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Unread postby JJ » Tue 26 May 2009, 14:45:11

per COC, I'm supposed to have an opinion. If you live here, I would think you're toast. Thats my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTZ3flsipE
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby ColossalContrarian » Tue 26 May 2009, 17:31:25

You would think the bank would at least want the tenents to continue paying rent -only to them (the bank) rather than kick them out and have the house sit empty...


Good find btw.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 26 May 2009, 17:49:55

People who don't pay their mortgage to the bank aren't going to suddenly start paying rent to the bank.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby ColossalContrarian » Tue 26 May 2009, 18:00:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'P')eople who don't pay their mortgage to the bank aren't going to suddenly start paying rent to the bank.


Actually I was talking about the family in the video who were renting from someone who wasn't paying the mortgage. That is why I called them Tenants (spelled wrong above :oops: )

They were being kicked out of the home because it was forclosed on because the landlord wasn't paying the mortgage. I would think the bank would rather have someone living in the home paying them rent until the house could be sold to someone else. Now the home will sit empty. The bank in the mean time is making no money off the house.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby Sixstrings » Tue 26 May 2009, 19:39:04

Well.. gone broke and busted stories are hardly new for Vegas, folks. I keep seeing these "Vegas in trouble" posts and wonder just how much of it is true. I read the Vegas Sun now and then, last time I checked they're hiring for the City Center now -- 12,000 jobs. That's a lot of jobs.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby timmac » Tue 26 May 2009, 20:10:54

As to the problems here in Vegas we are having quite a few of them and its hard to tell how far down the rat hole we are going, however the layoffs are slowing down, only 10 percent layed off as of now that's not to many, my business is still growing and is some others, however anything to do with construction is not good right now.

The new 12,000 employees for the City Center was almost not going to happen because of Dubai was not putting in any more $$ but they had a change of heart and the project will now finish, but condo sells at City Center are next to nothing and where will they get the tourist for for the new Casino its going to be hard because the ones now are fighting over what tourist we have now.

Obama is in town and is spending the night at Caesars, maybe he will do some gambling and positive speeches for Vegas sake and bring back our economy. [yea right]

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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby Sixstrings » Tue 26 May 2009, 20:41:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'A')s to the problems here in Vegas we are having quite a few of them and its hard to tell how far down the rat hole we are going, however the layoffs are slowing down, only 10 percent layed off as of now that's not to many, my business is still growing and is some others, however anything to do with construction is not good right now.

The new 12,000 employees for the City Center was almost not going to happen because of Dubai was not putting in any more $$ but they had a change of heart and the project will now finish, but condo sells at City Center are next to nothing and where will they get the tourist for for the new Casino its going to be hard because the ones now are fighting over what tourist we have now.

Obama is in town and is spending the night at Caesars, maybe he will do some gambling and positive speeches for Vegas sake and bring back our economy. [yea right]

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Uhm, what? How can the President say on one hand "greedy corporations, stop flying to Vegas for conferences" and then now you say he's on a junket to Vegas?

We all know the answer of course, the mayor and governor are steaming mad about the Administration's anti-Vegas comments amid an already big downturn in tourism. It wasn't all Obama's fault, but part of it was. Between the President's Vegas comments and the public furor over AIG trips, corporations en masse canceled their Vegas meetups.

So to make amends, that is why the President is in Vegas.

This whole thing illustrates the inherent paradox of criticizing the lavish lifestyles of the rich. What people forget is that, when the rich spend their money DOMESTICALLY, that really does mean money in a working man's pocket.

When the money stays in the bank or goes offshore, it helps nobody.

Ironically, the rich do us a service when they DO live lavishly and do so domestically.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby ColossalContrarian » Tue 26 May 2009, 20:47:37

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')ell.. gone broke and busted stories are hardly new for Vegas, folks. I keep seeing these "Vegas in trouble" posts and wonder just how much of it is true. I read the Vegas Sun now and then, last time I checked they're hiring for the City Center now -- 12,000 jobs. That's a lot of jobs.


