All Forum Posts by: David Dachtera

A big chunk of the housing shortage goes back to the Crash of '07 / '08 when, according to the economists of the day, 80% of builders and developers went bankrupt once the supply of new mortgage lending dried up.

A good solution - though not the only one, certainly - would be to get home building back on track. We're finally seeing some of the incomplete developments being back-filled, yet dilapidated suburbs and subdivisions are found in areas where economic development slowed and later stopped leaving job loss and abandoned homes in its wake. A comprehensive plan providing jobs and home financing in those area would certainly be a big help toward restabilizing those communities and making housing and worker opportunities available again.

My $0.02 ...

If it's the kid(s) using this bathroom, expecting them to honor the wastebasket request is likely not realistic. If stuffing TP down the commode is entertainment to them, they're not likely to change that voluntarily.

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Have you looked into any of those one-day bathroom rehabs being advertised on TV? 

Domestic HVAC system sizing is based on heat migration from outside, usually radiant heat through windows and such and conducted heat through walls and insulation. Roof and attic insulation are key factors in controlling the heat load.

Commercial HVAC sizing is based on that plus the addition of heat from air supplied from the outside to replace "stale" air indoors - local ordinances often require specified amounts of air replacement - in an occupied space and also from the number and activity of individuals expected to occupy that space.

Anyone remember seeing those signs, "Twenty Degrees cooler inside"?

Properly sized domestic HVAC systems are designed to maintain a 20 degree difference between the indoor and outdoor air, but even that has limits.

With an OAT (Outdoor Air Temp) of 114, the lowest indoor temp one can reasonably expect is 94.

One can reasonably expect climate change to have an impact on sizing guidelines going forward.

My $0.02 ... (I got a certificate in HVACR before I went to computer school back in the '70s.)

I agree with Dawn P.: you ARE "in a business to spend thousands on the new AC unit". It's called a Capital Expense (CapEx). It comes with the territory like a water leak, roof damage, etc..

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How was the past fire discovered? What evidence remains?

AI is a newcomer to the party. It has familiarity issues. It also has credibility and trust issues. 

Can you expand your cash reserves to take this into account? 

@Jonathan Greene,

Good points, though some deserve a bit more discussion.

#1 and #3 are probably the best, though #1 is often just being new to any forum, REI related or not. Perhaps a forum-specific "First Post" template pinned to the head of the forum topic list could help new folks see how to structure an appropriate first inquiry.

#2 just about defines a "newbie": someone with little or nothing to offer other than futures. I often see this interpreted as being asked to work for nothing. My response to that would be "no one gets a paycheck their first day on a new job, aside from a signing bonus", and those signing bonuses often have tenure requirements for the payout. Just to bolster one's own credibility, offer to accept a portion of the newbie's first deal profits as a show of good faith. While the relationship may ultimately prove untenable, that will be YOUR payment for the education toward becoming an effective mentor.

#4 and #5 really just show up shortfalls in the Bigger Pockets Forums.

#4 shows up the need for a more effective way to search the forums. BP's search function can be likened to Google in it's infancy. Yes, it searches, but there's no way to identify the "head" of thread where a question first appears. It also doesn't seem to recognize a quoted string versus the individual words in a search query. Perhaps an option to only search topic lines versus searching the entire forum database would prove helpful.

#5 is sort of the reverse of #4. There is no option link a question to multiple forums. I had the same issue with AOL decades ago - they called it spam, I called it covering all the bases. A single question could relevant to multiple forums, but attempting to engage the denizens of multiple forums is considered "spam" (it isn't). For example, in the left-hand column on this page, under "Financial, Tax and Legal" are forum topics which often overlap such as "Tax, SDIRAs and & Cost Segregation", "Goals, Business Plans and Entities" and "Personal Finance" could all be relevant to someone's question, but there's (currently) no way to engage the denizens of all those forums without posting in all of them (what you want to call "spamming").

My $0.02 ...