You know your part of the reason Georgia flipped blue ! You likely sold land that made for neighborhoods that brought in thousands of blue votes ! Trump shoulda came for you not Kemp!BINGO
You know your part of the reason Georgia flipped blue ! You likely sold land that made for neighborhoods that brought in thousands of blue votes ! Trump shoulda came for you not Kemp!BINGO
Maybe but that’s ok. It all clears the account the same.You know your part of the reason Georgia flipped blue ! You likely sold land that made for neighborhoods that brought in thousands of blue votes ! Trump shoulda came for you not Kemp!
I will say most of the investors I deal with are from overseas and never see the land they buy.Dang it you durned anti tree person! smh! Selling land for these cheap neighborhoods then escaping further out cuz you ain't want to be near em!
I’m 26 years old. Worked at the grocery store starting my junior year of high school making minimum wage ($7.25/hr). I’d work 18-23 hours a week during school and I’d bust my tail to get tips taking groceries out. Nobody wanted to work Sunday’s, but I’d always work the 12-8 shift on Sunday and load up on $30-$50 in tips a day. Working on the front end turned into being offered frozen food manager after I graduated high school. I would go to community college and work the frozen foods around my classes. Frozen food manager paid $9.25 and maxed out at $9.65/hr. I absolutely loved my job and it taught me a lot. I lived at home during this time, so was able to save a lot of this money. Bought my first starter house at 22 years old and got married to my wife. That house was brand new and we built it ourselves. Sold it this past September and made a decent amount to go towards a much nicer house that we can start a family in.Who here has worked a minimum wage job? I started out as that for a couple years and worked my way up as I went to college.
Both sides of my family come from poverty in the rural south. My dads grandmother moved to Atlanta from Alabama in the 50’s and hacked her living out with no education while raising her grandkids. My moms side is a similar story. They moved when needed and worked their way up the ladder and left the next generation off better than they had. Minimum wage has some benefits but plenty of people make a way in poor areas.
We can’t find people in our business either. We are a small business and I do the grunt work and run the business. Hard to get people to show up and be on call. They want all the money in the world but don’t want to work for it. I have lots of hard days, but am very grateful for what I have. It’s more of a job for me to look for someone and hire someone than it is to actually do my job. The labor force is awful right now In our line of work. They can get more money sitting at home then coming to work...From the perspective of a old small business owner. I’m not smart like a lot of you guys but I have been blessed to have made 2200 weekly payrolls. Recently I have been trying to hire a entry level employee. Offering $ 13.00 hour to start with benefits no experience required I get very few responses. So in my business like many others the federal minimum wage is irrelevant as we have difficulty finding employees at double the legal minimum wage. And I will add I am located in central Alabama not a area of a high cost of living.
I'm on the way. Thanks for hiring me, I always wanted to move to Alabama personally. My cousin was born there.From the perspective of a old small business owner. I’m not smart like a lot of you guys but I have been blessed to have made 2200 weekly payrolls. Recently I have been trying to hire a entry level employee. Offering $ 13.00 hour to start with benefits no experience required I get very few responses. So in my business like many others the federal minimum wage is irrelevant as we have difficulty finding employees at double the legal minimum wage. And I will add I am located in central Alabama not a area of a high cost of living.
We start at 7:00 am sharpI'm on the way. Thanks for hiring me, I always wanted to move to Alabama personally. My cousin was born there.
lol! I woke up at 5:30 for work today! Beat that! I'll be there early at 6:30 after I get my workout for the day in! Boom! The employee of the month! Assistant to the Regional Manager!We start at 7:00 am sharp![]()
I gotcha a lot of peoples fortunes have been made with land at least where I’m from. One of my dads friends was a big time buyer and seller of land back in the early 2000s. He made it really on his first purchase the trees payed for the cost of the land so when they sold the land they made double what they had payed for it. I’ve mainly been interested in real estate like section 8 houses but I don’t have the money for that yet so I’ve been sticking with long term stock investmentsMy 1st real job after college I worked with land Acquisitions. I was able to take some good advise from some smart people about what to buy and how to determine what properties are good buys. Land is gold these days.
We have a lumber farm down towards you in Lexsy Ga. South Georgia is primed to explode with new builds in the next 50 years. I would also look at the Panhandle of Florida. Right after hurricane Michael hit, the investors swarmed the area and bought up everything they could pennies on the dollar because most people where under water and couldn’t afford to rebuild. You still have tons of areas near Mexico beach East to App Bay. Just 1 care in Mexico beach is around 80k. You can build a 4/2 for around $90 sqft and sell it for $350k- 500k depending on the location of course. It’s closer to $115 sqft beach side. Straight crazyI gotcha a lot of peoples fortunes have been made with land at least where I’m from. One of my dads friends was a big time buyer and seller of land back in the early 2000s. He made it really on his first purchase the trees payed for the cost of the land so when they sold the land they made double what they had payed for it. I’ve mainly been interested in real estate like section 8 houses but I don’t have the money for that yet so I’ve been sticking with long term stock investments
That's horrible. I love money but I love my nature better, its why I don't get terribly disappointed when I see hurricanes sweep away beachside houses. Should have never been there in the first place, too ecologically sensitive of an area. Especially considering these are the second homes or first homes of well-off folks anyways. That's just excess, excess at the cost of our nature! I'm fine with excess if you can afford it since limiting it requires government intervention, however excess at the cost of our beaches? Nope! Look at our beautiful OBX and the money they spend just to keep them existing since they built on them, Miami Beach, VA Beach, New Orleans ( under sea level now), the Netherlands, etc. Look at Florida! Its an ecological disaster!.
