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Post by tactile on Jul 6, 2023 9:50:04 GMT 10
AirBNB etc is window dressing will make no difference to house prices and availability.. Many of them are holiday houses that are rented out and bring tourism to the area. The price of land is the elephant is the room, but no one talks about it.. It baffles my brain why land prices so high....... That is where the real difference is, one can get a house built for 120k but pay for land another story............................... AirBnB is a pretty big issue here in the cities. Landlords get a lot more money than rental contracts but the pushback against it now is HUGE with some strata management groups banning them in their building even though (last time I checked) it was illegal to do that. Residents will gang up on an owner and force them to go back to a rental contracts so they can control the tenant better.
The things Ive seen would blow you mind...an Chinese guy having no idea hung up his clothes on a fire sprinkler! It broke of course and flooded 3 floors below him after he did a runner. Woman spewed in a lift (all over the control panel too!) after coming back after a big night out. people trying to shove pillows and other bedding down rubbish chutes - all were AirBNB nutjobs who didn't know how to live in an apartment and created chaos for the few days they were in the building. Although not in my building - floor wide brawls, parties and murders have been well documented in AirBnB apartments. Its a bit like Uber - their time has passed, time to legislate them out of existence.
The problem with AirBnB is that because they get so much more money, the landlord can leave it empty if they want so it is a big problem but not as bad as it was, pre Covid especially. You dont have to look around the residential apartments here in Melbourne to see that on any given night, there are a lot of empty apartments here. But the stuff here isn't that affordable to the average punter so I dont think inner city stuff is really the issue here.
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Post by spatial on Jul 6, 2023 10:28:08 GMT 10
That sounds more like tenant and management issues, not going to solve a housing crises. I agree negative gearing is very bad and had opposite effect to creating more houses. Would less investors in new housing reduce or increase the housing shortfall/crisis???
With weekly reports of builders/civil construction companies going broke and the cost of land - that is where the problem is according to my 2c.
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Post by malewithatail on Jul 6, 2023 10:38:14 GMT 10
I am uneasy re the Ukraine nuke plant situation. Keep your eyes open people, somethings wrong.
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Post by tactile on Jul 6, 2023 10:43:49 GMT 10
I rambled on in that post - If a landlord can rent out their apartment/house with short-stay tenants for a week a month, and make more money than a renter over 12 months, with no agent costs etc, then they will...and do. This is how they effect the housing market. The more popular an area is for short stays (tourism), the more money they make...so the residence gets taken out of the rental market.
This is one of the reasons why its really hard to get a rental contract in high tourism (Byron Bay etc) areas - they're all short stay.
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Post by frostbite on Jul 6, 2023 11:26:49 GMT 10
Ban short stay rentals in a tourism area and watch all the little tourist businesses go broke. Long term tenants in Byron Bay are far less likely to spend on whale watch tours or balloon rides. The mentally challenged running council (that’s pretty much all of them) don’t have the IQ to see that. They’d rather use their limited intellect to inhibit new housing development or zone residential land out of existence.
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Post by tactile on Jul 6, 2023 12:05:59 GMT 10
They survived before AirBnB...Hotels & Motels would come back and fill the void like they used to.
I dont know why anyone would want to stay in someone else's house..that's always creeped me out. Cant even stay in the house I grew up in when my parents aren't there.
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Post by Stealth on Jul 6, 2023 12:16:00 GMT 10
Nah, short stay in tourism areas are fine. The problem is the framework that AirBnB runs under and the mess it creates as a result.
Look at the traditional BnB scene. There's absolutely no advantage to the regions of having AirBnBs over regular BnBs. They cost the same, generally have similar income streams, and need to keep similar standards of cleanliness and appropriateness to attract customers. The difference is that standard BnBs have worked for DECADES as a solid, viable business prospect with the advantage that the buildings are covered by tourism business standards. AirBnBs aren't covered by tourism standards OR tenancy standards. There's absolutely no regulation of the 'industry' because it's not an industry. It was started as a side-hustle concept and it's been turned into a literal hustle.
A lack of regulation means that people have opened their investment properties up in the hundreds. Those people would never have opened BnBs because there's rules and regulations that make creating one actual effort. That's lead to the knock-on effect of those hundreds of properties that would never have been off the market coming off in a space of a couple of years instead of over several years. And you'd never have had twenty open up within five kilometers of each other in the same month. The people who own BnBs are invested in their properties as legitimate businesses so if they aren't able to lease it to earn a wage AND pay the costs they go under. An AirBnB owner fails at running an AirBnB and they just delist for a month or two and then put the add back up.
Short stay rentals absolutely should not be banned. AirBnB specifically should be. Or it should be added to the same regulatory group as all other short stay hospitality locations to force them to follow the same regulations and protect customers from shady shysters.
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Post by tactile on Jul 6, 2023 12:26:39 GMT 10
It also pushes out the low-income people who work in the tourism industries - they cant find anywhere to live.
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Post by Tim Horton on Jul 13, 2023 13:00:53 GMT 10
Earlier today I saw another video ...Things that will be in short supply....
Claiming.... Beef, butter, other dairy products, cooking oils will be short eventually.. For instance.... Butter in the far north of North America and now here in the deep south is around $6.50 a pound US or Canadian...
