I wholeheartedly agree short-term rentals can be an issue, but it's a very nuanced subject. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say more affordable housing isn't the answer, though. Affordable housing is one of very few topics that politicians on both sides of the aisle generally agree is a good thing, and historically has proven to help house families in need.

Those "affordable housing condos" I assume you mean apartments, but I'm still perplexed by this statement. Affordable housing complexes are required to have a certain set-aside of units remain affordable (opposed to market rate), typically for 15 or 30 years, and often at the end of that period they're "redeveloped" and spun into the same thing again, or sold to non-profits to operate in perpetuity.

Can you tell me the names of any affordable housing projects that have been/are being converted into short term rentals? It's just something I've never witnessed or heard of.

“Those icicles have been known to kill people!”

I know where to push it.

I have a few choice names for them when they come plow snow into the end of my driveway just as I Finish clearing it.

I nominate “you plow nothing John snow”

You can't emit visible smoke for more than 5 seconds at a time but it's up to the cops to enforce. There isn't an emissions check at state inspection time aside from the Cumberland County OBD check on vehicles under a certain weight, and that the exhaust system is complete and not leaking.

Sure, low interest rates are great, but don't you want to own your home?

And starting a comment by calling someone small brained is small brained. 😊🤷

Enjoy your own personal finance. One of the things I've learned from not following everything Dave Ramsey says is that it's not my job to tell everyone how to spend their money.

The ultra anti debt takes I think are small brained. Cheap debt that can yield returns is amazing.

For example, I love my mortgage with 3% interest.

They pay well with good benefits don't they? Last ad I saw was 26$+ an hour

No it is not in Northern Republic of Massachusetts, it is in Maine.

It’s hundreds of miles long in Maine. And I’ve driven most of it. So I can assume it somewhere in Southern Maine, which I pretty much a wood like the plague. But I’m always willing to venture out for good food.

Just drive Rt 1, you will see it.

What town? I’ve never heard of it

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Sometimes, we go overboard. Al Frankin, comes to mind.

I don't do auto pay so there are no payments I don't explicitly authorize, and the biller can't automatically withdraw unless you specifically set it up that way.

I haven't had to contest a charge yet but my impression is that the bank would handle it just like any other cancelled check or fraudulent credit card activity, which they have been very responsive about in the past.

You can call/go into your post office and talk to the clerk/supervisor there to get a clearer picture on why it hasn't shown up. Chances are they're in close contact with your carrier and can ask what the deal is.

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The answer isn’t more affordable housing. The answer is to limit short-term rentals, aka AirBnB’s before there’s nothing left for anyone to affordably rent. Yes, even those affordable housing condos are getting converted to AirBnB’s. Everything is being converted to short-term rentals. It blows my mind how folks aren’t seeing the forest for the trees on this issue.

I've got a foot of insulation in the attic and a ridge vent and still get huge icicles on the chimney side of the house...thinking of insulating the chimney inside the attic.

Abandoned trains and tramway by Eagle Lake.

That SKY! 🤩

Not all heroes wear capes.

Governor Baxter’s Animal Graveyard on Mackworth Island in Falmouth. It’s haunting but simultaneously endearing. Dude loved his dogs.

OP better get to work lol