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[PoppaJ]

FFS. We have a house with more metal in it than wood. All thread attaches the slab foundation to the top plate every couple of feet. It's high and dry and built to withstand over 140 MPH winds and is a little over 1k air conditioned space. We pay over 4k a year in insurance. There's something seriously wrong about this.

The home we just sold earlier this year was 2,700sf concrete block also with all thread tying the foundation to the top plate with Simpson clips attaching the rafters in zone X.
We heard the rates were going through the roof in 2023 so we began preparing the property for sale in august of 2022. We were also concerned FEMA would redraw the flood maps and change the zoning.
In January we received an insurance renewal quote of $9,200 including flood coverage. We may have been able to find it cheaper, but we were committed to sell and down size. We are now in a 1,200+ sf condo.
We were lucky and sold in 17 days of listing.
There are now three more homes listed on that street just sitting there all at less per sf than we received.

 

[bob bob]

Sounds like if you're near water you're SOL.

 

[PoppaJ]

Sounds like if you're near water you're SOL.

We were one block from the bay so the chances of being rezoned in the near future seemed fairly certain.

 

[Lou Deman]

I think he means "up north" where some can't even handle a snow shovel

Maybe he means 'up north' where pine straw is thrown away because its trash

 

[mputnal]

Maybe he means 'up north' where pine straw is thrown away because its trash

Well that just hurts

 

[PoppaJ]

I left an area fueled by tourism as well
By 'up north' do you mean the ones that had to come down here and free the slaves from the democrats?

The same northerners who made fortunes selling the slaves that built the industrial north? How many slaves did you free?
I love how trumpers try to cling to a history that is no longer relevant.
I was born in 1951 and witnessed what right wing willful ignorance continues to push.
In the 1960s I saw the national Democratic Party had abandoned its former support for legal segregation while Republicans embraced the white backlash to voting and civil rights to build their party in the South.
Google the southern strategy or the civil rights act or any legislation that helped improve life for people of color. No president did more for civil rights than Lyndon B Johnson.

 

[PoppaJ]

Maybe he means 'up north' where pine straw is thrown away because its trash

Is it because they don’t have an abundance of long leaf pine straw or are they just too ignorant to realize the commercial opportunities of pine straw?

 

[Lou Deman]

The same northerners who made fortunes selling the slaves that built the industrial north? How many slaves did you free?
I love how trumpers try to cling to a history that is no longer relevant.
I was born in 1951 and witnessed what right wing willful ignorance continues to push.
In the 1960s I saw the national Democratic Party had abandoned its former support for legal segregation while Republicans embraced the white backlash to voting and civil rights to build their party in the South.
Google the southern strategy or the civil rights act or any legislation that helped improve life for people of color. No president did more for civil rights than Lyndon B Johnson.

I freed the exact same number of slaves that you did. The difference is we (republicans from the north) had to come down here and force YA'LL (democrats from the south) to do it

 

[Lou Deman]

Is it because they don’t have an abundance of long leaf pine straw or are they just too ignorant to realize the commercial opportunities of pine straw?

No its because pine straw is literally trash
The north is full of pines

 

[Lou Deman]

Well that just hurts

Sorry, that may be too far