Rates anyone want to guess the year

Hurst, you are exactly ten years older than me. The late 80s must of had huge housing inflation, cause by 95 when I was shopping for more than a room to rent, prices were way up. The only way to get under 5 or 6 hundred plus utilities was to live in the pure trash neighborhoods.

 

Despite the overall spirit of deregulation, it became common in the 70's & 80's to place heavy restrictions on real estate: open space laws, capping the # of floors of new buildings, rent control laws, etc -- all of which created an artificial housing shortage in the regions that enacted such laws.

Recommended reading: The Housing Boom & Bust by Thomas Sowell

 

Double Yellow, what was your profession prior to graduating to truck driving? You seem too smart to drive a truck.

 

So, what year was it???

 

It was expensive in the Wash DC suburban metro area.

I left Fla and came back to Md. My first apt was in Silver Spring called Bell Pre Apts not far from Georgia ave and Bell Pre rd. 2 bdrm ground floor apt was $700 month, no utilities included. That was 1991-ish. Not posh,.. but not in the ghetto. You would still find 2 bdrom apts in the ghetto areas for under $600.

Fla had cheap realestate up until about 2002/2003-ish when the housing boom erupted.
My first house in Fla was 1250 sq ft, 2 bdrm, 1 car garage with a .28 acre corner lot for $49,000,.. that was in 1999. Same house in Md would have cost $175,000 - $200,000 during that time.

My father inlaw bought a place for $31,000,.. his was a larger 3 bdrm modular home with an in ground pool, but had a 1 acre lot. Mine was an actual brick home on a foundation. I was paranoid about hurricanes blowing my house away. Now after being through a few,.. I know better LOL

Hurst

 

I played online poker until the fbi seized the domains of the 3 biggest sites

^^This

 

1992

 

In Sarasota, mid to late 90s under 6p0 was either a two bedroom up by the airport(ghetto) a 1 bedroom over a bar, or an efficiency apartment in a decent area.
As far as buying, 65k could get you a two bedroom 1 car garage small house in the surrounding communities, Venice for example.

The house I currently live in, sold for 224k in 04. I bought it two years ago for 63 as a damaged bank repo. Not a single piece of glass, light fixture or dry wall was solid. The previous owners took a hammer to everything when they were foreclosed on. I spent over twenty five repairing it. But well worth it in my mind. I could easily get 180 for it today, but thinking I'll keep it till the next time housing prices are artificially inflated like the early 2000s.

 

I first lived in Ocala in the mid 80's, trailer park off 475, not far fom Don Garlets. $50 a week.

Then moved not far from Paddock Park mall in the duplex for $275 month. Duplex was in a very nice subdivision.

Back in the 80's Ocala was mostly about horse farms and late night cruising the boulevard on weekends. Not much else.

House I bought in 99 was in New Port Richey. Pasco county. Kinda ghetto,.. much worse now then it was back in 99. Was mostly working class when I bought. Lots of kids. After the housing crash and investors scouped up all the forclosures and turned them into HUD and section 8 homes,.. now you see houses with 6 - 8 cars parked across what is left of the lawns, unkept yards, cant leave anything unlocked in your yard. I had to get a dog and keep her out back to keep people from stealing my lawn mower and kids bikes every other week.

Bought a new house in Hernando county,. not far off rt 50. 5 acres, 3200 sqft split foyer home on 5 acres for $210,000. Was a foreclosure,. they wanted $280,.. we bid $210 and got it.Its out in the sticks,.. not close to anything. Zoned agricultural/residential. So we can do pretty much anything we want. Homestead exemption with agricultural zoning,.. property taxes are barely $1200.

Still own the house in Pasco,.. waiting for the market to come up some more before I sell. My brother is currently living in it.

Sarasota is more like Orlando, Lauderdale, Palm beach etc when it comes to the housing market. I can buy the same house up in Bradenton for much less than Sarasota. Although,.. Bradenton has a few areas now that are booming,.. anything close to i75 or the beach is going to be expensive.

Hurst

 

I cleaned the cab of my truck today and found my ledger from 2009-2011 when I first started out as an o/o. My flat rates on all practical miles (they were usually pretty close but rarely spot) was 90 cents a mile empty and 95 cents a mile loaded plus surcharge. The week of 5-31-11 thru 6-4-11 that surcharge was .455 per mile. Here is that sample week direct from my ledger:

Portland, TN - Havre De Grace, MD
736 loaded (practical not odo)
0 empty
Begin odo - 998,989
End odo - 999,859

Havre De Grace, MD - Baltimore, MD - Greenville, SC
513 loaded
26 empty
Begin odo 999,859
End odo 1,000,467

Greenville, SC - West Columbia, SC - Clarksville, TN
Loaded miles 485
Empty miles 104
Begin odo 1,000,467
End odo 1,001,062

Clarksville, TN - LaVergne, TN - Farmington Hills, MI
Loaded 564
Empty 61
Begin odo 1,001,062
End odo 1,001,728

Farmington Hills, MI - Southfield, MI - Clarksville, TN
Loaded 537
Empty 8
Begin odo 1,001,728
End odo 1,002,277

3,288 odometer miles driven
2,835 paid loaded miles @ $1.405 cpm
199 paid empty miles @ .90 cpm
3,034 paid miles
254 extra miles unpaid or a little under 5%

$3,983.175 paid loaded miles
$179.10 paid empty miles

$4,162.275 total revenue

$1.265 actual rate per mile divided by hub miles

The settlement was around $1,900!

I used to work like crazy to make a $2,000 settlement. Will never forget it bleary eyed and 3,000+ miles every week with a short weekend every week. What really sucked was changing the oil every 4th week and eating up half my day of a day and a half off on that.