Sixstrings, I read the Las Vegas Sun too and from what I can tell CityCenter hasn't started hiring yet although many folks in Vegas are looking forward to employment there. I think you know just as well as I do that CityCenter will be a complete flop. It's an absolute miracle it's made it this long. Occupancy rates are already so low on the strip I don't know how MGM will afford to employ 12,000 people while that facility sits half empty.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby timmac » Tue 26 May 2009, 21:00:14

Uhm, what? How can the President say on one hand "greedy corporations, stop flying to Vegas for conferences" and then now you say he's on a junket to Vegas?





I don't think he will say sorry to his words about AIG exec's coming to Vegas and spending there $$, but spending the night at Caesars and maybe see a show who knows is a way of saying sorry, he's here for a fund raiser for Reid and will be at the air-force base here tomorrow for other stuff..

Maybe he took a couple million bucks of the bail out $$$ and is going to try his luck at the craps table for our debt :shock:
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby Sixstrings » Tue 26 May 2009, 21:04:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')ell.. gone broke and busted stories are hardly new for Vegas, folks. I keep seeing these "Vegas in trouble" posts and wonder just how much of it is true. I read the Vegas Sun now and then, last time I checked they're hiring for the City Center now -- 12,000 jobs. That's a lot of jobs.


Sixstrings, I read the Las Vegas Sun too and from what I can tell CityCenter hasn't started hiring yet although many folks in Vegas are looking forward to employment there. I think you know just as well as I do that CityCenter will be a complete flop. It's an absolute miracle it's made it this long. Occupancy rates are already so low on the strip I don't know how MGM will afford to employ 12,000 people while that facility sits half empty.


I just check the Sun now and then, so I'm not as informed as locals. I've never lived in Vegas, just one vacation actually. Good memories, I've traveled a lot and Vegas ranks as the most fun I've ever had with just a week's vacation. I love the glitz and tackiness, the 24/7 entertainment. Cheap steak and eggs at the Sahara at 3am and pre-cut Alaskan king crab for lunch at the Bellagio buffet.

I loved it all -- the broken and downhearted gamblers, the eldery slot-zombies, the cocktail waitresses, the awful Elvis impersonators. Heck, I even managed to get heat stroke attempting to walk between a couple casinos on the strip, and after recovering I got a picture with Wayne Newton at his wax figure unveiling.

I dunno, maybe I'm just enamored with dystopia. <g>

Back on point.. I checked the Vegas Sun the other day and saw in the classifieds that City Center is going to start interviewing in a month I think.
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby timmac » Tue 26 May 2009, 21:12:18

The City Center is hiring as of now, get your apps in, will it survive, don't know, but it will struggle, Dubai has a large stake in it as well its not all just on MGM...
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby ColossalContrarian » Tue 26 May 2009, 21:33:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'T')he City Center is hiring as of now, get your apps in, will it survive, don't know, but it will struggle, Dubai has a large stake in it as well its not all just on MGM...


Yeah well Dubai's got problems of their own...

I do know of Dubai's involvement I don't know if Dubia is a private company or if it's the actual place. Dubai with all the fancy buildings and islands???
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Re: Las Vegas Video

Unread postby timmac » Tue 26 May 2009, 21:49:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'T')he City Center is hiring as of now, get your apps in, will it survive, don't know, but it will struggle, Dubai has a large stake in it as well its not all just on MGM...


Yeah well Dubai's got problems of their own...

I do know of Dubai's involvement I don't know if Dubia is a private company or if it's the actual place. Dubai with all the fancy buildings and islands???





Dubai the company which i believe is owned mostly by the Dubai royal family, and is also partly owned by the Dubai country, not really sure how it works over there but have heard you can't do anything in Dubai unless it greases the palm of the Dubai royal family..
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