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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (59855)	8/13/2006 8:47:34 PM
From: ChrisJP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I get the distinct feeling you aren't a "people" person. LOL !! Chris

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (59855)	8/13/2006 10:21:30 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I suspect the gulf between what large builders pay and what the average Joe pays at a Home Depot or Lowes becomes increasingly wider during a RE bubble? The public really gets snookered.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (59855)	8/14/2006 12:47:33 AM
From: Don Earl	Respond to of 306849

Welcome to my ignore list. I have way better things to do than communicate with the clueless on SI. Bye now.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (59855)	8/15/2006 2:44:11 AM
From: Bill/WA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Elroy, >>You may be paying 67% to 250% more for building material than major builders do.<< You are correct. Buzz DiVosta in Florida is a good example. I was very good friends with two Georgia Pacific branch managers in S. FL(built both of their homes & did work for GP). GP's policy there was to sell only to retail. No problem for BD. He would just fence in an area at his developments, have a hyster & operator there and call it DiVosta North, South, etc. and the GP trucks would deliver to that yard at wholesale prices (and sometimes at better prices than some of the retail yards because of his volume). Windows, sliding glass doors would be delivered directly to the site. Also setting up his own mobile concrete plant. A very smart (and nice) man. No way an independent could compete with his products.