[quote=Astrid Rey]I don’t know what will happen with the economy in general but I don’t believe that polls in the news tell us anything. When 7 in 10 people think that the economy is good what does that really say? So many people were fooled before. It seems that maybe the smart thing is to believe the opposite of the majority. And now more than ever people want to believe their side is right and do not want to look at facts. People want to see those that they do not like to be wrong, even if it costs them money.[/quote]
polls were wrong WRT to trump and the 2016 election, and my gut feeing is too few are looking at the big “economic” picture or pondering the knock on effects,… yeah I know I’ve said that before BUT this thread was refreshing in that in that I did learn something I was not aware of, nor had thought about
[quote=flu]
…I would use Zillow to look for housing because lately Craigslist has become sketchy at best for finding rentals… Sketchy for the landlords looking for tenants, sketchy for tenants looking for a place to live. Zillow is so much more civilized. Thank you sdrealtor for that recommendation!
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just out of shits and giggles, tried posting an apartment “studio” rental on zillow, and the result was a surprising number of cold calls from residential real estate agents, asking if I was interested in selling,… typically I get more than my fair share of calls from commercial property brokers like CBRE that are looking to broker and get commissions on 1031s, Triple Net Leases, Delaware Statutory Trust, and other investment strategies typically not associated w/ residential housing
WRT the OP comment
[quote=temeculaguy]
This place was the “red pill” to the main stream media circa 2006 and look at it now.
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was not aware of this forum back then, but have to say its interesting in that this forum is one of the sources I use as a proxy to gauge what the somewhat economically/politically informed are thinking,… and sadly I’ve come to the conclusion that assessing economic risk and developing hedge strategies isn’t on the radar screen of most people (nor is recognizing the errors of basic math when managing a portfolio by politicians or the news media)
so I can only conclude that eventually the local economy is going to have a TSHTF moment which was sort of just reported on in connection w/ the US Supreme Court taking a pass on reviewing the battle over local pension reform
[quote] Supreme Court won’t weigh in on pension battle
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on the battle over pension reform in the city of San Diego.
The decision leaves in place a California Supreme Court decision from last year that called pension reform into question and required a lower court to come up with a remedy. It could end up costing the city billions.
