One thing that irks me about NH is the live free or die motto yet it still has a regressive state vehicle inspection. State inspection hasn’t been proven to decrease auto accidents and it’s a huge hassle on older cars. The only thing it’s good for is pushing new car sales.

Im actually surprised how low that is. Are they accounting for savings?

To be fair peak resorts (prior owner) didn’t give a shit about wildcat either.

They are extremely poorly funded and underpaid.

In southern new england propane drivers would freak out and say they cant deliver. It seems to have happened a couple times in my life.

I think politicians love supporting gun control since it’s popular in many states and it gets them reelected without really having to work for anything.

Maybe central ma is also part of western ma

Wow, why not just go above ground at that point?

Those early season storms are usually extra slippery because they’re layers of ice and water. Also everyone has almost 9mo of non winter driving habits to break.

It probably increases the cost significantly to put overhead solar. Energy is so expensive in MA already.

Elsewhere where lol most land in that area already has a purpose. Repurposing it for forest isn’t likely.

What? All the way from taxes filed at the beginning of the year?

I owed money, the certainly took that right away.

Im surprised he survived bow hunting season. I’ve heard there’s a surprising amount of turkey hunting in urban areas of MA. Walking through a park yesterday in my suburban town I was surprised to see a sign that said hunting permitted within season.

Im sure they’re doing very well with the highest delivery fees in the country.

Yeah eversource is highway robbery but there’s not much we can do. Our representatives aren’t willing to take serious action here. A few towns have it handled on a local level by setting up their own delivery.

On the supply side you can usually switch suppliers. I’m with residents energy on a 6 month contract. Not sure what it is exactly but when I looked it was much cheaper than the default supplier.

I’ve never heard anyone talk about it before but I discovered you can switch your delivery fees a little. There’s different billing rates based on what you’re using the electricity for. “R-1 general” is the default but “R-3 heating” is a few cents a kwh cheaper. I heat with mini splits so I qualify but that said they don’t verify anyway.

Also in MA the “masssave” program is paid already by taxes and whatnot. They’ll come insulate your house so heating is cheaper. They’ll also replace and inefficient incandescent bulbs and give discounts on some appliances.

Certain rent control measures can/could work but it’s difficult to tune things properly.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-does-economic-evidence-tell-us-about-the-effects-of-rent-control/

If you cap increases then the rent always increases by that much every single year. 3% is probably very fair for a small rent increase every year.

If the profit isn’t there then no renovations will happen. Housing will become dated and the minimum maintenance to keep it up to code will be performed (which is what happens anyway in some cases).

Once in a home it’s difficult for tenants to leave because their rent is on the low end but newer leases are on the highest end of the spectrum. The landlord will try as much as possible to average it out so they receive the same (or more) income than they did before rent control.

I think it might be subconsciously speeding up because they now realize they’re going slow.