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   From: tedm@toybox.placo.com   
      
   "Paul J. Berg"  wrote in message   
   news:24253-460803B0-1006@storefull-3233.bay.webtv.net...   
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   > Permits turn dream into nightmare   
   > BY CHARLES PORCHIA   
   > For The Register-Guard   
   > Published: Sunday, March 25, 2007   
   >   
   > When it came time to leave the sheriff's department in Nevada, my wife   
   > and I looked in Oregon for a place to retire. The summer of 2001 found   
      
   Lemme got this straight.   
      
   The guy bought a house in the rural area WITHOUT a decent workshop.   
      
   Seems to me he must have been able to use the lack of the workshop as   
   a negotiating point with the seller.  There's very few rural properties out   
   there over 3-4 acres that lack a barn or other space that could be used   
   as a workshop.  What, do you think the farmers just let their tractors sit   
   out in the rain?   
      
   So I think he probably got quite a lot knocked off the selling price.  Quite   
   a lot more than $6,000.  Probably more like $20,000!!!   
      
   So despite the fees, once the structure goes up he's WELL AHEAD in   
   terms of equity in the property.   
      
   And, he wants to use this space as a workshop.  Well I know very few   
   workshops you can have a SLANTED floor in and get anything done.   
   So he would have to raise one corner of the floor - to get it level - no   
   matter what.  And he wants to restore a car in this workshop.  How in   
   blazes is he going to do this without a level concrete floor?  You ever   
   moved a cherry picker with a 600 pound V8 dangling from the arm   
   over a gravel floor?   
      
   This is just one more case of someone rich whining about having to pay   
   some fees.   
      
   Ted   
      
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