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00:00Hello, everyone. Welcome to another video exclusive for November. I don't know what video exclusive special number this is. I didn't look it up ahead. I'll need to look it up.
00:19I don't know. I don't think I've done any video exclusives because I've had laptop problems, but knock on empty head, right? Knock on wood. Hopefully, prayerfully, they're fixed now, although earlier today, Zoom collapsed on me.
00:43So I was like, oh, boy, hopefully, Zoom will cooperate now for this November 2025 video exclusive. And anyway, shut up. Let's get going, right?
00:54Housing bubble. I'm trying still to get a guest to come on the show to discuss the inevitable in my mind. I'm looking for a real estate or a finance insider to come on.
01:14The eventual next collapse of the housing bubble. Similar to 2008, but not the same. We don't have the exact same conditions and situations, but there are a lot of similar conditions and situations.
01:31There will be another housing bubble bursts, and there will be a bunch of people who are underwater in what the house was worth versus what it's really worth.
01:44Right? You have a $200,000 supposedly home and a $180,000 mortgage still left on the home, and the bubble bursts, and it resets to an actual more realistic value of $125,000.
02:07Well, let's just say $120,000, just to make the math easier, right?
02:13Now with $120,000, what it's been worth really all along, because it was overvalued at $200,000 maybe when you bought it, and you still owe $180,000.
02:25That's a difference of $60,000. A lot of those people underwater in value versus mortgage will walk away like they did in 2008,
02:36causing the whole additional stuff, causing the Lehman collapse, bankruptcy, whatever.
02:43Oops. That's the sunlight glaring in through the door, reflecting on my green screen there.
02:50I said, is there a problem with my green screen? No, it's the sun coming in.
02:55Anyway. At any rate, housing bubble, housing costs, housing crisis, whatever you want to call it.
03:06It's explained. Okay. Trump now announces he's working to help assure the creation of a 50-year mortgage.
03:17Well, not really helpful, but hey, it's what can be done without necessary legislation through Congress,
03:31and supposedly some Democrats are out-caving and will reopen the government, but the vote hasn't happened yet.
03:40So the Democrats resisting and blocking us from helping American citizens continues or will continue even if the government reopens.
03:53They will filibuster bills that help Americans.
03:56They only want to help non-citizens.
03:59The whole shutdown argument, $1.5 trillion more to send hundreds of billions overseas to help foreigners,
04:09not money for Americans.
04:12Another largest chunk of the $1.5 trillion they were demanding, despite losing the election,
04:19for more handouts to cover health care for non-citizens.
04:25So we see the difference in who they're fighting for versus who we're fighting for.
04:32But housing costs, housing issues for American citizens is the problem here,
04:42and what the left keeps blocking will continue to keep blocking,
04:48even when the government opens back up.
04:51So, item one, well, 50-year mortgage, right?
04:56I would never, no one I know would ever get a 50-year mortgage.
05:02A 15 is great, it's the most ideal, obviously,
05:07but most people have to get into a 20, 25, more traditionally, 30-year mortgage, right?
05:16You need more time to pay in order to have a lower bill.
05:20But, of course, the interest you're spending over the course you're accruing and racking up
05:27and ultimately paying for over the course of 30 years versus 15 years is significant,
05:34and a 50-year mortgage?
05:37Oh, my God, the amount of interest you will rack up a crew and have to pay over that time?
05:45Absolutely absurd.
05:48But I'm for choice.
05:49I'm for options.
05:51I'm for realism.
05:53What can realistically be done?
05:55And, hey, this is something Trump can do without a need of an act from Congress
06:04to work with banks and lenders to create options, choice.
06:10If you choose, if you want to, if you're willing to sign on the bottom line for a 50-year mortgage,
06:19because that's the only way it gets you into a house, then you should have that choice, that option.
06:32The left, of course, oh, no, no, that won't, no, it won't solve the problem.
06:37It's not meant to.
