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To add on here . . .My guess is that the largest difference between perceived pollution per passenger and actual pollution per passenger by vehicle company is Subaru.
So I did have my first motel inspection for appraisal yesterday, well two actual. Hotels are one of the things I want to specialize in, I'm rethinking that now.... lol.
Got two, same owner right next to each other, same style so the second report is a powder puff. Everything from the first will work in the second and final value will differ just by a square footage factor.
We were told by the bank that they want it valued as land, kind of strange but not an uncommon request if the structure is dilapidated and old and is more valuable as land. One the website though the one I pulled up looks great and is in a prime area, very close to W.W.U.
So I set up the inspection, first red flag, the guy basically just answers everything with a vague yes. I called again two days later when we got the second motel job in to reaffirm and this time make him answer so I know he understands what I'm saying.
Flash forward to yesterday. We drive the 120 miles to Bellingham and pull in to a place that vaguely looks like what the website had pictured. Some one hired a great photographer with photoshop skills.
Walk in to the office with no lights on. Ring the bell.... stand around for 5 minutes. There is a large window off to the side with the blinds that are slightly pulled. I know from the blue prints this is the residence unit for the owner. After five minutes I bang on that to see some movement on the couch of the dimly lit room. 60 seconds later the very large owner appears finally looking like he just woke up. We tell him who we are, blank face.
I tell him we spoke on the phone, blank face.
He tries to read my business card upside down for about 45 seconds. Finally a light comes on and he realizes who we are but then asks what we are doing there.
I remind him we are there to do an inspection and he asks why.
After a little back and forth he finally understands despite understanding on the phone that an appraisal needs a property inspection. He says ok go do it. We ask him how are we supposed to get in the rooms and he looks puzzled again.
I leave my boss to deal.with him to go start an exterior inspection and take photos.
I start snapping some of the worn out exterior and see a sign for "landromat" I follow it to find two rusted out washer/dryer combos sitting behind a building, in the open elements with neither plugged in.
There are some busted looking vehicles in the parking lot but at least it's a "clean" parking lot, clean compared to the 2nd one but more on that later. Super sketchy people hanging around. The building itself has tons of paint flaking off looks like the original facade from 1967 with most likely the original paint. A manager finally shows.up and shows us their two best rooms, the deluxe jacuzzi tubs. The rooms are pretty plain but generally clean walls with stained carpets and reeked of smoke despite being a non smoking facility. We really need to see a sample of rooms but knowing that the bank just really wants land value we decide not to ask for fear of finding someone that just over dosed or something.
We take some more pics and then head to the second motel where we have been told the manager for that one will meet us. Well we stand in a office... if you can call it that, for about 10 minutes and I go to take pics again, while my boss waits. A "tennant" (it seems a lot of people that stay there are there with prostitutes, doing drugs, or are long term "tennants") comes in and asks if we are the health inspectors he called.. LMAO
I go.to take pics.of the pool and jacuzzi room that ate listed on the county records. Now I'll only post these two pics because they arent going in the report as I got better pics the second time around. The pool had been filled in with dirt and now had an impressive collection of weeds.
The hot tub was empty and filled with broken sinks and a toilet.
The manager showed up and we told her to show us two random rooms as she also was trying to take us to their two best rooms.
The rooms were disgusting, very plan, lots of stains everywhere and showers that looked like they had been shipped from Chernobyl.
On the stairs on the way up.there was someone's underwear sitting there. There was a bunch of spilled icecream in the hall starting to curdle. There were quite a few busted cars in the parking lot and lots of people mean mugging me and skittering out of camera range when I was snapping pics. Two half filled and open gallon milk containers. Some used motor oil in a bucket. Beer bottles and other trash all littered the parking lot. A very young looking scared girl.walked passed me and didnt talk when I said hi and didnt want to maintain any eye contact. She diddapeared in to a room.with her own key but I can only imagine she was a very young prostitute with the way she was dressed and her demeanor.
The "breakfast buffet" area was filled with old stained mattresses and chairs.
We snapped our pics and left. At lunch our waiter told us all the locals know what those two places are and are used for.
My boss told me when talking
he told him he only had 500k into them and bought them when he moved from India. Je bought them 12-2008 at the height of the financial collapse.
I'm just guessing now the appraisal will come in around 2 million for both combined. Not a bad turn around and his revenue stream is also pretty good. Typical slum lord.
So that was my introduction to appraising motels.
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Got two, same owner right next to each other, same style so the second report is a powder puff. Everything from the first will work in the second and final value will differ just by a square footage factor.
We were told by the bank that they want it valued as land, kind of strange but not an uncommon request if the structure is dilapidated and old and is more valuable as land. One the website though the one I pulled up looks great and is in a prime area, very close to W.W.U.
So I set up the inspection, first red flag, the guy basically just answers everything with a vague yes. I called again two days later when we got the second motel job in to reaffirm and this time make him answer so I know he understands what I'm saying.
Flash forward to yesterday. We drive the 120 miles to Bellingham and pull in to a place that vaguely looks like what the website had pictured. Some one hired a great photographer with photoshop skills.
