Remember back in the dark ages, when Seattle Bubble was chained down to Blogger, and therefore didn’t have any way to add cool things like sidebar inventory trackers and built-in polls? Despite these archaic limitations, way back in August of last year, we managed to squeak out a poll. Lots of things have happened since that poll, not the least of which is that the readership of this site has more than doubled. Last year’s poll was fun and interesting, but thanks to Blogger’s lack of features it was just a one-time deal.
Well my friends, welcome to the future. Behold! I give you ongoing polls in the left sidebar!
Ideally I’ll run one poll per week, Sunday through Saturday. If you have any suggestions for future polls, or problems with the functionality of the polls, email me at ‘The_Tim’ ‘at’ ’seattlebubble’ ‘dot’ ‘com’. You can also leave comments on the individual poll posts, which will be posted at the time of the poll.
Happy polling!
The Tim » Sep 27, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Right now I’ve got it limiting double votes by IP and cookie. This might result in those of you that are all behind the same NAT (e.g. – Microsoft) being prohibited from voting after one person with the shared public IP casts a vote. If this is a problem I might change the settings.
Let me know if you encounter this.
Lukasz » Sep 27, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I encountered this (one vote / IP address limitation)
Will » Sep 27, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Me too.
Rhonda Porter » Sep 27, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Great ad! Do you know if works on Typepad or is this specific to WordPress?
Lake Hills Renter » Sep 27, 2007 at 4:35 pm
That is indeed the case, Tim. I can’t vote from work because someone has apparently voted from here already (Microsoft). I should be able to vote from home, however.
WestSideBilly » Sep 27, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Shouldn’t y’all be working, anyway? :-D
Lake Hills Renter » Sep 27, 2007 at 11:57 pm
They let us up for bread and water every 36 hours.
The Tim » Sep 28, 2007 at 7:56 am
In theory I have eliminated the issue that prevents more than one of the ’softies from voting. Would anyone care to verify that this is the case? I don’t want to suppress the code monkey vote.
Lake Hills Renter » Sep 28, 2007 at 9:28 am
I’m on vacation today (!) so I can’t, sorry.
deejayoh » Sep 28, 2007 at 9:41 am
I was able to vote this morning, couldn’t last night – so it looks like it is working
Rob Jellinghaus » Sep 28, 2007 at 10:02 am
I recommend a poll about when national housing sales will stop dropping, as reported by the NAR.
Queen Anne Condo » Sep 28, 2007 at 10:27 am
There are some benefits from renting from the bank — my payment CAN be renegotiated to a lower rate and with the deal I’ve made with the bank — my interest rate drops .25 points every six months over the next year and a half. Every “rent” cycle I owe less. Try getting that deal from a landlord.
I looked at the places I used to rent on QA. The worse place increased rent from $750 to $1050 — everything remained the same. Crappy appliances, etc. Another place went condo … the Belltown unit changed owners.
Sure, I am locked into my bank rental for the next 5 years at least. But at least I have top of the line fixtures, a clean although small space. In the future I can renegotiate my bank lease to save almost half of what I’m paying now.
softwarengineer » Sep 28, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I KNOW A GREAT 2 BDRM RENTAL IN BOTHELL, CHEAP TOO
If there’s a unit for rent, its a 4 plex.
I rented it in the 80s and its still there, probably the same great landlord too. Its easy to find too. Its right across the street from the swimming pool in downtown Bothell….its not far from a small city park too, great frisbee area….
Hair Farmer Joe » Sep 28, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I’d like to see a poll of area agents who are still telling their buyers that they can continue to see double digit appreciation.
Snake Plissken » Sep 28, 2007 at 10:40 pm
I guess I’m in the minority (”renting from the bank”).
However, a quick search on Craigslist shows that there’s virtually nothing comparable to my house that rents for less than my mortgage payment.
Why would I trade a payment to the bank that is limited in time for a perpetual rent? Not to mention the nice effect inflation will have on my mortgage payment (and given the Fed’s recent action I’m definitely expecting inflation to pick up)
My parents bought in the 70’s (20 years fixed) and by they saw first hand what inflation can do. I’m not about to miss on that.
In any case, why would I spend my peak earning years paying rent? There was an article recently (MSNBC.com?) about retirees who have live most of their lives in the Bay area and cannot afford their rents anymore. Had they bought they’d be sitting nicely in their own home, bought and paid for instead of worrying about where they’ll end up next.
ocrenter » Sep 29, 2007 at 8:54 am
http://bubbletracking.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-only-i-waited-in-everett-washington.html