06:38It's a banding.
06:40It's an option.
06:42You should have that option.
06:43The left, of course, while clamoring about choice, choice to the left is only used as a dodge for murdering babies.
06:53They oppose school choice.
06:56They oppose choice in and of everything, and you having the option.
07:03Obamacare locking you into government-run.
07:07We want more private sector options and choices.
07:13More choice, more competition that helps bring costs of things down.
07:19Left, less choice.
07:21Government control of everything.
07:24Government run of everything.
07:26Runs up the cost of everything they control.
07:30So, no, 50-year mortgage isn't a solution for most people.
07:36It will indebt them more in the long run.
07:41It can be more hazardous to them, but it's an option.
07:46Just like the interest, flexible interest rates, the supposed predatory lending before the 2008 housing bubble.
07:58No one held a gun to the heads of these people and made them sign the loan.
08:04They chose to sign the loan, hoping the rate wouldn't adjust up very much, or if it adjusted up five years later, their wages will have gone up enough so they could cover the new nut, or note, as they say now.
08:25The loan cost, the loan cost, the loan amount to have to pay to put principal and interest payments down, right?
08:36No one forced a gun to their head for this predatory lending.
08:40No one made them sign it.
08:43No one.
08:44They chose to do it, and then they weren't prepared when the rate fluxed up, as we all knew it would, even they knew it would, and when they were underwater, they decided, let's stick everybody in.
09:02Let's stick all the other bank customers, let's stick all the other credit unit customers, let's stick all the taxpayers for the government bailout that would be coming to the financial institutions.
09:15Let's just stick them all and walk away and force the entity that held the loan to foreclose on the house because they were underwater, thinking, ah, well, we'll just go rent somewhere.
09:29Some of that's coming again.
09:34Some of that is coming again.
09:36So, no, 50-year mortgage, not a solution, band-aid, and an option because we're about options and choice while we then work for actual policy prescriptions that will address the real problem and fix the real problem.
09:58And I've lined out a few, like, like, deporting more illegals.
10:03That's right.
10:04You've got no business coming here.
10:07You don't have a right to come here.
10:09It is a privilege.
10:10We get to decide who we allow in.
10:13If you broke in, and as Jesus says in the Bible, those who do not use the door are a thief.
10:21They're a thief.
10:23They're a fraud.
10:24So, spare me.
10:26You're a fake Christian.
10:27Oh, I'm all for it.
10:29There should be no borders.
10:30No one is illegal.
10:32Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
10:34Jesus says you're wrong.
10:37Read your actual Bible.
10:39So, deport more illegals.
10:42There is less of a demand, then, for houses both rented or purchased.
10:50It opens up houses that frees up market, that reduces demand, that lowers prices.
10:59One arrow in the quiver.
11:01That alone doesn't solve it either.
11:04So, next.
11:06Checking my list here.
11:09Oh, what, what, what, yes.
11:10Supply, shore, issue, blah, blah, blah.
11:13For citizens, rent or buy.
11:16That eases the issue.
11:19Will help bring down rents.
11:21Bring down housing costs overall.
11:23Yeah.
11:23Because your landlord is buying properties at big numbers.
11:27They have to charge big numbers in rent to pay off the property they bought.
11:33And to cover the taxes the left keep wanting to raise on the property.
11:39They've got to cover those costs.
11:41And the maintenance costs and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
11:44All right.
11:44So, renter or buyer, deporting more illegals will be one solution of the overall puzzle picture.
11:57Two, interest rates.
12:00Gotta keep pressuring.
12:02We should have already had more interest rate cuts.
12:06We must pressure.
12:07We must get.
12:08Jerome Powell, once he's up, I think he's up in May.
12:12Go on.
12:13Buy.
12:13Out of here.
12:14Get GTFO, right?
12:18Trying to still be G or PG 13 here.
12:23GTFO, Powell.
12:24Bye-bye.
12:25Don't let the door hit you on the hind side on your way out.
