Updated Spirit grills for 2025


 
Jim C in Denver said:
55+ cap gains exclusion was repealed like 25 years ago?
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It isn't cap gains exclusion.

it is a California thing. If you meet certain criteria you can sell your current home, buy another home in the same county and transfer the base tax value from the home being sold to the newly purchased home. A few counties support inter-county transfers.

The intent is to remove an impediment for an empty nester from selling their larger home to downsize because of the big tax increase.

edit: in the end, the state makes out, otherwise owners don't move because they can't or don't want to pay the higher taxes.

for example.
Scenario 1:
Owner has a home valued at 1M house with tax base value of 500K and pays taxes on 500K.
New buyer comes along and can't find a larger house for sale and settles for a smaller house at 800K.
State gets tax revenue on 1.3M

Scenario 2:
Owner of 1M house buys smaller house for 800K, transfers the 500K basis keeps paying the same property tax.
New buyer buys the house at 1M and gets a tax basis of 1M
State gets tax revenue on 1.5M

In the scenario above, the 300K reduction in tax basis lowers the property tax about 3K per year.
 
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DanHoo said:
If you meet certain criteria you can sell your current home, buy another home in the same county and transfer the base tax value from the home being sold to the new home. A few counties support inter-county transfers.
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Prop 19 makes it statewide. I just happened to move within Sacramento country. So basis transfer was ridiculously simple.
 
Another observation is the 4 burner model is barely larger than the 3, and it just seems like they crammed in another burner just to say "oh it's a 4 burner".
 
Bruce said:
Do we know how much more BTU rating is the 4 burner over the three burner?
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Weber's site has the ratings, but they are in kW/h. 🤷‍♂️ When I went to school a Watt was a measure of electrical power.

Anyway, I converted them, so I guess these are BTU-hours ?

this is for an spirit 330

Main burners: kW/h 9.38 == 32K BTU all burners or 10.66 BTU per burner
Sear Station burner: kW/h 2.20 == 7.5 K BTU sear burner
Side burner: kW/h 3.52 == 12K side burner

the Sprit 310 main burners are the same as the spirit 330: 9.38 kW/h


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LMichaels said:
I know the 2 on the right are higher BTU or the "sear zone". But I did not look. I actually was shopping for jeans :D
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Are you talking about the spirit or Genesis? I was looking at a more base model and didn’t notice a difference of the burner BTU. Didn’t have a Genesis when I went. I think they were just getting their grill section put up because a guy rolled a 4 burner blackstone out while we were there
 
Cody Bratton said:
Are you talking about the spirit or Genesis? I was looking at a more base model and didn’t notice a difference of the burner BTU. Didn’t have a Genesis when I went. I think they were just getting their grill section put up because a guy rolled a 4 burner blackstone out while we were there
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The 3 burner and 4 burner spirit. Which do not have specific sear burner but an area where the burners are allowed to run at higher BTU like the older LX system in the Genesis.
To be clear I did look at the updated Genesis as well. and as noted in first post left me MEH
 
You're only partially correct. Weber is to blame. Back in the 80s they set incredibly high standards for mid priced gas grills. And I have high standards for what I expect for the $$$. Am I unreasonable? IDK, but I see products like Napoleon producing higher standards products for the $$$ spent by the customer. I want to see something that "stands out" from everything else. Adding gadgets isn't cutting it for me
 
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