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Buy a bigger home (for living and for LEGO), and rent out your current home - your future self will thank you.

To give an American perspective... I live in Southern California. MV-22s are flying overhead every day. Honestly, they are damn cool to see. I can see many a Marine that would want this set.

If you filled an unoccupied house with LEGO in a “lower cost” area in Australia , some one would be busting into it before you got off the driveway to leave. 🤣

Open it and verify. There are a lot fewer box lickers than it seems, and that box wouldn't be up to par for them anyways. If you're not selling it on Amazon, there isn't a huge price drop between NISB and NIOB. Just list it as "open box, sealed bags". Just take a picture of the bags as well. I've had to open many boxes from Walmart when they've hit deep clearance prices. Never had anyone ask why it was open.

This is the key, IMO. It makes perfect sense for many different reasons. Not positive on this, but interest/insurance rates may be a bit higher because it's not your primary residence? On a side note, it's topics like this that make me realize I am a small fish in a big fish game.

A step in the instructions from a bootleg Lego set. I wonder if they provide the knife tool?

I have been trying to find warehouse space near me for a couple years now. Most locations are a 30 minute drive on a good day. Rent runs 1500$ for 1200-2000 sq ft. I live in a medium size metropolitan city which doesn't have very much commercial space. Without going too much into the details I haven't been impressed with the warehouse options available to me. I am now considering purchasing a home near me in a lower cost area of town and using it as a Lego warehouse/shipment location. With current interest rates I could snag a 1300-1600$ mortgage and have a 2000sq ft place to run my business. I could always rent it out if I found a better option. My financial situation is pretty good so I'm not worried about being stuck with 2 mortgages. Does this sound insane? Am I missing anything? Are there any tricks for securing a second mortgage with the intention of using it for business?

The damaged box is just dumb if they are planning to build it. Reach out to the buyer kindly and offer them a partial refund and then reach out to Lego’s broken and missing pieces dept. and explain the issue about the duplicate bag. If they cannot help you, find out what pieces were in the bag and offer to find sellers and pay the cost for the missing parts.

For US, a home owner can have a primary residence and a secondary residence...this is key because the attractive mortgage rates apply to primary or secondary homes ONLY...rates typically jump up 0.5 to 1 % for a business or rental home. I believe if you don't already have 2 residences, you can claim a home as a primary or secondary; secure the loan, and then rent it out later (banks never check, AFAIK). it's a crazy idea based on the high housing costs in my area...I couldn't find a broken down shack for less than $700K within a 30 minute drive...heck 1 hour drive.

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I have been thinking the same thing.....outgrown the current house and need a another one for all the LEGO. A bonus would be more garage space as I want to garage more of my vehicles. The only thing I would say is have a long term plan. Most houses don't make financial sense until 5 to 10 years in. Life can change.....Do you see yourself 1: Doing the LEGO reselling thing long term? and 2: what is your life going to be down the road in some years (job, happy with the area, family, budgeting etc? For me I am only working in my current location for about 6 more years until retirement at the ripe old age of 39 . I don't intend to stay here so I purchased my current house as a rental property for some retirement income in the future. I can justify a second house to be eventually another rental house. Think it through, take your time, calculate out a budget, plan for things to go wrong and reason out a smart plan.

I continue to grow more and more tired of the world, each and every day.

$10 Facebook find. Oak cabinet, termite damage, split back legs. Stripped, repaired, sanded, stained, three new coats of poly. Now in the dining room housing all the school workbooks for the fall.

Finished the Joker Bricksketch this morning. Much more interesting and substantial compared to the Batman build. One interesting feature of the Joker is that if you throw him up on a wall or shelf, the eyes tend to follow you due to the way they're sunk into his face. Really creepy. Here are the stop motion videos I made if you want to see the guts: Joker: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradtrainer/video/6851210050606730502 Batman: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradtrainer/video/6850814993437379845 Overall I really like these sets, but wish they were at the Brickheadz price point or included a minifig.

most likely different regional version. if you have one of those european version it has a different code compared to US upc code. It's showing up a lot more maybe because of the supply issue.

