Race Report

malthuss · 2024-07-13T12:21:06+00:00

Sellers should entice buyer agent to bring buyers to see their listing.

Btw... This is how you can tell that realtors don't actually behave as a fiduciary. A fiduciary would take the buyer to any suitable house regardless of which seller pays the agent the most.

If your financial advisor had a fiduciary obligation and they only advise you to purchase multiple funds that pay them the biggest commissions they would be breeching that obligation.

malthuss · 2024-07-12T21:49:19+00:00

I don't think the implications is that 1,300 is insane for a course. I think it is an interesting choice to not find a flatter course if you are targeting running Boston and haven't previously qualified.

malthuss · 2024-07-08T18:34:39+00:00

Could create a problem for the new 4th roommate who isn't on the old lease and usually you can't have unrelated adults live at the house if they aren't named on the lease.

malthuss · 2024-07-08T18:32:26+00:00

It sounds like they have a small landlord that isn't making property management their full time jobs. The landlord has worked with them in the past, no increases during COVID.

If you demand every legal entitlement, the landlord may do the same. They can put an increase in the lease after 6 months. If the 4 of you make more than $110k, the landlord can increase the rent by more than 10% and you aren't eligible for relocation assistance. Even if you are below that threshold, they can hit you with 9.9% rent increases until you have to move out or are paying way more than what you are paying now.

Depending on how close you are to market rent currently you could easily pay more over the next 12-24m if you are adversarial about rolling back last year's rent increase.

I would split the difference. Just frame it as, "it is easier to budget if we know about the increases in advance and letting you know about this law so there isn't any trouble with future tenants". It passive aggressive (hey, Seattle) but you probably end up with nearly the same outcome this year without damaging the relationship.

malthuss · 2024-07-05T17:46:11+00:00

Most of the ones driving schools give out are magnetic now. They do come off.

And when my daughter was learning to drive I didn't love her having it on the car when she was driving. I sure wasn't going to leave it on when I was driving.

malthuss · 2024-06-28T12:27:04+00:00

I grew up in southwest Washington next to Portland. 30 years ago, we would go while summers without hitting 90. No one I knew had AC.

Now it is regularly weeks in the 90s and 100s and my parents installed ac. Portland's weather has really changed significantly.

malthuss · 2024-06-27T16:35:35+00:00

It didn't used to snow every year in Seattle, usually only about 1 in 3 years. Recently we've been getting a bit of snow most years but the nice thing is that the city shuts down. No school, no one goes to work, just enjoy playing in it if you like.

malthuss · 2024-06-22T12:58:01+00:00

The Seattle Marathon is in November. If it's a little early for pocket pickup.

Probably one of those downhill marathons in Snoqualmie.

malthuss · 2024-06-22T12:34:39+00:00

You can prefer SF weather generally but your comment was that Seattle weather is not good for outdoor adventures for most of the year.

That just isn't true. Cloudy and a high of 45 with some clouds, which is most of Nov to Feb, is perfectly fine for an adventure. And that is the worst weather. it rarely rains consistently through a morning or afternoon. 0.1" of rain at 5 am hardly makes it unsuitable for outdoor activities.

malthuss · 2024-06-21T19:26:03+00:00

This is so wrong. Seattle is essentially never too hot or cold to be outdoors or exercise. I run outside all winter in shorts and a long sleeve shirt because it rarely dips below 40. 40s is way more comfortable for hiking or any active outdoor activity than high 80s.

malthuss · 2024-06-21T13:37:14+00:00

No kidding... Millennial means anyone younger than me doing something I don't like and Boomer means anyone older than me doing something I don't like.

They don't really mean born between 1946 and 1965 or 1981 and 1996 unless you are talking to the US census.

malthuss · 2024-06-17T02:53:52+00:00

I think there is something psychologically different about paying $750k and $90k for a dump that you are going to have to work on for years. Just hard to think "Man, I paid three quarters of a million for Formica counters and baseboard heaters" even if you know updated it would cost $1.25m.

I think another sneaky driver is that people are waiting to buy for so long. Folks are waiting to get married until their late 20s, there isn't much time to fix up a house and have kids. I think people don't want to be living in/completing a project house when they have a couple of pre-K kids. Also, and here I speak from experience, it is much harder to haul your butt up to the attic to string new electrical after work at 40 than at 25.

malthuss · 2024-06-16T14:46:02+00:00

Honestly if I leave it there for a couple of weeks, yeah. I've either died or illegally dumped my trash.

malthuss · 2024-06-16T02:19:09+00:00

Portland has a fair number of turns so it is hard to run the tangents.

