Sector Strategies

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GFP, With LAND and DBA, I was trying a trading system and it was not working like I thought, only lost a couple hundred, but was just toying. I could see the light. All I got is RIBT, waiting for the final dispersal which I hope happens in early August. Guessing they are waiting for the Q2 financials.

Santefe2 is not one to debate. He is a closed minded liberal. Dew had a great active poster there, OakesCS, Charley Oakes. He is a scientist for a major oil company and really knows his stuff. He got so ticked at Santefe that he quit posting a couple of years ago. I was a roofing and siding contractor for 30 years, retired in 2008. Santefe was talking up solar panels on roofs and I could not tell him the costs and hassle of doing a second roof or even roof repair with solar panels already on the the roof.
1. To do a 2nd roof, you got to take the panels down and reinstall them to do the roof. So, double the original labor of the original solar install. If the installer would not do it, no contractor with 10% of a brain would want anything to do with the job.
2. Roof leak" maybe a simple job, but remove panels to get at it? A $200 repair might need the solar company to remove and reinstall.
3. They were just coming in the last 1/2 of my career. I would not touch the job, it would be what we call a "Drive By".
4. I did do 2 jobs that had solar, but the owners had them taken down before i started the job and thrown away before I started the job, by agreement. They were not saving them anywhere near the cost of them after 10 years, in one of the 2. I had reroofed his house 20 years earlier, then 5 years later put them up. 15 years an losing money.
5. Imagine a roofer trying to take them down and reinstall and he breaks a panel and they probably won't make the same panel 10 years down the road. OMG.

BTW, I passed up a couple of siding jobs that had panels on the south side of the house.

Summary, they are a rip off and might save money if electric rates inflation adjusted went up 8 fold or more and if they lasted 20 years and redid the roof and solar at the same time.

My folks had a double wide trailer winter home on Key Largo. They had a big shed with a shower in it. Above it was a big black water tank with a valve water line to fill it as needed. By noon everyday it was warm enough to take a shower. Now, that was efficient solar and it was free, except for the big flat tank.

GFC, on the whole, I love Mexican people. 2/3's the way through my business years we had a big hailstorm here in Minnesota in 1998 and storm chasers brought in Mexican roofers from Texas, and many stayed and more followed with other storms. Near the end I had 2 crews of Mexicans. They would have worked 12 hours per day 6 days a week if I had the work, needed church on Sunday. Before them I had like white alcoholics, etc. I had only 1 Black in 30 years and he only lasted 1 month. I will take the Mexicans any day. The problem now is our government is ruining them with free money like they have done to the Blacks. My lover and I hope there is reincarnation and she and I will end up reincarnated together on another planet.