Let’s get into our nerdy feelings. Don’t look now, but residential real estate may be returning to some sort of normalization after years of nothing we have ever seen before. Since October we have been starting to see homes take longer to sell. In Platte County 55% of homes were still sold in less than 30 days, but 17% took between 30-60 days and another 17% took over 60 days.
That’s probably a good thing. Selling houses like candy bars likely has repercussions.
Nearly 20% of homes in Platte County during that time period sold for cash. You got some neighbors carrying some big wallets; loan them your wheelbarrow next time.
The Platte County area continues to be a leader in the Northland for big ticket sales with Weatherby Lake registering six sales over $1 million bucks. Platte County overall has had 36 sales of over $1 million in the last 12 months and they had 40 in the year prior, so that market has maintained itself well. Both 12-month periods had three sales over $2 million, which seems like a lot of money for a place to catch a wink and a shower.
I did not attempt to attend Daddy Trump’s inauguration and luckily, I did not as the tickets became “commemorative” tokens of the event that was essentially closed to the public. I would have had to break into the Capitol and that seems to be frowned upon these days, or at least under the prior administration. The good news is that my tickets are set to arrive by US Mail, which means they should get here by late summer or so, depending on how the horses make it through the Appalachian Mountains.
Anyway, they’ll be framed, and I will claim to have attended it when this becomes a distant memory.
Not going to lie. The postal service is dumpster fire at this point. I went days without mail last week as did many people, including people with PO boxes. I’ve lived in many places over the years and never seen weather impact mail service like this most recent spell. I’ve seen lots of reasons behind the recent failures and maybe they are legit. Legislators love jumping on postal issues and that further complicates the issue, but maybe solutions are on the way, though I’m a bit skeptical.
If only they had more electric vehicles. That would probably fix everything.
Thankfully, Project 2025 starts this week! Just joking, I said that to trigger liberals. I don’t even know what Project 2025 is, but it sounds kinda sexy smooth, in a government program way. Better than Build Back Better, but I never could say my “b’s” very well.
Anyway, Trump is back, this should all go smoothly.
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” is an unofficial motto of the US Postal Service. Might need to hire a marketing agent to revise that bad boy. Maybe, “Snow, sleet and government bureaucracy might slow us to a crawl. Depends on the day and our mood,” or something similar. Surely someone smarter than me can reconstitute it to meet the current conditions.
(Guy Speckman can be reached waiting patiently for his mail to make its way from DC)
