justbought I think there actually is a pretty mixed bag of posters here. I cannot tell you how many times I have read a post, then composed a long reply and then simply deleted it. Personally I find myself coming here just as much as I always have but not responding to as many posts as I used to because it either seems repetitive or it simply is not worth it. I think there is alot of value here… and yes there is alot of bitterness but don’t let it get to you.
as for you tg… well my friend I have spent a fair amount of time late this evening looking at the jags team stats because I REALLY want to lay some lumber on them tomorrow but I am not sure yet… jags need to cover 3 points… should be an easy game as the bolts have won a single road game this season against the ponies…. man I wish I wasn’t such a wus…
Now getting back to what you wrote I think it was very nice… yet the one thing that you kind of glossed over was that those same people for whom you are rooting for, well many types like them also did buy and some of them did sell as well. I know many of them who were young couples, and yes even a firefighter and even a teacher who bought back in 02/03 and sold in 05/06. These younguns did very well for themselves and have a great leg up on those that did not. As horrid as the lending standards were these same people would not have been able to do what they did without them. Now does that justify the lax standards? Not at all. I guess I am just pointing out that there is always another side to any and every story. Just like some of those nice people who didn’t sell may indeed lose thier home.
I don’t wish ill will upon anyone but yes I want the market to come down so I can buy as well. I am bitter about the past moreso because I did not take advantage of it, rather then because I am now priced out of what I really want. I do blame the lending industry, the administration, the real estate industry… yet I blame myself much much more because it was opportunity missed. I think many others do as well… maybe they don’t say it.
The cynical side of me always does believe that there is always a back room full of people making money off the majority of all of us. It doesn’t matter if it is Wall Street, Real Estate, Oil… whatever. It doesn’t matter because there will always be something ya know? It always may feel or seem like we play against a stacked deck. Yet there are plenty of people that take advantage of that… that make the best of it and can cope and ride it for a spell and get ahead… and then get out without losing the nut…
