HOA Nightmare - 11-29-2023
Episode Summary:
"HOA Nightmare" by Clif High, dated November 29, 2023, is a candid narration of the author's personal experiences and thoughts on various subjects. High discusses his struggles with finding suitable housing due to his preference for a single-story house and his aversion to stairs due to a past injury. He describes the challenging real estate market, sharing an anecdote about a house that took eight months to sell at a significantly reduced price due to financing issues.
High's narrative then shifts to his background in the satellite business, where he installed large satellite dishes in the 1970s. He describes the technical aspects and challenges of this work, including tuning in satellites and managing uplink stations. His stories reflect his unconventional lifestyle, which is incompatible with Homeowners Associations (HOAs) and community restrictions.
The discussion moves to his current living situation, where he decides to build on his existing property due to the lack of suitable land for sale. High plans to manage the construction himself, emphasizing his desire for independence and self-sufficiency. He shares his approach to design and construction, opting to forgo permits and inspections, a choice he acknowledges may complicate future sales but suits his immediate needs and preferences.
High also delves into his interests in cryptocurrencies, predicting a bullish future for Bitcoin. He links his crypto insights to broader geopolitical events, suggesting that political turmoil will impact the markets. High speculates on the international adoption of cryptocurrencies, foreseeing countries like Argentina and some in Africa abandoning central banks in favor of digital currencies.
The narrative further explores conspiracy theories and fringe topics, including theories about UFOs, aliens, and global control structures. High predicts increased public interest in "woo" topics (unusual or fringe theories) and anticipates major shifts in mainstream media, with prominent figures leaving and being replaced by less experienced personnel. He foresees these changes leading to more open discussions about previously marginalized topics, including UFOs and exopolitical events.
In conclusion, "HOA Nightmare" is an eclectic mix of personal anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and speculative predictions. High's distinctive perspective offers insights into his life philosophy, interests in technology and cryptocurrencies, and skepticism towards traditional societal structures.
Key Takeaways:
- Clif High shares his personal experiences with property search and housing issues, highlighting difficulties in finding suitable single-story houses.
- He discusses the challenges in the real estate market, including slow sales and financing difficulties.
- High describes his decision to build on his current property due to lack of available land and suitable properties.
- He plans to manage the construction himself, emphasizing a do-it-yourself approach and avoiding HOA or CCR restrictions.
- Clif High reflects on his past work experiences, including satellite installation and technical jobs, which influenced his non-compatibility with HOA environments.
- He expresses a commitment to self-reliance, planning to use free CAD for design and an engineer for validation, but may avoid official permitting processes.
- High discusses his approach to construction, focusing on practicality and necessity over adherence to external regulations.
- The narrative includes observations on the broader economic and geopolitical landscape, including cryptocurrency markets and international affairs.
Predictions:
- High predicts significant shifts in the housing and real estate market, influenced by economic and social changes.
- He forecasts an increase in deaths in 2024 due to vaccinations and expects a rise in discussions around unconventional topics in the media.
- There's an anticipation of major changes in the cryptocurrency market, with political events influencing market movements.
- High foresees geopolitical tensions and economic instability affecting fiat currencies and enhancing the value of cryptocurrencies.
- He expects a shift in global economic dynamics, with some countries possibly adopting cryptocurrency as a primary currency system.
- The narrative suggests upcoming challenges in U.S. economics post-January, driven by geopolitical factors rather than economic conditions.
HOA Nightmare - 11-29-2023
Hello, humans. Hello, humans. It's kind of late. It's on the 28th, no, 29th.
Hidden in to do chores. I have to do a lot more chores now because of the whole relocation thing. So I went out, I stomped around, I looked at places, met some sasquatch, because it's easier to find sasquatch, easier to find bigfoot than it is to find a single level house out here. Right? Single story house.
And I'm an old guy, and I've had a saw go through one of my legs right close to the knee, and so it aggravates me. Right. This was a long let's see, how many years back? Probably like 20 plus years back that that accident occurred anyway. But so it still affects me, and I don't like stairs very much.
It's not that they really annoy me, but I don't need them at my age. So I wanted a single story house. We're not able to find one. It's a pain in the ass. The market is pretty much shot around here.
People are not listing. Those people that are listing are having a hell of a time making sales. There was this house I ran across, it was like 912,000, and they got an offer on it. And then it took like, eight months to get it actually to close, because what happened was the bank would crap out just at the very last bit of it, all right? And so it took them like, six weeks or so for the first bank to say, get up to the point where they were going to close, like, in two weeks.