We are tearing the back of the house off so that I can build a big lego city in a new basement... (my wife will tell you we are doing it to add a family room and a laundry...) Anyhoo, I have to move and store for 3-4 months, built sets, modulars, mechs, etc. I was thinking about buying 12"x12"x18" boxes and stashing them in there, expecting some rebuilding to need to happen. Does anyone else have a suggestion?

only 7 %, don't let the certain people here that... you can't be here unless you get everything at a minimum of lego pay you to take sets...

Not sure how much this is possible in your situation, but I heard lately that those large unified sea containes 20/40 feet approx are either for sale or rent for ridiculous prices given the drop in sea cargo trading due to the Virus. They provide sufficient break-in protection, lots of square footage, not sure about dampness / humidity its also based on an exact location, but surely they can always "insulated" from outside, have something built around it etc.. I guess those would be the cheapest storage unit one could get these days.

To be honest I personally don't think it's been opened. The seals would have surely cause more damage if removed which you would be able to see. Everytime I've peeled one of those it destroys the underside.

7261 Clone Turbo Tank (non-light up Mace). This set has been a white whale of mine for a while, finally found a mostly complete one for a good price. I thought the build was great and it displays very well, I was surprised at the footprint of it overall. Looks like a centipede atat from the way the picture was taken

200 is the baseline limit on most items right now.

I've read too many horror stories of people being cleaned out of their whole collection from an off-site storage solution to think this is a good idea. I suppose it'd be easier to set up a house with remote cameras and an alarm system than a rented warehouse space. Also consider what a strange sight you'd be to your new neighbors and even whether it'd be legal to use the home for purely business use in your town. There are also the tax considerations, I'm not a CPA, but if YOU owned the home in what way does your business claim deductions for it?

Have you looked into storefronts? I bet you could find something cheap to lease.

I’ve bought near $20 grand worth of sets from LEGO over a few years and blown the limit heaps of times. They just cancel it and annoyingly , hang onto my money for a week. Your not banned, it’s your card.

I've heard of someone else doing this - they literally brought the house next door. You're right, rates are pretty good. Though a house may require more ongoing maintenance? Will be interested to hear how you get on!

If that doesn't work out for him, there's always mime school...

Pretty obvious, I meant for personal collection it's not an exciting set. Some people (not here) act like the best UCS set ever got cancelled.

ten or more yrs ago the world was not full of eco-terrorists, rallies for "undecided sex", mee-too movements and such.. the World was still OK..

I understand why LEGO cancelled the original Las Vegas arch set. It was still a couple months out, so possible to go all stop on it before it gets out there. But this set is a week away from being a shelves. Could easily get out into the wild. I get Lego's thought process on this - preserving the brand - but considering how many people are involved in creating a set, you would think someone would have caught this much sooner in the process. I personally find it embarrassing for the company. You only now realize that it's not part of your brand values?

Lego’s continual rational for this is just mind numbingly stupid. What, the WW1 Sopwith camel and Fokker biplanes weren’t military related? Just create a line of 18+ bricks for adults who like war models and see your profits climb.

oh man do i feel like I need to start running again.

Pre-Order Live on Target now: https://www.target.com/p/lego-harry-potter-attack-on-the-burrow-75980/-/A-78930010 - $99.99

Powder Mark Zuckerberg is amazing as applying sunscreen.

Wait, This isn't a hoax? /ponder

And yet people still continue to push for kids to be crammed into schools this year...

Celebrated that the negative feedback(the only one I have ever received) on eBay doesn't count towards my score anymore since it has been a year. Finally at 100% Feedback! The buyer wanted me to ship to a forwarding company and I said no and cancelled. He left bad feedback. I asked him and eBay to remove and they didn't. He brought my score down to 88% and it has slowly been going up as I receive more positive but now that it doesn't count. I'm at 100% HOORAY!!

I like Chris Roach's work.

They ever do he-man or transformers, I will buy every set.

If Voltron can be a successful ideas set, something like this could easily surpass 21311 sales, imo.

It's pretty slick tbh.

6 base plates from Target. 6 base plates from Target.

Turned a book shelf destined for the dump into a nice piece for the baby's room. (took about 2 weeks between sanding, painting and staining.)