moneypitmike

Thanks for posting this! It's a little surprising that it took an Australian to come up with the best movie on the time. Like him or now, Mel makes great movies.

It's only 1.5%, but they drop it to 1% if they broker your next purchase within 3 months. We've always used traditional realtors. I had been impressed with their marketing of homes since they came on the scene (I'm always looking at houses even if I'm not in a buying situation). Among the things I noticed was the accuracy of their estimates with the ultimate purchase prices of homes. IIRC, their estimate on our current house ended up being pretty darn close to what we ended up getting it for. Since that time, they've upped it significantly--I'm guessing in response to the low number of houses currently on the market. I did a really broad search yesterday of houses in ORH regardless of Zip Code that had 4+ bedrooms and 3+ baths and a price greater than $400k. Even with that broad a search (all Zip Codes and a really only came up with 10 houses. If your familiar with the city, there are a ton of huge circa 1900 homes that (ours in 1917) so seeing that few active is really telling. I hope that their estimate of Pit2 is right. They now have it nearly double what we paid for it in 2015 or 16. Last week, we actually got a letter from a PWM realtor who was representing a couple from MA who wanted to know if we'd sell it. We didn't even ask what they'd be willing to pay. That's where I'm hoping to live my remaining time beginning in a few years. Buying that one was easily the best financial decision we'll like to make in our lifetime. I'll update you on RF once this sells.

Yeah. Looking to get out of the city life. Not sure where we'll land. I'm guessing Southborough or Westborough (my wife's from there). I'm hoping we might wind up in Princeton, but I don't think that's especially likely. Great interest rates in any case.

Thanks. It’s a sellers market for sure. Hopefully one of the buyers will be for us. We’re nit going to rush unnecessarily to a new one—want to be happy with where we land. The good news in that is I might get to spend some time at Pit2, my happy place.

And it begins.

When does the drought start back up? July 1, 2020 RESERVOIR LEVELS: The Quabbin Reservoir, the largest water supply source for 47 communities in the Metro Boston area, is currently at 96.8% of its 412 billion-gallon maximum capacity. The 65 billion-gallon Wachusett Reservoir is 91.6% full.

Is that why they're called "ears" of corn?

Well, we had a few hours of sun.....now into overcast.

Thanks for posting that.....I hadnt' looked at anything other than the sunny blue sky and thought "that's a helluva way to run a crappy day". I worked for an IA company for a dozen years so spent a lot of time in Cedar Rapids. Worst humidity in the summer ever, and nut-retracting cold in the winter.. You'd get about a week on either end of the extremes where it was actually comfortable.

Elevation snow spot in winter.

We'll call it a 4 for 4. Sounds like Hall of Fame numbers. Who knows, maybe we can eek out a bonus day tomorrow. Missed out on the big rains, had to settle for a paltry 2.05" (so far). And I'll say again, I am NOT the one on this board who calls for 'days and days of snow'. I'll give you three guesses who does though. Looks like no big heat in the short term. Peek of climate temps less than 3 weeks away. We move.on.

We stayed free until about 20 minutes ago. Now raining heavily with occasional lightning/thunder.

Man, Lunenburg look's like it's going to jackpot.

Yup--it appears to be dying down. Of course, I said that last night and then got hit.

Man, the Hudson Valley is getting swamped.

A pretty tame day in ORH so far. Only .08".

Lush green lawns throughout New England except for one lowly brown one up the hill from The Blue.

NAM ftw? Some NS training looks to be setting up just to my west. Just a very brief passing shower here so far today.

It's looking like a Hippy/Dave start to the day for the SNE folks.

Time to begin day 3.

2 for 2. .83 Running total 1.05"

Casco Bay-Bethel-Grafton launching the arcs this morning. Where's Lava?

hmmmmm.....

Yeah--the earlier stuff all formed east of here. Not that far east, apparently!