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[–]iraelmossadreddit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]gof-urself2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

cool

[–]Aureus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is really neat.

[–]apustaja 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The sea level is rising by what, 3mm per year? So in 100 years, that’s 1 foot. Just build your house on a foundation 300mm higher than you would have. Your house will now last 100 years. And dirt is cheaper than a floating fucking house. Ain’t y’all ever been on a boat? Shits expensive.

Problem solved.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

But consider this... you don't pay property tax on a floating house. You only pay marina fees. And if you own the lake it is in, like land with a small lake on it, then you only pay land taxes for unimproved land (because the houseboat is not an improvement to the land).

So theoretically if you bought land with a lake on it, and then put a houseboat on that, then you could maybe pay $100 in property taxes total a year. And insurance is cheaper because houseboats do not flood. Thanks for coming to my alternate Ted talk about saving money on taxes and insurance

[–]apustaja 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But that has jack shit to do with “rising sea levels”. And nobody would have clicked on an article about how to save money by living on a houseboat, that’s not news. Rising sea levels is a bogeyman that the MSM can harness like dam water through a turbine.

Thanks for coming to my meta-Ted-talk

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Haha fair enough

[–]RykkuRukashi 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah flood insurance might not be an issue, but insurance for floating home? the premiums still would be insane. the insurance adjustor will be like "your home is worth how much? and its floating? yeah, your rate just went up"

I have a home with insurance. If you don't live in a floodplain, you don't need flood insurance. But if your sewer backs up and floods your basement, that's not a "flood" anyways, to be covered by flood insurance. i don't pay for flood insurance and I still pay $2k a year in insurance.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What? No. Insurance for a houseboat is much less than insurance for a house.