And the bank said, no, you got to do all this extra shit in order to get financing. And then that deal fell through. It was still the same buyer after all those months. They still did buy it, but it took them a long time to find a bank that would be willing to finance them. And they ended up, I don't know the details of the entire transaction or anything, but the house ended up selling for only 600,000 in debt on it, as opposed to the 900,000.
So was the price reduced or was the loan amount reduced? I don't know how the details worked. I don't know if they paid the guy cash on top of the loan or how it was all managed, but they had four regional or major banks say, yeah, we'll loan to you. And then they start doing all the paperwork and stuff, and the bank says, no, we don't like that so much. And then you better correct this, and it starts getting really wonky.
Right. Anyway, so I've been out looking at property.
I got this great real estate agent guy out of thurston county back near olympia, where I used to live. We've done deals together in the past. He came on out here, which is not inconsiderable. I mean, it takes three to 4 hours out of his day to do know, travel time and shit. We came out here, we looked at some property and it just wasn't suitable.
Now, the problem is where I live with the criteria I've got, there's not a whole lot of land that's for sale or there's not a whole lot of land, period. And then on top of that, there's not a whole lot that's for sale. So anyway, so long story, we went through all of our options, made a big decision tree list thing, went and checked them all and have come back to the can't avoid it kind of a conclusion that I'm going to have to build where I'm at while I'm at it, right? Yeah, sorry about that. Cold as fuck out here.
We've got the little snow symbol on all of our electronic devices saying we're going to get snow later. I don't know that it'll actually snow. It's warming up, but still in the 30s. But there's clouds everywhere, so maybe we will. Anyway, so I looked at all the land and everything and then decided, okay, the point was basically to build to fix the house where we're at so that we could come back to it.
And I just had gotten hung up in getting something else. In the meantime, my problem is I got giant dogs. I got science experiments that are going on all the time, and it's not like I can go to any place that's got basically any kind of HOA or CCRS on it. So when I was a kid in my 20s in Olympia, just to tell you how bad of sort of a neighbor I am, I got into the satellite business, right, the satellite uplink downlink link business. And so I was installing satellites.
This is before they were satellite dishes were common. This is when satellite dishes the small one was the Ranger 20, so it was 20 foot in diameter, made by this company called and had a label on it of Ranger. I used to install these things at pubs and restaurants and that kind of thing, right, for all their CNN connections out in the rural areas, this sort of thing where there were not any options for cable for the business. And it was fun, I enjoyed it. I really like tuning in the satellites, looking up at the night sky and doing it all mathematically to get that dish focused at just the right spot to start picking up the satellites and then work out the transfer trail so these guys could always have CNN.
Even as one satellite faded and another one came into position. It was fucking fun. I mean, I like math at that level, right? It's kind of like navigation on a boat. That's fucking fun.
When you're doing sun sites and star sites and figuring out where you are and all that kind of stuff. And then it works and damn, you are anyway, I wasn't such a good neighbor. I'm living in town, bear in mind, right? Like, literally within the city limits of Olympia. And I needed to do some work on a couple of dishes, so I assembled them in my driveway.
Now, the ones I was working on were not the puny little 20 footers, okay? So I had a 36 foot what was the name of that started with a D. The company I want to say Davidson, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I had a 36 foot dish up there assembled at one point, which is like a huge kind of a thing for sitting in a driveway. People would slow down.
They'd wonder what the fuck? Now, bear in mind, this is in the 70s, okay? There were just not a whole lot of dishes out and about at that time. I'd gotten into this business because I'd gotten a gig where I passed the math test to go and work at at and T. And at and T at that point was recruiting technicians.
And they put you through these series of tests, like sort of the military would, right, to see what your levels of skills were. And I was good with math. I'd had calculus when I was 15. I like math mostly. I can do it in my head.
And and so I passed their test. I can't remember the job I was actually applying for, but the At T recruiter said, we got this new thing coming on, and would you be interested? And a lot of travel, you got to go and do shit. And I thought, well, okay. Then I saw what the gear was, and I said, oh, sure, I'll do that.
And what it was was setting up and running uplink stations, okay? So this was before you could take a video and put it on the net and send it to the cloud over the wires or WiFi or whatever, right? So in order to get a conference call, video conference call, usually these things were paid for by organizations. It'd be like their big convention thing at the end of the year. And then they would have all of the satellite offices, also get a feed from headquarters, and you would have a crowd at your end and a crowd at the other end.
