Meshugy says "Make Me Move"

[The Tim]

[EconE]

[mike2]

A few thoughts on this.

He keeps a very clean house for a musician with young children, or he's gone through some trouble to stage it for the photos.

It looks like he's cleaned up the outside since the last time was in his neighborhood, something he didn't do the first few years he lived there. (I have relatives that live down the street from him, so I'm in the area often enough)

Both of these lead me to believe he may be serious about selling.

For someone that complained that "rentals are substandard" I expected the interior to be a little fancier. Not that it's bad, but it's not really above what you find in rental homes. What's with the 1985 style refrigerator?

Finally, listing the house on zillow at 25% above market value - isn't that what Ardell did about a year before going into foreclosure? Baby Blue may be the next NTS on the block.

[The Tim]

[ira s]

Also kind of interesting that during the runup, lots of people were quoting their Zestimate ( which was inaccurate) to demonstrate their acumen in real estate investing, but these same people now dismiss Zillow as inaccurate hooey, now that Zillow says their homes are worth 30% less.

[Lake Hills Renter]

This thread is getting a little stalker-y for my taste. Sure the guy threw a bunch of platitudes and attitudes at us back in the day, and he deserves to get it back now that he's been proven wrong. But tracking his house regularly enough to know its history and changes in condition, or even caring enough about it to even want to do so, kinda gives me the shivers. Same goes for Ardell and her house.

Maybe it's just me.

[mike2]

LHR, I understand your concern. I don't know these people, nor do I care to. However, the've both made a serious effort to make their personal situations and circumstances public.

Meshugy appears to be a garden variety narcicist obsessed with telling everyone how much better his life is than everyone else, and proving it by bragging about his house, his car, his income, his business, his family etc etc etc. He loves it when we envy him, and apparently enjoys the attention.

Ardell confuses me. Honestly, I don't understand what motivates her to share wtih strangers the kind intimate personal and family details she posts on her blogs. It creeps me out, and if I were in her family I'd politely ask her to STFU and leave me out of it. She's a total train wreck - and not the kind that happens out in the middle of a field somewhere, more like a derailment in grand central station.

On a personal note, anyone that has decided to run a business online has had to make a decision about how to present themselves and what kind of personal information they want to make available. Myself, I took a more cautious approach. I know full well that anyone that wanted to sleuth out where I live, where I work, who my family is, how many speeding tickets I've had and a whole bunch of other information could do so - but I certainly don't join discussion forums to spread that stuff around.

[deejayoh]

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[deejayoh]

he posted the link. it's in the forums if one has patience enough to look.

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