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Most of my stock purchases more than doubled in price over the year, I don't think any RE would have done that for me.

You can go buy something in Phoenix, it's still cheap. But it's cheap for a reason.

FortWayne says

You can go buy something in Phoenix, it's still cheap. But it's cheap for a reason.

One word: Detroit.

I don't see prices rising in the long-term in any sun-belt area. Those areas are still higher priced than pre-bubble.

BayArea says

The Secret is Out

Sorry Tom, we already knew.

FortWayne says

Most of my stock purchases more than doubled in price over the year, I don't think any RE would have done that for me.

You can go buy something in Phoenix, it's still cheap. But it's cheap for a reason.

Freedom 1789-2012

If you said the dow, nasdaq, or the S&P500 doubled in price over the year, that would mean something to all of us. Your stocks selected by you specifically, not so much meaning there however.

And yes, I guess everyone knew that Tom Cruise is gay. But as a Top Gun fan, sometimes I have to pinch myself even though I knew for quite some time myself.

FortWayne says

Most of my stock purchases more than doubled in price over the year, I don't think any RE would have done that for me.

You'd do better to kiss goodbye to the stocks when they are at a multi year high to ensure you don't lose gains due to volatility. ;)

FortWayne says

I don't think any RE would have done that for me.

Investment RE is a different beast. It requires a lot more work than sitting online and issuing buy/sell.

Stocks and RE mostly levitate together, with an edge for stocks as you can sell them with a mouse-click (and set automatic stops).

BayArea says

And yes, I guess everyone knew that Tom Cruise is gay. But as a Top Gun fan, sometimes I have to pinch myself even though I knew for quite some time myself.

Top Gun wasn't a give-away?

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ekXxi9IKZSA

I wonder how many men would have joined the navy had they seen that trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/BNPVRh0ngUo

Got me!

I think I may have seen that movie before I knew what gay was. The signs are certainly there, lol.

I don't get it. What makes you think Tom Cruise is gay? He's been married three times. And he got Katie Holmes pregnant so you know he was porking that little pixie with a vengeance. Sounds like a player.

Biff

Biff Baxter says

I don't get it. What makes you think Tom Cruise is gay? He's been married three times. And he got Katie Holmes pregnant so you know he was porking that little pixie with a vengeance. Sounds like a player.

Biff

Right because married guys never turn out to be gay

Biff Baxter says

What makes you think Tom Cruise is gay? He's been married three times... Sounds like a player.

Actually it sounds like he still hasn't found what he's looking for, so he hides in a cult. Oops I shouldn't say "cult" - Scientologists react to being called a cult the same way Tom Cruise reacts to being called gay. Hmm, maybe there's a reason that explains both.

The federal reserve is forcing us to buy up the RE.

CD pays 1%
STOCKS=scary
BONDS=pay crap/scary

This leaves real estate.

PockyClipsNow says

The federal reserve is forcing us to buy up the RE.

Yes, they call it "helping homeowners," but really the beneficiaries are the FIRE industry that lobbied for it. The "robo-signing" settlement was an especially generous gift, allowing the perpetrators of a criminal fraud to go unpunished while bank shareholders and taxpayers "helped homeowners" by forgiving uncollectible debt that the creditors should have had to mark to market anyway. Whenever politicians say they are "helping homeowners," they are expressly using everyone's government to make most people worse off, especially savers and young people trying to buy their first home.

The LEFTIES are always preoccupied on WHO is GAY and how to OUT them out into PUBLIC .. Its so pathetic!

BayArea says

Right because married guys never turn out to be gay

Ok, so if a man is married and has documented sex with his wife, then he's still potentially gay? I don't know about you but that's really a lame gaydar, if I've ever seen one. Perhaps Tarot cards or a Ouija board may get you better answers.

BayArea says

Case and point... I sit at the family table at dinner, and the topic is real estate investment. I go to lunch with co-workers, and the topic is how to become a slum-lord. I go bowling with some friends, and everyone is talking about buying up low end real estate to rent out. I cannot believe what I am experiencing. It's like everyone with a stable job is all of a sudden a real estate investor. It's not just for the upper class anymore. My secretary bought a damn rental property this year in the Bay Area for gawd's sake!

When everyone is talking about it, that means it's almost over. Remember everyone was talking about investing in the stock market in the late 90's? How about real estate investment in 2003-2006?

BayArea says

It will be interesting to see what happens after the election and how real estate responds.

I'll tell you right now. Inventory will remain low for the 1st half of the year. My guess or shall I say my hope is that we will see more inventory in the second half of next year. I will have more insight about this early next year because I sleep in front of the courthouse steps. A spike in foreclosures means more inventory will hit the market in the next 4-8 months.

Rin says

Ok, so if a man is married and has documented sex with his wife, then he's still potentially gay? I don't know about you but that's really a lame gaydar, if I've ever seen one. Perhaps Tarot cards or a Ouija board may get you better answers.

There have been all sorts of stories from The South where guys have wives and secretly have gay lovers. A bunch of "family values" type Republican senators got caught doing exactly that a few years ago, remember? Generally, the more anti-gay someone is, the more I have to assume that they are actually gay.

BayArea says

Right because married guys never turn out to be gay

If you're married you're not gay. What's not clear about that?

Rin says

Ok, so if a man is married and has documented sex with his wife, then he's still potentially gay?

Documented sex? Are there films of Tom Cruise having sex with one of his wives? That's a serious player man.

Biff

Biff Baxter says

If you're married you're not gay. What's not clear about that?