And my job was to maintain that feed that allowed the remote station out here in the wilds of Washington to connect to Washington, DC. Or New York or Philadelphia, any of these places where these companies had headquarters and they were running these things. And so it was sort of know you were the technician that managed the support for their it, and it was like a one off job doing these things. And you'd come on up with a semi truck, okay? So it was a semi it was in two sections.
The actual gun, the part that actually shot the signal up into space, was in the second half of the trailer. In the first part of the trailer was all the supporting gear, your gen sets, all of this kind of stuff. It took all kinds of power. You're never sure you're going to have shore power, mains power, where you were at of quantity of the amperage you needed. So you always took it with you and you'd set it up.
You'd crank up this thing, it literally looked like a cannon. It was about maybe 2ft in diameter and was like when it was all extended, it was like 30ft long and it rose up like a cannon barrel. And so you'd go to like Tacoma Mall. So one of my first gigs was setting up a satellite relay for a dental association, a major dental association, not for the dentist, but for the office, the sales staff and all these kind of people for this basically a healthcare association anyway. And you pull on up with a semi, you set all your cones and stuff out and you crank up your satellite gun.
And then that's the really tricky part because then you got to find the satellites. It's in the middle of the day, you got cloud covers, you don't have much in the way of any kind of a reference point. And so you start blocking off the compass and start triangulating and so on. Then eventually you get your signal and it's basically there are guys I knew that were very poor at mathematics per se, that did this job right, that just had a gut feeling for it. But it helped ever so much if you knew where the satellites were and you could calculate on basically a minute by minute basis where they're likely to be in their orbit and then go ahead and aim at them, so to speak.
It was fun work, right? But getting back to my point, I would have all kinds of crap sitting around my house as I was doing these various kinds of work. And then there was always stuff, I'm just not HOA friendly and HOAs don't like me. And so I couldn't be a renter because just having my stuff there would violate most of these HOA terms and conditions and stuff anyway. So we didn't find any land or any of this stuff.
So we're going to have to build where we're at while we're there. That being the case, I'm going to do 100% my own contracting, I'm going to do my own designs. We contacted an architect to see if we could leverage some of this and get beyond some of the time constraints here by getting professionals involved that do this regularly. And it was like a huge slap in the face. The architect told me it'd be a year and a half before I could get plans out of their company.
They'd be good plans, they'd be certified. We'd have all of the I's dotted and the T's crossed, that sort of thing, and they'd go through the county and so on. But a year and a half. I'm 70 years old, and time is a big deal for me, right? Much more so than money.
I mean, cryptos are going up. We're about ready to hit the next big run once we break 38 80, looking all around. And so I just made the decision to commit to doing it while we're there, run it myself. To be able to work around our particular needs as old people with dogs and me with this basically screwy ass activity I'm getting into all the time and my wife's medical needs anyway. So difficult task.
I only have really two design issues to deal with. I found a guy who can do my engineering for me, and then I'll just start building. I'm not even sure I'm going to permit these things. Getting permits requires basically inspections, inspections on electrical, plumbing, framing, roofing, foundation, all of this sort of thing. And I'm perfectly capable of inspecting all those myself.
And you get permits so the state can certify that it's a quality house in order to get a loan. Okay.
The county will give you a residence permit once you get your structure up to the point where they figure that you can live in it safely. I don't need that. I'll know when it's safe to walk on the floor, that kind of thing, right. I don't need a loan for this activity, and I don't need insurance for it. I don't need to cowtow to anybody's structure that would force me into the permitting process.
And a lot of people out here build unpermitted, so it's an issue when it comes time to sell. But this will be an issue. If I go through this and don't run into anything that forces me into the permitting process, then I will just build unpermitted and it's going to be an issue for whoever has to sell the house after my death, but it's not an issue for me living there. And so that's the approach we're going to take. My design philosophy is do it my way, make it as easy as possible on us guys, and only do the things I want to do, those things that make sense to me.
So we're proceeding on that level, which is going to really impact a lot of these kind of talks. A lot of other activity going to really restrict my ability to do any kind of interviews because if I've got an hour, I've got to get out and work on do what I can, right? So there's all kinds of cleanup I can do while I'm living there, planning and measuring and that kind of thing, and prestaking out these sorts of issues for the crews that will be coming on in. First, I've got to do my design. I'm going to do that in free CAD and use their BIM, their building information management module to be able to plug in all of the elements so that I do have plans that would be able to be submitted to the county and could be certified.
