No sweat, like you said I’m a big boy, I can take it and I know none of this is directed at me, just my position sometimes, an elbow to the chest is not a flagrant 2, it’s just playoff basketball. My primary residence is not my only planned purchase on this down part of the cycle, which is part of the reason I stay tuned in. I hope to come away with at least one rental before this thing turns. This is why I chose to underextend myself on the primary and why there is no porsche in the garage. My references to stocks and missed opportunity was part of that master plan because financing for rentals is tight right now, I had hoped to parlay into a larger down payment or a cash position because some condos involved in class action suits against the builder cannot get any form of financing right now and I see bargains on those because the only play is a cash play, however I failed in that little experiment, but I digress. I was happy in my rental, I’m happy in the new pad and I fully plan on being happy chasing old ladies in a rest home, it’s never about happy, it’s just math.
I wasn’t emulating the msm, they probably read boards like this and steal our ideas anyway. My conclusions are based on affordabity fundamentals, and prices relative to rent multipliers and the priced compared to the last few cycles (the reason I set my goal at 2001 pricing in nominal terms not inflation adjusted). These fundamentals kept me out of r/e in 06, 07 and until the last few days of 08, so I’m dancing with the one that brung me. If the msm decides this is their story today, they are late to the party, I learned it here and I learned it long ago, I didn’t make this stuff up, Rich did, as well as many ghosts of piggington past. I can point to countless posts in the past where I referenced these metrics and opined for a return to them, when they arrived, I embraced them. Now the rental(s) is a different story, I have to factor in other people’s ability to pay rent, not my ability to afford my primary, so the strike price and the rental stability is a huge issue and they do involve the macro market and employment, for those reasons I have elected to wait and see if the shadow inventory comes, plus the type of places I am evaluating as rentals have more unstable and overleveraged current owners, the speculators of 2006 are getting killed on their rentals because they needed appreciation, the counted on it and they will let their rental go before their primary and the loan mods and government programs are less likely to help them, in fact the gov’t seems to hate them.
Allan-sorry about macanudo knock, you are right, they make a nice mid level cigar that I’ve found appeals to most guests and I like them as well. I like certain $7 cabs from costco. As a host I’d never give guests one cigar and myself another, so those and rocky patel 1990’s and 1992’s are the “house” brand. If I find myself enjoying a smoke with a serious smoker, then we can break out the $20 sticks and get all geeked out about it, however blended scoth is not permitted on the premises, I believe the moose out front should have told you.
