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Old 08-21-2007, 09:22 AM   #34
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Default Sometimes it's Home...

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Originally Posted by Lucky2Bhere
"...If that waterfront cottage your grandfather built for 20K isn't worth a 600K tax base than sell it and pocket the money..."
Some have decades of protecting the shoreline, wholesale removal of poison ivy, nurturing the woods, and warmly consider it "Home". (Especially when it is warm ).

I have many running board-feet of lumber that I've personally installed, and a decent forest of marketable white pine trees that I planted.

(Planted before the movie "Silent Running", with crazy-guy actor Bruce Dern. Hmmm...crazy-guy...oops!...).

Anyway, when one has "sweat-equity" in one's home, selling to pocket the money isn't an easy option—even as the McMansions encroach.
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