The generation that benefitted from those starter homes shut the door behind them. Practically made being against any new housing being built anywhere a lifestyle. City Council meetings across the country month after month year after year the only thing people are truly passionate about is making it impossible for others to have a realistic shot at housing.

That's the thing about opportunity, you actually have to take advantage of it when it presents itself

I wish I'd bought more properties at sub 3% like the evil corporations did

Starter homes are seven percent of new homes being built.

Had a buddy supervise the building of a new subdivision in Belton. Nice homes.

They aren't for sale, just rentals.

Rent is too high.

Greed rules the day.

Most IT and IT security companies will assign you a phone and computer. They don't want people's personal devices having access to sensitive information.

BYOD is a nightmare. Unless you have a really large but relatively non-technical workforce, BYOD with some kind of MDM is sufficient. It's much easier if you have a technical workforce to just issue company-owned and managed phones. Keeping stuff partitioned isn't super easy, or cheap.

I suppose you could get a company phone or a FOB.

I guess I was pushing against the iPhone/Door Dash rhetoric just a bit. Door Dash, GrubHub, UberEats, and any equivalent is a scam and I think you're a fool to use it frequently, but a smart phone has great features and is relatively inexpensive. I dont think you'd be crippling yourself financially by getting one.

Sad deal, my two grandsons are in this tough situation.

Most peoples' success is exactly what they've earned.

I averaged around 1800 hours of overtime a year. With an 11 for 1 exchange I always had shit tons of vacation time.

Plenty of cheap homes anywhere in rural BFE America.

All people gotta do is move.

Bam. Affordable housing just like that.

It isn't the phone so much as it's the contract that comes with it. To get the absolute latest phones, you have to go with a bigger provider. The discount mobile providers generally give out older phones, which is how they keep costs down.

Working hard for many hours over years in the hope of a raise one day is old-school mentality and has no real basis in reality anymore. It's about getting paid for a skill set. If you won't, people will move on to someone who will. And someone will pay.

There is no dedication to an employer unless you pay well and offer some significant benefits on top of that, which endears that particular employee. Most resumes will have someone switching jobs every 2-3 years. If you expect to hire someone in today's age with longevity and dedication, you're behind the times by a significant margin.

Employers really have only themselves to blame. Decades of empty promises, stagnant wages, and expecting people to put work over life created it.

I am an owner of a small business, and I can guarantee that the motivated and productive get raises and often.

Big business are terrible when it comes to this.

On home prices, it's only getting worse. 15 years ago, the company I work at was buying 3 and 4 bedroom homes for around $200,000. Now, you won't touch one under $350,000 in the same area. Take that to a major metropolitan area, and it would be 4x that, easily.

I still do side work for a modular and manufactured home seller/setter. A single-wide 16x80 manufactured was around $70k when I worked with them 10 years ago. That same home now sells for $130k. That's the bottom of the barrel for buying a "new home" really. You can't put in a modular 3 bed for less than about $250k and that's not counting site prep, well/septic or sewer/water connection. That's just rural rates.

Housing is ****ing ugly for current generations. Multi-generational homes are damn near a must anymore.

It's about the only way to retain employees. If you don't reasonably reward the work they will move on quicker than shit.