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californiaroadtoad · 2 years ago

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A few months ago, I purchased a bike from the Nexus of Evil, (AKA: WalMart), and I’ve been trying to ride regularly. Since today was one of the first days we’ve had that wasn’t triple digits, it seemed to me this was the best time to head out and ride.

Now, I should point out, I used to be an avid bicyclist, even if the most advanced bike I ever had only had three speeds. (My parents, overly controlling, demanding, abusive, insisted I didn’t need any more than that, even though the evidence showed the exact opposite.) As an Army Brat, I used to ride all around Frankfurt, Germany, enjoying the sights of a city far older than my home country, and tolerating Hessian motorists wagging fingers in my direction at damned near every turn. It was great, I was free, and Life, as I knew it, could be good.

As it happens, I finally moved as close to home as I could manage. My hometown, Wheatland, CA, had some homes for sale, but they were all out of my price range. (I’m sure many of you know Wheatland: Come for the speed trap, stay for Traffic Court.) But, that didn’t stop us, and we settled into a home in Yuba City, my birthplace. This, of course, is the Yuba City that was listed as being “The Worst City in the USA,” based entirely on suspect methodology, but that didn’t stop some East Coast Tool from declaring it, even through no one from that organization had ever been here. (My Grandfather, who at the time owned Dower’s Tavern, decided to make hay while the sun shone, and stuck a sign in front declaring that Dower’s Tavern was “The Best Bar in the Worst City in the USA.” Folks around here were not amused, and I should point out that this sort of thing is funny once. Only once.)

So, we’ve been here for about four years now. Our initial plan of living here for a while, then moving to a home in Wheatland has long since died, partly due to the Trucking industry trying to pay us as little as possible, (yes, I’m a trucker), and partly due to the flippers and their wannabe acolytes driving up the market into the same sort of territory we saw in 2007. At best, I can wait for the foreclosures, and maybe we’ll find something worth spending the money on. It’s a mess, no matter how you look at it, and with an Assembly hell bent on keeping us broke, the State of California is turning feral.

I should have taken my oldest son’s advice, and moved to Idaho, but with Idaho real estate prices where they are, that ship sailed a long time ago.

So, this morning, I rode down Queens as far as I could, looped around, took Onstott Road north, crossed Highway 99, riding through neighborhoods that simply didn’t exist when I was born. By the time I was 20, a few homes existed, and by the time I hit my 40′s, that part of Yuba City had become the ‘Burbs. Farmland was now Suburban Sprawl, and if you wait a few more years, we’ll have our very own McMansions to sneer at.

Anyway, I rode around, and still after four years, I’m still getting acclimated to this being home. My Grandparents were farmers near Wheatland, growing walnuts and peaches, and to tell you the truth, I was proud of that. I can remember the few times we were allowed to be around them, riding with my Grandmother to the various businesses my family dealt with. It was a bit of surprise that many of these were still around, including Sutter Orchard Supply, particularly as the State wants to destroy agriculture any way it can. I’ve been riding around, looking for something I can’t identify, and I wish like hell I could.

That’s life. Or life as I know it.

I spent an ungodly amount of time living in Sacramento. Bicycle riding there was out of the question for the most part: in Yuba City, you’re a rider; in Sacramento County, you’re a target. The pace here is slower, and around here, when you call the cops, they actually respond. You’re treated like a human being as opposed to a statistic. That’s one thing that hasn’t changed in over 60 years, so I’m happy with that.

At the same time, other things have changed. Roughly around the time I was born, my neighborhood was working class, white, and most folks worked at Beale Air Force Base. These days, a lot of these homes are being sold to young professionals. My neighbors are largely Sikh, Muslim, (primarily from places like Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia), Mexican, Hispanic, and others. Like I said, I was an Army Brat. This is nothing new to me, so we’ve settled in when it comes to that part of it. Our only difficulty is the younger folks who live next door, who complain about the smell from our chickens, ducks, and goose. (Yes, in Yuba City, you can keep a few of them. We know this: Code Enforcement came by, shrugged, and said have a nice day.) The older folks next door are cool, and we share eggs with our neighbors when we have an abundance.

Other changes have taken place. A lot of folks work from home now, due to COVID 19, (BTW: Get your ass vaccinated, dammit!) A lot of the businesses I knew about have closed up, or moved, or are doing something else. I have some extremely vague memories of the Marysville Hotel being open, though I’m not sure I trust them. I do remember seeing Mary Poppins at the State Theater in Marysville, though the last movie shown there was Phenomenon, and the only reason I know that is someone left the poster in its case ages ago. (It’s been gone for some time, along with John Travolta’s talent.) Things have changed, though whether it’s for the better or worse, someone else needs to tell us. My gaps in my presence here keep me from saying one way or another.

I’ve talked to relatives who remained for a while before moving on. I’m told that KUBA Radio has its studios along Highway 99. (No, they moved ages ago. They’re now on Sanborn.) I’m told that NuGeneration Lanes is where you can go bowling around here. (They permanently closed years ago.) That sort of thing. I mention to these folks the changes, and I’m told I’m a liar. (I guess they never bothered to check the Internet.) Whether or not I’m disappointed is irrelevant: change comes, whether we want it or not.

It’s a fool’s errand to think things won’t change over time. And for over 60 years? Yeah, that was inevitable.

So, here we are. My wife and I are in the process of making Yuba City our home. It’s coming; it’s slow, but it’s coming.

That said, we’ll make it through. Who knows? We might get the offer of the century, and we get to move to Idaho. Or we might stay here. Either way, we’ll make it work.

(I should point out, though, one thing hasn’t changed at all: Sunsweet is still here, as they have been for over 100 years. Still haven’t done anything about those nasty wrinkles, though.)

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agrokatkut123 · 4 years ago

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samuelmmarcus · 6 years ago

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New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design

Built by Millhaven Homes and with interiors by Remedy 2 Design, this Utah new-construction modern farmhouse features a classic design with plenty of board and batten, shiplap and a white exterior that is sure to impress!

The interiors of this modern farmhouse are equally impressive and huge! This home truly offers plenty of space for the entire family, friends and guests. A White Oak kitchen is, in my opinion, the heart of the home while the backyard is the perfect place to entertain with its pool, large patios and poolhouse.

Take notes on paint colors and other resources shared by the designers.

New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design

This gorgeous modern-farmhouse style home is surrounded by mountains and 15 acres of farmland.

Garage Paint Color

Charcoal Gray Garage Doors: Downpipe by Farrow & Ball.

Garage Barn Light: Rejuvenation

New Classic

What a curb-appeal this home has, huh?! I love the front porch and the black windows.

Exterior Trim

Trim: Arctic White by James Hardie.

Soffit/Fascia: White

Board & Batten

Board & Batten: Arctic White by James Hardie.

Drip Edge Color: White

Similar Modern Adirondack Chairs: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Roof

Shingle Roof: Black Walnut by Landmark.

Windows

Windows: Black windows are Sierra Pacific.

Metal Roof

Metal Roof: Burnished Slate by Landmark.

Front Door Paint Color

Charcoal Gray Front Door Paint Color: Downpipe by Farrow and Ball.

Door was made by Rocky Mountain Windows and Doors.

Planters: Here, Here & Here.

Beautiful Outdoor Sconces: Here.

Doormat: World Market.

Foyer

Interior Doors & Trim Paint Color: Chantilly Lace OC-23 by Benjamin Moore.

Hardwood flooring is 7-in White Oak – similar here & here.

Similar Lighting: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Dining Room

The foyer opens directly to a stunning dining room with crossed beamed ceiling and shiplap.

Sconces

Similar Wall Sconces: Here & Here.

Lighting

Lighting: Hinkley Lighting.

Paint Color

Soft White Paint Color: Farrow and Ball Shaded White at 50% strength.

Get the Look:

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Kitchen

The kitchen is probably my favorite room in this house. Isn’t it perfect? I love the combination of white cabinetry with White Oak – it’s crisp without being cold.

Details

The custom hood features a “X” design. Wood is also White Oak.

Backsplash features a shiplap-like, fire rated, product, called “Boral”.

Knobs: Top Knobs.

Pulls: Top Knobs.

Cabinet Latch: Top Knobs.

Kitchen Island

The White Oak kitchen island mimics the hood, also featuring x sides with shiplap.

Island Dimension: 10’2″x4′

Counterstools: Tolix – similar here.

Countertop

Quartz Countertop: Clareanne Matte by Cambria in matte finish.

Appliance Pulls: Top Knobs.

Similar Farmhouse Sink: Here.

Similar Matte Black Kitchen Faucet: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Kitchen Pendants: Here (affordable!

) Similar: Here, Here.

Edge Profile

From the Builder: “We have taken a 2cm stone and mitered the edge so the finished edge width is 2 1/4″.

Cabinet Paint Color

Cabinet Paint Color: Chantilly Lace Benjamin Moore.

