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Sales of apartments happen all the time, usually with no disruption to the tenants. Now, if it was a SFH where the buyer was looking for housing instead of an investment, "please be discrete" would be pretty shady.
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: FWIW, the discrepancy in opinions stems (I believe) from the fact that Seattle is simply less dangerous than many other big cities. If you talk to people who have spent time in LA, Chicago, NYC, St. Louis, New Orleans,…
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I would buy a pink pony bobblehead. Just saying.
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Our principle objective in fighting the Vietnam war was to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. In that sense, we did succeed ("win"). Likewise, our principle objective was to overthrow Saddam Hussein. We accomplished that. So in th…
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jon wrote: I must have missed the announcement about massive tax increases that prompted Boeing and Microsoft to lay off 20,000 people. Do you have a source for that? "But the real problem in the U.S. labor market today isn't layoffs. It…
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I think the eastside flops thread would pretty quickly dispel her 20% off peak statement. Lots of 25-30% haircuts off the 2007/2008 sale price and they're not moving.
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Everett_Tom wrote: ...BTW, despite Leanne's hysterical rant the other day... Actually, it seems it may be more reasonable then she first sounded.. though still a little out there.. after 3 pages of comments it seems it's this: - Real …
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jon wrote: That's why businesses have stopped hiring. Because tax rates will be going way up it means businesses can only afford having people for the most critical positions. Rather than face the expense of hiring and then terminating position wh…
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Hmm... I thought it was Florera.
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jon wrote: Washington State is boosting its unemployment payments. For how long? How is that being paid for? Part of the stimulus was going to be directed to states to ensure they could maintain their safety net programs. A large portion…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: This is what I, WestSideBilly, and biliruben have been trying to point out to the "tax break or nothing crowd". Sure, a tax break to those in poverty will help (they need clothes!) and food stamps might help more (make…
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They said 18 were sold, but it looks like 0 of them are occupied. The retail on ground level looked vacant too.
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Listing agents should really invest in a good camera and classes to learn how to use it. When I was more seriously looking at houses, easily half the pictures were bad and/or pointless.
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The only new spot in the economy right now is the unemployment line.
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: All that said, while I don't see how we can not try a stimulus package at this point in time, I highly doubt it will work. Just the holes in bank balance sheets appear to be 3x the size of this stimulus package. We wo…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Meanwhile, 6% might have been fair when a median house cost 2.2x median income, but once prices rose to 8x median income their prices were at least three times too high. When I lived in Indiana, I never thought t…
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Alan wrote: Unfortunately, RE agents don't get to collect 6% of the cost of your restaurant meals... They could get jobs as waiters and get 10-20% of my restaurant meals. That requires actual work, though.
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Thanks! Minor issue, all things considered.
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The Tim wrote: That's what really started bugging me as I watched the game yesterday. I realized how much of the game seems to be decided based on incredibly subjective rules that don't really make much sense. Being a logically-minded person, th…
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The Tim wrote: Nice comment over there, JP. Too bad they will never get it. I agree, that was an excellent post JP. I really like that Mack takes the time to reply to the one poster, only to say it's not worth his time. That guy is a p…
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The NFL has done a fairly good job at creating parity throughout the league and it's really shown the last few years (a very mediocre Bears team hanging with the Colts, the Giants beating an 18-0 Patriots team that was better in every way, a 9-7 tea…
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The puff pieces make me vomit. Guess I like doom and gloom.
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Of the 3, the PS3 is clearly the flop. Sony loses a lot of money on each one sold (I recall about $200/unit loss, but it may be even more) which means they probably need to sell 10-15 games/unit to break even (currently it's about 6). I don't see …
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davidlosh@davidlosh.com wrote: The last ten years has been a cash cow. It is very hard to imagine that by some fluke business people missed the basics of finance and just gave away all of the profits they have made in that time. Given how p…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: WestSideBilly wrote: Fairly Obvious Recommendations Based on Erroneous Suppositions Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner. You obviously did some homework for this one. The first 5 were easy, neede…
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Fairly Obvious Recommendations Based on Erroneous Suppositions
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Gomorrah has some good deals right now. Similar climate to Ur, but you have to watch out for the occasional storm of fire and brimstone. Lots of construction and RE jobs though!
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buyStocks wrote: Charles, I think you've stumbled onto an idea. The government buys excess agriculture products to increase price (i think this is true). Why not buy up the excess autos. They could then hire a national taxi force of millions. N…
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plymster wrote: I keep hearing chants of "nationalize", and it scares me. Every day, we get reports that xyz bank is surprised to discover greater and greater losses hiding in their acquisitions. Should the US nationalize without having the vagu…