And I'm even going to the trouble of paying for an engineer to go over them, do all the calcs and put their stamp on it and sign it. I am doing everything that would require it being or that you would need if you were going to be permitted because I need the plans, I need to be able to show them to some of the subcontractors and this kind of a deal, right then they need to be there anyway. And the software free CAD is interesting. I know AutoCAD from way back in the day so it's not that big of a deal conceptually to deal with this software. I just have to learn its in and outs as I go through.
So anyway, so that's our approach to the housing issue. Yesterday, for instance, I started cleaning up on the stuff that's in the way of my tree guy coming out and taking some trees down where we're going to site this. Then I did all of my things that I can do in advance by getting the surveyors and getting the soil guy and all these kind of people lined up and so on. There's a few subcontractors I don't have yet, but that I have yet to get to that point where I have a need for them. So things are proceeding along.
We'll see how fast I can do it. Good to do it paying out of pocket costs as I go along and I'll keep track of all of this kind of stuff for later. But in any event, basically going to double the square footage of the house. So I'm sort of like building a smallish 2000 square foot house to attach to the house I'm living in and building a three car garage to put onto that as well. A lot of fucking work but we just don't have any other choice.
I talked to the Sasquatch and they tell me they can't find single story single family houses. So if the Sasquatch can't find it, I never will. Anyway, interesting time we are in now with the splits happening everywhere, right? And so we're starting to see in the alt media more and more of the quote serious alt media start talking woo.
They're using that term. They're talking about all of the strange stuff that's going on and trying to fit it into their worldview since everything is just so fucking weird, so strange now. The overwo was going to happen and the hyper novelty was going to happen regardless of what the without any regard at all to what the evildoers might be doing. So we were going to get an overwoo even if the communists hadn't been trying to upset everything here and destroy the alt media and all of this kind of thing, if they weren't even trying to disrupt the social order. They are though.
So that really contributes to it because they themselves are destroying authority for information. And once we have 100% of authority for information destroyed, then we're into hyper novelty. And we'll have to figure out how we're going to deal with it. We're already in the overwoo. We're into the big ugly.
I suspect that 2023 and 2024 are going to be the two peak years of the die off wave from the Vax. Okay? So we'll see a lot more deaths in 2024 from the Vaccinated individuals. And then it'll sort of slowly fade. This is because fewer and fewer people are getting vaccinated and those that had are dying off.
So once they're dead, they're not a statistic anymore. They won't hit the statistics anymore. And that's really the situation that's going on relative to that. So the Wu stuff is going to really come out as this splits, continues to go on. Now we're getting into people like Kim.com offering $145,000 for the original video of the MH 370 plane that's missing from Malaysia.
What's really interesting about this is who was on board. Okay, so not just the plane that's missing, but there was a specific company there that's doing specific high tech shit, like way high tech, super secret shit. And there were 21 of their engineers on that plane. So some shit's going on. In my opinion.
Somebody wanted to talk to those folk and so they took the plane. It made it disappear. You'll see the videos keep creeping out, creeping out, creeping out, and more and more people talking about it. And at this same period of time, we're going to encounter the militaries of the world. Not just the USA military, but Australia, Britain, Russia, every fucking place.
Less Russia, because they have less people doubting they're more. They live in the Wu a lot deeper than the normies over here.
But anyway, so we're going to have militaries all around the fucking planet that will be insisting that A, UFOs are real and B, there's aliens on the other side of the UFOs. And some of the non USA military will probably also discuss USA reverse engineering these things. And so they'll be in the situation of saying, well, UFOs are real. There's space aliens out there, but those Americans also have UFOs. And so don't be confused.
And here's the difference between a UFO that's run by the Americans, built by the Americans, and one that's built by the space aliens. And so they'll have to get into that level of it because now they've got to overcome 70 years of people marginalizing UFO reports and pushing all that out into the Wu. And so as the Wu comes sloshing back, the military is going to say, well, people, you need to really pay attention. This is serious stuff and you got to watch out. And we all have to watch out.
We need to make plans, blah, blah, blah. And some of the militaries are going to sort of freak out because they won't get cooperation from the civilian part of their government. And then you'll start seeing fights within the governments over the military's action in terms of putting this out that the UFOs are there and getting the populace all whipped up about this shit. Wow. We actually have a little bit of snow on the side of the road.