Kitchen Bar Cabinet

Floating Shelves: White Oak

Cabinet Latch: Top Knobs.

Similar Dinnerware: Here.

Kitchen Ceiling

Ceiling features White Oak beams and tongue and groove.

Breakfast Room

This sun-bathed breakfast room is perfect for family life. Notice the long L-shaped window-seat with cubbies.

Dine-in

Similar Dining Table: Here (on sale), Here, Here (modern farmhouse table), Here (many sizes) & Here.

Woven Chairs: Here, Here & Here.

Great Room

The kitchen opens to a large great room.

Fireplace

The rustic mantel and stone fireplace add character to this great room.

I am a Fan

Windmill Ceiling Fan: Quorum

Color Scheme

This space carries a soft color scheme that is soothing, welcoming and quite casual.

Furniture

Furniture was custom designed by Remedy Design.

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Old Barn

Similar Artwork: Here, Here & Here.

Farmhouse Staircase

This farmhouse staircase features cable and crossed x railing. All the wood came from Columbia Millworks in Orem. The hardware (including cables) are from Sunroc in Orem and the stain was custom blend to match the floor.

This hall leads to the master ensuite, gym, music room and home office.

Master Bedroom Entry

Bedroom Shiplap Paint Color: Chantilly Lace by Benjamin Moore.

Similar Wall Art: Here & Here.

Sitting Area

The bedroom sitting area features a fireplace and painted brick accent wall.

Master Bedroom

This gorgeous modern farmhouse bedroom features a niche with board and batten.

Sconces

Sconces can be found here.

Similar Bedding: Here.

Master Bathroom

Isn’t this bathroom beautiful? I am loving the shiplap and the striped Roman shades.

Lighting: Here (on sale!).

Similar Freestanding Tub: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Roman Shades: Here.

Flooring

The bathroom flooring is LVP (Luxury Vinyl Plank). This product offer the look of wood without the worry of water damage and maintenance.

The floor is Mannington, Adura, Dockside series.

Cabinet Hardware

Hardware: Restoration Hardware.

Countertop

Countertop: Cosmopolitan White Caesarstone.

Bathroom Faucet: Moen.

Similar Tile: Here

Shiplap Shower

Shiplap Shower: The builder used Corian sheets and then routed the lines to match shiplap.

Shower Floor Tile: Square mini black mosaic tile with white grout.

Loft

The farmhouse staircase leads to a large loft area/family room with wet bar. All ensuited guest bedrooms are also located on the second level.

Lighting

Lighting can be found here – large.

Notice the grid board and batten paneling.

Family Room

The upstairs family room is cozy and perfect to relax at the end of the day.

Decor

The decor is warm and inviting.

Built-ins

Family room built-in inspiration right here!!!

Floating Shelves

Notice the shiplap detail how it wraps into the open shelving.

Wet Bar

Wet Bar Paint Color: Sea Serpent SW 7615 Sherwin Williams.

Backsplash

This wet bar features chevron tile.

Faucet: Here.

Leather Wrapped Pulls: Atlas Hardware.

Upstairs Laundry Room

The second floor laundry room features pale gray cabinets, cement tile and an inspiring layout.

Cabinet Paint Colors

Sherwin Williams SW7649 Silverplate.

Countertop: Pietra Cardosa.

Laundry Room Sink

Laundry Room Sink: American Standard.

Plaid Patterned Paneling

Originally the bedroom wall was meant to be wallpaper with the same pattern but the designer decided to apply a 3D plaid wainscotting. Isn’t this beautiful?

Simplicity

Paint color is Farrow and Ball Shaded White at 50% strength.

Bed: Paula Deen.

Nightstand

Similar Nightstand: here.

Guest Bathroom

Cabinet Hardware: Atlas Homewares.

Bathroom Faucet: Moen.

Girl’s Bedroom

This guest bedroom features diamond grid Board and Batten accent wall.

Paint Color

“Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace”.

Jack & Jill

Similar Pendant Light: Here & Here.

Cabinet Paint Color

Bathroom Cabinet Paint Color: Chantilly Lace by Benjamin Moore.

Countertop

Bathroom Countertop: Raw concrete.

Bathroom Faucet: Moen.

Cabinet Hardware

Knobs: Atlas

Pulls: Atlas

Countertop is raw concrete.

Salvage Barnwood

This farmhouse bedroom features salvage barnwood shiplap.

Playroom

Neutral Playroom Paint Color: Farrow and Ball Shaded White

The Right Message

Playroom Cabinetry: Chantilly Lace Benjamin Moore.

Hardware

Bamboo Wrapped Pulls: Atlas Hardware.

Indoor Porch Swing

An indoor porch swing? How fun!!!

To the Moon & Back

To the Moon and Back Pillow: Here – similar here.

Bunk Room

Similar Rope Pendant Light: Here

Bunk Beds

Each bunk features its own wall sconce and bookshelves.

Cubbies

Similar Pillows: Buffalo Check & Striped Pillow.

Bathroom

Sea Serpent SW 7615 Sherwin Williams

Countertop: Ondulato Polished – Pental Quartz.

Wall-Mounted Faucet: Moen.

Home Office

Cabinet Pulls: Atlas

Cabinet Knobs: Atlas

Sconces: Here & Here.

Paint Color

Off Black by Farrow & Ball.

Shelves are White Oak.

Laundry Room/Mudroom

The main floor laundry room/mudroom includes a farm sink with splash guard, floor cubbies, storage lockers, study desk and double fridge/freezer.

Locker benches and under sink features White Oak.

Countertop

Countertop: Absolute Black honed Granite.

Faucet: Here.

Farmhouse Sink: Here & Here.

Cabinet Paint Color

Ozark Shadows AC-26 Benjamin Moore.

Desk, Shiplap & Shelves

This custom grey built-in desk is also painted in Benjamin Moore Ozark Shadows and it features white oak floating shelves and shiplap walls.

Similar White Oak Shelves: Rejuvenation.

Hardware is RH.

Lighting: Here.

Poolhouse

This modern farmhouse poolhouse is quite impressive!!!

Basketball Court

From the Builder: “The poolhouse is a completely detached building from the main house and doubles as the pool house. It has a full bathroom and all the mechanical equipment for the pool is stored here too. It has a full fireplace and BBQ built in. This is the ultimate outdoor entertainment area. We have said it before, but no client has ever regretted a recreation space in their project. It is used heavily and worth the expense.”

Walls

The walls are carpeted to not only protect from damage but to also help with sound.

Lockers

Locker paint color is Downpipe by Farrow & Ball.

Back Porch

The poolhouse porch has a full fireplace and BBQ built in.

Outdoor Goals

This is the ultimate outdoor entertainment area.

Built-in BBQ

Countertop is Black Granite.

Outdoor Stone Fireplace

Outdoor Stone Fireplace: Revelstoke – Standard joint – antique white mortar.

Porch

Porch Ceiling: Knotty Pine Tongue and Groove.

Lap Siding: Filtered CL2851

Backyard

How dreamy is this backyard!!!

View

This entire backyard feels quite private since it’s surrounded by farmland.

Pool

This pool is so inviting…

Water Slide

The pool water slide is custom.

Firepit & Fence

Painted in Downpipe by Farrow & Ball, the farmhouse x crossed fence adds character to this modern farmhouse and its firepit area.

Detached Mother-in-Law Suite

I wouldn’t mind living in this adorable modern farmhouse cottage.

Door Paint Color

Grey Front Door Paint Color: Downpipe by Farrow & Ball.

Farmhouse Galvanized Planters: Rejuvenation – Similar: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Outdoor Sconce: Here, Here & Here.

Interiors

Interior Wall Paint Color: Shaded White by Farrow and Ball.

Kitchen

This small kitchen features a great layout and the neutral colors help the space to feel larger that it actually is.

Countertop

Countertop: Raw concrete.

Similar Pale Grey Backsplash Tile: Here, Here, Here, Here.

Dishwasher: Jenn-Air.

Cabinet Paint Color

Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

Black Matte Hardware: Upper Cabinet Doors: Here – Drawer Pulls: Here – Door Knobs: Here.

Faucet: Moen

Peninsula

A peninsula is always a great idea if you don’t have space for an island.

Kitchen Lights: Pottery Barn.

Counterstools

These white metal counterstools are affordable and durable.

Living Room

Isn’t this living room cozy? Small space doesn’t mean you need to compromise on style.

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Bedroom

This bright bedroom features shiplap accent wall and a neutral carpet flooring.

Bathroom

Countertop: Raw concrete.

Faucet: Moen

Shower Tile

Similar Wall Tile: Here.

Floor Tile: Here, Here & Here.

Mudroom

Mudroom Cabinet Paint Color: Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

Similar Turkish Towels: Here & Here.

Backyard Inspiration

Perfect backyard plan!

Dream Home

Isn’t this truly a dream home?

