Meanwhile the homeless youngins just need to work harder and reside under the bridge and quit complaining lol. When he dies they will turn it into a Exxon or raceway
For all you youngster,s out there, you see his hat, he is a veteran that means he fought for his country for that he does have superpower,s. Real Talk. Thank you for serving SIR.
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with anything and I bet you felt extremely cool typing that all out, but you seem incredibly cringe Please go touch grass
Awesome! Just think a $500 house in 1950 lasted over 50 years. Now days a 500000 house will last 5.....we have lost more than we will ever gain back. Bless this man 🙏 🇺🇸
Reminds me of my dad when we brought the grandkids over, literally everyday. U.S. Navy strong. Thankyou for your service. Keep on rockin the free world.
I grew up in a Sears and Robucks catalog house. The rafters in the attic were gigantic. House is still standing and in great shape. Bought used in 1955 for $11,000.
@barbarajones5961 Your comment confirms what I already know... They don't make them like that anymore. They want people to have to spend more money to get things repaired over and over again. 🥺
@theresaasian300 that's true but It's more than that. We used to have lumber from natural forests, and the lumber was old and far better from older trees than the toung tree lumber we use now.
My dad and uncle went in together to buy their first house in 1950. It was a Sears house. The pre cut lumber and other pieces were dropped off on the property. They had to put it together like a huge puzzle.
I bought 2 houses 7 years ago for 300k. Sold both for 1.2 million to Vanguard. Both houses have been sitting empty for 2 years now. It's not the boomers it's by design.
The house cost $500 in 1960. It was ordered from the Sears catalog. My g-grandparents did the same thing. Post Office delivered all the pieces & the sons put it together. Still standing beautifully in 2024.
I looked it up and purchasing the “ kit” to build a nice house YOURSELF in 1913 was $817 dollars… you had to buy the land… hire a crew to assemble it… paint it… put in driveways and sidewalks… if they bought a house in 1960 for $500 it was damaged or a relative/ friend charged a token amount and made them a “gift”.
He could have bought only the shell. He would only get the frame and outer walls and wood roof. Finishing the inside walls, shingles, all the outlets, plumbing, doors, cabinets etc. themselves.
My parents home came out of the sears catalog, think it was $ 1700 , they had to hire someone to pour the foundation for it , but it came with everything down to the handles on the kitchen draws and shower curtin rod. They sold it for $1.4 in 2022
This is something that really pisses me off , it's apparently too damn hard for some nitpickers to simply focus on the point of what someone is saying instead of jumping straight into criticizing a person's grammar and/or spelling! It really makes it pretty clear that the 2nd person feels self-important and doesn't place any value on the story the 1st person has shared with them. It demonstrates a serious lack of respect or regard for anyone other than themselves. Why do some people have to be that way? 🤨🤬
That's cool. As a young adult, I told my dad how difficult it is to buy a home, especially after 2020 and he told me to stop whining. We are doomed. Your kids won't own anything and will be corporation slaves
Texting has destroyed proper punctuation and grammar. 😮 The selling price for a $500 Sears house is awesome. The Veteran’s dance move is priceless. Thank you for your service.
Paid off implies there was a loan to begin with. Keep in mind, Americans used to be able to road trip across the country for a month and come back to their jobs and homes without worrying about finance. Almost like people could afford to live
Not a $4,000,000 home I sold mine for $1.5 last year Ashton Heights in Arlington Most houses are between $1 million and 3 million dollars I’ve seen some for $12-20 million but they are rare Still, the area is full of wealthy people who have poor social skills and even poorer morals. Glad I moved to the Shenandoah region
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This guy virginians. I've notice a ton more homeless people on top of the homeless that have been here for 3 plus years. They are literally pushing out the people that grew up here. T. I'm homeless. Lol.
@@hollytwiddy5658 Vienna? Hard to find a worse place to live. The DMV is done. It was kinda ok back in the 70’s and up to 91 but then everything changed.
Yep same here, sold out near Yorktown highschool. Moved to Winchester VA and got 5ac and 3200 sqft new home and still had a pile of cash! Arlington has turn into an over priced dump.
