Seattle Bubble

• Poll: Is it ethical for a home debtor to “walk away” from a mortgage?
• Poll: You win the lottery tomorrow. What’s the earliest you buy a house in the Seattle area?
• Poll: You win a free home anywhere in the Puget Sound area. Where to you choose?
• Poll: Realistically, would you prefer to live…
• Poll: Do you think the Dow will drop below 10,000 in the next 11 months?

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• 1 Chris // May 5, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  There’s a difference between when I would LIKE to buy a house and when I WILL buy a house. I would have bought a house 4 years ago had there been reasonable prices. I would buy a house now if I felt prices were reasonable.

  I think most here are in the same boat as me.

• 2 Sorin // May 5, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  Exactly the same situation. If prices made sense, I would buy. Since they don’t, I’ll continue renting and saving thousands a year.

• 3 RickB // May 5, 2008 at 7:50 pm

  Is the math behind this poll all goofed up, or am I dumb?

  * 5-10 years. (7%, 5 Votes)
  * 11+ years. (1%, 1 Votes)
  * Happy here for the foreseeable future. (6%, 4 Votes)

  Total Voters: 68

  ???

  -Rick

• 4 RickB // May 5, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  Oops, I am dumb… The small scrolling box the poll is in goofed me up. Sorry.

  -Rick

• 5 Rhonda Porter // May 5, 2008 at 8:24 pm

  “Happy here” could mean happy in the home I own and I’m not buying another or happy paying rent with no intentions of buying?

• 6 Darby // May 6, 2008 at 10:12 am

  I would LIKE to buy a house, but that doesn’t mean I SHOULD buy a house right now…..

  You have all done a good job convincing me that it’s a good time to wait on buying our first house. No hurry. However, we are discovering that the rental market is LAME right now for renters (us). Ugh.

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