STRO License - tier 3 applications

[Krystle Moore]

Has anyone not applied for their Tier 3 license? Just before the holidays, there were still over 2,000 licenses available. I am shocked - based on the number of TOT certificates, I thought for sure that there would be a lottery though not enough people applied and we got all 4 of our licenses. There are still licenses if you are interested - I would hurry before they're gone!

[Dan H.]

Quote from @Bruce Woodruff:

@Dan H. Damn, so sad. I lived there for 40 years and SD was a place of sanity regardless of where the L-R line settled. Too bad. Hope you continue to do well with your investments, my friend....

 Maybe I am just getting old.  

There is an antiwork Reddit group.  They compared LL to sex workers with the LL being thought of as the worse of the two (at least the sex workers work for the money).  I cannot understand their mindset.  They seem to expect free housing.  They do not have any clue as to how expensive it is to build housing and that if it were not for LL there would be no way for them to have housing.  They do not understand that most RE purchases in many/most markets start with negative cash flow.  They do not understand how much effort goes into being a LL.  Basically, they come across as uneducated, entitled, and lazy (which I guess is why they are in a group called antiwork).

The world consistently seems to move left.  Socially and environmentally I consider this a positive. Intrusion into free market is scarry.  Financially, what is going to happen when a large percentage of the population does not desire to work hard?   Can the upper 0.5% cover for everyone?  Maybe top 1%?  Maybe top 2%?  if enough people are underworking, it will take a lot more than the top 2% to allow the non-productive/under productive to live a great life.

Maybe technology can save things, but in the absence of technology, I fear the US falling from highest GDP over the next generation.  I would love tech to allow workers to reduce hours, but the antiwork group does not desire to work at all. Hopefully this group is a small percentage of the population.

I worked tech for years and hope it can overcome the lack of work ethic that seems to be increasing as well as the environmental issues.

We are possibly getting too political for RE forum.

Have a happy new year.