Interior Color Palette

Builder: Millhaven Homes (instagram).

Interior Design: The lead designers on this home were Stacy Andersen and Joey Johnson, owners of Remedy 2 Design.

Photography: Rebekah Westover Photography.

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dawnjeman · 6 years ago

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New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design

Take notes on paint colors and other resources shared by the designers.

New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design

This gorgeous modern-farmhouse style home is surrounded by mountains and 15 acres of farmland.

Garage Paint Color

Charcoal Gray Garage Doors: Downpipe by Farrow & Ball.

Garage Barn Light: Rejuvenation

New Classic

What a curb-appeal this home has, huh?! I love the front porch and the black windows.

Exterior Trim

Trim: Arctic White by James Hardie.

Soffit/Fascia: White

Board & Batten

Board & Batten: Arctic White by James Hardie.

Drip Edge Color: White

Similar Modern Adirondack Chairs: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Roof

Shingle Roof: Black Walnut by Landmark.

Windows

Windows: Black windows are Sierra Pacific.

Metal Roof

Metal Roof: Burnished Slate by Landmark.

Front Door Paint Color

Charcoal Gray Front Door Paint Color: Downpipe by Farrow and Ball.

Door was made by Rocky Mountain Windows and Doors.

Planters: Here, Here & Here.

Beautiful Outdoor Sconces: Here.

Doormat: World Market.

Foyer

Interior Doors & Trim Paint Color: Chantilly Lace OC-23 by Benjamin Moore.

Hardwood flooring is 7-in White Oak – similar here & here.

Similar Lighting: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Dining Room

The foyer opens directly to a stunning dining room with crossed beamed ceiling and shiplap.

Sconces

Similar Wall Sconces: Here & Here.

Lighting

Lighting: Hinkley Lighting.

Paint Color

Soft White Paint Color: Farrow and Ball Shaded White at 50% strength.

Get the Look:

JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content.

Kitchen

The kitchen is probably my favorite room in this house. Isn’t it perfect? I love the combination of white cabinetry with White Oak – it’s crisp without being cold.

Details

The custom hood features a “X” design. Wood is also White Oak.

Backsplash features a shiplap-like, fire rated, product, called “Boral”.

Knobs: Top Knobs.

Pulls: Top Knobs.

Cabinet Latch: Top Knobs.

Kitchen Island

The White Oak kitchen island mimics the hood, also featuring x sides with shiplap.

Island Dimension: 10’2″x4′

Counterstools: Tolix – similar here.

Countertop

Quartz Countertop: Clareanne Matte by Cambria in matte finish.

Appliance Pulls: Top Knobs.

Similar Farmhouse Sink: Here.

Similar Matte Black Kitchen Faucet: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Kitchen Pendants: Here (affordable!

) Similar: Here, Here.

Edge Profile

From the Builder: “We have taken a 2cm stone and mitered the edge so the finished edge width is 2 1/4″.

Cabinet Paint Color

Cabinet Paint Color: Chantilly Lace Benjamin Moore.

Kitchen Bar Cabinet

Floating Shelves: White Oak

Cabinet Latch: Top Knobs.

Similar Dinnerware: Here.

Kitchen Ceiling

Ceiling features White Oak beams and tongue and groove.

Breakfast Room

This sun-bathed breakfast room is perfect for family life. Notice the long L-shaped window-seat with cubbies.

Dine-in

Similar Dining Table: Here (on sale), Here, Here (modern farmhouse table), Here (many sizes) & Here.

Woven Chairs: Here, Here & Here.

Great Room

The kitchen opens to a large great room.

Fireplace

The rustic mantel and stone fireplace add character to this great room.

I am a Fan

Windmill Ceiling Fan: Quorum

Color Scheme

This space carries a soft color scheme that is soothing, welcoming and quite casual.

Furniture

Furniture was custom designed by Remedy Design.

Get the Look:

JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content.

Old Barn

Similar Artwork: Here, Here & Here.

Farmhouse Staircase

This hall leads to the master ensuite, gym, music room and home office.

Master Bedroom Entry

Bedroom Shiplap Paint Color: Chantilly Lace by Benjamin Moore.

Similar Wall Art: Here & Here.

Sitting Area

The bedroom sitting area features a fireplace and painted brick accent wall.

Master Bedroom

This gorgeous modern farmhouse bedroom features a niche with board and batten.

Sconces

Sconces can be found here.

Similar Bedding: Here.

Master Bathroom

Isn’t this bathroom beautiful? I am loving the shiplap and the striped Roman shades.

Lighting: Here (on sale!).

Similar Freestanding Tub: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Roman Shades: Here.

Flooring

The bathroom flooring is LVP (Luxury Vinyl Plank). This product offer the look of wood without the worry of water damage and maintenance.

The floor is Mannington, Adura, Dockside series.

Cabinet Hardware

Hardware: Restoration Hardware.

Countertop

Countertop: Cosmopolitan White Caesarstone.

Bathroom Faucet: Moen.

Similar Tile: Here

Shiplap Shower

Shiplap Shower: The builder used Corian sheets and then routed the lines to match shiplap.

Shower Floor Tile: Square mini black mosaic tile with white grout.

Loft

The farmhouse staircase leads to a large loft area/family room with wet bar. All ensuited guest bedrooms are also located on the second level.

Lighting

Lighting can be found here – large.

Notice the grid board and batten paneling.

Family Room

The upstairs family room is cozy and perfect to relax at the end of the day.

Decor

The decor is warm and inviting.

Built-ins

Family room built-in inspiration right here!!!

Floating Shelves

Notice the shiplap detail how it wraps into the open shelving.

Wet Bar

Wet Bar Paint Color: Sea Serpent SW 7615 Sherwin Williams.

Backsplash

This wet bar features chevron tile.

Faucet: Here.

Leather Wrapped Pulls: Atlas Hardware.

Upstairs Laundry Room

The second floor laundry room features pale gray cabinets, cement tile and an inspiring layout.

Cabinet Paint Colors

Sherwin Williams SW7649 Silverplate.

Countertop: Pietra Cardosa.

Laundry Room Sink

Laundry Room Sink: American Standard.

Plaid Patterned Paneling

Originally the bedroom wall was meant to be wallpaper with the same pattern but the designer decided to apply a 3D plaid wainscotting. Isn’t this beautiful?

Simplicity

Paint color is Farrow and Ball Shaded White at 50% strength.

Bed: Paula Deen.

Nightstand

Similar Nightstand: here.

Guest Bathroom

Cabinet Hardware: Atlas Homewares.

Bathroom Faucet: Moen.

Girl’s Bedroom

This guest bedroom features diamond grid Board and Batten accent wall.

Paint Color

“Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace”.

Jack & Jill

Similar Pendant Light: Here & Here.

Cabinet Paint Color

Bathroom Cabinet Paint Color: Chantilly Lace by Benjamin Moore.

Countertop

Bathroom Countertop: Raw concrete.

Bathroom Faucet: Moen.

Cabinet Hardware

Knobs: Atlas

Pulls: Atlas

Countertop is raw concrete.

Salvage Barnwood

This farmhouse bedroom features salvage barnwood shiplap.

Playroom

Neutral Playroom Paint Color: Farrow and Ball Shaded White

The Right Message

Playroom Cabinetry: Chantilly Lace Benjamin Moore.

Hardware

Bamboo Wrapped Pulls: Atlas Hardware.

Indoor Porch Swing

An indoor porch swing? How fun!!!

To the Moon & Back

To the Moon and Back Pillow: Here – similar here.

Bunk Room

Similar Rope Pendant Light: Here

Bunk Beds

Each bunk features its own wall sconce and bookshelves.

Cubbies

Similar Pillows: Buffalo Check & Striped Pillow.

Bathroom

Sea Serpent SW 7615 Sherwin Williams

Countertop: Ondulato Polished – Pental Quartz.

Wall-Mounted Faucet: Moen.

Home Office

Cabinet Pulls: Atlas

Cabinet Knobs: Atlas

Sconces: Here & Here.

Paint Color

Off Black by Farrow & Ball.

Shelves are White Oak.

Laundry Room/Mudroom

The main floor laundry room/mudroom includes a farm sink with splash guard, floor cubbies, storage lockers, study desk and double fridge/freezer.

Locker benches and under sink features White Oak.

Countertop

Countertop: Absolute Black honed Granite.

Faucet: Here.

Farmhouse Sink: Here & Here.

Cabinet Paint Color

Ozark Shadows AC-26 Benjamin Moore.

Desk, Shiplap & Shelves

This custom grey built-in desk is also painted in Benjamin Moore Ozark Shadows and it features white oak floating shelves and shiplap walls.

Similar White Oak Shelves: Rejuvenation.

Hardware is RH.

Lighting: Here.

Poolhouse

This modern farmhouse poolhouse is quite impressive!!!

