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3 August 2019 | 22 replies
As a little tip, if you're still vetting providers or team members or markets, take a little virtual walk around different areas using Google Earth.
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5 May 2020 | 7 replies
Those satellite images superimposed on GIS maps are distorted because the earth is curved but the map is flat.
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23 January 2022 | 174 replies
I love down to earth posts like these.
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9 February 2022 | 22 replies
In some places you have to get approval to cut trees (they hold the earth together and also help slow down high winds).
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17 October 2022 | 82 replies
If that's the case than nobody is native to anything on earth as we were all likely microorganisms that came from elsewhere.We can call them "Previous Americans if you want LOL".
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17 October 2023 | 76 replies
there's nothing that follows the law in specific city in california, like oakland california ( I love when someone say you can't do blablabla in CA )this is supposed to be the ultra-neo-progressive state on planet earth, right ?
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27 December 2023 | 55 replies
HOA are crazy out of control with their power and are infested with all the "Karens and Ken's" that walk the face of the earth and want to control everybody else lives.
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8 September 2023 | 92 replies
We could house every human on earth, feed every human on earth, eliminate half the diseases on earth but, we won't, because PEOPLE choose to live by the metric of "me and you", and not "WE".
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19 December 2023 | 8 replies
Engineered plans will need to address earth movement and landslide potential.
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21 February 2023 | 94 replies
Bring those assumptions back down to Earth and continue to crank up the cost to borrow and all asset classes like housing, stocks, commercial real estate, private businesses, and other income streams will become cheaper.