Downstairs was flooded with beautiful HW floors.

It's all about how you were brought up.The kids and even adults today about 80 to 90% are in jobs because they do it because they have to and want to leave as soon as possible.My first job I was 14.I wanted a Tandy computer from Radio Shack but my dad said we couldn't afford it.So being a kid walking around my subdivision there was a fruit market right across the road.I went over and talked to the owner and was hired.I walked back home and told my parents I got a job.The work was very tough but we had a bunch of fun.Didn't have a fork lift so they would back up a truck and we would unload potting soil,wheat straw,pine straw,pumpkins,watermelons,flowers,bags of rocks one by one onto the empty pallets on the ground.When the food truck came we had one manual hand truck.Being the job was considered agricultural I put in sometimes 60 hours a week and I loved the checks as a kid.I bought that Tandy computer.I remember that the salesman at Radio Shack gave me all the reasons why nothing would ever go past 512 kb.My next job years and years later was as a Kmart cashier.I loved being in the air conditioning but the other kids complained the work was too hard.I saw it as a gravy train job that was so easy compared to what I used to do.Many people of today want 100k a year jobs but do not want to put in the work.There are many low income jobs being created but that doesn't motivate people to work.If you have a kid on welfare and you go work part time then they deduct what you make off of that amount so there is no point in working many say.If you get 10 an hour but all of that goes to childcare and they tax you on the income then many just stay home.So the government can't expect to fix the system the way it is right now.There is no motivation for people to work low income jobs when they can make the same unemployed off of government programs.

I sold a house a few years ago that had a tree next to it with an enormous, beautiful canopy.

The quality of life is very high and many people choose weather and culture and beauty over home ownership.My daughter lives in Berkeley, CA, with rents and home prices even more out of whack than here.

Like any city, you need to know the neighborhoods, and North Charlotte (particularly north of I-85) is a mixed bag.

Motel room  meals out.. etc etc.I know when I go from PDX to the south be it atlanta or whatever it cost me 1500 to 2000 per trip.. of course I buy a first class ticket so my air fare is a little, but I get a free checked bag :)  Its one months rent in most markets to visit your property but if you have multiple properties then things get cheaper  but still a cost

Used a professional sprayer and knew what he was doing - so, not one of those little DIY kits - they look beautiful. 

Geneva NY is a beautiful town and has got Hobart and William Smith and other colleges.

They're one of my favorites because that's how we bought our first home in California - this was before the prices went crazy and you could still get a beautiful home for under $100,000. 

I'm a Christian myself and also a husband and father of a beautiful 1 and 1/2 year old daughter.