Remodeling changes the rental value, not the retail value of property or RVs.
]]>Works like that for homes too. If you think you’re going to put in a $50K kitchen with marble counter tops stainless range yada yada and increase the resale value of your home by $50K, you’re deluding yourself. Unless your kitchen was entirely ghetto beforehand, it ain’t happenin’.
]]>In Destin things are controlled by home-owners associations, and they don’t want RVs, boats, or trailers parked on residential property. They ‘prefer’ if you have a regular pick-up that it be hidden in the garage. The streets in the residential areas are too narrow for on-street parking. This was originally a fishing village and until the bridges were built everyone moved by boat. The addition of all of the condos only made the street system more inadequate, because the town codes were extremely ‘loose’ on parking and street requirements.
I avoid the place because the traffic is so screwed up that you can’t get anywhere in less than an hour and it is only 7 miles away by car.
Yeah, if you start with the top of line and start adding marble and real leather seating it won’t take long to add a couple of hundred thousand to the cost while destroying the resale value with your poor taste in style.
People talk about Mitt’s car elevator, but I had a client in that area of La Jolla who had a ceramic tile mosaic in his driveway and parking area.
]]>Yah, parking’s the beach on those things. They’re longer than 20 feet so you can’t park’em on the street here either. The Santa Clara PD appears to be outfitted with canes and blindfolds when they hit the streets, as befits a PD in probably the safest small city in the area where the one and only violent crime last year was when the liquor store got knocked over, which led to the entire PD plus their chopper turning out in an Alices Restaurant overkill fiasco that had me almost laughing at the roadblock, but hey, they got all this cop gear and never get to use it since their usual job is hassling street vendors, issuing speeding tickets, and shuttling homeless people to various agencies when someone complains about someone camping in their doorway, so…. anyhow, even *they* can’t manage to overlook a 40 foot tour bus sized RV parked on the street, heh.
]]>Actually, if you don’t have it in the RV area of the State Beach, there is no legal place to park anything that big in the City of Destin except on commercial property.
I get a feeling that the insurance company will be sending its own investigators to check out this incident.
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