How slow is it?

muddermankc

I knew it was gonna be bad 2 years ago when Pulte homes announced they were pulling out of Kansas City. I was bummed because they had a HUGE subdivision 2 miles away from my shop in Lees Summit Mo. We did about 20 houses and they closed down the fort and bailed. Ive seen alot of builders go under in the last year or two, a few are still goin. Brand new neighborhoods completed that look like a ghost town. From what i hear kansas city is one of the better off places. Just curious how everyone else is doin. Remember when you seen someone you hadnt seen in a while and you always started out by saying "keeping buisy"now it seems almost sh*tty to say that. You guys have probably talked about this a thousand times and are sick of talking about it but i just joined. Interesting to talk to people around the country that crazy enough to love this trade too. peace out skillets

Whitey97

Pulte's are still strong here, but they only hire the amigo's. As they charge pennies per sf. Besides those are what they are... cracker jack boxes, that are just made to put up. No quality.

*side note - - - - - - - -
a lot is 2 words
you don't seen people, you saw them.

brdn_drywall

i kinda hate replying to these kinda threads because I've doubled my workforce in the last month, busier than hell over here.
obama will turn things around over there quick enough but it'll take a generation to pay-off his spending so git your asses in gear when it finally trickles down into the hands of home buyers buying new houses getting ya back to normal.
just don't bitch to much when things get good again and he's forced to hike taxes to pay it off, friggen wall street put the world on hold temporarilly, those suits should be punished to hang board in arizona or florida during the summer as punishment make em sweat to earn a buck.

muddermankc

Whity , I seen alot of them there pulte houses to. gracious Antonio

Whitey97

Whitey97

Obama.... yeah.... change......yeah.....

it's only for 4 years...... we can last

brdn_drywall

mccain woulda spent his way out just the same so whats the dif, something tells me you don't like your prez "whitey" lol

Whitey97

I'll hold my opinions as I don't want this to become a political debate. Thank you

Darren@Partners

Hmmm, Mudderman, you be a drywall "star", eh?

Darren@Partners

Obama Change 3 quarters 2 dimes a nickel

muddermankc

nope darren, former WBS

Frankawitz

I heard that Pulte and Sentex are joining forces to become the country's largest home builder, with the Quality of Pulte Homes, Boy this should be good, I don't know much about Sentex, but if they hire the low ballers who work on Pulte Homes, well this will mean more crapping houses that will need rebuild and remodeling within a couple of years, Here in Michigan Pulte moved to a factory style building, cause the contractors they hire do crap work, so this way they figure they can control Quality
Still crap houses.



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Darren@Partners

Mudderman, been killing me to know, how were things at WBS when you left?

bob16

The drywall want ads disappeared where i live (suburbs of NYC) around late 2001. They haven't returned. With 36 years in this business i can say that is by far the worst downturn in the drywall labor market i have ever seen.

Thanks Bush and republicans.

Any wonder why they got fired from all branches of the government.

They are nuts with their market fundamentalism. No matter how many times they end up losing (remember Daddy Bush getting fired too) because of their insane economic policy they refuse to change.

rabb

thing are bad here in chicago for me ,i am 53 year's old ,man it's bad here
last to come and first to go

Frankawitz

Bob, you need to look back to 1998 when Barney Frank was running the committee who was over looking Fannie May and Freddy Mac, Clinton started this mess. sub prime lending People living over and above their means, GREED

Wait intil GM drops there are going to be all kinds of people out of work, Housing Market isn't going to come back for 5 years maybe more. the other thing is yeah Taxes are going to go up, figure around 50% or more, or who knows we just might move right over to Socialism

LadyFinisher

In my opinion, I think it's important to remember that the nature of things is simple: What goes up must come down; What goes down must go up.
A certain amount of time will go by and as the people at large start to feel safe again things will get better. This all happened before in the 30's, the great depression, the difference between now and then is there are programs that help most families to feed their children. Those programs were put in place due to the hunger during the depression. This is/ was just as bad as it was then. Some businesses will go under and others will make it through. Probably before it is all over there might be a tax increase. Maybe this time we, as americians, will learn to make better chioces about our spending and savings, etc.
Just my opinion.

A+ Texture LLC

I can't help but think bob is sort of a sheep. I can't help but role my eyes when I read stuff like that. Anyone who really believes one is better than the other is a fool. All presidents are "bought" before getting into office. My wifes family is all Bush is evil this and Bush that. My parents are all Obama is evil and Obama that. The honest president would be the one with no ties to lobbying groups, and would never get elected. However, as a conservative, I still wish the media gave the right the same treatment they give the left. I also wish a white person could make an observation that was true and not be pinned a racist, but neither will happen anytime soon.

eastex1963

I agree 100%. Well said, A+.

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