[bruin]

Looks like the home builder executives are jumping ship now.

MarketWatch Link

This is a strong sign that they believe they are close enough to the peak. Cash out when you can. I remember the same thing in 2000 with the tech boom. It took about 6 months after the executives were selling for the market to wake up.

[emersonbiggins]

Right on. It's getting harder to sell $250k houses 30 miles from downtown when gas is nearing $3/gallon. We'll see more of this, rest assured.

[I_Like_Plants]

Sigh. That's probably why my rent's going up 10%. Near the train station, bus routes, and tons of stuff walking distance. Pretty easy to live carfree around here.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'S')igh. That's probably why my rent's going up 10%. Near the train station, bus routes, and tons of stuff walking distance. Pretty easy to live carfree around here.

[bruin]

With all of the bad weather, there might be hope for the home builders to keep strong revenues. But then again, the newly homeless might just walk away from the mess.

[tdrive]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ooks like the home builder executives are jumping ship now.

[DesertBear2]

We are in an extreme bubble situation around the DC area. How about $480,000USD houses that are 60 miles from the DC Beltway? And they are selling like hotcakes!

Oh, the base price $435,000 for the smaller models. And $483,000 base price for the larger models. All the upgrades such as tile floors are on top of this price.

[Specop_007]

Specop laughs at the irony.

Bad black man! Stay in the city!
White flight out.
Oh no! No money! Cant afford to drive! Get out black man!
White flight back into city.

Waiting for the fun and games to begin,
Specop_007

[DesertBear2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '
')Bad black man! Stay in the city!
White flight out.
Oh no! No money! Cant afford to drive! Get out black man!
White flight back into city.

[I_Like_Plants]

Emerson you are right, except I talked with the manager, let's say she's very non-caucasian, and she treats us better than that blonde horror who was in here before, and it's only going up 6-7% or so. Also, I'm not sure if we won't see another decrease in another year. We are seeing much less vacancies than we did one or two years ago, maybe it's the new manager's expertise and some improvements that have been done around here.

I want to buy, but not in this area, I want farmable area, although I might be tempted to buy here depending on how things go. Napa area is tempting, but then, if it's a slow decline as we move to a post-oil way of life, I might be just as happy here as anywhere.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', ' ')Napa area is tempting,

[I_Like_Plants]

I like the area around Clear Lake because it looks farm-able, and if nothing else there's fairly good water, in the lake! It's inexpensive compared to silicon valley prices, and the people seem nice.

I'd probably be better off buying an abandoned, but once actively farmed, farm in bumvuck Iowa though, when all's said and done.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'I') like the area around Clear Lake because it looks farm-able, and if nothing else there's fairly good water, in the lake! It's inexpensive compared to silicon valley prices, and the people seem nice.

I'd probably be better off buying an abandoned, but once actively farmed, farm in bumvuck Iowa though, when all's said and done.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '.')

I'd probably be better off buying an abandoned, but once actively farmed, farm in bumvuck Iowa though, when all's said and done.

[I_Like_Plants]

Yeah I have good feelings about Napa and that area. And I'm a Californian, I can't just run, I have to be ready to neutralize 10, 100, 1000 invaders for my home state. And Oh won't they come, from our fine neighbor to the South and from China, as if we don't already have the kind of Indians John Wayne would have considered too dirty to waste a bullet on and every other kind of invader......


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