I am a 33yr old, clean, non religious, no alcohol/drugs (I do smoke), no criminal record, single, childless white male who moved to Marshall NC, alone, from Michigan about 5 years ago, operating my mobile mechanic business successfully throughout Madison county and slightly into buncombe county.

Both sides of my family are Appalachia native, but headed north for the auto industry (Detroit) where I was born, when hard times fell. Luckily for me, I gained valuable skills there, before visiting here, realizing mountains are in my blood, and transplanted back here. Now here I stand in hardship with the rest of you, but determined not to leave.

I have about a week to vacate my current living situation, and my plans fell through. I will not be homeless, I can go back to Michigan where my family is if absolutely needed, but that would be crushing for me.  I do not want to leave here, I would prefer to centralize my businesss more around Ashevile/Weaverville/Hendersonville.

To do this, I will need a place to stay pretty quickly, with a minimum of 2, but ideally 3, parking spaces. I have a car, truck, and van for my tools. If push comes to shove I can store one elsewhere and make do with 2 parking spaces.

 I live simply and don’t need much or have many personal belongings apart from my vehicles and tools. Im a pretty quiet guy just trying to make a living and chase my mountain homestead dreams, like many of you.

 If you have any questions, can help, or know of someone who could, send me a message and we can video chat or meet up for lunch.  

Thanks Reddit.

Hope to stay a part of the community.

I've tried calling and emailing the county tax office. No answer. I tried submitting a form on their site.

I posted in the Madison county sub. No response.

We usually have our tax bill by now. I am wondering if the offices still aren't operating because of the storm.

Anyone else have a number they can get through to?

Thanks.

EDIT: In case anyone else has the same question. Thank you to a kind redditor - they have a new temporary number.

828-319-0958

Tax bills will be going out in a week.

Just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who has stepped up to help our community. God Bless these first responders and police officers. They have handled this with the utmost professionalism. And all of these people coming out of the woodwork to help us.... it's a beautiful thing!

Ingles in Mars Hill has NOT behaved like a homegrowm company throughout this entire ordeal.... their operation has been downright criminal. Wasting all of that frozen food, denying community members access to resources .... to my knowledge not a drop of gas allotted to linemen and first responders. Once the dust settles from this tragedy we will all need to seriously reasses patronizing this business.

My gf's husband had not been able to locate his aunt and uncle pictured. They were told the house was leveled. Any info about this couple would be appreciated. Prayers lifted for you all. 🙏❤️

I26 will take you up to the final nc exit and detour backroads to and through erwin from there hop on 26 north to johnson city and everything is normal. Publix and ingles had plenty of food. All fast food and gas stations are open. You likely can stop at north erwin area walmart without having to go as far but I can't confirm what they have available stock wise. Erwin did have gas pumping as of 1pm at 2 stations also

Long line to get in.

My friends are stuck in Mars Hill and have no where to get gas, where can they go to get anything to help them get out?

They were letting people go in to get groceries. People were getting gas as of noon 9/28/24

Does anyone know how Mars Hill University is doing after the hurricane? My nephew (more like my little brother), goes there and we haven't been able to get in touch with him since Friday. From what I've heard, the school is doing ok, but I'm just so fucking worried.

Curious how Mars Hill has faired from hurricane Helene?

Reminder to take the public survey open til 8/30:

If you have time to take a survey about your priorities for the Asheville region's transportation network (Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood, and Madison counties), your input is very important! And please share with your friends too. The MTP is a key planning effort that will help dictate funding for the next 25 years as far as transportation projects are concerned 😎

https://publicinput.com/mtpvisionsurvey

Obviously this is way overvalued. It looks like someone at the tax office looked up my home estimate on Zillow and then just added $50K. The Madison County Tax Department is preying on people who are too busy/burdened to proceed through the appeals process. I'm planning to fight this as long as it takes.

What are the closest picnic benches (or gazebos) for outside lunch near Main Street ?