Rents and occupancy may stay low for YEARS!!! There may be no "bounce back" or the "bottom" is near. The rental market is overall a small per...
The fact that apartment owners are selling is actually a very bullish sign for single family home ownership. They are loosing tenants to home...
I give up, LOL. SteveD
The major FLAW in the thinking is this is not a MARKET!!!! Each and every piece of real estate in the entire US is different than any other...
Before anyone jumps up and screams: Interest rates stayed very steady throughout the 40's, 50's, 60's, and till the mid 70's before inflation...
OldTrader is correct. Please don't make the assumption that everyone in the "boonies" goes into the CBD every day. Retail will follow the...
Real estate purchases are driven by interest rates. Housing demand: Take a look around your neighborhood. How many kids going off to...
The data for Block Trading may be correct, LOL. You had to see it to believe it!!! Looked like a crap table in Vegas. Jump in and buy something...
Observation: GOOG traded over 38,000,000 shares today. Average volume is over 11,000,000. This is a $200/share stock!! Wouldn't you think...
Questions: If I elect MTM and also hold a stock for over a year would not my capital gains be long term on that particular stock? Even if...
Just so you understand, I have never been that interested in the actual "hands-on" aspect of the building process. How many 2x4's, how much...
First of all, for the umpteenth time, real estate does not have a "margin call". The US housing market is based on long term fixed rate self...
In the late 70"s interest rates were something around 16% +/-. Huge over building by home builders. Prime interest rate reached 21% in 1979??...
Most owner-occupied homes are sold for reasons such as: job loss, divorce, job transfer or desire to "move up". NOT because of some drop in...
It is amazing to me that so many of you simply do not understand home ownership. Please do not quote California prices. It makes you sound...
First of all, in most cases, the original lender (the Bank) sells that loan up stream to Fannie etc. Make your payments and you will never hear...
Again, we keep confusing and blending "home" ownership and single family rental property. These is two very distinct types of real estate!!!!!...
I have never understood EXACTLY what Billbuild does. Please explain the type of real estate, location. time frame, etc. I see you mention 1960...
Please state where and when all of this carnage took place in the real estate market. Me thinks you are lumping "junk property" (BB stocks) in...
Buyers are all around. Just a matter of price. Inflation basically good for real estate. It will ebb and flow but always there. Don't see...
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