Tim Oakes

Ky born, Indpls raised - property owner in both. Bit Metro-Jethro, but been to Heathrow. If we live to 102, it was a short life - try to enjoy, laugh, & love.

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@lhkobe @Oldtimers365 🤔
Pulled by mules or oxen?
😉

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@ListClose @MmisterNobody Where does the Boomer wealth (assuming it's not all in their homes) go when they pass? 🤔. Agree that home prices seem positioned for pressure downward but where does much of the wealth go? Overpriced "middle" neighborhoods perhaps feel it eventually, but what about prime areas?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

I was a happy 11 yr old that day, and it never occurred to me that I would become a lifelong Pacers' fan only months later

[NBA to Louisville @nba2lou]

May, 22nd 1975. 🏆

51 years ago today the Kentucky Colonels defeat the Indiana Pacers (4-1) inside Freedom Hall @kyexpocenter in front of 17k fans.

1975 ABA Champions

@COLCOMEBACK @abathrowbacks @ArtisGilmore53 @DanIssel44 @HubieTalksHoops

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@Edward_Holloran Check your numbers - they took out some restrooms, think they are at 407,223

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@theficouple Fact sensitive

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@realEstateTrent I would add the American Education system and parenting - poor contracts + people talk past each other, don't know how to ask questions (Socratic method is now too 'aggressive'), don't understand words can mean different things depending on context, dialect, etc

[ListClose @ListClose]

@realEstateTrent Custom builds go wrong more often than people expect. The problem is usually not the design, it's the contract. Vague scopes, weak payment schedules, and no penalty clauses turn small disputes into years of litigation fast.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Something I’ve noticed over time:

As people rise in social status, they start filtering who they respond to, how quickly they respond, and how open they are, largely based on the other person’s status.

And that bar keeps moving.

The people who made the cut six months ago suddenly don’t anymore as their own status rises.

Texts go unanswered, calls don’t get returned, and access changes.

Eventually, their entire circle becomes a reflection of status, and not character. Without shared values or real connection - just proximity to perceived importance.

At some point, you’re no longer choosing people. You’re choosing status.

And the reality is, the same people you chose for their status are doing the exact same thing.

The second yours slips, they’re gone.

And then, who’s left?

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@ListClose Usually paying for resale, schools, location, hopefully appreciation, oh, and location 😉

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@ListClose 🤔
You're saying the sale is the client and goal, and the client is just a mechanism for the agents?
🤔 Huh, "never made the connection"

(Bob & Tom "Mr Obvious" reference)

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@Edward_Holloran @tonydindy Abe Amidor (sp?) was a reporter for Indianapolis News. He wrote a long article about the history and influence of Appalachia and Indpls -he specifically noted Somerset, Harlan and others in the article. Working class people 💪🏻

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@Edward_Holloran @tonydindy 16th & where? 🤔 Wonder how that street got its name? Hint: not England (not directly anyway).

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@theficouple Alternative view from someone who has been both. When I finally started making money, I still drove, and still do drive dependable older vehicles (think 10 yrs old & 200K miles). But if you're poor, that car is your lifeline; it is your only means to work or perhaps to a school.

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@realEstateTrent Also, get 'em up early, real early, wear them out the first day, all day, as if your soul depended on it. This allows you to avoid the shenanigans at night when you're trying to sleep and don't want to wake up in middle of the night to hunt "strays"

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@realEstateTrent If you don't walk around the four corners of the perimeter of the camp area, and pee in every corner the first night, the other dads will just "know" 🤦 #dontbethatguy

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@BarbellFi California? Illinois?

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

🤔

[Accidentally Retired @AcdntlyRetired]

The older I get the less I perform for other people.

No status games. No pretending to want things I don't.

The right people respect that. The wrong ones drift away.

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@realEstateTrent 2/2 athlete dad(s), well known, Div 1 former players, odds are their kid is a gump (but still treated differently). But the grumpy dad's boy is a stud, WHEN ... (researches mom) mom was Div 1 athlete.
Not always true, but more true than not 🤷🏻

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@realEstateTrent Deferred dreams of their own adolescence. The behavior towards refs and coaches is worse. Also, get ready for the "politics" of it all ... still talking 5 -11 yr olds here. Also, interesting psychology/DNA facts ... 1/2

[Tim Oakes @Oakes2Tim]

@AcdntlyRetired For these next 20 yrs? Probably stocks, but any 20 yr period anywhere in the future? Real estate. But not just commercial or residential - farmland, also land with natural water sources and plenty of game. Live on the latter, use or lease the farmland, and also do residential.