A sort-of-nearby house is for sale again, after being sold earlier this year for more than $150k less than the current listing price. Photos show exterior improvements still very much in progress.
It's been quite a while since I looked at local real estate listings. Neighborhood houses continue to sell quickly for ridiculous prices.
By ridiculous, I mean 100% higher than ten years ago. Which makes the property taxes more than 100% higher, thanks to recent school-funding proposals that easily passed.
At the same time, the public school ratings range from poor to barely-middling. The student populations are majority-nonwhite now.
About half of the incoming house-debtors immediately set up leftist yard signs in their yards.
Yesterday I was in St. Paul. I only saw one family's children outdoors on a drive of a couple miles through residential neighborhoods, but there were dozens of ICE OUT signs.
I recently calculated the cost per square foot of a city building project. It was more than the cost for the Federal Reserve renovation that Trump roundly and soundly criticized.
I just now threw together a very optimistic estimate of the building's cost per visit: building cost divided by number of building users over the lifespan of the building. It came out to $11 per visit. The real number will be higher.