Basketball Court

Walls

The walls are carpeted to not only protect from damage but to also help with sound.

Lockers

Locker paint color is Downpipe by Farrow & Ball.

Back Porch

The poolhouse porch has a full fireplace and BBQ built in.

Outdoor Goals

This is the ultimate outdoor entertainment area.

Built-in BBQ

Countertop is Black Granite.

Outdoor Stone Fireplace

Outdoor Stone Fireplace: Revelstoke – Standard joint – antique white mortar.

Porch

Porch Ceiling: Knotty Pine Tongue and Groove.

Lap Siding: Filtered CL2851

Backyard

How dreamy is this backyard!!!

View

This entire backyard feels quite private since it’s surrounded by farmland.

Pool

This pool is so inviting…

Water Slide

The pool water slide is custom.

Firepit & Fence

Painted in Downpipe by Farrow & Ball, the farmhouse x crossed fence adds character to this modern farmhouse and its firepit area.

Detached Mother-in-Law Suite

I wouldn’t mind living in this adorable modern farmhouse cottage.

Door Paint Color

Grey Front Door Paint Color: Downpipe by Farrow & Ball.

Farmhouse Galvanized Planters: Rejuvenation – Similar: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Outdoor Sconce: Here, Here & Here.

Interiors

Interior Wall Paint Color: Shaded White by Farrow and Ball.

Kitchen

This small kitchen features a great layout and the neutral colors help the space to feel larger that it actually is.

Countertop

Countertop: Raw concrete.

Similar Pale Grey Backsplash Tile: Here, Here, Here, Here.

Dishwasher: Jenn-Air.

Cabinet Paint Color

Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

Black Matte Hardware: Upper Cabinet Doors: Here – Drawer Pulls: Here – Door Knobs: Here.

Faucet: Moen

Peninsula

A peninsula is always a great idea if you don’t have space for an island.

Kitchen Lights: Pottery Barn.

Counterstools

These white metal counterstools are affordable and durable.

Living Room

Isn’t this living room cozy? Small space doesn’t mean you need to compromise on style.

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Bedroom

This bright bedroom features shiplap accent wall and a neutral carpet flooring.

Bathroom

Countertop: Raw concrete.

Faucet: Moen

Shower Tile

Similar Wall Tile: Here.

Floor Tile: Here, Here & Here.

Mudroom

Mudroom Cabinet Paint Color: Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

Similar Turkish Towels: Here & Here.

Backyard Inspiration

Perfect backyard plan!

Dream Home

Isn’t this truly a dream home?

Interior Color Palette

Builder: Millhaven Homes (instagram).

Interior Design: The lead designers on this home were Stacy Andersen and Joey Johnson, owners of Remedy 2 Design.

Photography: Rebekah Westover Photography.

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mykatesingh-blog · 6 years ago

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Many women have written their success stories in coming home and leaving high paying jobs, careers, and even being the main breadwinners. They all said it was worth it in the end and it all worked out. Most of them will say that there is no reason a person cannot return home and make it on one income. I believe this to be true. However, it will take sacrifice, making out budgets and updating them frequently until you have the one that works. This lifestyle will require cutting and trimming over and over until your family is living under one paycheck. It will require creativity and learning from other frugal and thrifty men and women that live on one paycheck, fixed incomes, and small budgets.

This can be turned into a game that is fun and imaginative. It can be very exciting to simplify life and save tons of money, it builds pride to learn to cut cost and work with little but multiply it like Jesus and the loaves and fishes. It is fun to see how well you can budget at the grocery store and still feed the family nourishing foods or to get a much needed item at a hugely reduced price by waiting on sales, using coupons, or finding it at the thrift store.

All this sounds dorky until you are deep in it. That .25 cent candle becomes a big prize, the bag of school clothes that a friend hands you because her child outgrew the clothes and they are in excellent condition can be like Christmas, that coupon that gets you half off your favorite laundry detergent is a reason to celebrate.

This year we filed for $33,000 for the year but we live like we make over $40,000. I feel very middle class on our working class budget. All I can really do is share how we do it and how I budget (since I’m responsible for the family and household funds). For some people in other states this would be plenty, however, we live in Northern California where houses sell for an average of 300K to 600K and everything is expensive. For a family of four, it is said that it cost anywhere from $58K to $148K to get by in the US.

Hum…wellll, we are way under that and yet we sleep well at night with nary a worry.

We live in a cute little blue cottage in the older parts of a small city. It is a nice neighborhood with a few oddities as any proper neighborhood should have to keep the balance. We can walk to the charming old historic downtown where we visit a large pet store to visit a huge ancient turtle that roams the store so slowly I mistook him for a statue the first time. We also love the little candy store and I’m finding more little coffee shops and stores that are charming and remind me of the bay area.

We can take drives through farmland, vast walnut orchards, and hike in the forest after wandering through old gold mining towns. All within 30 or so minutes of our house.

I spend my days at home alone with two vivacious boys and bored or lonely I am not. Some times irritated and counting backward from ten, yes, but my days are full. I enjoy children’s films and cartoons, drawing, happy music and I entertain myself with novels, spiritual food, learning to homestead, writing fiction, and improving myself.

I have cut cost in all our utilities and give myself a small grocery envelop monthly. If I want to spend money I visit the local Goodwill or a good thrift store. Mostly I make do with what I have because I have so much.

Most of my lawns in the front and backyard have been replaced with large gardens and flowers, and table grape vines grow up my old pergola frame. All my fruit and nut trees are in bloom right now making for a lovely view in the mornings.

My kitchen is a bakery once or twice a week where I bake Amish bread, wheat bread, cakes, muffins, cookies, and make tortillas often. I now cook all the foods from scratch that I once bought from the frozen food section of the Super Market. I do not skimp on organics and clean foods for my family by buying in bulk and shopping from the produce sections to save hundreds. I build up my pantries from sales and shopping at Winco’s bulk section along with produce in season. I have found local eggs and soon local goat milk from a ranch up the road. If my garden doesn’t produce enough I will travel to a large farm that has seasons where you can pick your own vegetable for pennies. This will supplement my canning.

I spend my days reading novels, washing dishes, sipping coffee as I look out at my back yard that is now a food forest in the making, and I keep entertained with my writing projects, learning to homeschool my eldest, and rearranging my furniture to make my rooms more interesting.

I have had many household projects and Bali spends his weekends working in the yards to build our little veggie and fruit farm. Our home was a fixer upper and HUD house, thus very cheap. It’s been a year and a half of hard work, learning how to install a free sink that Habitat for Humanity was throwing out because of a crack in the back of the cabinet, learning how to plant trees in the right season, hauling truckloads of free horse manure home, raising hens not so successfully, learning to can jams and spaghetti sauce and praying my family and the neighbors I shared with didn’t get botulism. It has been long nights, early mornings, and almost every weekend doing labor.

Our mortgage makes it all worth it, being it’s less than some pay for a studio apartment on the wrong side of town. Our cars are old Toyota’s but free. The only bills we have now are solar, garbage, and water…and yes, I caved tonight and added Netflix back to our table of entertainment. We love our movies.

When I spend the morning coloring with my boys and drinking espresso in my cute little cottage, when I am picking a basket full of winter greens for an afternoon soup, when I pick up a bag full of good books for all of us from the library up the street, when I swim with the boys at the health club a mile up the road, when I bake a plump, moist chocolate cake in the middle of the week…I feel like life is pretty delicious.

We live on a small allowance, but through years of downsizing and simplifying, cutting cost often, finding ways to save on utilities and groceries, learning sustainability, and using what we have, growing what we need or finding things inexpensively, we find life very affordable.

Have we sacrificed? Yes, we have sacrificed stress and fear, an unstable future, and living beyond our means. We have gained true wealth beyond our imaginings.

Making the choice to come home. Many women have written their success stories in coming home and leaving high paying jobs, careers, and even being the main breadwinners.

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cleopatrarps · 7 years ago

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How a trade row may split the fortunes of two U.S. farm companies

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The threat of steep tariffs on soybeans, wheat and corn from an escalating U.S.-China trade dispute may decide the survivor among the two largest real estate funds in the hard-hit U.S. farm sector.

FILE PHOTO: The sun rises behind a corn tassel in a field in Minooka, Illinois, September 24, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young

Farmland Partners Inc (FPI.N), a $251 million market cap real estate investment trust that owns more than 166,000 acres of farmland, appears to be more vulnerable to the effects of a trade war than its largest publicly traded competitor, $186 million market cap Gladstone Land Corp (LAND.O).

That is because while Gladstone Land has focused primarily on so-called permanent crops such as oranges and almonds that grow on trees and vines, Farmland Partners has roughly 60 percent of its portfolio in row crops such as soy that China included in its April 4 list of retaliatory tariffs against the United States.

Roughly 35 million tonnes of U.S. soybeans imported each year by China will now face an additional 25 percent import tax. Soy futures Sv1 plummeted 5 percent on April 4, the day the tariffs were announced.

