The Housing Bubble

I meant a real book not the ones meant for the mentally impaired.

If renting is cheaper than buying all the way up to the point that you meet the Grim Reaper, shouldn’t you be celebrating the subsidy?

Try getting over the housing obsession. You might find that you have a quite a ways to invest/enjoy that surplus money that you have.

Humans are weird.

It’s just a house, dude! It can’t love you back.

fly under your threshold

I hear ya, somedays it feels like this:

Backseat driver: “The car antenna is bent!”
Driver retorts: “The brake pedal feels soft.”
Backseat driver: “When does this down-hill Mtn. road flatten out?”
Driver retorts: “The power-steering is gone”
Backseat driver: “Can’t you go faster, we’ll be late to church”
Driver retorts: “The front wheel is wobbly”
Backseat driver: “Did you empty the trash before we left?”

I hope it dails in the courts too. Cash is the last fortress of privacy in the business world. If I buy something at the Goodwill, I don’t want datamining outfits like ChoicePoint knowing it. They’d sell the info and soon I’d be targeted for advertising for check cashing places and secured credit cards.

I told them that earlier in the week, cat, but I don’t think anyone believed me. This law will be gone as soon as they find a simpathetic plaintiff to bring the suit. It shouldn’t matter legally, but they will probably look for a business that can demonstrate that they have never purchased/sold stolen property.

My crystal ball says Louisiana banks will start charging a fee for every check written. Your 30-cent beanie baby now costs $2

Umm…oxide, when Bill says “school marm” he is talking about me, and I was the first person to say that this law is going to fail in the courts the first time anyone tests it (immediately). A little support would be appreciated.

For some reason, Bill thinks school teachers are bad, evil people, perhaps because they get paid vacations and health insurance and retirement plans and they educate children. I don’t think Bill has much use for any of those things.

Does the realtor find any properties for you that you can’t just as easily find yourself through an on-line MLS search? Maybe we’re spoiled out here in SLC, we have a pretty good search tool available to us.

Muggy,
Hi. You or your wife or both of you should get RE licenses.
You’re thinking of spending ~ $200K right? You can spend a few hundred bucks and few weekends to get licensed and do your own search.

Ok, since I am licensed in Ca. I’ll catch the bait. (Did commercial REIT/residential on days permiting.)Realtors work on a relationship basis with each other. If the listing agent doesn’t like your pillar of the community realturd, then your offer is at the bottom of the pile anyway. It’s a honors and kiss arse situation. (Speaking from So Ca, mind you. But I assume it’s national.)
I would take the control back from him, like you plan. I would make him obey your command. He can’t control prices. Market forces always prevail.

In Ca (and I assume in Fl) all R E agreements must be in writing to be enforceable. You can walk. I found the biggest producers to be the worst to work with. They have relationships with other realturds, but many have burned many bridges. yin & yang. You owe this dude nothing.

Hey, ask him (or next pick) for a few thousand as a rebate at closing to buy appliances. That will tell you a lot. My Irish (but acts Jewish) husband did, and got it.

And you can take a 10 minute smoke break every 15 minutes. Thank goodness for unions.

I’m living that dream as we speak. Currently trying to decide whether to start job hunting again. Will probably mean a move to the coasts, or overseas; there aren’t many jobs requiring my skill set out here in BFE.

I’d take it, and be grateful

Eyes hear ya, but things seem to be different in Alabama:

Some Alabama Businesses Having Trouble Replacing Immigrant Workers:
by Seth Hoy / Immigration Impact

Just two weeks after Alabama’s extreme immigration law (HB 56) went into effect, many are reporting an exodus of immigrants, Latinos and their families from the state. While HB 56 supporters cheer the exodus as a victory, many Alabama businesses say they are left without an adequate workforce. Despite assurances from Governor Bentley that U.S. citizens will gladly take those jobs, Alabama farmers, meat processors and housing contractors are finding that U.S. citizen or legal workers are either not willing or able to take those jobs—leaving fruit to rot on the vine and home reconstructions projects unfinished. Not only will this hurt Alabama business in the short term, economists say, but will shrink the state’s economy and productivity over time.

To test Governor Bentley’s claim, Alabama tomato farmer Jerry Spencer recruited more than 50 U.S. citizen workers, gave them free transportation and paid them to pick fruit and work the fields. Only a few worked for more than two or three days. One stayed for the entire two weeks. According to Spencer, “people weren’t in good enough physical condition to work harder or longer hours and typically gave up when faced with acre after acre of tomato plants ready to be picked.”

Other farmers, like Helen Jenkins, are also having a problem filling labor shortages. “You can’t get the (American) workers out here to do the work that the Hispanics were doing. It’s just not working,” Jenkins said. Another farmer, Chad Smith, said his family’s farms stands to lose as much as $150,000 this season with no one to pick tomatoes.

3. “It’s all BS folks”

If only, they had been paying attention during all those Jane Austen novels, the Fitzgerald novels, and a zillion others, they might actually have figured this one out.

Critical analysis, where art thou?

If a solution to too much owed leveraged debt is, say, bankruptcy then whoever it is that is owed gets screwed punished suffers immensely dies a sudden-death, say, like Lehman Bros.

There are certain “not-to-be-named” entities that are exempt an exception to this current law of “Bidne$$”

LOL, perfect.

“Stokholm syndrome.”

BINGO!

Heaven forbid he blow $10K on something he enjoys.

Of course, you’d have to have ANY interests at all besides money to do that!

I loved those Uncle Scrooge comic books when I was a pup. The Terries and the Fermies was a classic.

Anywho, Ra$h Limpbaugh$ is rabidly $crathing his groin itchie$:

Why Rush Limbaugh Is Freaking Out About Occupy Wall Street:

POSTED: October 18 2011 Rolling Stone / Matt Taibbi Taibblog

This isn’t evidence that mainstream politicians are caving to the movement, of course, but what it does show is that those same politicians are endorsing OWS rhetoric, and by extension tacitly admitting the basic truth of the great-many-versus-very-few protest narrative.

Rush chalks this up to a media deception, a mirage of TV images and “media-Democrat-industrial complex” manipulations designed to con the country into believing in the existence of a mass movement.

The reality, of course, is that people like Rush, Romney and Obama are all becoming cognizant of the deep frustrations that exist across the political spectrum and are growing desperate to prevent the powder keg from blowing completely – hence the intense effort to describe OWS as a top-down manipulation.

Of course the notion that this is all a media fabrication is ludicrous. Dylan Ratigan didn’t invent four million people in foreclosure, he didn’t invent ten trillion dollars in bailouts, and he didn’t invent Wall Street’s $160 billion bonus pool the year after the crash of its own creation.

People out there do not need media figures to tell them how fu#ked things are, or how pissed they should be that the same bankers who caused the crash are now enjoying state-supported bonuses in the billions, while everyone else gets squeezed. As someone who has been covering this stuff for three years, I can say with confidence that people across the country don’t need a push to be angry. They’re already there, and have been there for years. Rush should go hang out outside a foreclosure court in his home state of Florida for a few hours, if he wants to see where the rising heat under these protests is coming from.

Anyway, the hysterical responses from the Rushes of the world are just more signs that these protests are working. I never thought I’d see it, but some of the dukes and earls high up in America’s Great Tower of Bullshit are starting to blink a little bit. They seem genuinely freaked out that OWS doesn’t have leaders or a single set of demands, which in addition to being very encouraging is quite funny.

“Break the chains of collectivist thinking.”

We should do this as a group.