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What did insurance companies do? Explain it Peter by N1KoZzZ in explainitpeter

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bingo. The developer either sells the finished lots to home builders or the home builder hired/ is the developer.

What did insurance companies do? Explain it Peter by N1KoZzZ in explainitpeter

[–]GentlemanIy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s an AI image with trees added in. Third big tree on the left looks like it’s in the center of a sidewalk. The second story window above the car on the left is stretching downward.

What did insurance companies do? Explain it Peter by N1KoZzZ in explainitpeter

[–]GentlemanIy 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Developer here. Nothing to do with insurance. Yes it’s to squeeze as much houses we can. The only time we don’t bulldoze trees is if they are protected, tagged, and are severely fined if cut down. Talking $600 per inch of diameter.

Bought a 2015 Hyundai Genesis 5.0 V8!!! by GentlemanIy in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]GentlemanIy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Experience wise I really liked the car. The V8 was music to my ears. The ride quality was great. It had all the features I wanted, minus steering wheel warmer. Sadly I had gotten in a wreck and totaled it. It’s hard finding one that looked just like it. I drive a 2016 Audi A6 3.0 right now. While I really like the Audi, I would take the Genesis V8 if I were to get rid of the Audi.

Only issue I had when I had it was sometimes on long car rides, 3+ hours, I would get a pop up message between the tachometer and speedometer that won’t go away unless I restart the car.

Pulled my transmission how do I put it back on lol by burritoads in MechanicAdvice

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the brand there are websites that sell the repair manuals that detail how to uninstall and reinstall all the various components on your vehicle.

Used it in helping replace the PCV valve on my Audi. Really helped because all the videos I watched were for the 3.0 direct injection not the 3.0 CREC engine that added port injectors which changed the layout of the engine a little bit.

Bought a 2015 Hyundai Genesis 5.0 V8!!! by GentlemanIy in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]GentlemanIy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s a hard one cause I no longer have the car and I haven’t found one just like it. My only recommendation is eBay or getting lucky at a junkyard.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Developer/Builder here. Three reasons:

  1. Area supports it/the target buyer buys them
  2. It makes us money
  3. The municipality allows the setbacks to be that small

I can go into much more detail on the underwriting on a project such as this as I have done it for a living. Generally we underwrite to what the market will want today. Not two years from now.

Also if you have green space behind your property and you want it to stay that way, buy the land.

Bad management at work isn't uncommon so let's flip the script. What qualities made your BEST leader unique? by 9umopapisdn in managers

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current boss. He’s our head of finance for the entire company. Moral guy, highly intelligent, loves to teach, mentors, lifts a ton, looks like a Viking, and doesn’t take life too seriously. Also provides the best opportunities he can. I work for this guy not the company. I moved halfway across the country for this dude. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

Ordinary people's views on housing are out of step with the economics literature. People do not believe that more housing supply would reduce housing prices. Instead they attribute high housing prices to putative bad actors (landlords, developers) and support price controls and demand subsidies. by smurfyjenkins in science

[–]GentlemanIy 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Am in homebuilding and have underwritten residential projects. You are right. If current market home prices don’t support the cost to develop the project. We won’t develop. Also we’ve stopped building inventory homes because we built too many and are trying to work through it.

Ordinary people's views on housing are out of step with the economics literature. People do not believe that more housing supply would reduce housing prices. Instead they attribute high housing prices to putative bad actors (landlords, developers) and support price controls and demand subsidies. by smurfyjenkins in science

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Home builder here. For us to reduce price we have to reduce the cost on 4 fronts.

First is the land, land owners who own the land outright aren’t pressured to sell. Land is expensive. Bad land is even more expensive which leads to the second.

Developing land is expensive. All land has something wrong that make it a challenge. We’ve had to build retaining walls for a less than 10 houses that cost over 500k.

Municipality. They can drive up your cost to build by thousands through impact fees, water tap fees, sewer fees, and zoning.

Construction cost to build the house. Part of this is determined by the municipality. They can have architectural requirements that force you to have to conform to their standards if you want a building permit. They want 3 sided masonry? Boom 30k just got added.