With its concentration on farmland that produces soy, Farmland Partners is “the most likely to be in the crosshairs of China” and may have more difficulty passing on rent increases to its farmer tenants than Gladstone Land, putting its dividend at risk, said Robert Stevenson, an analyst at Janney who covers both companies.

Paul Pittman, the chief executive of Farmland Partners and one of its largest investors, told Reuters in an interview he thinks his company’s stock is undervalued and that chief competitor Gladstone Land is spreading misinformation about the challenges facing row crops.

“Our company is misunderstood,” Pittman said.

When asked for comment on Pittman’s allegations, David Gladstone, Gladstone Land’s chief executive, told Reuters: “We have no idea how the tariffs will impact them.”

His own company, meanwhile, focuses mostly on perishable berries and vegetables that are not shipped to Asia and organic almonds that have little export sales, Gladstone added in a statement.

Higher trading costs would only add to the challenges facing U.S. farmers. Before the tariffs were announced, the United States Department of Agriculture estimated in February that inflation-adjusted net farm income would decrease 6.8 percent, or $6.7 billion, this year, to its lowest level since 2009. Those declines would mark the fourth-straight annual loss for the sector, which has been undercut by rising interest rates and high land prices.

Between 2003 and 2013, the average acre of farmland in the United States jumped 213 percent in noninflation-adjusted dollars, according to research by Brent Gloy, an agricultural economist at Purdue University, an average annual increase of 12 percent. Prices have stalled since, up just 1 percent over the last four years.

The twin impacts of rising tariffs and rising interest rates have taken shares of Farmland Partners down 10.6 percent for the year to date, compared with an 8.4 percent decline in Gladstone Land and a 0.1 percent decline in the broad S&P 500 .SPX.

BETTING ON A ‘TABLE POUNDER’

Farmland Partners, which at $7.50 per share trades 46 percent below its April 2014 initial public offering price of $14, was the first dedicated farmland REIT in the United States and launched near the height of the farmland boom.

“A lot has changed since the IPO: crop prices dropped, there’s a discussion of tariffs, and the capital markets haven’t been as supportive,” said David Rodgers, an analyst at Baird Equity Research who lowered his target price for the company on March 5. “You would need to see some cash flow growth and dividend growth to give confidence to investors that the business is on the right path and is healthy.”

Pittman, who in addition to being chief executive is one of Farmland Partners’ largest investors, said tariffs will not affect the company as much as the market expects.

“The downside in the near-term is probably muted because frankly the world needs to eat,” he said in an interview.

Gladstone Land, meanwhile, is more exposed to policy risks than Farmland Partners because its crops are more dependent on migrant labor, Pittman said.

“If someone figures out how to get spinach from Mexico to the U.S. cheaper – when we know that growing costs will be half of what it is here – then it will crush (Gladstone’s) portfolio,” Pittman said.

Joel Beam, a senior portfolio manager at Salient Partners (FFREX.O), said he has a position in Farmland Partners in part because he believes that Pittman is a “table pounder” who will continue to make a case for his company despite the mounting threats.

Pittman “is pretty vociferous about its value, which is a refreshing thing,” Beam said.

While Farmland Partners purchased $110 million of almond, pistachios and walnut groves in California’s Central Valley in September, Pittman said the company is not going to deviate from its strategy of owning predominantly row crops because of the threat of tariffs.

“Our stock is horribly depressed,” he said. “We have a good business but a bad stock price.”

Reporting by David Randall in New York; Editing by Dan Burns and Matthew Lewis

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dragnews · 7 years ago

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How a trade row may split the fortunes of two U.S. farm companies

FILE PHOTO: The sun rises behind a corn tassel in a field in Minooka, Illinois, September 24, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young

“Our company is misunderstood,” Pittman said.

When asked for comment on Pittman’s allegations, David Gladstone, Gladstone Land’s chief executive, told Reuters: “We have no idea how the tariffs will impact them.”

His own company, meanwhile, focuses mostly on perishable berries and vegetables that are not shipped to Asia and organic almonds that have little export sales, Gladstone added in a statement.

BETTING ON A ‘TABLE POUNDER’

Pittman, who in addition to being chief executive is one of Farmland Partners’ largest investors, said tariffs will not affect the company as much as the market expects.

“The downside in the near-term is probably muted because frankly the world needs to eat,” he said in an interview.

Gladstone Land, meanwhile, is more exposed to policy risks than Farmland Partners because its crops are more dependent on migrant labor, Pittman said.

Pittman “is pretty vociferous about its value, which is a refreshing thing,” Beam said.

“Our stock is horribly depressed,” he said. “We have a good business but a bad stock price.”

Reporting by David Randall in New York; Editing by Dan Burns and Matthew Lewis

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New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design Built by Millhaven Homes (you can see video tours here) and with interiors by Remedy 2 Design, this Utah new-construction modern farmhouse features a classic design with plenty of board and batten, shiplap and a white exterior that is sure to impress! The interiors of this modern farmhouse are equally impressive and huge! This home truly offers plenty of space for the entire family, friends and guests. A White Oak kitchen is, in my opinion, the heart of the home while the backyard is the perfect place to entertain with its pool, large patios and poolhouse. Take notes on paint colors and other resources shared by the designers. New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design This gorgeous modern-farmhouse style home is surrounded by mountains and 15 acres of farmland. Garage Paint Color Charcoal Gray Garage Doors: Downpipe by Farrow & Ball. Garage Barn Light: Rejuvenation New Classic What a curb-appeal this home has, huh?! I love the front porch and the black windows. Exterior Trim Trim: Arctic White by James Hardie. Soffit/Fascia: White Board & Batten Board & Batten: Arctic White by James Hardie. Drip Edge Color: White Similar Modern Adirondack Chairs: Here, Here, Here & Here. Roof Shingle Roof: Black Walnut by Landmark. Windows Windows: Black windows are Sierra Pacific. Metal Roof Metal Roof: Burnished Slate by Landmark. Front Door Paint Color Charcoal Gray Front Door Paint Color: Downpipe by Farrow and Ball. Door was made by Rocky Mountain Windows and Doors. Planters: Here, Here & Here. Beautiful Outdoor Sconces: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here. Door Mat: World Market. Foyer Interior Doors & Trim Paint Color: Chantilly Lace OC-23 by Benjamin Moore. Hardwood flooring is 7-in White Oak – similar here & here. Similar Lighting: Here, Here & Here. Dining Room The foyer opens directly to a stunning dining room with crossed beamed ceiling and shiplap. Sconces Similar Wall Sconces: Here, Here & Here. Lighting Lighting: Hinkley Lighting. Paint Color Soft White Paint Color: Farrow and Ball Shaded White at 50% strength. Get the Look: Kitchen The kitchen is probably my favorite room in this house. Isn’t it perfect? I love the combination of white cabinetry with White Oak – it’s crisp without being cold. Details The custom hood features a “X” design. Wood is also White Oak. Backsplash features a shiplap-like, fire rated, product, called “Boral”. Knobs: Top Knobs. Pulls: Top Knobs. Kitchen Island The White Oak kitchen island mimics the hood, also featuring x sides with shiplap. Island Dimension: 10’2″x4′ Counterstools: Tolix Countertop Quartz Countertop: Clareanne Matte by Cambria in matte finish. Appliance Pulls: 12-inch Top Knobs. Similar Farmhouse Sink: Here. Similar Matte Black Kitchen Faucet: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here. Kitchen Pendants: Here (affordable! ) Similar: Here (on sale!), Here, Here. Vintage Industrial Pendants: Here. Edge Profile From the Builder: “We have taken a 2cm stone and mitered the edge so the finished edge width is 2 1/4″. Cabinet Paint Color Cabinet Paint Color: Chantilly Lace Benjamin Moore. Kitchen Bar Cabinet Floating Shelves: White Oak Hatches: Top Knobs. Similar Dinnerware: Here. Kitchen Ceiling Ceiling features White Oak beams and tongue and groove. Breakfast Room This sun-bathed breakfast room is perfect for family life. Notice the long L-shaped window-seat with cubbies. Dine-in Similar Dining Table: Here (on sale), Here, Here (modern farmhouse table), Here (many sizes), Here (greywash), Here (long) & Here. Woven Chairs: Here, Here, Here & Here. Great Room The kitchen opens to a large great room. Fireplace The rustic mantel and stone fireplace add character to this great room. I am a Fan Windmill Ceiling Fan: Quorum Color Scheme This space carries a soft color scheme that is soothing, welcoming and quite casual. Furniture Furniture was custom designed by Remedy Design. Get the Look: Old Barn Similar Artwork: Here, Here & Here. Farmhouse Staircase This farmhouse staircase features cable and crossed x railing. All the wood came from Columbia Millworks in Orem. The hardware (including cables) are from Sunroc in Orem and the stain was custom blend to match the floor. This hall leads to the master ensuite, gym, music room and home office. Master Bedroom Entry Bedroom Shiplap Paint Color: Chantilly Lace by Benjamin Moore. Sitting Area The bedroom sitting area features a fireplace and painted brick accent wall. Master Bedroom This gorgeous modern farmhouse bedroom features a niche with board and batten. Sconces Sconces can be found here. Similar Bedding: Here. Master Bathroom Isn’t this bathroom beautiful? I am loving the shiplap and the striped Roman shades. Lighting: Here (on sale!). Similar Freestanding Tub: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here. Similar Roman Shades: Here. Flooring The bathroom flooring is LVP (Luxury Vinyl Plank). This product offer the look of wood without the worry of water damage and maintenance. The floor is Mannington, Adura, Dockside series. Cabinet Hardware Hardware: Restoration Hardware. Countertop Countertop: Cosmopolitan White Caesarstone. Bathroom Faucet: Moen. Similar Tile: Here & Here. Shiplap Shower Shiplap Shower: The builder used Corian sheets and then routed the lines to match shiplap. Shower Floor Tile: Square mini black mosaic tile with white grout. Loft The farmhouse staircase leads to a large loft area/family room with wet bar. All ensuited guest bedrooms are also located on the second level. Lighting I love this pendant light! I couldn’t find the source for it so, if you know, please share! Notice the grid board and batten paneling. Family Room The upstairs family room is cozy and perfect to relax at the end of the day. Decor The decor is warm and inviting. Built-ins Family room built-in inspiration right here!!! 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My Home Buying Myth Top 10 List (10-6)