12:28Replace him.
12:29Get another half percent, you know, percent cut.
12:36And interest rates.
12:38People who have higher interest rate mortgages can then,
12:44refi, get their payments down, give them more disposable income for other things.
12:51Another part of the solution, right?
12:55Item two, just part of the whole overall picture.
13:00Number three, reduce regulations.
13:02How about, I wrote it down, reduced housing cost zones.
13:10Parts, certain areas of the country, like we did enterprise zones, right?
13:17Federal and state taxes are waived.
13:21If the company builds in the enterprise zone to employ more people, we give them a tax.
13:27Oh, let's do the same thing with housing builder contractors.
13:34Reduce housing cost zones.
13:37Put one...
13:38Detroit.
13:38I talk all the time.
13:40Downtown is great.
13:42It's beautiful.
13:42It's wonderful.
13:43If you're upper middle class or a millionaire or a billionaire to be able to afford the expensive apartments, condos, or whatever options in downtown Detroit.
13:58It's expensive.
14:00Great place if you can afford it.
14:03Most of Detroit, however, yes, they've ripped down a bunch of the vacant properties.
14:11That's good.
14:12But vacant, empty land doesn't solve any problem either.
14:16It doesn't help any.
14:17We need to set up, reduce housing cost zones in old Detroit neighborhoods that have been cleared out.
14:25A contractor could come in and build 10, 20, 30, 50 houses all there together in a new minor subdivision in Detroit city limits at reduced rates, reduce some taxes.
14:44Yes, of course.
14:45Absolutely.
14:46Positively.
14:47But also, just like with cars, tinyurl.com slash jldarticles, right?
14:57tinyurl.com slash jldarticles.
15:03My Beforged News page, Joseph M. Leonard, J. Leonard, Detroit, there.
15:09You'll have to scroll down quite a bit, but cars, automotive regulations must be reformed now.
15:18GM and Ford, maybe not Chrysler because Chrysler is not really an American automotive company anymore.
15:26But how about GM and Ford be given exemptions and allowance, a carve out in the laws from the regulations?
15:39Please go to beforeitsnews.com.
15:41Again, tinyurl.com slash jldarticles.
15:45Have to scroll down ways, but it's there.
15:47All right?
15:49GM, you get to make a million cars Ford.
15:52You get to make a million cars a year exempt from the following.
16:00Airbags.
16:02A major cost.
16:04Federal dictatorial.
16:06The left calls us Nazis.
16:08They're the ones created all these federal government dictates, edicts, regulations, enforcements, impositions upon you and me.
16:22If I want a car and I'm willing to be fully disclosed, that's the other.
16:30I'm against government regulations that impose things except for full disclosure requirements.
16:39Regulations that demand you disclose what's in that vehicle.
16:45Oh, I'm all for.
16:46But yes, okay, here's one of the million vehicles exempted from airbag.
16:53There's an airbag in the steering wheel.
16:58But all those side impact ones, gone.
17:01Passenger one, gone.
17:04Use your seatbelts.
17:05If I want, I should have choice.
17:10I should have options.
17:12If I want to buy a car with less airbags, as long as it's disclosed and I'm willing to sign on the bottom line, I accept the personal responsibility.
17:23I know what I'm buying.
17:25It's what I want to buy because it's less expensive.
17:28Right?
17:29Less airbags.
17:32Crank windows.
17:34Manual door locks.
17:36How about some cars potentially with no air conditioning, cost less.
17:43How about some more stick shift vehicles, less expensive, less expensive options, choice.
17:53You can go to the dealership.
17:55I want one of those million exemption cars so I could pay $10,000 less than the average cost of all these cars you're making with all the federal leftist dictates in them that drove up the cost.
18:16I want that option.
18:18I want that choice for me and for you.
18:22No one is holding a gun to anyone's head, forcing them to buy those vehicles, but it should be an option to be able to buy those vehicles for less.