Walk in to the office with no lights on. Ring the bell.... stand around for 5 minutes. There is a large window off to the side with the blinds that are slightly pulled. I know from the blue prints this is the residence unit for the owner. After five minutes I bang on that to see some movement on the couch of the dimly lit room. 60 seconds later the very large owner appears finally looking like he just woke up. We tell him who we are, blank face.
I tell him we spoke on the phone, blank face.
He tries to read my business card upside down for about 45 seconds. Finally a light comes on and he realizes who we are but then asks what we are doing there.
I remind him we are there to do an inspection and he asks why.
After a little back and forth he finally understands despite understanding on the phone that an appraisal needs a property inspection. He says ok go do it. We ask him how are we supposed to get in the rooms and he looks puzzled again.
I leave my boss to deal.with him to go start an exterior inspection and take photos.
I start snapping some of the worn out exterior and see a sign for "landromat" I follow it to find two rusted out washer/dryer combos sitting behind a building, in the open elements with neither plugged in.
There are some busted looking vehicles in the parking lot but at least it's a "clean" parking lot, clean compared to the 2nd one but more on that later. Super sketchy people hanging around. The building itself has tons of paint flaking off looks like the original facade from 1967 with most likely the original paint. A manager finally shows.up and shows us their two best rooms, the deluxe jacuzzi tubs. The rooms are pretty plain but generally clean walls with stained carpets and reeked of smoke despite being a non smoking facility. We really need to see a sample of rooms but knowing that the bank just really wants land value we decide not to ask for fear of finding someone that just over dosed or something.
We take some more pics and then head to the second motel where we have been told the manager for that one will meet us. Well we stand in a office... if you can call it that, for about 10 minutes and I go to take pics again, while my boss waits. A "tennant" (it seems a lot of people that stay there are there with prostitutes, doing drugs, or are long term "tennants") comes in and asks if we are the health inspectors he called.. LMAO
I go.to take pics.of the pool and jacuzzi room that ate listed on the county records. Now I'll only post these two pics because they arent going in the report as I got better pics the second time around. The pool had been filled in with dirt and now had an impressive collection of weeds.
The hot tub was empty and filled with broken sinks and a toilet.
The manager showed up and we told her to show us two random rooms as she also was trying to take us to their two best rooms.
The rooms were disgusting, very plan, lots of stains everywhere and showers that looked like they had been shipped from Chernobyl.
On the stairs on the way up.there was someone's underwear sitting there. There was a bunch of spilled icecream in the hall starting to curdle. There were quite a few busted cars in the parking lot and lots of people mean mugging me and skittering out of camera range when I was snapping pics. Two half filled and open gallon milk containers. Some used motor oil in a bucket. Beer bottles and other trash all littered the parking lot. A very young looking scared girl.walked passed me and didnt talk when I said hi and didnt want to maintain any eye contact. She diddapeared in to a room.with her own key but I can only imagine she was a very young prostitute with the way she was dressed and her demeanor.
The "breakfast buffet" area was filled with old stained mattresses and chairs.
We snapped our pics and left. At lunch our waiter told us all the locals know what those two places are and are used for.
My boss told me when talking
he told him he only had 500k into them and bought them when he moved from India. Je bought them 12-2008 at the height of the financial collapse.
I'm just guessing now the appraisal will come in around 2 million for both combined. Not a bad turn around and his revenue stream is also pretty good. Typical slum lord.
So that was my introduction to appraising motels.
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I'll fix that post later on my PC.... my phone doesnt like my thimbs
Wait wait wait. What kind of weed in the pool? Bidding....
For national hot dog day I will present to you the Local Dog:
Not this one:
But this one:
Ate it with a Burial Metallic Vessels Black Lager with Coffee
Not this one:
But this one:
- Arnold's Potato Bun (found at Food Lion in Pittsboro)
- American Cheese (given to me by the efforts of our President of America & Greensboro via Apex Costco)
- Hebrew National All Beef Hotdog from Costco in Apex through the efforts of my Jewish neighbors in Pittsboro
- These three things from Pittsboro, Winston-Salem and Sanford (best chili in the world . .in a can):
Ate it with a Burial Metallic Vessels Black Lager with Coffee
Very cool. The action shots seem like they are flying and the tires do not look aired down. I do think they would sell all they could build because of LEXUS peeps.
New mid engined corvette.... 0-60 under 3 seconds and under 60k...... nice!!
Saw it was a possibility, but don't know anything about it, yet. Looks NICE. (edit: like an older Ferrari and Lambo had a baby)
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That thing is insane. Game changer.
That 0-60 under 3 is for the base 500ish rwd model.
The Zr1 in a few years is rumored to be awd and 1000 hp.
No manual transmission?
No manual transmission?
Unfortunately so
They announced that about a year ago though so no real surprise there. They did say in an interview it doesnt mean the end completely for the manual in a vette so there is hope the ZR1 or Z06 may get one.
But that's the way of the industry these days.... the list of manual cars sadly shrinks every year.