I’m betting you believe at least home buying myth. There are a lot of them out there and a lot of people believe. Often, these things are untrue and they’re usually preached by those we know and trust. This is another reason you should hire a REALTOR® I’ll be gentle and refer to these as home buying myths in the following top 10 list.

#10 – ONCE AN OFFER IS ACCEPTED, IT CANNOT BE CHANGED

It’s true that a purchase agreement is a legally binding contract. Those contracts are written on paper (or just a computer screen), not etched in stone. Any contract can be changed if both parties agree to the changes.

Sales prices regularly change after an offer has been accepted. The changes happen for any number of reasons. One could be because the inspection uncovered a flaw. Rather than the seller fixing the problem, they could agree to lower the sales price to account for the buyer’s expense to repair.

Another reason could be that the appraisal came in lower than the agreed price. When this happens, the deal is in jeopardy because the buyer’s loan won’t get funded. The buyer is typically free from obligation at this point and the seller may lower their price to keep the deal together.

This home buying myth one that could land a buyer in trouble, especially if they also believe the next one.

#9 – INSPECTIONS AREN’T THAT IMPORTANT

Unless you’re planning on crawling through the attic and crawl space, hire an inspector. Even if you are willing to crawl through those places, hire an inspector. Regardless, this home buying myth could end up being very costly.

In Ohio, there is no license requirement to be a home inspector. That doesn’t mean the inspectors suggested by your REALTOR® aren’t qualified and knowledgeable people. Inspectors are skilled at identifying current problems with a home and where a problem may arise in the future. I encourage every buyer to get a home inspection. Finding a problem now could save you from buying a home that will cost you thousands later.

#8 – MY CREDIT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH TO BUY A HOME

This is a topic best reserved for a lender to discuss in detail. Still, I feel it’s my duty to debunk this home buying myth.

At the time of this writing (early 2018), buyers need a minimum FICO score of 580 to qualify for an FHA loan (source).

It’s true that your credit score will impact the interest rate, the amount you pay in PMI and the size of the down payment. All of those can factor into what is affordable, overall. None of that changes that the credit score belief is a myth.

#7 – I NEED 20% DOWN

Again, this is a topic you should discuss with your lender for specifics. However, the 20% down payment belief is nothing more than a home buying myth.

A loan guaranteed by the USDA has no down payment requirement. These loans are for rural areas (not just farmland, as many tend to believe).

FHA loans have a 3.5% down payment if your FICO score is above 580 (source linked above). FHA even has grant money available to assist with your down payment.

You may be able to get a conventional loan with a 5% or lower down payment, too.

#6 – THE SELLER WILL PAY MY CLOSING COSTS

Simply put – no. This can happen and does happen, but depends on if the market is a buyer’s or seller’s market. You should also know there are some fees that are required to be paid by the buyer. These are generally fees associated with the loan.

Sellers will often agree to provide funds for the buyer’s closing costs if the market is heavily in favor of the buyer. In a buyer’s market, most sellers are happy to have an offer on the table and will be more flexible in this area in order to keep a deal from falling through.

In a seller’s market, though, this is a home buying myth. Most sellers don’t see the need to lower how much money they get out of the sale when they can be relatively confident another buyer will be along soon.

Check back next week for the conclusion of this top 10 list.

I would love to help you navigate around these and other myths. If you’re looking for a REALTOR® in the Big Walnut area of Sunbury and Galena, please contact me so I can be of service. You could also stop by Crum Realty Group to talk to a member of the team (tell them I sent you!)

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Sticky fingers: The rise of the bee thieves | Brett Murphy

The Long Read: Bees have become a billion-dollar business. But who would try to steal them?

The bees crawled up the thiefs arms while he dragged their hive over a patch of grass and through a slit in the wire fence he had clipped minutes earlier. In the pitch dark, his face, which was not covered with a protective veil, hovered inches from the low hum of some 30,000 bees.

The thief squatted low and heaved the 30kg hive, about the size of a large office printer, up and on to the bed of his white GMC truck. He had been planning his crime for days. He knew bees how to work them, how to move them, and most importantly, how to turn them into cash.

He ducked back through the fence to drag out a second box, Johnson Apiaries branded over the white paint. Then he went back for another. And another.

The Diablo Grande foothills edge the western side of Californias vast Central Valley. During the day you can see rolling pastures and an endless quilt of farmland. But at night, it is so dark that you are lucky to see your hand in front of your face. The thief thought there was almost no chance that a motorist would pass by, let alone one who would notice him.

Jerry Phillips, a night manager for the areas water provider, spends his nights zooming between pump stations in the foothills. He knows every farmer and cowboy on the hills eight-mile stretch, including a local beekeeper named Orin Johnson. Johnson, who had been hit by bee thieves before, liked to alert potential witnesses. If you see anybody in there in the middle of the night, he had told Phillips, it aint me.

Sure enough, Phillips saw someone on his way down the parkway that night. He quickly phoned the nearby golf resort, which has its own roving security detail on the hill.

After the thief loaded the ninth hive, he sat behind the wheel, with the drivers-side door open. The truck was far from full, and there were almost 100 more boxes behind the fence for him to choose from. That meant a lot of money. The exact value of a hive is not standard it depends what you do with them but nine hives can bring in about $5,000 in just one year. And they are worth considerably more in the hands of a capable beekeeper who can maintain them season after season.

Suddenly, a wall of white light hit the thief from behind. He froze.

A security guard stood next to his patrol cars spotlight, keeping his distance. The guard, whose name was Dre Castano, inched forward, wary of being ambushed. He thought there was no way just one guy had got all of those big boxes into the truck on his own.

The thief climbed out of the car and turned into the light. He stood there alone, his eyes glazed over and sullen. Maybe a drunk driver, Castano thought. He asked for the mans ID.

Pedro Villafan, 5ft 2in tall, and 46 years old. He lived 20 minutes south, in Newman, another little town at the base of the foothills. He looked flushed, half-asleep. But he kept calm and answered Castanos questions. Yes, those were bees. No, they were not his. No, he did not work for Orin Johnson. Yes, he was stealing them.

Castano, surprised by Villafans immediate confession, put him in ziptie handcuffs and walked him to the backseat of his patrol car. Less than 45 minutes later, at about 3.40am, Johnson pulled up to the scene, now lit red and blue. A sheriffs deputy had just arrived, as well. He asked Johnson to identify the bees and sign an affidavit committing to press charges.

The suspect wants to talk to you, the deputy said to Johnson, motioning to his cruiser. Do you want to talk to him?

Johnson walked over and poked his head through the window.

I made a huge mistake, Villafan started.

Of course you did, Johnson interrupted, trying his best to remain composed.

I shouldnt have done this, the thief said. All my bees died.

These are strange times for the American beekeeper. In California, the centre of the industry, members of this tight-knit community find themselves enjoying an economic boom while trying to cope with environmental turmoil. And now theyre dealing with a new kind of criminal: the bee rustler. Every year, at the height of pollination season in the spring, dozens of nighttime thieves nobody knows exactly how many break into bee yards all over California to steal hives.

Farmers depend on bees, but they do not keep their own it is too costly, too time-consuming and too painful. So, they lease their pollinators from the commercial beekeeping industry, a fast-growing, national trade that underpins American agriculture.

