.

- Doc

I have another Mexican story! My BIL hired out to do the dry wall in his new addition. Walls, ceiling, patch and paint. He said they walked around on these stilt things strapped to their legs to do the ceiling work! I never even knew that existed. They did a great job!

Hmm...I have a 17 ft vaulted ceiling that needs painting!

[_Jersey Girl]

Are you talking to me?

No I usually keep you on ignore. Go ahead and let loose. I don't read it.

[_Kevin Graham]

Wow, to claim that Woodstock is a suburb of Atlanta is generous...Woodstock is suburb of Roswell or of Marietta....not that the infection of Atlanta hasn't reached out that far already.

We've been through this, and you ended up looking as dumb as you did when you said December 5th was Christmas eve. Woodstock is well within the Metropolitan Atlanta area.

So, i wonder what "ethical" salve KG puts on his politics when he "flips" a house....essentially employing an out of scale measure for grade against actual work - like an executive at Goldman Sachs

Whatever in the “F” are you talking about? I took a run down piece of crap home and turned it into a piece if pristine living. When we bought it the damn gutters were hanging off the back of the house and wood rot was all around the trim. All of the ceiling tiles in the basement had stains from rain and the idiot who lived there had a tarp over the back deck trying to hide the holes beneath the window trim. Speaking of which, I spent days pressure washing and painting both decks and replacing about 15% of the wood.

The neighbors have already thanked me as I have effectively helped them retain their home values by renovating the eye-sore of a house that this once was. Here is an example of night and day. Guess which side I cleaned and guess which side hadn't been touched for 20 years?



Please explain how this has any comparison to Goldman Sachs execs.