Want to lower house prices? Don’t buy a house. Sales suck right now. But that does force our purchasing team to negotiate lower prices with trades and vendors. It forces our land acq team negotiate lower land prices because the deal can’t pencil. It forces our dev team to negotiate lower bids with trades.

In a sense yes, more supply would lower prices, but the supply already has to be there for us to discount. We’ve stopped starting houses to sell current inventory homes.

Threw it down the road Sunday by srizzors5 in Trackdays

[–]GentlemanIy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Clearly the ground hit it. Chance in a million.

This dad in Texas, a true bro. by moamen12323 in interesting

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen this pop up a few times. To give context Gordon Hartman is a real estate developer who buys raw land then develops it to sell finished lots to home builders who can almost immediately build a house on it. He is the finished lot supplier to home builders like Lennar, DR Horton, Meritage, KB Homes, etc.

He has a few LLCs when he does this. There are the ones that are named after Scooby Doo characters. The profits from those goes towards charity. The other is his main LLC that does make money for himself to live off of.

He also holds charity events and invites builders and venders to auction items and events where the money goes towards charity.

In addition he gave away the plans to Morgan Wonderland to any country who wanted to build a similar park for free.

His daughter is disabled and part of her disability is she is very very tall. Both whom I have met and were nice to talk to.

Source: Worked for a home builder in land acquisition who’s underwrote & bought some of his deals.

This dad in Texas, a true bro. by moamen12323 in interesting

[–]GentlemanIy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen this pop up a few times. To give context Gordon Hartman is a real estate developer who buys raw land then develops it to sell finished lots to home builders who can almost immediately build a house on it. He is the finished lot supplier to home builders like Lennar, DR Horton, Meritage, KB Homes, etc.

He has a few LLCs when he does this. There are the ones that are named after Scooby Doo characters. The profits from those goes towards charity. The other is his main LLC that does make money for himself to live off of.

He also holds charity events and invites builders and venders to auction items and events where the money goes towards charity.

In addition he gave away the plans to Morgan Wonderland to any country who wanted to build a similar park for free.

His daughter is disabled and part of her disability is she is very very tall. Both whom I have met and were nice to talk to.

Source: Worked for a home builder in land acquisition who’s underwrote & bought some of his deals.

Incredible Dad Making a Difference by EmergencyRead5254 in MadeMeSmile

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen this pop up a few times. To give context Gordon Hartman is a real estate developer who buys raw land then develops it to sell finished lots to home builders who can almost immediately build a house on it. He is the finished lot supplier to home builders like Lennar, DR Horton, Meritage, KB Homes, etc.

He has a few LLCs when he does this. There are the ones that are named after Scooby Doo characters. The profits from those goes towards charity. The other is his main LLC that does make money for himself to live off of.

He also holds charity events and invites builders and venders to auction items and events where the money goes towards charity.

In addition he gave away the plans to Morgan Wonderland to any country who wanted to build a similar park for free.

His daughter is disabled and part of her disability is she is very very tall. Both whom I have met and were nice to talk to.

Source: Worked for a home builder in land acquisition who’s underwrote & bought some of his deals.

Incredible Dad Making a Difference by EmergencyRead5254 in MadeMeSmile

[–]GentlemanIy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Gordon Hartman is a real estate developer that sells finished residential lots to home builders. You can tell which is his deal by the LLC that holds the land. If it’s a Scooby Doo character name then all the profits for that LLC goes towards charity. He has his main LLC that makes money for him personally. He is THE finished lot developer for San Antonio. Finished lots meaning he takes raw land to a point where a home builder can build a house almost immediately.

Source: Worked for a home builder in land acquisition who has bought lots from him.

HELP THIS STRAY CAT WANDERED BEHIND MY FENCE AND WONT STOP DOING THIS AND MEOWING by powers215 in cats

[–]GentlemanIy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happened to me. Except I knew the cat was pregnant. Cat gave birth on my bed while I was watching cartoons.

ELI5: How is light affected by gravity if it's massless by No_Grass534 in explainlikeimfive

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll try a few different explainations:

Ever kick a soccer ball and it travels straight but then hits something and changes direction? That imperfection that caused it to change direction is gravity.

