November Tidbits

Well its winter. The road are icy, and its bone chilling cold.

Development Tidbits. I just want to say about HouseInMontana.com aka Eureka Building and Design. I have had some emails on my post about this company and I just want to say that I am not trying to hurt this company in any way.

I believe that you have a right to know of the construction history of a house. If you buy a home and you have no idea that it was exposed to rain, sleet and snow than you may not understand specific problems that can occur in the future.

I believe in consumer protection in real estate and in your rights of true and correct disclosures. I am not for or against any particular local builder. However, I can see one of the HouseInMontana.com homes from where I live, I know when the building was started and I can see that the house is STILL not closed in.

One wonders how the moisture will affect beams, floors, glues in the pre-siding material and future MOLD spores. As long as the company dries everything correctly, tests moisture content in the beams, removes any wood that rots with the late summer – fall – and spring rains than all should be well.

I recommend a Mold inspection on new construction – it is not just for “Old Homes”. New construction can have just as many, if not more mold issues than older homes, or the homes in town that have city sewer problems leading to Mold in town houses.
In conclusion on Eureka Building and Design, I wish them well BUT not at your expense, as a Real Estate Buyer. Folks, a home inspection may not be enough, get an engineered inspection on a home before you buy, TRUST your intuition, and ask around about any particular home.

You may be shocked at the accuracy of a small town rumor mill.

Eureka Real Estate is still seeing lots of new construction, even with the pending real estate recession nationwide. The Canadian dollar being worth as much as it now is, is the Leading reason that real estate here is still doing well. However, I feel there are too many developments, too many small lots, and too many New Homes that do not seem to be selling. I think Eureka has the illusion of growth, but that it is outside money that is building, hoping for a future economy that may not come. We cannot even get really good produce or buy certain necessities and the jobs are scarce. One mill is already gone, the owner, now a “real estate mogul” built his empire on the backs of locals – block grants – and land trades and the mill still open Plum Creek is a Multi-State Real Estate Empire and who knows how long the Fortine mill will stay open.
This of course is my opinion, as a local, a native, an internet researcher and a real estate Broker Owner licensed in MT, Idaho, and Oregon.

It is not meant to be gloom and doom, I just think that ALL this subdivisions should not be approved and that more should be done for the REAL people with REAL lives instead of always focusing on the Tax dollar of the developers to keep us afloat. In this digital age when teenagers are multi-millionaires online, I think that creating Better jobs for the local community is easier than giving tax breaks to big companies begging them to move their business to Lincoln County Montana so we can break our back and ruin our lungs to create BIG profit for them.

And than find out years later that THEY killed our family and took our lives away such as W.R. Grace and the Asbestos issues in Libby. I spoke with a man in his early 30’s a couple of weeks ago in Libby, his bones are bleeding and he is not expected to live long due to Asbestos related problems. I was a bit shocked, I guess I naively thought that it only affected older folks that USE to work at the plant, but it is a far greater problem than that. My point, Do Something that Really is good for the REAL residents of Lincoln County, not tourism, not strip mining and low paying jobs. The people in position to make these things happen are not looking at it from a MODERN digital age approach and they are not listening to people who do come from this point of view. Such as the supposed, Port of Authority committee that was to create jobs, The only job they created was their own.

Ok I will Shut Up now…. Have a Great Montana Day.