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[WestMichiganCG]

That would be nice if there were any CGs taking on trainees. The classes are easy, its finding a mentor that's nearly impossible.

It's been slow for CG's too. I've had two bank jobs since October. It has been a lot of hussle and it's hard to keep a trainee busy right now. We took one on and we're keeping him busy with agricultural work. The fees have stagnated or dropped and the jobs have gotten exceptionally tricky. There aren't a lot of "clean" deals going on right now. I've spent more time doing tax tribunal, right-of-way and estate work.

 

[gregb]

Wow, $120,000~ median home price in Detroit. Also, a city with pro baseball, football, hockey and basketball teams!

Mortgage demand surges more than 10% as lower interest rates lure homebuyers

Total mortgage application volume jumped 10.4%, compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted index.

www.cnbc.com

 

[WestMichiganCG]

Wow, $120,000~ median home price in Detroit. Also, a city with pro baseball, football, hockey and basketball teams!

Mortgage demand surges more than 10% as lower interest rates lure homebuyers

Total mortgage application volume jumped 10.4%, compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted index.

www.cnbc.com

You probably don't want to live in one of the $120,000 neighborhoods. It has the third highest homicide rate in the US. The teams are good but that's a further drive from those neighborhoods.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

its finding a mentor that's nearly impossible.

Blame the fools at TAF and state boards who created 10x the liability for having a trainee.

500,000 affordable housing units, fine, but then you extend it into immigrant

How else can you explain a shortage in housing? Our population is increasing slowly without mass illegal immigration. Are we supposed to house them all in tents? Motels? Schools? Nope, they need housing.

 

[BRCJR]

This is just an anti-Biden post pretending to be about appraisals. It is off-topic. Put it in the water cooler

I wish there was one rule on the board that the agenda-driven could manage to stick to wrt leave politics out of the appraisal topics. Every post they make has to stick it to Biden, even in approval topics. You are not going to change anyone's vote doing it. Just derail the thread and side-track it. Drag in immigrants of course. Give it a rest.

They stole your play book. You do the same with your friend DJT.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

This is just an anti-Biden post pretending to be about appraisals. It is off-topic. Put it in the water cooler

I wish there was one rule on the board that the agenda-driven could manage to stick to wrt leave politics out of the appraisal topics. Every post they make has to stick it to Biden, even in approval topics. You are not going to change anyone's vote doing it. Just derail the thread and side-track it. Drag in immigrants of course. Give it a rest.

I am responding to you because I find this topic relevant to the this thread.

The problem I have with the program is that greed will probably ruin it for first time home buyers. Who will be setting pricing? Will they be held accountable? Will it be watched at first then forgotten? The 3D printed homes were supposed to revolutionize the housing market and bring down the price and time by half. Instead, they got greedy and started charging what the other home builders are charging and pocketing bigger profits. You can get a 3D printed home in Japan for $50-100,000. Here, they will pay $400,000+. In Austin, the 3D printer company joined with Lennar for finish out and marketing. Those 1500 sf houses start at $450K now, when they were talking $200-250K before. What happened to the cheaper, faster home for all?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

greed will probably ruin it for first time home buyers.

In the 1970s, manufactured home sales soared because the boomers couldn't afford better, inflation and high gasoline prices were hurting them, and there were too many available bodies for the work available. MH construction slowly was reduced. And it seems not to be picking up that much now. And why would it? We are seeing over-priced MH's set on over-priced lots and sold as if they were stick built at stick-built prices.

The question is how do we truly create "affordable" housing? Clearly, multifamily and apartments are some help but not many people want to live in an apartment their whole lives?

 

[ucbruin]

In the 1970s, manufactured home sales soared because the boomers couldn't afford better, inflation and high gasoline prices were hurting them, and there were too many available bodies for the work available. MH construction slowly was reduced. And it seems not to be picking up that much now. And why would it? We are seeing over-priced MH's set on over-priced lots and sold as if they were stick built at stick-built prices.

The question is how do we truly create "affordable" housing? Clearly, multifamily and apartments are some help but not many people want to live in an apartment their whole lives?

Your talking tornado alley, right....
I'm wondering if this is true for SoCal....

 

[gregb]

On a road trip over the holidays it was amazing to see while driving thru Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Montana many manufactured homes sited on apparently both small and larger sites.

 

[J Grant]

Blame the fools at TAF and state boards who created 10x the liability for having a trainee.

How else can you explain a shortage in housing? Our population is increasing slowly without mass illegal immigration. Are we supposed to house them all in tents? Motels? Schools? Nope, they need housing.

Where do you get this nonsense from -what makes you think affordable housing is meant for immigrants?
The housing shortage, since you seem to live in your own world, is about Americans being priced out of the market, most of them living in rentals or with family squashed together because they can not afford to buy