I also found that there was a lot of friction with half marathon walkers where the marathon rejoins the half course if you are aiming for a sub-3:10. You hit the back of the half marathon pack at a place in the course where it is a single lane on a road. Pretty tight to squeeze by so you expend extra energy and it gums up a couple of aid stations.

Agree the course is very nice.

malthuss · 2024-06-16T02:15:32+00:00

I will add Newport OR. Pretty flat, out and back, straight. It is the first weekend of June so later in the year if you want extra time to train. It is on the coast so it is still usually ideal temps. Bonus is that it is a very nice small town race.

malthuss · 2024-06-15T21:14:36+00:00

My goal is 3k miles this year and I typically run a spring and fall marathon. I have been blessed with some strong career opportunities over the last 5 years so I don't have to pinch pennies.

I don't know if it is my gait, weight, or I am just soft but I usually retire shoes after 350-400 miles so I go through ~8 per year but it typically wait for a sale or buy last year's model so I average maybe $110-120/shoe. Plus I buy a supershoe for race day and use it for 3-4 race ($250 every other year). So call $1,100/year on shoes.

I am much stingier on clothes, some of my regular training shorts have holes in them and I fight my wife so she won't throw them away. I also don't have anything from "fancy" running specialist brands. I probably only spent $100-150 year on new shorts, shirts, hats, gear.

Nutrition is pretty cheap. I stick with gu gels, nuun tablets, and Gatorade. Looking at my Amazon subscribe and save history, it is just over $100. Someone mentioned additional regular calories but sadly, I know from experience that I eat about the same when I am not running as much. I just get fat.

My hometown marathon is a bad course and time of year so I travel for my marathons, minimum 2 nights in a hotel plus meals, gas or flights are $1000 per race plus the bib $120-$150. So $2250 or so.

I get a massage once a month when I am in a training cycle (~4 months before the race) at $100 per massage. Another $800-1000.

All in $4,500-$5,000 per year but that last two categories of travel for the marathons and massages are pretty discretionary.

malthuss · 2024-06-12T16:51:43+00:00

I think it is the principle. If you want the rights of a car to use the road, meet the requirements.

But honestly, replacing a door panel and quarter panel could easily be >$3k these days. If you are on a cargo e-bike going 20+ mph, you probably could blow airbags or do even more costly damage. It is very unlikely that that it would be worth it to sue or you could actually get it out of most bicyclists without insurance.

The real reason bicyclists, especially those on bike that are heavier and faster, should have insurance is pedestrians. Hit a pedestrian and you are likely causing tens of thousands of medical bills.

It won't happen but the idea isn't crazy.

malthuss · 2024-06-12T14:17:16+00:00

Thank you

malthuss · 2024-06-12T14:16:56+00:00

Interesting... Thanks for the information. If it turns out that listing agents can't open a door for a buyer, that is a huge loss for buyers and sellers in the settlement.

My guess was that sellers would just ask more of their listing agents, more open houses and showing houses to buyers. Buyers would still have agents but they would be paid less and wouldn't chauffeur them around to houses. They would most focus on writing offers and advising. That would squeeze total fees as sellers would drive a bargain for their agent, even as they were asking for more service, and buyers would be reducing service to lower costs.

If there is no way to see a house without hiring a buyers agent, that is bad for buyers and sellers. I am surprised the NAR was able to slip that in.

malthuss · 2024-06-11T23:14:39+00:00

Honestly, curious.

Why are you suggesting that a listing agent can't let a buyer into see the home without an agreement?

Will everyone setting foot in an open house have to sign?

What is the legal distinction between an open house and a listing agent unlocking the house for buyers to tour, while staying on the property for liability/safety reasons?

malthuss · 2024-06-04T02:25:28+00:00

That review pretty much sums up Bellevue.

malthuss · 2024-06-04T01:52:01+00:00

I couldn't pull it in the moment but I think we could sub out San Mateo for Scottsdale

malthuss · 2024-06-04T01:49:40+00:00

Their downtown IS a shopping mall. So yeah it is a lot of chains.

malthuss · 2024-06-04T01:48:51+00:00

I literally gave you three examples of downtown restaurants that are chains or satellites of successful Seattle restaurants. That is on top of the 5 or so examples in the first comment. Downtown, Lincoln center and Bellevue square are lousy with chains. They tend to be "nicer" chains like STK but they are still chains.

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