18:35The same, bringing it back to housing with houses.
18:40All right?
18:40I'm not a builder.
18:42So, I'm just kind of spitballing concepts.
18:48Vague concepts.
18:49Those of you in the industry can hash it out and know what I'm talking about and provide the details.
18:57All right?
18:58A frame.
19:00Frames through the whole house.
19:02Right?
19:03Regulation requires a two by four every six inches.
19:07Again, I'm just spitball.
19:10I don't know that's the regulation.
19:12I don't know that's the code.
19:14I don't know that's the requirement.
19:17What I'm saying is suspend the usual regulation and the code and allow a builder to say, okay, we're going to make walls where the two by four infrastructure are nine inches of power rather than six.
19:35But still very solid, still very sturdy, still absolutely great, reduces the cost of the overall building, therefore the overall cost of the house.
19:52Other things, right?
19:55Less electrical outlets.
19:57Well, our modern society, everything's, we got electrical everything, but all right, less electrical outlets.
20:06How about something simple and stupid like this?
20:11No painting.
20:12You get the drywall interior, and even how about the exterior if it's standard?
20:20You know, it'd be great if there were siding or fake brick or whatever, but how about a standard wooden exterior and you paint it yourself?
20:33Same with the inside.
20:34We save the cost on the painting.
20:40You buy the primer.
20:42Put it on.
20:43You buy the paint.
20:44Put it on.
20:46Now, some might think, oh, wait a minute.
20:49If it costs $1,000 to have the interior all done and painted in a neutral color, which you're likely to repaint and change the colors anyway from the stale, plain, blah, white, or whatever, beige that's in there.
21:08You're going to paint anyway.
21:10So why pay for painting that you're just going to cover up?
21:16Eliminate that.
21:17Let the homeowner.
21:18Now, let's just, again, spitball.
21:20Let's just say that adds $1,000 to the cost of, yeah, overall cost of $150,000 home might seem minimal, but you're not thinking through the whole math.
21:36So we don't paint it.
21:38That house may only cost $1,000 less because they're not just paying the painters and paying for the supplies.
21:47There's a markup.
21:48So you're saving that.
21:50So let's say it would have cost $1,200, but you get it paid.
21:59You're going to spend $1,000 anyway.
22:01Well, let's say you're going to spend the whole $1,200.
22:05I'm not saving anything.
22:07No, you are.
22:08You are.
22:08Bear with me.
22:10Right?
22:10But if it would have been $1,200 with markup and you're going to spend $1,000 to do it yourself, you choose whether you buy cheap or expensive brushes.
22:19You choose if you buy cheap or expensive Primark.
22:23You choose cheap or expensive paint.
22:26Right?
22:27I used to work for Kmart.
22:29Right?
22:30Martha Stewart Kmart store brand or the pick your brand.
22:36Right?
22:36Fancy paint painting brand that would cost twice as much.
22:43You decide how much you're going to pay for those sorts of things.
22:48But for sake of argument, let's argue $1,000 on the cost of the house deducted.
22:55You're going to spend $1,000 over the next few months doing it yourself.
23:00That's it, right?
23:01You're saving on the labor.
23:02But $1,000 on the $1,000.
23:06But that $1,000 that you would have 15, 30, or 50-year mortgage on, that $1,000 becomes $1,500, $2,000, $3,000, $5,000 over the course of the loan as it compounds interest.
23:30You're saving all that interest.
23:32So let's say you're going to spend $1,000 and you don't have the cash.
23:36You put it on a credit card.
23:38All right?
23:39You're going to pay interest for a lot shorter period of time.
23:43Right?
23:44If you charge the $1,000 on a credit card and pay $100 a month on your credit card, pay it off in $11, $12, $13 months.
23:55Your $1,000 costs you $1,000, $1,200, $1,300.
24:01That's still better, paid off in a shorter period of time than 15, 30, 50 years.
