They still turn out houses in Texas for $100 sq ft new. But I guess that's not one at a time.

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I wonder if a lot of the issue in VT is there are so few people who CAN do this work. I'm currently living in Arkansas, and the house I currently live in is 1,232sqft and I paid 132k. We also have lots of different contractors and companies and individual people and small businesses that are able to do this kind of work. So I wonder if it's simply a matter of high demand and short supply of the skills and equipments needed to build homes--therefore contractors can charge whatever they want because people are insane enough to pay for their "dream home." VT has so many people with college degrees, but how many with trades certifications and training? Curious.

Super cool!! They do pass through on rare occasions, nice sighting

Hahahaha

Sorry, nope.

Stop pretending you’re as intelligent as a cow. You’re a human being, act like one

Building is much worse now unless you can do most of it yourself.

I own a parcel. It would be cheaper to buy an existing house and have it moved than to build new. Absolutely bonkers

What’s pathetic is chastising children online because they felt uncomfortable from bigotry

I know what you mean, also where I went to school sounds like just a few years before you. There was a period in the late 90’s/early 00’s where the favorite was to call anything you didn’t like “Jewish.”

Can confirm, racist things get said out in that area and the teachers never used to do shit, granted I'm speaking from a decade ago, but even then I think the casual racism was pretty out of place in the modern world (in VT) even then and the admins certainly didn't do anything to stop it.

If it's the parents though what exactly do you want the school to do besides kick the individuals out of the games? Honest question, public schools only have so much power when the parents spout racist bullshit at home

Because of the location (within 200 feet of a lake), and because the leach field had failed, we needed a special mound system. You were lucky you didn’t have to redo the leach field.

That’s bananas. The hippies were Boomers. Just nonsense. Just stop it.

I'm building right now. I'm doing most of it myself and the answer is still LOL NOPE

If you don’t have a prepped site expect to pay at least a million for stick built. You can maybe get the price down if you go modular but not a ton.

I do almost all the work on my houses myself, so for me, a 50% increase in the cost of materials means almost a 50% increase in all expenses after property taxes, realtor's fees and closing costs. If you want to buy a house with a quality remodel job I'll be selling one in a few months, or I'm sure Texas will welcome you back.

I'm seeing pricing starting around $500 a square foot for projects that my office does from Montpelier down to Newport NH and up to Franconia. We serve a pretty large area with our home designs. We do everything from reworking plans found online to full custom homes, or bathroom remodeling. Every builder I know is busy, and it doesn't appear to be slowing down.

A friend is having a tiny home built on a 38'x10' and it's quoted at $200k+ without having water, septic, electric and site work done.

I got a random call by a realtor asking if I wanted to sell my house and it rubbed me the wrong way. Not sure "cold calling" is the best approach

We had our septic replaced this past fall for just over 6k. How did yours cost 45k? Our job was only replacing the tank but just wondering what would have crept your cost up so much?

If you want to pay someone to do it for you, very expensive. If you want to do most of it yourself, not as expensive.

Also just want to throw my two cents in, you pay a roofing company 100s of dollars an hour while the guys doing the actual work with the knowledge are making nothing and most of these companies give no benefits at all.

Contracting and construction are just another industry where the guys on the top are living on the lake and the people with the know-how and work ethic are living in RVs in the winter

Not to mention not allowing the immigration of folks who might possess the relevant skills to replace the waning workforce.

Could I have your contact info? We are looking to build in Lowell.

I had a miserable time here when they first started doing their hotpot out.

Server was some goon wearing a gold chain and a jersey. He messed up my drink order not once but twice times (each time more bewilderingly bringing out the SAME white wine and charging me for the the red I ordered) proceeded to refuse to sell a bottle of wine to our table while my party was stone cold sober.

Hot pot was alright, definitely not the best I’ve ever had but for the cost of it $32 for beef I expected a lot more.

>Burrows made it clear the choice was student-driven due to an issue that he said has cropped up too many times in Vermont in recent years, not just at Enosburg

So, the players wanted this outcome. As for the insufficient measures, you're right that it doesn't specify, but reading between the lines I'd guess that Enosburg asked Middlebury to come do their homework for them and Middlebury quite rightly declined.

No you wouldn't. They're too expensive.