About a third of the countrys beekeeping operations, known as apiaries, are in California, more than the next four states combined. It is a $1.8bn trade nationwide, driven by roughly 1,500 apiaries, which own 95% of the countrys bees. (About 60,000 hobbyists keep the other 5%.)

It was only recently that beekeeping became big business. For most of the 20th century, American beekeepers were primarily honey manufacturers. In order to manufacture good honey, they sought out open space where their bees could forage. Johnsons father knocked on farmers doors all over Stanislaus County for decades, often with his son in tow, looking for land away from humans and other bees. His proposition: my bees pollinate your crops, your crops feed my bees. They squared the deal with a handshake and a case of honey.

So it went for decades. But little by little, high-value crops such as pistachios, walnuts and mandarin oranges began to take up larger swaths of land all over Central Valley. The beekeepers realised that there was money to be made in pollination growers needed bees and were willing to pay rental fees, as if investing in airborne fertiliser. Once crops bloom, bees scatter skyward in a mushroom-cloud formation before darting for nectar in the open buds; grocery shopping, as one beekeeper described it. As they fly around, each bee grabs pollen from one tree and sheds it at another, exponentially boosting the number of leaves, flowers and nuts.

Brent Woodworth tends to his bees. Photograph: Brett Murphy

From the 1980s on, commercial keepers supplemented their honey business by renting out their bees at $25 per hive for a single, month-long bloom. A large-scale beekeeping operation would have thousands of hives (in addition to producing honey in the autumn), bringing in money from crop pollination: cherries, watermelons and everything in between. Small outfits such as Johnson Apiaries did not have to worry much about uncertain honey sales any more. There was more than enough opportunity to make up their revenue in the spring.

Commercial beekeeping was honest, sustainable and relatively free of competition, but not exactly a business others raced to join.

Then, in the early 2000s, two things shook up the industry. First, the world discovered almonds. Thanks to global demand, particularly from Asia, the nut has taken over Central Valley, nearly doubling its hectarage to 370,000 since 2005. California produces more than 80% of the worlds almond supply today. The boom brought with it an unprecedented demand for pollination. With bees, an almond tree produces 70% more nuts than without. Bees, one almond grower told me, are as important as water.

Second, the bees started to die. During the 2006 winter, beekeepers reported losing anything from 30% to 90% of their hives to disease, an unprecedented amount compared with previous decades, in which losses hovered around 10 or 15%. (The average death toll has since levelled to just under 30% each year.) Even Johnson, a second-generation keeper with honey in the blood, finds boxes and boxes of dead colonies every winter,and has to scrape out the crusted nectar and tiny corpses.

What became known as colony collapse disorder a lethal combination of disease, drought, land loss and pesticide use brought the industry to its knees, forcing hundreds of keepers, unable to maintain their hives through the cold winter, out of business.

But those who weathered the storm have benefited from simple economics: the national supply of bees fell, while demand for pollination has since quadrupled alongside almond growth. This year, almond farmers paid $180 to rent a single hive. And every half-hectare requires two hives.

The surge in bee rental prices in the valleyover the last decade has brought with it an unsettling rise in thefts. In 2015, poachers stole more than 1,700 hives and those are just the thefts that were reported. Last year was the first time anyone had actually counted, but beekeepers and law enforcement both say that the crime is becoming increasingly common. For small beekeepers such as Johnson, a few dozen hives going missing just before spring can bring ruin. Worst of all, everyone knows that the heists are inside jobs.

New keepers enter the industry hoping to cash in on the pollination boom and it is they who often end up becoming the chief suspects in bee robberies. They sign contracts in the autumn, lose their hives to disease in the winter, then steal to make back the difference in the spring. People are trying to meet their obligations at our expense, one recent victim told his local paper, after thieves made off with $100,000 worth of hives. Theres no doubt in my mind it was another beekeeper.

The seasoned, generational, conference-attending beekeepers trust one another. They drink beer and eat donuts together. They loan each other hives and equipment. They even share trade secrets, such as recipes for artificial pollen supplements. They were here long before the almond boom, and their sons beekeeping is a predominantly male industry will carry on their apiaries long after.But the Central Valleys beekeeping fraternity believes that a growing number of opportunists are now entering the business.

They get desperate, said Dion Ashurst, who is the president of the state beekeepers association. And they go out and do stupid stuff. A fourth-generation beekeeper and repeat victim, Ashurst called them fly-by-night criminals who may understand the ins and outs of beekeeping, but are not of the community. Another keeper and recent victim called them the industrys misfits and neer-do-wells.

Now thousands of hives are vanishing, taken with alarming precision and coordination at the very time their owners need them most.Every winter, more and more legitimate keepers, struggling to keep their bees alive, have woken to find their yards emptied and their livelihoods in sudden and serious jeopardy.

That Villafan was even caught is remarkable. Thieves in the Central Valley rarely end up in handcuffs, let alone face prosecution. Witnesses do not drive by often. At 42,000 square miles, the area is vast and isolated, yet still connected by freeway arteries helpful to thieves looking to make a fast getaway. With the right equipment, know-how, and a buyer already lined up, stealing hives is easy. A truck full of bees boosted at midnight in Stanislaus can be unloaded in a Kern County orchard, 200 miles away, by the morning.

The state beekeepers association offers a reward for anyone who helps catch a thief. The security guard who accosted Villafan in January 2015 got $1,000, although the sum can be as high as $10,000. The association likes to address the issue in its monthly board meetings. Minutes from one session last year read: An attempted hive theft in San Luis Obispo, but the thief dropped the hive and got stung a lot, leaving the hive where he dropped it. Law enforcement is after this thief!

Detective Rowdy Jay Freeman a backyard beekeeper himself drives out to meetings, conferences, bars and bee yards to meet the keepers. Hunting down bee thieves is a frustrating job, given the dearth of evidence. Where dozens or even hundreds of humming boxes sit one day, there are nothing but tyre tracks in mud the next, said Freeman. There are no witnesses out there in the country. In three years investigating rural crime, Freeman had not caught a single bee thief.

But that changed this year when he got a tip two counties south. Jacob Spath, a young beekeeper short on his contracts after a tough winter, had backed a flatbed truck into a bee yard and made off with 60 hives. Two days later, Spath was negotiating prices with a broker, when a friend of the victim spotted the boxes, recognised the name, and called the police. Freeman arrested him that week.

Now the district attorney is looking to make an example of Spath by charging him with grand animal theft, a felony that carries a much higher possible sentence than ordinary grand theft. Spath pleaded guilty in April and could serve three years in prison possibly more, depending on the judges valuation of the bees. The specific penal code only mentions large animals, including horses, goats, cows, mules, sheep, hogs and boars. This will be the first time in the history of California that someone is charged with grand animal theft for stealing bees.

In 2015, rustlers stole more than 1,700 hives and those are just the thefts that were reported. Photograph: Brett Murphy

Most thieves share Spaths modus operandi: steal a truckload of hives, drive them a few counties away, chisel the label off (or gut the frames completely and burn the box), then rent them out to almond farmers or brokers. Bee brokers typically help connect large, out-of-state keepers with farmers in the Valley. They tend tobuy wholesale, and ask few questions about the bees origins.

Half the industry is built on handshakes with the farmers, one beekeeper told me, millions of dollars every day without a single paper signed. Beekeepers try to look out for themselves and each other. A select few hire private security guardsor install expensive GPS chips in every hive. Others hide cameras in their yards or make nightly rounds in their trucks. Most simply brand every single piece of equipment with their name, number and a unique registration code in the hope that a friend may recognise their name if boxes go missing.

But none of that does much good after they have been taken and gutted. And the law only goes so far.Beekeepers are often forced to do their own sleuthing.Last year, Joe Romance, of Kern County, went to move 128 hives out of one of his bee yards,only to find them missing. There was talk around town about a beekeeper holding meetings in a coffee shop, selling half-price hives to almond growers. Romance, posing as a farmer, went to the mans house and found something like an automobile chop shop inside a warehouse. Three men were cracking open hundreds of boxes, removing the frames inside and assembling new hives.

Another beekeeper, Brent Woodworth, rented a small Cessna aircraft and flew it three hours in search of his $30,000-worth of stolen hives, his eyes trained on the tiny square specks below, looking for his specific bright yellow lids. It takes a thiefs constitution, Woodworth told me last winter while we ate lunch in his truck and gazed out on his bee yard, which was home to about 3,700 roaring hives. Some ballsy people, Ill tell you. He grabbed a bee off the radio and gave it a flick. Stealing from somebody is just about as bad as it gets. I think its just the worst thing you can do to a man.

Orin Johnson is 68, with an impressive belly and a mess of white hair. In 1969, he came home from Vietnam with two Purple Hearts, a bum eye and a blown eardrum. He went to night school on the GI Bill, participated in the free love, Woodstock era, married that pretty girl Patti from his apartment building, and went back to work at the telephone company Pacific Bell for almost two decades as a dial-up technician before taking over his fathers hives.