Guess he could have jumped out of his shoes!! I spent a few years in a JC Whitney 3 family house, most all the wood was from the 1936 hurricane that swept across Long Island NY If I ever get a couple seconds in a "time machine" would order up a pair of 1905 Sears automobiles delivered in a wooden crate Thanks for your service commander....
Same for my brother jn law . Bought a Sears house and it was delivered . He built it cuz an engineer in santa barabara, ca . We sold after my sister , who was married to him, passed away . We sold it for $1,100,000 ...it was located off garden street....amazing house build .❤miss the house 😢
My dad and uncle went in together to buy their first house in 1950. It was a Sears house. The pre cut lumber and other pieces were dropped off on the property. They had to put it together like a huge puzzle.
@rodneycampbell5687 That's closer to what I was thinking. It was NOT 1060. By the 60 Sears Catalogs weren't that robust, given they had stores all over by then. Maybe the 40s.
@@2001Libby No. I live in Virginia if you sell your primary residence and buy another house, you don't have to pay taxes on it If you don't buy a house its taxed.
I lived in a house that was converted from a barn... it's a thrown together... renovated... and renovated... pile of 1910 to current garbage... my dad sold it in the 1980's for like $70,000.... on zillow its now +$700,000... the people don't realize some of the wiring is paper insulated... and some pipes are 50/50 lead soldered... there's a whole false floor with tons of dead mice and birds in a gap between floors...
Sears stopped selling Modern Homes as kit houses in 1942, and pre-cut kit homes were not sold after that. However, Sears did sell mail order homes through catalogs from 1906 to 1982.
@@injunjo did Rappahannock in Washington with my now ex and Daughters. Had great fun on Halloween there. Except all the adults (except me,I was driving) anyway all adults were drunk all get out. Fun though. Me I'm actually trying to figure out a new place. Warrenton,Daytona FL, Los Angeles, Culpeper ,Rappahannock, Front Royal,Winchester, and Jacksonville NC for 2 years. All those places over 47 years? And that doesn't include Marine Corps.Maybe time ⌚ to move in again somewhere new again.
Sears Homes were sold between 1908 and 1942. After years of declining sales, Sears would finally close its Modern Homes department in 1940. A few other kit home manufacturers - ones that hadn't sold mortgages - survived, but the Sears kit home boom was over.
**The median cost of a house was $11,900 in the 1960’s. So did they win the house & $500 at bingo?😂Or to add context-quoted: In 1908, Sears launched its first Sears Modern Homes Catalog. Prospective homeowners could choose from various home models in the catalog, place an order, and receive the home kit by mail. That year, the base price for a Sears home kit was around $650, which is about $22,000 today. Of course, that price didn’t cover the land, electrical, and plumbing-it only included the necessary materials (e.g., lumber, shingles, millwork) and building instructions. These weren’t flimsy materials; Sears delivered high-quality, pre-cut pieces that were made to last.**
yeeah yo. he probably just living in that free house for 60 years, no payin no taxes, no repairs, no bills, no nothing. just free. like school lunch. its free. just appears out of nowhere.
My sister and I sold our family home right before the pandemic, it was purchased for 18k as gift from grandfather to my parents. We sold it for over 300k and moved to the country. Two months later, houses sold for less than 125k…
It's still worth about the same. It's just that you've watched the value of your hard earned dollar be devalued to virtually nothing over the course of your life.
The syntax here is aweful. The sentence implies that these boomers bought a bingo card from a sears catalogue for $500 in 1960 and they’re only now leaving the house to play it. Definitely accidentally proves there’s more to boomers success than an excess of opportunity: at least they knew how to construct a human thought. Edited for syntax.
In 1960, that man only made $1 an hour when he bought that house! And then he had to physically build that house by himself! Then he had to maintain that house ever since! Some people today wouldn't even fathom because they are too lazy!
It ain't no different up here in Michigan for the past 10 years. Been paying $750 to rent a 3 bedroom house. Now I can't find anything for less than $1700 for a 1 one bedroom. Then again it was a puked cancer that made me lose that house plus everything else I owned. Bern living out of my chrysler town & country mini van for 8 months almost. Our government is nothing more than a bad fricken JOKE, not to mention COMPLETELY USELESS!!!!!!!!!!
