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I was serious djest, I am interested in what else you know. I have heard some rumors around the real estate grape vine.

Not afraid to admit when Im wrong. Achs please go ahead and and educate us on this subject with your infinite wisdom.....

achs knows almost as much on everything as I do

Achs is truly an honorable man, bench you should take lessons.


Djest I am interested in what else you know.

I'm good now. You admitted your error. You confessed to your short commings. No need to rub it in anymore.

I will admit I was wrong on the property of the old BREMCO building. The lease was signed on another property but was not the one on 221. As for having knowledge on the subject Ashe2009, I have much more knowledge than you know. But I must say looking back at previous posts you have MUCH more knowledge on everything than I do so please enlighten me.

Dog, they literally fell off the day after they closed on the three other companies.

Achs2009 I really don't feel like loo king up the deed book and page since you have the info will you please post it pretty please.

Thought they would join the high society of money making during the wonder years. Then the wheels ran off.

Their latest endeavor hs almost put them under.

Thats what I remember about them and they have done so on almost every lake they own. I think they called it bringing in partners around 2006.

Dog, when Duke went around nearly a century ago and bought up all the land around lake James, lake Norman, and Lake Wylie, one of the conditions they put on a lot of the purchases (especially around lake James) was that Duke would never develop the property. Well, Duke figured out that if they created a real estate company, and then transferred all their lake properties to Crescent, who proceeded to develop them into expensive home sites.

Then, just before the real estate bubble burst, crescent decided they should expand and buy development companies in FL, TX, and Nevada, the three hardest hit market in the country

Achs you do have a point. There are commercial building standards from the state that date back to 1905. The main one is no commercial building may be built on the exterior with wood.

As you said the plans for 221 could change by the time it is built but it still does not justify the tax value placed on that property. The pricks have gotten away with one.

The state already has the right of way bought for the new 221 beside the old Bremco building. I doubt that we will see it in the next 20 years. The criteria for building the road from Deep Gap has changed.

I have a solution to the nice Bremco building. We could sell it to some one and get some old mobile homes and weld them together and make offices out of them and just pile all the supplies they use in an old barn somewhere.

Or another solution would be to tear the rock and wood off the front of the new metal building and get some trailer underpinning and tack it up on the front. Then it would not look so nice.

This same conversation went on in coffee shops in the early 70's when they built the building on Mt Jefferson State Park road.

I have heard of them but I cant remember why.

Duke is a whole other issue and I could go way off on them and their subsidiaries. Ever hear of Crescent Properties?

I agree with fins, several years ago duke power had offices in every little town and sold appliances and heat pumps from these offices and put the payments for an appliance on the light bill each month. Well other business owners had a fit and finally they were made to stop. They simply made another separate bill and kept on for several more years until duke figured they needed to get rid of all these offices. Same goes for the propane business and the gas appliance, the generators, the surge proctors, and so on coming out of the office. Bremco was competitive on gas years past but for the last 2 their propane has been much higher then others by as much as 45 cents higher.

I'm not arguing they didn't need a new building. But there is no reason for a co-op utility to have such a nice facility. Being it is our money they are spending it should all been designed around necessity, not luxury. It's not like they don't have a captive customer base for electricity. And they shouldn't even be in the propane business competing with other businesses in the area with an unfair advantage

While you all are looking at the deeds notice the tax values of the properties. The old one has half the acreage and has a value of 2,042,800.00 the new buildings and double the land has a value of 1,080,400.00 now I know the old one is beside 221 but when the 4 lane comes through its going to take some of that land and access is going to be changed. The board has sat back and let the pricks in that tax office screw us again and this can be backed up by the asking price for the building which is still sitting there.


Yes there are things that bremco is doing and has done that help us in the long run with our power, yes they have top notch linemen and our powers reliability is second to none but they tend to ignore the public's perception on how our money is being spent in this mess of an economy.

Might want to look at Deed Book 00T4 Page 0343 September 19, 1969