24:10That $1,000 is actually $2,000, $3,000, $5,000 over time.
24:16You're saving money.
24:19See, houses are cheaper.
24:22These are simple fixes, simple solutions.
24:27And no one is forcing you to buy one of those houses and paint it yourself.
24:33You can choose to do that if it's a better option and more affordable for you.
24:40See, this is simple stuff.
24:42The left can't use common sense.
24:46They don't know simple.
24:48They don't know anything but more government, more government-related regulations.
24:55Subsidy.
24:56No.
24:58Subsidies.
24:59No subsidies either.
25:01But how about this?
25:04Full disclosure, right?
25:05Again, as long as you are fully disclosed, that's what's done.
25:10That's nine inches rather than six inches between the two-by-fours in your walls.
25:16As long as you've been disclosed that, you have the option to buy or not.
25:21No one holding a gun to your head.
25:23Regulate subsidies.
25:26What about the water, the electric, and the gas suppliers?
25:30All right.
25:31Well, let's work a deal with them.
25:35No, no, no.
25:36No, not subsidizing them, not stealing from other taxpayers to give to the water company
25:43to charge you less.
25:44No.
25:45Work with them.
25:46Oh, government fees, waived.
25:49Government taxes, waived.
25:51Their costs less.
25:53They can sell you drops of water cheaper, kilowatt hours of electric cheaper, cubic inches,
26:01cubic feet of gas cheaper, costs passed, savings passed on to you.
26:08You get a break.
26:09If your water bill, electric bill, and gas bill are all 10% less, guess what?
26:16That doesn't help you on the cost of the house, but it helps your budget.
26:23You've now got more dollars.
26:25You're spending less on water, electric, and gas.
26:29You can then get a higher mortgage payment amount and be able to afford to cover it.
26:38I'm just so fed up with moronic thinking.
26:46Government creates the problems, and government thinks it can solve the problems by throwing
26:51subsidy monies at it.
26:53That doesn't help, as Reagan said.
26:56Government doesn't solve problems.
26:58It subsidizes them.
26:59And we all pay because it's our money.
27:03They're stealing to subsidize other people their stuff.
27:09No.
27:10Let's cut the costs.
27:12Let's make more choice.
27:14Let's open up more competition.
27:16That brings costs down.
27:18This is simple stuff to understand.
27:23If you think, rather than, oh, my snowflake feelings.
27:29I'm so offended.
27:31I'm upset.
27:32The government has to do everything.
27:34The government must do more, not less.
27:37The government must give more handouts.
27:39It's not, father, my feelings, my feelings, my communism.
27:45Steal from Steve to give to Eve and pretend you've done something.
27:51No, you haven't done anything.
27:53Jesus never, Jesus said to take care of the poor.
27:56We are to want to take care of our brothers and sisters, widows and orphans, through charity,
28:04our own free will, voluntarily, our own blood and treasure, helping, having government.
28:14Jesus never said, let the Romans create laws to steal, to give to another, and you get to pretend you've done something.
28:23No, that's not how it works.
28:25Jesus never said it.
28:28How about you actually read your Bible?
28:30The difference between biblical community, free will, voluntary, charity versus worldly communism, force, theft, redistribution, right?
28:43Everything at the barrel of a gun.
28:45You've got no choice in the matter.
28:49Big difference.
28:50So I'm checking my notes here.
28:52So, yes, we need reduced housing cost zones, and that will not eliminate, no such thing as perfect here, no absolute fix.
29:06But all these things I've outlined will help alleviate the problem, help reduce the strain on the system,
29:15help American citizens, not foreign invaders.
29:23I saw somebody on Fox say how anti-tax, right?
29:27I'm anti-tax.
29:29I oppose tariffs most times.
29:31But again, what do you want?
29:32Trump to declare war on China over economic trade issues?
29:38No.
29:39Tariff is the tool we've got.
29:41I give him grace.
29:42I make an exception to my no taxes rule, no tariffs.