LOL! It's clear enough, but totally false. First of all, gay couples get married, i.e. same sex marriage. Second, closeted persons get married, usually to someone of the opposite sex. Larry Craig is married, for example.

Biff Baxter says

If you're married you're not gay. What's not clear about that?

The pressure to belong and assimilate in some circumstances is so immense that people will repress themselves and turn themselves inside out so as not to alienate their support group. It's pretty sad, but I have seen it. There are gay men I know that have had more pussy than I have, and my headboard is held together with notches. (I'm working on fixing that, but an arthritic hip is not helping.)

I also know for some men it isn't entirely about orientation -- I've known some so-called libertines who refuse to adhere to any convention when it comes to anything, including sex.

So there you go.

Are you people saying that gay men sometimes marry straight women? Get out of here.

Biff

Rin says

Right because married guys never turn out to be gay

Ok, so if a man is married and has documented sex with his wife, then he's still potentially gay? I don't know about you but that's really a lame gaydar, if I've ever seen one. Perhaps Tarot cards or a Ouija board may get you better answers.

Gays leading the appearence of straight lives is so common the gays have a word for it, "beard." "Katie is Tom's beard."

PockyClipsNow says

The federal reserve is forcing us to buy up the RE.

CD pays 1%

STOCKS=scary

BONDS=pay crap/scary

This leaves real estate.

Unlike the entire above, fools do not realise that you do not live in a CD, you do not live in a bond, and you do not live in stocks.
But THAT is what they want you to believe ...subconsciously that you DO.

Do yourself a favour and get out of the spin cycle, then you may find you have started to build real wealth.

Biff Baxter says

BayArea says

Right because married guys never turn out to be gay

If you're married you're not gay. What's not clear about that?

Rin says

RED ALERT RED ALERT

LIBTARDS MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!

uomo_senza_nome says

Investment RE is a different beast. It requires a lot more work than sitting online and issuing buy/sell.

Everyone is different. To most average folks investing in RE is buying and renting it out. That's not really an RE investment. Real RE investment takes millions which I don't have and makes good returns, and I'm sure no one on this board participates in that either.

Robert buys rentals, E-man same thing, some fella who likes to go by the name burritos does the same. They aren't investing, they are just playing with some low end RE. Now if enough of us can pull our money together for a real investment, that could be something.

Biff Baxter says

Rin says

Ok, so if a man is married and has documented sex with his wife, then he's still potentially gay?

Documented sex? Are there films of Tom Cruise having sex with one of his wives? That's a serious player man.

If it's Katie Holmes, I want to examine the documentation.

why is it every time idiot Liberals want to appear to be something other than insane communists they start acting like this ridiculous cowboy character?

'a feller by the name Burrito' ... idiot, go back to the gay bath house faggot.

The Original Bankster says

idiot, go back to the gay bath house faggot.

I'm confused. What's a faggot? A cigarette? And why does he need a bath?

Biff

Biff Baxter says

The Original Bankster says

idiot, go back to the gay bath house faggot.

I'm confused. What's a faggot? A cigarette? And why does he need a bath?

Biff

someone from California.

The Original Bankster says

Biff Baxter says

The Original Bankster says

idiot, go back to the gay bath house faggot.

I'm confused. What's a faggot? A cigarette? And why does he need a bath?

Biff

someone from California.

The San Francisco Treat.

Aw. That's just wrong man. One size doesn't fit all.

E-man says

When everyone is talking about it, that means it's almost over

I agree. When everybody talks about it, something is fishy. Something going to be lifted out of fundamentals again. Somebody is going to lose Money or Mind.
1987- Real estate double every year
2000- Everybody was giving stocks advice
2006 – Real estate is going up to the roof, buy now
A year ago- gold, gold, gold
Hell, 3 mo. ago FB was the best investment, everybody were talk about it (18.25 today)

ELC says

Gays leading the appearence of straight lives is so common the gays have a word for it, "beard." "Katie is Tom's beard."

Ok, I got that but that doesn't make for a Gaydar, i.e. "Oh look ... that good looking, in-shape guy is with a woman. He must be gay."

Otherwise, you'll then have an inverse stereotype for a married hetero man being fat, balding, and ill who's stuck with a nagging wife. "Oh look ... he's fat & ugly, gotta be straight!"

The Original Bankster says

someone from California.

Massachusetts is a lot easier; we have the South End of Boston and Provincetown MA for open homosexuals and Northampton MA, for lesbians. But in all honesty, I don't think the South End is safe to live in anymore. Provincetown, however, is a gorgeous seaside peninsular region. If it were a straight destination, I might even consider moving there for the grand ocean vistas.

If rent drop only 5% - 50% of demand will disappear.

Dan8267 says

If it's Katie Holmes, I want to examine the documentation.

Actually, I was more interested in examining Nicole Kidman :-) !

Rin says

Dan8267 says

If it's Katie Holmes, I want to examine the documentation.

Actually, I was more interested in examining Nicole Kidman :-) !

Only if it was old documentation from the early 1990s. She's over 30 now, ewwww. Actually, she's over 40 now, double ewwww.

Dan, Nicole Kidman may be a vampire. She looks pretty good for a 40+ woman.

Goran_K says

Dan, Nicole Kidman may be a vampire. She looks pretty good for a 40+ woman.

You're thinking of Kate Beckinsale, the only woman almost 40 who still looks good, and who plays a vampire in Underworld.

Speaking of Kate Beckinsale...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/G6vYraQfxqM