Real Estate Talks

But let me call your bluff. Even at 5% appreciation/year (which is low by historical standards). An 800K house will gain 40K/year. Let's say I pay your $1200.00/mo rent for a whole year. You've saved $14,400, or roughly 1/3 the amount you would have gained by owning. And don't forget, there is an e...

I'm not angry at all. Responding to ETB is like a silly little guilty pleasure... you know your not going to get anywhere, but it's still amusing to see what he / she is going to post next. Thinktom's guilty pleasure is the UFC (which I don't think is a guilty pleasure at all), mine is debating with...

[quotes]Since late 2009 early 2010 your posts have taken a negative and abrasive tone. You've resorted to name-calling and become belligerent.[/quote] If you say so. Since you seem to enjoy mining old posts, please do me the favour of picking posts over the past couple of years where I've been abusi...

I think realtor skills are more like strategies. If I'm FSBO I'm not bound by any code of ethics. Thus, I would tell buyers agent that there are other offers on the home even if this were not true. If an offer came in even 50K above my asking I would say there is already a higher offer and the "bid...

I don't think ETB meant it that way

Yup - that's the beauty of arrogance. The offenders don't usually realize how much of a prick they come off as.

"thinktom" "eyesthebye" What I don't understand is why you can't wish other the same whatever the endeavour - including selling their own home. Instead it's fearmongering and scare tactics.] Your lack of an apology for your misguided and false insinuations speaks far louder than your words. Flowers...

I have friends in the market similarly well-healed with income 400K+/yr. They've even made the statement that they can't compete with the kind of money being bid for decent homes on the westside (barely west - anything b/w Main and Cambie should be called central). I think they are refusing to acce...

Thats awesome. Eyes needs to be forgiven - he's probably never held actual gold before, hence would not know how heavy a small amount can be... I didn't bother checking the fact that China has 1024 tons of gold, but assuming they do, that would only fill up a decent size living room.... 13' x 17' x...

"metalhead" Apparently all the gold mined since the beginning of man would only fill two olympic sized pools. that's utter bullshit. Chinese govt alone has 1054 tons reserve - that's over 2 million pounds! Do you ever bother to run simple calculations? Weight of gold is about 1200 lbs / cubic foot....

I recently heard an analyist on TV say "when you owe the bank $1000, you worry. When you owe the bank $1,000,000, the bank worries". He used the analogy to illustrate the relationship between the US and China and the co-dependancy. China lends the US money, so the US can buy things made in China.