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Hi, I'm Josh Oglesby! Being a dad, realtor and small business owner in SC keeps me busy. My journey growing up in South Carolina has taught me a lot about the palmetto state. I'm excited to share my tips, tricks and general information about the upstate of where I call home!
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I lived in Travelers Rest for all of my life. Now it's over run with yankees who have completely destroyed the way of life here. My taxes went from 300 a year to 1800 to pay for the bike lanes and "upgrades" that I'll never uses. New police dept. New fire dept. 750000 townhouses that locals can't afford.
It’s not “the more the merrier” because northerners are not merry, they’re rude af! We need to have mandatory social etiquette classes for northerners in order for them to move to the south.
What are you talking about?! Prices are already at all times high. It doesnt make sense to buy at these prices. Income to median home cost does not make sense and cant stay sustainable. With the prices of homes double, insurance and taxes are at a record high as well. We are already in bubble bigger than 08 and its going to crash hard. Real estate agents are also hard to trust because you guys live on commission and need to sell to make a living. Using a an agent is a corrupt system.that said greenville is absolutely gorgeous but now is not the time to buy.
Been living in SC and was born and raised in SC . Spartanburg is not as bad as people claim. I never been shot or in a fight ..no one has ever broke in my house or car. Its like other places if you move to a side of a city ruled by violence you are likely to end up in it and all of Spartanburg isnt like that . I love the food the people in South Carolina are so very nice and different i stayed in Atlanta Mississippi Texas north Carolina and Florida and SC is the top with nice people hospitality and i feel at home every time i come back
@@Getitbacknah humbled by your comment! Much appreciated! I’ve lived in Liberty, Powdersville, a short period in Greenville, a LONG time in Anderson and now in Easley. Just the right amount of distance to Greenville without some of the traffic hassle.
I live in West Texas. Barndos are pretty popular but I think with the heat that we have it is utterly stupid that everyone has dark roofs. I loved the picture of the blue barndo with the silver roof. It looks great and will reflect a ton of the heat.
I live in a Barndominium in the Midwest I love it but in reality it’s a cheap house to build at the time but not now but on the flipside of that it higher maintenance cost for the upkeep of the barndominium I know I had to do it
Is s/one who hopes to build a "BARNDO" (sorry) going to have to possibly shell out $1300 or w/ever for a PLAN...take it to a lender, & only have a lender shoot it down, & then be out the cost of the plan because nobody will FINANCE it? Is it nothing more than a crap shoot? What's your educated guess in getting one financed? We're in the greater Columbia area by the way (Lexington, West Cola, etc).
Ok please explain this. We bought our house in 2015 for 300k. We sold it in 2019 right before covid. And now it is worth over 1 million dollars. Like. Can people please leave the upstate of South Carolina!!!
The growing is still happening!! All I see when I leave my house if construction building up new neighbourhoods or apartments! Like. I think we are a little full up here in the upstate…
Stop giving away our secrets of lake keowee !! 😂 it’s become more and more popular. It used to be not popular at all but now… also all lakes in south Carolina are man made by dams! Love the content keep it up❤
lived here all my life - It's getting TOO crowded and it's loosing its small town feel. Too many people moving here from other areas changing it to - "the way we did it back where we came from" so it no longer looks like the town they moved to. Sub divisions going up EVERYWHERE loosing the woods, fields and pastures that make this place nice to live. I foresee in the next 10 or so years this place will be a shadow of what it use to be :(
I agree 100% the bigger it gets , the more crime comes in, it is so sad that Pickens is growing and we are losing our small town to the elite hungry for money. and the police dept can be a bit corrupt, the sheriff's dept not so bad. I hope the growth will stop before our home is completely ruined.. cant even go to the lakes anymore because of the million dollar homes all around the landings. I hate that , they were never supposed to allow homes to be built on the lakes. I hope that will stop also. Pickens use to be so much better, but, they do not care about the poorer people . but, what can we do ?
The amount of lumber that goes into a framed house exponentially adds to the amounts of mistakes and bad installation. Barndominium doesn't transfer loads to walls like framed houses. The loads are transferred mainly to post.
I’ve been working with potentially having a STICK BUILT that has since tried to discourage me from going with a Barndo !! He talked a lot about it rusting over time and cooling/heating costs.
Rusting over time can be an issue the ladder shouldnt be if you insulate it properly. Just gotta be proactive for the potenital rust and acutally coat the home.
I live in Greenville and prefer the local restaurants in Spartanburg. I have a lot of friends there and am always made to feel at home. To me, Greenville , Spartanburg , and Anderson are all a single place.
I underwrite most of the portfolio loans for a mid sized credit union. It's my understanding that we're more flexible than banks, and we usually won't touch these. -Its hard to find comps, market area so we usually have to value them manufactured, which sprays up the LTV given that it's so much more expensive to build one of these into drop a mobile home in most cases. -people want to Mickey mouse this themselves and unless they're a developer in their own right, we're just not going to fund that. -The people who take these on generally do it try and save money over the long term. For the amounts that they ask for it's just not worth us taking the time to underwrite and manage disbursements. - people come in thinking that you're going to provide them with a step-by-step guide to securing finance and getting this done, but very few people have experience handling these. This might be one of the few times when hiring a sultant is actually worthwhile. My advice, Pirate builder that's specializes in these type of builds specifically in already has partnerships with lenders who know how to underwrite and manage them. Chances are you're not going to save any money doing it this way, so if you're doing it for the aesthetic, it might work out for you, but if not, you're probably better off just searching until you find a traditional house you can put sweat equity into.
