steinbring

steinbring, 10 months ago

Gah!

steinbring, 9 months ago

I was irked about it showing up in August but I did end up buying that can of Rogue. :)

steinbring, 9 months ago

I don't go to Lowe's or Home Depot (I just like Ace more) but I know that CVS and Walgreens do that a lot.

steinbring, 10 months ago

More housing is always better than less housing. Something tells me that these are going to be "Luxury Apartments" though (priced at something like $2500/mo) and folks who are downsizing will willingly pay it because only 25 total condo units have been built in Milwaukee since 2011. We need more housing to drive down costs but we need more housing in more categories (market-rate apartments, luxury apartments, and especially condos).

steinbring, 10 months ago

I was working on the website for the Mandel Group around 2012. At the time, they were transitioning from building mostly condo developments to building nothing but apartment developments. I was told that if a developer builds a 300-unit condo development, you will have folks who buy before the building is completed, but half of those units could be on the market for years. Needing to sit on ~$30mil worth of inventory could keep them from being able to build the next development. If they build apartments instead, they can rent them out right away and start on the next project.

I'm not sure how you solve that issue.

steinbring, 10 months ago

I have a single-family home in Glendale and I think that I would like to switch to a condo at some point just so I have less of a reason to be around all of the time. I like to travel and with winters in Wisconsin getting colder and my desire to be cold decreasing with each polar vortex, I figured that renting a place in Mexico for 2-3mo every year might be nice. It's harder to do that when you have to maintain a SFH while you are away.