Thankfully it was a sedan so somewhat less scary. It's usually the big boys that make question my transportation choice.

In the middle of 2 streets crossing? I thought you are not supposed to pass people there, especially both are going straight.

Yeah i wasn't in the left turn lane, i was going straight. I guess just not fast enough...

I would love to see the diagrams without including the farm subsidies and/or Medicare.

Overall very generic not much of a substance article.

That's not what I said. I asked you if you or the place you work at would hire criminals?

Would you hire people with criminal record? Would your job,if u have one, hire people with criminal record?

Funny that you asked. I just got 30 fixed. My parents told me me that in 2013 they got ARM at 3%. Thankfully they were able to payoff the house before it. Out of curiosity i looked up the difference between 3% and 6% on my mortgage. It's over $1000. Whether you are comfortable with huge rise in monthly payment, it's up to you. Obviously after some years you would have paid of some of the loan so the jump wouldn't be as drastic. What was much more interesting is searching ARM on r/personalfinance. 2-3 year ago, we got lots of comments how the rates will never go up.

I don't know what the common wisdom is. I know that if i were to go with ARM, I would run some more math. Personally, i don't believe when people say "you can always refinance". I was told that by many. What i do wonder is what can I refinance to? When will i look to refinance? Will i look to refinance when rates are going up? Will i look to refinance when the market is in a "gully"?

From my experience, Pike it's extremely busy. I think all the way to 84 junction. If we were to add stop in between Springfield and Boston, maybe some congestion would go away. Like i said not an expert, and like it was mentioned before, Boston itself has enough of problems.

I don't have the numbers and i am definitely not an expert. I do wonder if the line would reduce traffic coming from Western Mass which could help reduce traffic within Boston itself. Plus it could open western MA as housing market. I am not disagreeing with you, just seeing positives of that connection.

Semi-serious, him living in Springfield would probably propel the Springfield Boston line into existence. Or at least my dreams and hopes of if.

He is in the process of moving. Sounds like he has trouble finding a house. Good luck to you. Hopefully that won't discourage you from fixing MBTA.

Not surprised at all. Each house gets at least 10 offers, gets sold within a week. Forget about any contingencies. I was at an open house with a line of people. If you are 5 min early to open house, you gotta look for parking. If you think you got money, there is someone else with more money. It's just sad.

I think you a barking up the wrong tree here. You could try to force out the workshop or you could use the noise to get lower rent or break ur lease early. If not, your option is to move out. It is not your property so you are fighting against landlord and workshop owner.

Yeah MA has a lot of small lots. Privacy is hard to have, even with your own backyard. That being said, my parents have giant plot of land. It's kinda sad how it just sits there without any usage. I never understood it. They just mow the lawn and never use it.

I m in process of buying 2000sq ft house on 7700 sq ft land which is about .177 acres. It's a single family home with a backyard. I don't know what i would do with more land.

My wife went to jury recently. The court is backed up. There is very high chance you will be selected on jury.

They probably would if the state told them they cannot rent the property due to health code violation and if they currently have a tenant they have to pay for at least equal accomodations and tenant isn't obligated to pay rent for the time when the property is not up to code.

Why state has to take over and fix it? Why can't the landlord be forced to fix it? Are health codes not a thing?

I have a video of 2 cars with ice sheets flying off of them on the pike. So if an old lady can do it with a damn blender, what stops you?

My parents build their house in like 2014 in CT and my brother did in 2019 in CT as well, so not exactly MA. I am shopping for a house right now. For them they lived there for a while and had zero major maintenance issues. Their roofs,and utilities are brand new, their heating and cooling is ridiculously efficient. I am comparing it to shopping for used house, where often you find bunch of things that need to be replaced. Also, all the layout and cosmetics changes are up to their standards. My parents have extended raise ranch and it's great. My brother has some colonial with multiple walk-in bathroom and bunch of cool build in gadgets. One issue that my parents had was a tiny leak in the roof which was promptly fixed by contractor who build their house. Since then zero issues.

On the other side, their starting price was whatever the contractor wanted which is already higher than used homes. With their additions and changes, the price went up even more.

From my personal perspective, it is worth it but not as your first home. I am looking to buy my first home. I am learning about homes and i will learn about maintenance. I am also going to learn about my actual needs.

One thing of note, be super involved in the process. If you don't check on the building status the contractor can screw you over. You can find your own contractors but they would need to adhere to the schedule.

Well it's under 1000sq ft dump. That's basically apartment. Someone could buy it to build a bigger home. You can get much better apartment in that size.

Not familiar with that town but in Framingham any house that's doable disappear within few days. The only houses that stay on the market are total craps not worth the money.

>Geico is really good and definitely saved me more than 15% in 15 mins

I hate that you pointed it out because I always felt like it was a gimmick. So freaking true.

Also fun fact, u can get quotes for houses when you are shopping for one. Helps with some estimates.

Introducing more bike lanes would be a great opportunity to fix a lot of the speedways you get around CT.