“Truss” me on this, you’re going to like this one. It’s the story of how an invention meant to make roofs more hurricane proof transformed the building industry and has given us those strangely configured giant homes we call “McMansions” today. Be sure to read the comments for this one to get some opinion on the downside of this form of home construction. Watch
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Why do 99 percent of youtube videos contain irrelevant bullshit until halfway through them? Because people making these videos like to hear themselves talk.
The FED gave us McMansions by providing money to lend that NOBODY had saved.
“The FED gave us McMansions by providing money to lend that NOBODY had saved.”
I paid cash for mine. You do live in a cave don’t you? You type the most ridiculous shit.
@Brad — Not BS. I paid cash for my home, too, but that didn’t blind me to the size of the mortgage industry. Where do you think all that loan money came from? It wasn’t from anyone’s savings. It was created from other people’s debt.
Truss plates have been around for over 30 years. And “kick” plates for protecting wire, and water, and sewage, and gray water.
Millennials think the world didn’t exist before they were born.
And yet most of older cats have worked on houses from the late 1600’s, on up.
Of course we don’t know everything, but we know truss plates did not make the world spin in the cosmos.
Uncle Al
So what banking institution or mortgage lender do you have on your deed of trust? In Cali I don’t have any. I guess another good reason not to move to Florida. Come on man!
Banking institution or mortgage lender?
None.
As I wrote, I paid cash. I own my house and land outright.
“Where do you think all that loan money came from? It wasn’t from anyone’s savings. It was created from other people’s debt.”
The same with any lending institution. Car Loans, credit cards, you name it. What’s the deal? If you don’t like it, don’t participate. They make money by charging you interest on the money they lend you, That’s how it works.
Brad, I’m afraid you do not know how fiat money, central banking, and govt treasuries operate. I’ll be glad to point you in the right direction…if you’ll pardon my presumption. But it will have to wait till tomorrow.
Thanks Al. I’m not the dumb shit everyone here assumes I am. Back to my original point, I paid cash and had no interaction with a mortgage establishment. Apparently you did. No? Then I’m wondering what your point is. However historically I have had interest baring loans through banking institutions. Can’t say I was ever treated unfairly as long as I adhered to the contract. IDK.
Truss plates are cheaper than using plywood and nails, but if plywood scraps and nails are what I have laying around then that’s what I’ll use.
Bad_Brad – If you don’t understand the role fiat money, The Federal Reserve, and artificially inflated asset prices since 1913 have played in creating the housing, etc. market we now have, including the role they have played in artificially raising the price of various homes, stocks, etc you have owned, then this space isn’t big enough to correct your ignorance.
And by the way,, in an honest system of banking, there is ZERO money to lend if nobody has done any saving. http://www.mises.org maybe can help.
How we survived before battery operated tools is beyond me.
Some people just like to argue. Doesn’t matter what.
GoB – Tools back in time works this way:
*Before battery tools, used compressed air tools
*Before compressed air, human muscle power, hand tools and brains
*Before the human brain/muscle power hand tools, younger kids with more muscle than brains and someone telling what needs to be done. All of the above paid in some way, cash or sweat equity.
*Before that, the king (or despot du jour) ordered you to do the job with no regard to the price paid in comfort or lives (yours of course).