Saturday night.
The last run was an Oklahoma run that takes a full day and a portion of the morning after that. So, finished that this morning. Ran around getting stuff done and came home, only going out to get some wings at Wingstop. Busy place - fortunately. I like having that new store in town but it obviously has to have a steady stream of customers to stay viable. So it is good every time I drive by there to see it full of customers waiting on their orders.
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Sunday morning - got distracted last night. I'll be driving all day long today getting down to Brownsville. Sunday is both a great and terrible day for driving. Great because the roads are far less busy and there is no rush hour traffic (think Houston, TX). Terrible because - it's Sunday and traditionally for me, before this particular job, Sundays were a day off to rest, relax, hang out, do anything but working. Or if work, things getting done around the house. Nothing I can do to change that at the moment - besides taking a far lessor paying job, which I just won't do ATM. Besides paying down old debt, I think I have another year to go on that, saving up even more money to buy more property.
But, the next auction I go to, if I don't get something before then, is going to be solely focused on getting some acreage. I have 3 small lots in town now, that's enough. Once the 6 month period is over I'll be finding out what I can do with those properties. But what I need/want now is acreage out in the country, outside of city limits. That's for the RV park. That's for a business, money making opportunity. Not a get rich scheme, just an income that will last into my retirement years. Something that can start small but has enough land to build it up over time. Preferably a property with at least a small pond. Fishing is very popular out here, that is something that could generate even more revenues with people coming to fish a stocked large pond - pay a fee of course.
Other places around here do that. But getting the property has been out of reach so far. There are properties that are too large and just too much money, I'll be in debt - for a long time on any of them. Short term debt fine, but 10, 15 plus years is too much. Trust me, I've been looking. There is only one that really fits the bill for location but the price tag is 88 grand. I'd have to come up with 20% down for a land loan, I don't have that much money atm without taking out a separate loan, a home equity loan or cashing out the 401k. I have close to that, I'm not broke lol, but spending all of that would leave me nothing in my savings account and deplete my checking account as well.
There are also smaller properties with outrageous prices per acre. 10 grand per acre for property out in the middle of nowhere. Oh, and the property on the flood plain? Scammers! Thick, far east accents greeted me on the phone and I was immediately suspicious. I then found out "we are not local but we'll contact a local agent for you". Uhh, no thanks, scammer, I can do that myself. They quit contacting me after that. I am purely and completely suspicious of anything found on the internet until it is proven to be ok. The listing showed it a local realtor but my suspicions started up when I saw an out of state area code texting me.
The search goes on, that's all I can say. Not a rush for the wrong thing. Yup, another search, same results. 2 acres, 50 grand?!! Stuff like that. Small lots going for 20 k per acre, the 88k lot is still available. That's 34 acres right outside of town. It's less than 3 grand per acre so that makes it a good deal, but it's really too much money and tho I'd love to own 34 acres of land - RV lot would take up a small portion of it - I can't see myself dug into 4 or 500 per months payments on it. That eats into any profit, plus property taxes every year. I doubt they're going to bring the price down, at the same time the property has been listed for something like 200 days.
So, I may just have to wait until March for the next lien auction and see if they have anything worth buying that will fit the bill.
As for everything else? Uhh, house in phoenix doing well for now. They let the power go down to unacceptable amount of money on the card reader for electricity, so I dumped $100 on it. Just comes out of the money I get every month for rent payments. Mark is having a hard time finding the odd jobs that locals were giving him before the pandemic started. Now, people are unemployed, broke, holding onto whatever money they have type of thing. I'm going to help that situation out when necessary. They have enough now to last around 25 days - it's winter time the electric use is way down.
The household here? Same old thing. The 5 year old turned 6 2 days ago. The 3 year old is - a handful times 100. Hissy fits, conniptions, meltdowns, etc when he doesn't get his way. Just shake my had at that boy and all the trouble he gets into because he refuses to listen.
Cleaning project out back got a start but then I ran out of time and I wasn't going to do anything yesterday with my limited free time. Next full day off I get I'll pick it back up.
And then - there's politics. Banning Trump, censoring him permanently from Twitter. Censoring Parler by removing it from the app stores. The media and politicians complicit in a campaign to silence Trump and apparently attempt to get us all to somehow forget his tenure in office. Telling us he incited a riot and guilty of sedition, telling us if Pence won't enact the 25th amendment against him, they are going to impeach him again. Telling us that Trump shouldn't have the nuclear codes for he has become a world threat.
These people have lost their ever-loving minds. I summarily reject all of these narratives, their agenda is to silence Trump and his supporters. Ain't gonna happen. Lots of people deleting their Twitter accounts and getting off of Facebook. I'm going to delete my Twitter account to join the crowd - I rarely ever use it. Facebook not so fast. There's got to be a viable alternative. But this open and out and out censorship? Unbelievable. And the left is going to try to tell me that Communism isn't their end game?
Good thing God is over all of this and is still in control. Peace is found through him and the knowledge of that fact.
G'day.