29:48This nation existed wholly on and solely on important export tariffs before the 16th Amendment came along.
29:57We can do that again.
29:59Tariff isn't a dirty word within reason, right?
30:04And that's the tool we have.
30:06Do you want him declaring war on Britain?
30:09Declare war on Canada, declare war on France and Germany.
30:14Let's go to war with everybody due to economic issues.
30:20Since World War II, we allowed others to take advantage of us, and terror of us, we didn't terror of them,
30:28as they needed to rebuild following the destruction of World War II.
30:33It's 80 years later, enough.
30:36No, you no longer get to take advantage of us.
30:40You are on equal footing as us now.
30:44You've long rebuilt.
30:46It's time we stop being taken advantage of.
30:50It's time we create equal playing field.
30:54And tariffs, if you tariff us, we tariff you back, is fair trade.
31:03It's equal trade.
31:05It's right, fair.
31:09I would love free trade, but we need fair trade.
31:15Every nation should protect their steel industries.
31:19It's a national security issue.
31:22Us, England, Spain, France, Germany, everyone should have import tariffs on that,
31:30and aluminum, and tin, and maybe even rubber, although rubber items aren't an issue right now,
31:38but things that are a national security issue,
31:41because we must be able to build our own items for defense of our own nation.
31:48Same with our allies.
31:49So no problem with that.
31:53But general consumer items, no.
31:57Enough of you taking advantage of us.
32:00It made sense we wanted you to build back after World War II,
32:05or 80 years removed.
32:08That doesn't apply anymore.
32:12Right?
32:12It goes back to Reagan.
32:13There's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.
32:19That was supposed to be a temporary situation.
32:25But the left, Ancinos and Rinos, the deep state crowd,
32:30once something's in place, oh no, you can never change it.
32:33You can never undo it.
32:35They're busy making money off the exchanges.
32:38They're busy money laundering off the conditions.
32:42Times change.
32:44Policies have to, at times, change.
32:47And now is time for reduced housing cost zones.
32:52Simple.
32:53Simple solution.
32:55Something that could be put in place tomorrow.
32:59If not tomorrow, how about next year?
33:01Right?
33:01It will take a year, two years, three years.
33:06You just don't throw up houses overnight.
33:10It will take time.
33:12The land to be designated.
33:14The land to be prepared.
33:16The houses to be built.
33:18People arranged real estate agencies to then be able to sell the houses to people who want them.
33:25No one holding a gun to their head.
33:26Your choice to choose to buy at that rate for the nine-inch apart two-by-fours rather than the six-inch apart two-by-fours.
33:37Your choice to paint it yourself or not.
33:42Your choice.
33:43The left is never about choices.
33:45So, time is overdue.
33:49It will take time for houses to get into the system.
33:54Absolutely.
33:55But we must act now to put in place these policies to reduce the regulations and the taxes and create the zones so we can start the process to help alleviate, not eliminate, alleviate the pressure in the system.
34:12Before it's too late, because the bubble's going to burst again.
34:17It could be days.
34:18It could be weeks, months, years.
34:21It could be staved off by a miracle, a decade or two decades, but it's coming.
34:28And this will help alleviate that a little also.
34:33Hopefully, if we do enough of it, we can stave off the collapse, the bubble bursting again, and let housing prices come down reasonable reduction rates rather than collapsing overnight from $200,000 to $120,000 value.
34:56That's when the bubble is bursted and people walk away.
35:01There's a bunch of foreclosures and there's chaos.
35:05We can work to avoid a lot of that.
35:09Anyway, I don't know how long I've rambled on here.
35:14Thank you all.
35:16Take care.
35:16God bless.
35:17Love you all.
35:18I tried to make notes before hitting record.
35:21I know there's something I'm forgetting.
35:24But again, right now, not subsidizing the water, electric, and gas suppliers, but working something so that your costs, their costs are less, so your costs could be less, which frees up more money for you being able to buy these ridiculously overpriced houses.
