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The state of construction, etc
Times are tough here in SW Florida. A couple of years ago, they couldn’t build the houses fast enough. Now, they simply aren’t building. Home builders are going out of business left and right. There are tons of half built homes just sitting there, and the houses that were built are empty. The company Ben works for (he installs cabinets), where he has worked 50+ hours for the last 7 and a half years, are down to 40 hours, and the rumors are flying…32 hours, or worse.
What I want to know is, are things this bad everywhere? Or is it a Florida trend? Please, let me know how it is in your neck of the woods. Are they building? Is everything slow, or are there places where there is actually still work. Please, take a minute and let me know in the comments.
I think it must just be a Florida thing.
Here in Alabama a house probably goes up every 30 damned seconds! OK, that may be an exaggeration. LOL.
Come to Alabama baby and he’ll be put to work with a quickness.
Construction is crazy around here!! I don’t know where they keep coming up with spaces to build, but they do.
We are having a huge influx of “BRAC” people. Check it out here….http://www.hsvcity.com/
perhaps it is just a florida thing…i dunno. it seems that things are getting built here all the time. new shopping centers, or “town centers” as they like to call them. and houses, too. my dork of a boyfriend is a carpenter and seems to have steady work, when he’s not playing housewife and chauffering me to work! =)
Hi Tammy,
I don’t know the details on construction around here, but in a place where
people are leaving to go south en masse, it sure seems like there’s an awful lot
of building going on. New homes, stores, etc. Someone has $ for all that
new stuff!
Upstate NY in general is hurting, with manufacturing jobs at an incredible low.
(Companies gone south or to Mexico — or they’re tanking (Kodak) )
Again, I don’t have the data, but there’s plenty of construction going on, somehow!
I imagine insurance rates are making it cost-prohibitive for some to build/re-build in areas struck by hurricanes, is that so?
How strange; Does that mean the houses are very cheap to buy now?
Nothing but foreclosures here in N.J.