So our woundess here is going to start as far as the splits happen part here, over December and January, we're going to see like a firming up, a hardening of position relative to those people that are moving over to the Wu and those few hangers on within the mainstream media. And then we'll also see more and more and more of the mainstream media crumbling and walking away, right. For whatever reason that they state, which is of course not going to be the real reason, will have some major personalities just walk away from their jobs as a face for media. And so you'll have a two tier effect here. You'll have all of the Woo guys that will be talking about it, examining the ideas here about these people walking away and so on.
So they will have a certain amount of coverage in their job after they've left that job, but we'll still be examining who they are, what they did, blah, blah, blah. Right? And then we'll also have this other effect where the second tier will come in. And so you'll have your favorite TV personalities be replaced by second tier. Now, this will also happen in like, local news shows, local variety shows, local talk shows.
So it's not just national that's going to go on at all levels. And when the second tier comes in, that's when you're going to see some really interesting stuff because a lot of these guys are less well trained, less well mind controlled, and so they'll be making mistakes and letting shit out and saying things that the mainstream media would not have said had their first team been in place.
So anyway, fascinating. December, January, should be plenty of stuff to talk at your Christmas parties. And by the way, happy no L to everybody. That is indeed a good Christmas greeting. Thankfully, we have no L here stomping around causing problems now, not necessarily going to be the case next year at this time or the year after.
Sometime soon we're going to have to deal with these guys. I don't know how long that process is going to actually take. There was a great show with the remote viewer guys on Beyond Mystic Rumble yesterday and a live stream. It went long. They talked not only about the Moon and the Wu and stuff, but they also got into crypto.
And we're just about so my understanding is that the resistance level for Bitcoin is 37 880. All right, so you'd come up to that, go through it a little bit, then you come down and so on. I expect that it does have the energy to bust through and hold through as we go forward, like, say, maybe by the 15 December or so somewhere in there. Anyway, so we'll start in on the next big bull run within the cryptos. Pretty soon, maybe it won't be December, but we're still looking at something that's going to be fairly close to where we are temporarily, right?
So a few months out, that kind of a deal because of this will occur, not because of the things that are going on within the market per se. Not really going to occur because people are trying to do trading or any of that sort of thing. This will occur, in my opinion, because we're going to have a series of political events that are going to prompt this. The political events will involve Israel and Palestine, but they're not going to be driven by that, all right? So we're going to get a less tightly focused political geostrategic bit of chaos here that's going to then affect the markets.
So at the time that we see countries with major fiat, the euro, the dollar, et cetera having real problems in their own internal economy, we're also going to see rising strength in the crypto market and other countries that will do in El Salvador and decide they're going to go crypto, that they're going to abandon and kill off their federal bank and just live with it. Right? And this is the best thing any country can do is to the elimination of the central bank so that you're not under the control of the Khazarian mafia and the giant Jewish octopus that runs the whole world. So we'll see. Maybe Argentina will do it.
I am expecting some African countries to do it as well, so that we'll see some countries in Africa that say, no, we're done with that shit. As a consequence of this, we're going to have this weirdness where US physical dollars, $100 bills, all of the counterfeits even, but all of these US physical dollars outside of the country are going to actually gain relative value within the countries they're being used in. It won't, in my opinion. It's not going to affect the overall notional value of the dollar. So the dollar per se is not going to rise because that's really set on all of the digital stuff.
But what's actually happening is that it is the recognizable and emotionally comforting US dollar in a physical form that is going to have value. A lot of the drug dealers use them, that kind of thing. And so if your local drug dealer is willing to take dollars, you're going to have some faith in that currency where they wouldn't take maybe the local poseta, that sort of thing. Right. Anyway, the economics of it all are going to impact all of us as we go forward, in my opinion.
We won't have the major continental America dollar debacle dollar breakdown. We won't have that until after mid January. There's just conditions that are going to keep intruding on that and then we'll see some big effects after January, probably after mid January, maybe even into February. It's just going to be kind of spotty as to when this occurs because again, it's not going to be an economic thing that's going to be driving this next visible downturn, right? It's going to be geopolitical and pretty soon we'll be also able to talk about exogeopolitical right, politics on other orbs in our solar system that are going to be impacting us.
Okay guys, I'll make another one of these as I head back out.
I've got to do all kinds of runs into town to pick up material and start talking to people as suppliers, mills, that kind of thing. Fortunately for me, I live in an area where we got a lot of wood and so I can go to Mills and I can arrange to buy all the wood for my house, for the house extension here as a lump is a lot and just do it that way. Save money as well as get a higher quality. Anyway guys, talk to you later. As I say, I'll do another one of these later.