35:45Help the housing problem.
35:48And at the same time, help the homeless problem.
35:51Because the more renters that they buy, the more space is freed up to have rents come down, and some that are homeless could then afford the rents and not be homeless.
36:06As well as, of course, other zones, right?
36:09Relocate homeless people's homes, where instead of building houses, how about prefabs homes?
36:21They used to be all over the place.
36:23How about trailer parks?
36:24I know people, not everyone that lives in trailer parks are trailer park trash.
36:29I know people who lived in a trailer park for years, right?
36:32I had the episode with, I forget her name, but Trailer Park Angel.
36:37Just recently, during book weeks, she was on Trailer Park Angel.
36:44Not everyone who lives in a trailer park is trash.
36:46How about trailer park zones?
36:48Inexpensive housing.
36:50Inexpensive housing.
36:51Not the most ideal, but hey, you got a kitchen, you got a bathroom, you got a bedroom, you got a living room.
36:58It may be small, but you got your own place.
37:02Inexpensive.
37:03We can move people into that they could afford.
37:06Less homeless people.
37:08These are simple solutions.
37:09The government leftists don't know simple.
37:14They can't kiss in on simple.
37:16They want to extort money from you, launder most of it into their pockets, and then pennies get to other people.
37:25That doesn't solve anything.
37:27This doesn't necessarily solve everything, but it helps a whole heck of a lot.
37:35While the left keeps blocking it.
37:37They don't want to help invaders.
37:41They don't want to help U.S. citizens.
37:44All right.
37:45Yeah, again, rambled again.
37:46Thank you all.
37:47Take care.
37:48God bless.
37:48Love you all.
37:49Sorry, I'm sure I'm forgetting things.
37:52Hey, chime in in the notes.
37:54If you thought of a regulation or a corner that could be cut in a house without destroying overall structural integrity and safety.
38:04I'm not saying, oh, let's sell houses without roofs on them.
38:08Come on.
38:09Come on.
38:10Right.
38:10You put your own roof on.
38:12We're not talking that kind of stupid, but we're talking little things.
38:17What could be cut?
38:19What?
38:19Right.
38:19How about less two-bathroom houses and more one-bathroom houses?
38:27Again, may not be ideal, may not be preferred, but it's a lot less expensive to be able to afford.
38:34How about slightly smaller living rooms?
38:38Slightly.
38:39Right.
38:39We've gone.
38:41The old days, families of 12 used to live in a four- or five-bedroom, two- or three-bath, you know, McMansion, we might call them today, in Weingott, downtown Weingott.
38:57We've got a ton of those old homes, historic labels.
39:00But, right, a family of 12 lived in that house that's not very big.
39:06The bedrooms were all small because they were just meant to sleep in them.
39:11They don't need to be huge, master bed.
39:14Bedrooms.
39:15You know, bedrooms as big as people's living, is my living room.
39:21Right.
39:21This house I'm in was built in 1942.
39:24My grandfather got an exemption in World War II because he worked for the Ford Rouge bomber plant.
39:31Got exemption on the rationing to be able to build this house.
39:3642.
39:38A lot of people's bedrooms are bigger than the living room I'm in right now.
39:42How about we reduce the size?
39:45Make them more affordable.
39:46How about we learn to be reasonable and say, I don't need a 1,500-square-foot living room with cathedral vault ceilings and humongous, you know, almost church-like shaped, fancy-shaped windows.
40:07There's a lot of simple square windows with simple double-pin glass workable windows with screens.
40:18Let's learn to be a little less entitled and expectant on so much overly fancy stuff that's nice, hey, to show off to the neighbors keeping up with the Jonesers.
40:33Look, I'm in a McMahon.
40:34I know.
40:35How about smaller, reasonable, practical homes being built so people can actually afford to live in them?
40:44I promise this time, really, I'm going bye-bye.
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