Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Yak Motley" channel.

  1. When something truly doesn't move most dealers send it to auctions like Copart and it goes back into the food chain elsewhere.
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  2. EVERYONE? You mean the lost, clue-averse and voluntarily helpless who blame their own failures on externalities while they fail to improve their personal competence. Meanwhile those who choose not to be ignorant can easily do fine. It's easy to drive inexpensively but requires (shock, horror!) putting in work to do for yourself instead of paying other ordinary people to do what most anyone can learn. It's easy not to live in expensive areas when you have a lifetime to break free. It's easy (and fun) to continuously learn useful skills instead of wasting time on useless trifles.
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  3. It's way easier than silly dramas make it look. I learned from my (rich because he was so good to customers they brought their relatives) boss how easy just being polite makes most repos. We had customers bring back what they couldn't finish paying for and instead of wanting the balance my boss accepted the vehicle back and told them he'd been through hard times too so not to be shy about coming back when they can try again.
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  4.  @eliot5220  You nailed it. What we do not own we can not control.
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  5. If you fail to own the entire structure you live in and the dirt it sits on you're setting yourself up to be a victim (of others or just circumstance). I refuse to own property not zoned agricultural. Neighbors are worthless and HOAs mean surrendering MY autonomy to others. If you do not own the entire structure you live in and the dirt it sits on you really own almost nothing and all of what you own or not is at other people's mercy. Don't want HOA problems? Don't live there. Don't want to be hammered by high insurance costs? Don't live where insurance costs are high. Don't want the suffering aand financial damage people who follow the herd invite? Don't follow the herd. Don't want to be at the mercy of other condo owners incompetence? Don't live in one.
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  6. Nobody NEEDS a new personal vehicle but their mistakes keep the used market stocked.
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  7. Condos are a terrible financial risk. If you don't own the entire structure you live in and the land it's on you are helpless. Miami problems are easy to solve like I did New York metro problems. I don't live there so no problem.
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  8. The moral of that is not to live there since development ONLY makes life worse. What we do not own completely we can not control.
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  9. Lean on your politicians and push HARD. Most people won't have time for a personal visit to their representative so those who do have greater impact. The hurricane's path is so unusual that there wasn't much prior disaster planning. Recovery efforts deserve SEPARATE LEGISLATION to fund immediate USEFUL aid including immediate civil engineering deployments (National Guard, Federal Army combat engineering units). For example portable steel bridging both civilian and military exists and can even be rented. They last many decades so a temporary bridge can economically replaced then stored for the (inevitable) next time. BTW where are the best air heads for tactical airlift to land? Your prior experience could be useful in giving advice to clueless politicians. The WWII US Army built the Ledo road and erected Bailey bridges all over Europe (some in use today). The military would LOVE to be involved to stir that hornets nest!
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  10. Don't buy one at all. Unless YOU personally own the entire structure you live in and the land it is on you are helpless. As for location, if it's too expensive don't live there. Don't follow the herd.
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  11. Respect to that trucker for PROVING shit ain't moving. There are military bases all along the east coast including the Carolinas and Georgia who can ground deploy civil engineering equipent and even tracked vehicles (M113 can go places nothing else will and they're simpler than a modern pickup truck) to pull trailers and extricate stuck vehicles. It's time to do the civil engineering that should have been done decades ago and smash large capable four lane or larger expedient roads to build out as highways later to properly connect the region with I-95 and other interstates (because the area needs a modern road net to counteract the awful, dangerous geography that chases away prospective employers). Nothing in the eastern US should be difficult to access and strip mining equipment can remove whole mountains if they're an obstacle to road and rail logistics.
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  12. Thousands leaving of millions is a trifle. The title is just clickbait. The only moral here is if you are rich then build a firePROOF home, not traditional US construction which is flammable junk on a good day no matter what it cost. The world is a bad dangerous place but it's worse if you fail to be ready. Some Californians DO build fireproof homes so it's not difficult, just different.
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  13. Stupid Boot Tricks never get old and they refuse to listen to wise financial advice. (The drama First Shirts have to deal with is amazing, and not the good kind.) Selling used cars taught me that retail customers (all kinds) are their own worst enemies but their mistakes maintain the flow of used rides into the market. Not a soul is forced to spend money they don't have to impress bystanders they don't even know yet they do and will never change. If any G.I.s or vets reading this want a serious money effectiveness multiplier take an auto mechanics course at your local community college. Training changes lives.
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