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Post by spatial on Jul 13, 2023 14:46:11 GMT 10
Earlier today I saw another video ...Things that will be in short supply.... Claiming.... Beef, butter, other dairy products, cooking oils will be short eventually.. For instance.... Butter in the far north of North America and now here in the deep south is around $6.50 a pound US or Canadian... Horror of Horrors massive global shortage of coco. www.9news.com.au/national/chocolate-shortage-price-of-cocoa-beans-cost-of-living/6ce049fe-4248-4a3b-9a18-21c3c0faa3bfChocoholics are being warned the cost of the sweet stuff is set to rise in the latest cost of living blow. The price of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, is trading at its highest level. High demand, a shortfall in production and bad weather forecast in the cocoa-rich region of West Africa are all forcing the cost of the product to rise.
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Post by malewithatail on Jul 13, 2023 15:37:43 GMT 10
Time to grow our own, been thinking about it for a while now. And coffee, supposed to be an issue in Brazil, so you coffee addicts, stock up !
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Post by tactile on Jul 14, 2023 9:09:30 GMT 10
Time to grow our own, been thinking about it for a while now. And coffee, supposed to be an issue in Brazil, so you coffee addicts, stock up ! Can you grow it in your area? I know they grow it in FNQ, didn't know it could be done further south.
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Post by malewithatail on Jul 14, 2023 10:48:48 GMT 10
yes we can, its a rainforest plant, but in shaded, hot position it can thrive if looked after, kept moist etc.
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Post by spinifex on Jul 14, 2023 18:57:13 GMT 10
It also pushes out the low-income people who work in the tourism industries - they cant find anywhere to live. This is a problem not being well recognised. Here we have farmers owning investment properties used as holiday homes 3 weeks a year or used as AirBnB ... and then complaining of a labour shortage which is significantly driven by poor/expensive housing availability for workers. People with well earning jobs are begging on facebook looking for a shed or caravan to rent. Its bizarre. When these farmers make these kinds of complaints it really gives me the shits.
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Post by tactile on Jul 14, 2023 20:50:13 GMT 10
There has been a big shift in the last few years that I have noticed...no one wants to work on farms any more. After having a break from our dairy farm for oh...30 years or so, I get why! Not much has changed there. People have more options today I guess, at this level, I also mean welfare options!
My only motivation to go back there is to help out ageing parents and a brother who is recovering from an illness. The difference between my life here in the city and living on a working farm is indescribable. It gives me a bit more appreciation for where our food comes from but the divide between city living and country is so wide now that it blows my mind sometimes.
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Post by frostbite on Jul 14, 2023 21:36:14 GMT 10
Earlier today I saw another video ...Things that will be in short supply.... Ammo isn’t in short supply at Cleavers. Pallets of ammo in various calibres on the shop floor, just grab as many cases as you can carry and head to the checkout. Cheap too, I bought a case of 500 rounds of fmj 9mm at $21.50 a box of 50 (my local wants about $35 a box) I should have bought 10,000rds, but with only one hand working was limited to what I could carry. Cheap.243, 7.62, .22lr, 12ga etc as well. Walls of the stuff.
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Post by malewithatail on Jul 15, 2023 8:45:12 GMT 10
There has been a big shift in the last few years that I have noticed...no one wants to work on farms any more. After having a break from our dairy farm for oh...30 years or so, I get why! Not much has changed there. People have more options today I guess, at this level, I also mean welfare options! My only motivation to go back there is to help out ageing parents and a brother who is recovering from an illness. The difference between my life here in the city and living on a working farm is indescribable. It gives me a bit more appreciation for where our food comes from but the divide between city living and country is so wide now that it blows my mind sometimes. As Ive posted before, I work occasionally, for a harvesting company, family owned, but still has multi millions invested in gear, and the average person has absolutely no idea where their food comes from, whats involved in getting it to them and the effort, energy, fuel, manpower and so on that's inputted to growing it all.
Servicing such machines, such as a twin engine (one drives the front wheels, one engine the rear wheels), pulling a 40 meter wide 5 in one implement, is a specialist job, and without that machine working, the crop cant get planted. Timing is critical, delays in planting unacceptable, and a failure could mean starvation in the future. Harvesting is not so critical, as if it doesn't get done today, providing the weather cooperates, tomorrow will be OK, but planting.....
And Joe public has no idea that their life is hanging by the thread that machine gives. Perhaps not in the short term, but in a grid down situation, most will be stuffed.
The supply chain is tenuous to say the least. Each day during planting, 2 B doubles of seed are needed, plus another 3 B doubles of some sort of furtaliser (we use blood and bone from the abituar). Have a breakdown and it all stops.
Be thankful there are people who invest their time and resources in such ventures.
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Post by tactile on Jul 15, 2023 15:56:23 GMT 10
Be thankful there are people who invest their time and resources in such ventures.
I am thankful, as I am that people want to go into healthcare, police, law, defence and numerous other areas that I want nothing to do with. Specialisation is what makes our system work and am gobsmacked when people actively want to see what has been built to collapse.
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Post by frostbite on Jul 15, 2023 17:14:21 GMT 10
Nothing really collapses completely. It changes. Usually that means one corrupt politician is replaced by another. Sort of like Rome being run by a corrupt goth than a corrupt emperor. Those that didn’t prepare suffer worse than those that did. Sort of like what is happening right now in Australia. One UN lapdog replaced by a different UN lapdog, the collapse of our living standard and infrastructure continues on regardless. Those that didn’t makes themselves immune from high interest rates, food/power/water shortages suffer more than those that did.
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Post by malewithatail on Jul 16, 2023 8:21:43 GMT 10
"Those that didn’t makes themselves immune from high interest rates, food/power/water shortages suffer more than those that did. "
That definitely was a driving force to pay off the mortgage all those years ago, and move to a sustainable lifestyle that enables us to live comfortably within our means.
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