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Digital Caveman:
--- Quote from: BowEd on May 25, 2021, 08:52:03 pm ---It's not only lumber that's sky rocketing in price.
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What else are you referring to, labor, furs, gas, or everything?
BowEd:
Gas and food too.Not generally everything,but that could happen too.We'll see.It might be different demographically in some parts of the country.I'm just speaking locally here.Parts suppliers have shortages for business owners and independent businessmen like farmers.
Fur has taken a hit long ago and never fully recovered.
Eric Krewson:
I saw that the lumber price gouging had raised the construction cost of an average house up 36K.
My son's house in Austin has jumped from the $550K purchase price to over 900K in the last year because of the deep pocket refugees from California and the lumber price.
I don't buy much lumber but my bee trap material (doug fir 4X4X8) from HD jumped from $12 to $20 in the last year.
JEB:
YUP, 2 by 4 here in Michigan is $10.00. I stopped by a garbage bin in front of a guys house the other day and tossed a bunch of scrap wood in my truck. I lost my pride in 67 while in the Marines, lol
Digital Caveman:
Don't shoot, but I thought is wasn't so much gouging as excessive demand and short supply, I wonder if the suppliers have really increased their margin much, I understand a lot of the mills shut down for a while.
Remember the food and TP shortage a year ago? When a lot of the meat processing plants where down a lot of livestock was thrown out last year.
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