We have a lumber farm down towards you in Lexsy Ga. South Georgia is primed to explode with new builds in the next 50 years. I would also look at the Panhandle of Florida. Right after hurricane Michael hit, the investors swarmed the area and bought up everything they could pennies on the dollar because most people where under water and couldn’t afford to rebuild. You still have tons of areas near Mexico beach East to App Bay. Just 1 care in Mexico beach is around 80k. You can build a 4/2 for around $90 sqft and sell it for $350k- 500k depending on the location of course. It’s closer to $115 sqft beach side. Straight crazy.
As they say if you build it they will come. If you don’t someone else will.That's horrible. I love money but I love my nature better, its why I don't get terribly disappointed when I see hurricanes sweep away beachside houses. Should have never been there in the first place, too ecologically sensitive of an area. Especially considering these are the second homes or first homes of well-off folks anyways. That's just excess, excess at the cost of our nature! I'm fine with excess if you can afford it since limiting it requires government intervention, however excess at the cost of our beaches? Nope! Look at our beautiful OBX and the money they spend just to keep them existing since they built on them, Miami Beach, VA Beach, New Orleans ( under see level now), the Netherlands, etc.
I'm personally afraid of the future of our region. Kind of developments across the south are unsustainable, only funded by municipal debt and continued growth. Once the growth dries, the debt will keep piling, and cities across the south won't afford to keep the water on. We will look like Detroit by the time I'm 60.As they say if you build it they will come. If you don’t someone else will.
Bingo! And, was the purpose of my last post.From the perspective of a old small business owner. I’m not smart like a lot of you guys but I have been blessed to have made 2200 weekly payrolls. Recently I have been trying to hire a entry level employee. Offering $ 13.00 hour to start with benefits no experience required I get very few responses. So in my business like many others the federal minimum wage is irrelevant as we have difficulty finding employees at double the legal minimum wage. And I will add I am located in central Alabama not a area of a high cost of living.
If any region can make it, it’s the SE. we are not slowing down anytime soon.I'm personally afraid of the future of our region. Kind of developments across the south are unsustainable, only funded by municipal debt and continued growth. Once the growth dries, the debt will keep piling, and cities across the south won't afford to keep the water on. We will look by Detroit by the time I'm 60.
People are becoming less and less inclined to pack up and move across the country, the population is aging, immigration to the US is slowing, birth rates continue to drop. We will peak in the next 2 decades. The Titanic was once considered to be unsinkable as well! The 2008 recession brought parts of the southeast down to its knees and that's nothing compared to the mounting challenges to our growth. Not too mention the wrench the increase in remote workers brings, it can both benefit and harm us.If any region can make it, it’s the SE. we are not slowing down anytime soon.
I wouldn’t have thought South Georgia really had much of a future growth wise since they’ve really stagnated over the past ten years. I remember right after Michael hit they were already talking about the investors going in buying up properties. It seems kinda cut throat but I guess that’s how things work..
We have a lumber farm down towards you in Lexsy Ga. South Georgia is primed to explode with new builds in the next 50 years. I would also look at the Panhandle of Florida. Right after hurricane Michael hit, the investors swarmed the area and bought up everything they could pennies on the dollar because most people where under water and couldn’t afford to rebuild. You still have tons of areas near Mexico beach East to App Bay. Just 1 care in Mexico beach is around 80k. You can build a 4/2 for around $90 sqft and sell it for $350k- 500k depending on the location of course. It’s closer to $115 sqft beach side. Straight crazy.
The key to growing South Georgia is passing legal gambling in Georgia. If that can pass you will see a boom along the Georgia coast.I wouldn’t have thought South Georgia really had much of a future growth wise since they’ve really stagnated over the past ten years. I remember right after Michael hit they were already talking about the investors going in buying up properties. It seems kinda cut throat but I guess that’s how things work.
This past year I think they’d tried to pass a horse racing bill that would’ve brought in the first legalized gambling to the state but it was shot down. I may have to check some land out around the coast. I couldn’t buy it right now but I graduate next year so I should start to have a little savings to use.The key to growing South Georgia is passing legal gambling in Georgia. If that can pass you will see a boom along the Georgia coast.
Then they need to earn their $15 /hr wage. Not just get it mandated to them from the Gov't, like a lot of us here did.I’m not advocating for handouts?? Wage is earned not given.
No horse racing!This past year I think they’d tried to pass a horse racing bill that would’ve brought in the first legalized gambling to the state but it was shot down. I may have to check some land out around the coast. I couldn’t buy it right now but I graduate next year so I should start to have a little savings to use.
It’s a tradition that predates all of us. It is a major portion of Kentucky’s economy and could be the same for ours helping out a struggling rural Georgia.No horse racing!
You mean no betting on horse races or no racing horses? You know the horses love to run, right? The are bred to love it! They actually suffer when they can't run.No horse racing!
And when they are not fast enough they often end up slaughtered.You mean no betting on horse races or no racing horses? You know the horses love to run, right? The are bred to love it! They actually suffer when they can't run.
We all need glue.And when they are not fast enough they often end up slaughtered.
Stupid reply.We all need glue.