Re: OT Sold It!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:52:49 -0400, "Roy" <Roy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>All the figure in the world don't change what is going on here. There are

>guy's standing at intersections holding signs saying "Roofer needs work".
I 
>never saw that before. Also a pawn shop I was in 6 months ago had a nail
gun 
>for sale, yesterday there had to be 25 nail guns. When tradesmen start 
>pawning their tools, there is a hint there.The housing market collapse
has 
>put a ton of folks out of work. These "new job's"  are wally world type, 
>part time, minimum wage, no benefits. No where near the good paying jobs 
>that were lost. Lowes and Home Depot have laid of thousands and closed 
>distribution centers. Of course now they have self check outs.

Could some of the job shortage in the trades and tools on the used tools
on the
market be related to you being in the hurricane area, bro?

I remember that there were a huge amount of companies hired/contracted to
help
rebuild the New Orleans area and the government probably bought them a
bunch of
things like roofing nailers..

I'm not in touch with the CA building trades much anymore, bit I was real
surprised to hear that a friend bought a new house near Fresno and that he
had
to do the lottery thing to be able to buy one..
He said that they were all sold before the construction was done and that
they
were plowing more orchards under to build more houses..

Definitely not what I'd thought was happening to the housing market..

The building boom here in Baja has damned near stopped..
My builder did about 15 houses a year in 06 and 07 but has only started 3
homes
so far in 08... No money coming down from sales and refinances in the
States..


mac

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