Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:31:45 GMT
From: Chris Hill 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Selling house

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:20:47 GMT, xymergy@bean.rochester.rr.com wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:10:23 +0000 (UTC), dim@soda.csua.berkeley.edu
>(D. Gerasimatos) wrote:
>
>>So why do they, in the Midwest, pay $4000 for a roof and tear-off and we
>>(in California and NY) pay $14000 for the same thing?
>
>I honestly don't know the answer to that other than perhaps income and
>other high taxes?  We in these two states all have to pay those taxes,
>and wages have to keep up.  I should add, though, that my roofing
>shingles ALONE cost me $1,000 (and I know this because I bought them
>myself as I got a better price and product than my roofer did through
>his supplier), reflecting price increases over time.  I do have to
>admit that I find it hard to believe our Midwestern neighbors really
>can get a tearoff and complete new roof for less than $4k, but perhaps
>it's really true.  

It is true.  I paid around $3,000 even including having to have the
dumpster hauled off because the roofers kinda disappeared.  This was
just a couple of years ago during a summer when a lot of roofing was
done due to hale storms.  I had one layer already, it was torn off new
tar paper put down and new 25-year shingles.