He thrived for years after returning to the bee life, maintaining the old accounts and finding plenty of his own. With some 500 hives and no employees, his operation is relatively small, but profitable. He stuck it out through a national tracheal mite epidemic in the 1980s; through a flood of Chinese honey that crippled domestic sales in the 1990s; and, so far, through the bee plague of the 2000s. Its a tough road to hoe, he told me once, no doubt about it.

More than a year after he caught the thief stealing his bees in Diablo Grande at 4am, Johnson and I left the wood furnace in his warehouse where tools line the walls, sawdust fills the air, and a keg of beer waits in a fridge draped in mardis gras beads and old photographs and headed into the foothills for a routine spot check. When we got there, sunlight smacked the clearing where his hives stood in the grass, each airborne bee a dark freckle on the sky. We put on veils and walked through the boxes.

Johnson in the workshop where he makes and mends his hives. Photograph: Brett Murphy

Johnson gave each hive a gentle lift with his bare hands. His hands are baseball mitts, swollen and dirt-stained, skin cracked at the knuckles and nails. (On a busy day, he can get stung 50 or 60 times.) With each lift, he measured the weight of the honey inside: too light and the colony is weak and underpopulated, too heavy and the hive is overcrowded and the bees may end up abandoning it entirely. Johnson marked the light hives with a dry cowpat so he would know which to feed with sugar syrup later. Every now and then, he paused for a moment and leaned his good ear towards a hive, squinting through the veil. A strong hive hums deep like an engine. The weak ones are faint, almost a hiss. Others, completely silent. The dead hives got two cowpats.

Every beekeeper in the country stares down at boxes and boxes of dead hives each year. Since 2006, the industry has scrambled to repopulate bees quickly enough to match the devastating yearly mortality rates temporary solutions for a long-term problem. Johnson guesses that he usually loses about 30% of his hives right around the industry average. Keepers spread out the survivors, splitting hives by artificially introducing new queen bees, as well as medicine and protein supplements. Its pretty much like feeding them McDonalds, Johnson said.

Beekeepers tend to shrug at media reports about the mysteries of colony collapse. They know the causes of declining bee health, as industry insiders refer to it, and what has created todays hostile environment for their colonies. Its more difficult to keep bees alive and healthy today than its ever been, said Gene Brandi, president of the American Honeybee Federation. One major problem is overgrazing. The pollination boom has invited droves out-of-state beekeepers that compete for the dwindling forage land.

Bees need good nutrition to stay healthy and to fend off disease, which is often introduced by humans. Farmers constantly experiment with new pesticide sprays that can choke baby bees before they hatch. The hive is more of an organism, the individual bee more like a cell, said Katie Lee, a researcher at the Bee Informed Partnership. And every new airborne chemical can threaten those cells.

But the majority of scientists and keepers agree that the most pernicious threat to bees is the varroa destructor mite. It arrived in Florida in 1987 and spread fast. (Honeybees, an invasive species themselves, arrived in the late 17th century.) In a TED Talk from 2014, beekeeper John Miller called varroa a dirty needle that transmits deadly diseases like a mosquito. In the video, he flips a slide to show baby bees covered in ticks. Its really hard to kill a bug on a bug, Miller says, pausing for effect. But if we dont, were going to lose our bees.

On 7 January, 2015, four days after they met in Diablo Grande, Johnson and Villafan were together again in Stanislaus County court. Annette Rees, a rising star in the district attorneys office who handles the countys most violent cases, happened to be in the courtroom as the magistrate read out the charges. A 487, the penal code for grand theft. Beehives. Rees raised an eyebrow.

She approached Johnson in the hallway after the hearing. He told her that this was fourth time his livelihood had been stolen out from under him. They caught the first guy in 2003. He had gutted Johnsons colonies, moved the bees to his own boxes, and then tossed Johnsons shattered hives into a riverbed and he got off with only a misdemeanor. Rees did not want that to happen this time, so she asked to represent the beekeeper. Plus, she told me, it was a nice departure from the rapes and murders.

The preliminary examination was held on 27 March. Villafans public defender tried to have the charges reduced to a misdemeanour. He argued that his clients remorse about the crime and his record of good behaviour should warrant some leniency. I believe he was crying and stressed out about it, the lawyer told the judge, citing Villafans flushed face under the security guards spotlight. And him not sleeping a few days, you know, shows me he was extremely nervous and was unsure that he wanted to do something like this.

Rees was not buying it. This is an agricultural valley, she told the judge. Almonds are a huge part of our agricultural history and industry, and bees are critical for pollination of the almond trees. These were pollinating bees.

The beekeepers are already fighting the colony collapse disease, she continued. And to have someone simply go in the middle of the night, cut a fence, and make off with someones bee colonies is a very serious offence. We take it very seriously, especially, here in Stanislaus County.

On a working day, a beekeeper can be stung up to 60 times. Photograph: Brett Murphy

The judge maintained the felony charge of grand theft (stealing anything worth more than $950). On 12 May, Villafan signed a plea deal with the court: 120 days in prison,with restitution to Johnson, and community service afterwards.

After weeks of trying to reach him, Villafan called me on the phone one night, and agreed to meet in person. A few days later, I met with him at a Starbucks in the city of Turlock, California.

Villafan was waiting at the end of a long table, his hands around a cup. He smiled to greet me, but frowned when I took out my notebook. He asked why I cared about his story, his side of things. Its all in the police report, he said.

I was interested in what had happened in the minutes and days leading up to that night in Diablo Grande, I told him about anything I could not read in the public record. Ill tell you one thing, he finally said, and thats it. I scooched forward in my chair.

I was doing an investigation about why the colonies are dying. He said his public defender never let him make the case in court, but scientific research was the motive. I was short of bees because I was trying to buy bees, but nobody wanted to sell at that time. And the ones that I did have ran out.

He told me he had lost his factory job and decided to start a career in pollination. But first he wanted to determine if colonies were, as the news said, dying out at an alarming rate. I finished my research, Villafan continued. All the stuff that they say about bees dying and the stuff like that, thats not true. Theyre not dying because of whatever. If no one knows why theyre dying, then theyre lying. Thats like the mafia. You know beekeepers, maybe they want to keep the prices high.

On a warm afternoon in late July 2015, a few months after Villafan had been sentenced, Johnson made the rounds through a couple of bee yards in Diablo Grande, where he had come across one too many dead hives. He called up a friend and fellow beekeeper, Bob Renested, who breeds queen bees and sells them for about $20 each. Queen breeders are more common further north, but Johnson needed roughly a dozen that day. With enough care and the right maintenance, a beekeeper can take a single queen and build a full, 30,000-member hive over the course of a season. The keeper slowly introduces frames of unhatched baby bees and adults, who will mate with the queen to produce the colony.

Renested told Johnson to come on by, and that there was beer in the fridge. About 30 minutes later, they sat in the shade beneath Renesteds carport. Johnson had a beer can in his hand and a wooden crate by his feet, about the size of a lunch box, where 12 bees wiggled inside individual shelves. A crate of queens looks like a model building, each bee inside a flat of its own, no larger than a thumb.

Renested told Johnson that he was selling just two more queens today, and then he was done breeding for the season. A man had pre-ordered just two bees.

Then Renesteds phone rang. He told the buyer to come around back and headed off to his warehouse to grab the queens, leaving Johnson by himself.

A short man with square features walked around the corner. Johnson stood up and out of the shade to greet him. He cocked his head to the side and squinted hard at the buyer, who quickly darted his eyes to the dirt. Silence for a moment.

Whats your name? Johnson asked, incredulous. He doesnt always trust his bad eye, after all.

Pedro.

Pedro what? Still not convinced.

Pedro Villafan.

Johnsons voice climbed a couple octaves and he let out a burst of breath. You know me, dont you Pedro?

Villafan nodded. Johnson waited another awkward beat for him to answer the obvious question.

Well? Johnson finally yelled. Why arent you in jail?

Villafan had agreed to serve his time that August. (In the end, he was released on parole after 48 days. Its literally a slap on the wrist, Annette Rees said later. All that time and effort, its kind of disheartening.)

Renested returned from the warehouse and handed Villafan two tiny shelves, a single long, dark bee in each; no yellow stripes on them. Villafan paid the man while Johnson looked on. There stood the thief who, for Johnson, represented so much trouble and heartache and not just for himself, but for every beekeeper who has come across an empty patch of grass where his hives once buzzed.

Yet Johnson was not angry, or even worried.He just saw another outsider trying to break into the industry, maybe not a neer-do-well, but by no means part of the card-carrying club.

I hope those are for your bees, Johnson said.

Yes, came the reply. They are. With that, Villafan turned and walked away, disappearing into the valley.

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from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/06/sticky-fingers-the-rise-of-the-bee-thieves-brett-murphy/

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