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BTR Weekender: October 19, 2024
Get off the wrong train. Husbands need notes. Kitchen flips. The value-add operator. Spruce Pine, the most important place you've never heard of.
Matt H
October 19, 2024
Every weekend is worth celebrating.
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Off we go!
DEFINITELY THE MARKET
PROTECT SPRUCE PINE
The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.
There are no alternative sources known. From Conway’s Material World:
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
4:41 PM • Mar 9, 2024
More on the importance of Spruce Pine and its pure quartz here.
ADDING VALUE
We’re value-add operators, adding value through a proprietary system of adding valuable subway tile, while leaving new valuable meat-on-the-bone opportunities for the next buyer to add value in a valuable way.
— m. stanfield (@resetbasis)
11:19 PM • Sep 19, 2024
GOOD IDEA FOR MORE THAN JUST TILE
I understand.
— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus)
12:41 AM • Oct 3, 2024
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