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EconE: I saw that one, too. Good grief! Why would anyone pay anything for that? I suppose if I were the errant owner of the other half I'd consider it, but anyone else would be mad. Sink a couple hundred thousand into it, and you've still got a …
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Oh, man. This public perception thing frustrating! Monday evening I was chatting in the lunchroom with a colleague about the stock market, the economy, and the housing market. I think of this guy (even now) as a sharp, down-to-earth fellow, but w…
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Now this is an interesting topic and one that is near and dear to my heart. Traditionally, Seattle had a very contractual view of car/pedestrian interaction. The social contract was that pedestrians wouldn't jaywalk, and cars would yield to pedest…
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I'm was born here, and have to say that the stories about the "freeze" are sometimes overblown, the is truth to the concept. Basically, you've got two components: anti-transplant sentiment and general reservedness. The polite-yet-distant phenome…
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I wonder how much of the increase in construction costs/sq ft is simply due to the level of construction activity. Obviously contractors will be in position to charge more whenever their services are in high demand. I also wonder how much of the…
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T, V, & Mr. B: I certainly hope that you are right! The REIC is certainly pushing their message hard in their multiple-section paid advertisements in the Seattle papers. It does suggest a certain desperation on their part. Anecdotally, t…
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Heh. It's kind of funny to say that we feel pessimistic about the prospects for a major market decline not happening, but I feel exactly the same way. The current market is a bad thing and the sooner it corrects the easier the correction will be a…
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Eastsider, I think that Stephen captured my feelings best over on the blog. It is of course a calculated risk that prices will go up another 5-10% this season (which is why we started looking in January) but many of the properties out there now s…
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Rockybalboa, I understand what you're getting at, and I think that the answer ultimately hinges on how far prices in general decline. If there's only a modest correction (maybe a 10% drop or several years of stagnant prices) then the rising valu…
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I laughed out loud when I first saw the listing. There was no way that place would sell at that price. Well, it turns out I was right. If I remember correctly, they had to drop the price from $315,000 to $309,000. Well okay then. That's much b…
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B-hamster, I've nothing against cycling and am generally supportive of alternative modes of transportation. I also see plenty of bad driving in this region. Check out drivers in Olympia sometime - it's shocking. Having said that, much of the …
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Easy (and boring) - I'd buy the house that I lived in when I was a young lad. A little '30s house in east/northeast Magnolia, basically Interbay. The view of the railyard that I loved as a boy is gone (condos) but I'd still love it for nostalgic r…