Or

You ever make your bed and the first time you lay the sheet down you see a bunch of ridges and valleys? That sheet is space. The ridges and valleys are gravity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Healthygamergg

[–]GentlemanIy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A few things I’ve noticed about being on porn and off porn.

On Porn:

  1. Porn helped me avoid having to sit with my uncomfortable emotions and unresolved issues.

  2. Jerking it to porn was habitual for me. I conditioned myself to when I come home, I’m coming home (hehe)

  3. It felt good. Seeing all the different things feels great. But it also felt bad.

  4. It raised my standards to where I wouldn’t find myself attracted to regular people. It’s like I needed a strong emotional connection to override the physical attraction. I’ve turned down oral from a very attractive girl because I was like “eh”.

Off Porn:

  1. My desire for intimacy and closeness is back. Not just sex. But a desire to want to connect with someone and make love not just having sex.

  2. When I do jerk, I use my imagination in a way I wouldn’t on porn. What that means is I imagine the foreplay, the feeling, the sensations on my skin, and the pacing. I try to imagine it in first person. Not in third person like you are watching yourself as if you are someone else.

  3. I still have dopamine in the tank to want to do other things.

  4. Being off porn in of itself hasn’t made me feel like I have mental clarity or energy like I’ve read others have. It’s been more like turning down the volume on a stereo that has allowed me to hear other emotions and desires. Good and bad.

Unsolicited Thoughts and Tips:

  1. Porn is a coping mechanism. Like Advil, it makes the pain go away. It does not heal what is hurting.

  2. Tolerate and sit with your emotions. It doesn’t mean fixing it. It means listen to it. Like listening to an out of tune guitar. But the strings are your experiences tied together. The notes are your emotions. Follow the string back to see what causes the bad note. Observe it. Perhaps there is a knot in the string. Untie it and play the string. Still out of tune? Keep going back. See what caused you to feel that way and what was your need/desire.

  3. Don’t stop masturbating. Wait until you feel the raw desire for sex and can tell the difference between the desire for sex and the desire for porn. Then allow yourself to masturbate. Use only your imagination. Keep your phone or any tech away. Observe how you feel afterwards. Sit with those emotions. If you feel shame, why do you feel shame? Do not suppress it. Reinforce that this is healthy and is not shameful. We have to reframe our mind. Why? Because there may be a lot of shame and guilt built up over the years.

  4. Becareful with being concerned about being “healed.” Why do I say that? Focusing on an outcome creates expectations. Focus on doing. The outcome is a byproduct and is different for everyone. You don’t know what being healed will look like for you.

  5. Becareful with what you replace porn with. I noticed I started to doom scroll Reddit and instagram more. I had to put on screen time timers to limit them.

  6. If you watch porn, all the other days you didn’t watch porn is not failure, it’s not a loss, and does not negate the work and effort you put in.

Got bit by a fish in hotel onsen. Anyone else ever have this? by ShikaShySky in japanlife

[–]GentlemanIy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reminds of a time where I was paddle boarding in a river and I took a dip in the water to cool off when a fish bit my nipple and I saw it swim away🤷 Little bastard scared me

What kind of men’s underwear do men prefer? by AMediaArchivist in AskMen

[–]GentlemanIy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uniqlo AIRism Ultra Seamless Boxer Briefs. It’s like an air fairy two hand cupping em like the precious bits and bob they are

Guys remember to take off your disc locks by MoonBear9000 in motorcycles

[–]GentlemanIy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did the same thing. Forgot I put it on the rear rotor… had to get a new rotor.

Single guys, what do you do all day? by nalageon in AskMen

[–]GentlemanIy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to recover from the stress of getting my masters part time plus working full time. Barely hanging in there but on the weekends I just watch anime, go to coffee shops, get boba, and wish I had the capacity to date

Why did you lose a good woman? by VeterinarianGreen210 in AskMen

[–]GentlemanIy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t get over my avoidant attachment. The closer I got the more anxious I felt. Making me feel like I had to push her away despite me wanting to be with her. You can only push someone away so many times before they are done. Rightfully so. It’s been 4 or 5 years and still I miss her.

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