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SFWoman Says:

> On another OT note, last night for about an
> hour and a half two enormous black helicopters
> flew in very tight circles over a couple of blocks
> on the eastern side of Pacific Heights.

Last night (about 6:00 pm) there were three small (not black) choppers flying around the GG Bridge as I drove home from Sears Point...

RE: black helicopters

My instinctive guess would be that they were using thermal imaging to find umm... greenhouses. The more likely case is Cheney visiting someone on the DL.

Schwarzenegger pushes emission markets

http://tinyurl.com/ur4el

Now this is an environmental movement I can accept. See, the free market can find a solution to the environmental problem. Perhaps Schwarzenegger is not that bad. (Although I was not having nice thoughts about him when I ate foie gras yesterday.)

fyi: Just updated the akr thread with an, uh... appropriate graphic.

How about this guy:

http://www.webcubic.com/realtors/warren/

Yes, I want a realtor who likes to jump hurdles while in a suit and on the cellphone.

RE: black helicopters

Cash drop from Ben?

@skibum, thanks man, you can't "un-see" things ;)

you can’t “un-see” things

Try a hypnotist. Find one that is NOT also a realtor or you may be hypnotized into something regrettable. ;)

@skibum,

Which one is the dude?

@skibum

Ugh.

Ugh is right.

Personally, I don't care how unattractive the Realtor is, as long as they don't try to outright swindle/defraud me. I'd take a honest Realtor who looks like Helen Thomas any day over a dishonest one who looks like Carmen Elektra.

That said, this is my idea of an ideal agent:

That said, this is my idea of an ideal agent

Huh?

Please hide the thread graphics. I am going to need therapy.

Can we please replace the thread graphics with Harm's image above? Christ!

Please hide the thread graphics. I am going to need therapy.

:lol: Sorry, Peter P. If you squint then quickly scroll down to comments, it's not so bad.

My gods, I come back to check the thread and there's this abomination staring me in the face. It may not be as bad as goatse, but please please make the bad man go away.

Ok, ok, I removed the offending graphic above and replaced it with HARM's dream agent. For those who still care to see it, but don't want it on the front-page:

I still think s/he/it's SOOOOOO pretty!

HARM Says:

I still think s/he/it’s SOOOOOO pretty!

Dude, You're a sick, sick man!

Ok, ok, I removed the offending graphic and replaced it with HARM’s dream agent.

Still... having... difficulty... breathing.....

Come the day I actually buy a house, maybe I'll use the abomination graphic to conceptualize the owners that I'm negotiating with. Demonizing the opposition is useful in any conflict.

Having that James-Bond-Babe as my buyers agent would be useful; any offer from her is going to sound very enticing.

I guess that explains SP's original question; charismatic negotiators have an extra edge. Perhaps after months of polishing POS properties into "cozy gem in the rough" listings, realtors have an inflated sense of their own attractiveness.

One of my friends put in an offer of the asking price for a SFR house on the Peninsula that came on the market on Friday.

And immediately he was outbid by 5%. Ouch. It's still 2005 in some neighborhoods on the Penn.

@eburbed,
What price range and what neighborhood?

And immediately he was outbid by 5%. Ouch. It’s still 2005 in some neighborhoods on the Penn.

It meant nothing.

I was looking at a townhouse in the good part of Sunnyvale earlier this year before MSM bubble coverage. It dropped its price twice with no takers. Then it dropped a little bit more and it started a bidding war!

If someone puts a crappy condo in EPA for $1, it may be sold for forty million percent over asking.

Most people bid only if it is cheap and nice. Such a house is likely to be "reasonably" priced for the "market". Of course, they will have company.

It was ~$7xxk

Fortunately, there price wars like this:

http://www.burbed.com/2006/10/16/fairoaks-war-gets-worse-now-its-a-3-way/

It seems to me that the South Bay is getting hit harder than the Penn.

It was ~$7xxk

7XXK for a SFR on the Penn.? Is it a 1950 2/1 "bungalow"?

@eburbed,
The Sunnyvale units you have on your site are U-G-L-Y!
Are they condo conversions from rental units?

The Sunnyvale units you have on your site are U-G-L-Y!
Are they condo conversions from rental units?

For less than 500K you can get a much-newer unit at Compass Place (Arcadia Ter). I used to rent a condo there, it is not too bad. (At least they were built as condos with individual garages.)

Hey,
Has anyone else noticed on the (current) thread graphic, her patch says, "Estate Agent 69," and I can't quite make it out, but I think her button says, "Make an Offer."

7XXK for a SFR on the Penn.? Is it a 1950 2/1 “bungalow”?

Is there any other? Pretty good views of the Bay though. :)

The Sunnyvale units you have on your site are U-G-L-Y!
Are they condo conversions from rental units?

Not sure - though I don't believe so.

Is there any other?

Yes, a 1950 1/1 bungalow.

Yes, a 1950 1/1 bungalow.

Touche.

Oh prices - please go down. :(

I am not very interested in buying wooden common-interest structures that are older than 15 years.

http://www.mlslistings.com/common/search/propertyResults.asp?type=property&page=1&open=0

The condos above have been reducing their prices. Some of the units are still listed at $550k, but two of the 2br have come down under $500k - the two that are under $500k were previously listed at $535k and $565k(?). These units are in a pretty decent part of Cupertino.

Recent comps:
20680 Celeste $572k 6/15/06
20692 Celeste $560k 4/26/06

@SFWoman,
It's ironic this doofus is the editor of smartmoney.com

What a dumbass.

@SFWoman, loved it, Are there areas at risk? Yes. I'm buying a home, not a property, so my time horizon for growing the value of my real estate is long.

Remember it's not a house, it's a home! ahahahahahahhahahahahahaahahha

I think we should go all mainland Chinese on these morons, a bullet in the back of the head with the bill for said bullet going to the next of kin.

One sad development is that mainland china is slowly moving towards lethal injection from firing squab.

Peter P, man I laughed out loud, firing squab Man, that's funny, especially given your encyclopedic food knowledge.

Oops. I guess this is not as serious as the nuclear detergent in the context of MAD.