[quote=CA renter] . . . I think people get upset by BG’s posts because she tends to make them too personal. That just seems to be her style; but if you ignore the bits that come across as personal attacks, she adds a lot to this site, IMHO. She knows a lot about subjects that many of us don’t know much about.[/quote]
It’s not only MY style, CAR. As you may be aware, I’ve been ripped a new a$$hole by Piggs in a few occasions over the years. Case in point:
I was “lamenting” in Nov/Dec ’11 that sold prices of SFRs had drastically fallen in my area in recent months and I feared I would never be able to recover my large downpayment upon sale, which I had made nearly 11 years prior. I felt the home values in my area over-corrected in the form of lower and lower asking and sales prices, mainly due to dozens of low, low-priced closings of REO’s and SS’s and tons of recently-built existing “shadow inventory” (mostly in adjacent zip codes of the same city as mine). I felt I didn’t deserve this because I had never removed any equity from my property and kept my mtg payments current throughout the years.
This is what I was (essentially) told by Piggs:
You bought in the “wrong area.” Get over it.
You’re not entitled to “make a profit.” (Assuming recovering my downpayment and little to nothing for the improvements I made would be “a profit” to me.)
RE is not guaranteed to go up.
RE sometimes goes down.
Ad nauseum.
It was a GREAT thread, btw. It had lots of “case scenarios” to discuss, including my own.
A few of those same Piggs are now lamenting that RE prices are going up and they shouldn’t be because homes are becoming too expensive (even though we are experiencing the lowest fixed mtg rates in history and the vast majority of SD Co markets are currently only equal to 2003 values).
Why did the Piggs read me the riot act? Because I put it OUT THERE as a topic of discussion.
Duh …
This is the internet, folks. If a Pigg puts it out there (and Ren DID) that he has house and car payments and minor children, lives in RIV Co (but wishes to move back to SD Co someday), works in SD Co, and is thinking of buying rental property in FL or maybe AZ, that’s all OUT THERE. It’s now fodder for a topic of discussion.
It’s the same as if a celebrity’s bikini top comes loose while walking on the beach at Malibu and her half-nude photo shows up on the internet. She put it out there (however inadvertently), all the while knowing telephoto lenses follow her everywhere.
By posting your personal info and/or possibly asking for advice, you put your “case scenario” out there for discussion.
And that’s okay. We don’t know who you are and don’t care. I joined here to discuss mainly local RE issues. But how can we discuss specific RE issues on here if we don’t have some “case scenarios” to discuss? I don’t care what a Pigg’s screen name is or even if they’re lying while stating their issues. They “put out” their info which can be used in the thread’s discussion
Another unnamed Pigg who knows who he is recently stated on here that he diligently looked `up and down the (CA) coast’ for a retirement home in the past year-plus which cost $1M or less and essentially couldn’t find anything that didn’t need a lot of work so ended up retiring elsewhere. That’s a GREAT topic of discussion so I asked him:
Was he from SD and if so, had they thought of retiring here?
Where did he look “up and down the coast” and did he make any offers on property while on the trips?
He then posted that he and his spouse very much wanted to “retire” in SD County to be near relatives but could not find a “suitable” property here for $1M or less. (That’s another “topic of discussion.”) He further listed five or six areas where he was house-shopping along the coast which were among the most exclusive and sought-after enclaves in the state! So I asked him what he expected to pay for these properties.
In the end, he admitted that they talked themselves out of retiring in CA and weren’t really committed to doing what it takes to secure a retirement home in CA.
I found the whole thread interesting as well as instructive. It showed the value differences of different people and that sometimes people have to go thru a LOT of stuff in order to make a big life decision while others know exactly what they want and also know that what they want is entirely within their means.
It was nothing personal then and it’s not personal now. It’s trying to discuss something within the context of the thread that another poster put out there.
Ren seems to be taking it personally by his name-calling and taking words out of my mouth that were never there. But that’s okay. I never stated Ren was “stupid.” Essentially, I stated that I thought out-of-state rentals were too risky of an investment for people in Ren’s “station in life.” There is nothing wrong with Ren’s current station in life. I was there and so was almost everyone else who is in my “station in life.” I even still have a HS kid at home! However, at the time my kids were small, I never considered buying any properties more than 15 minutes away from where I was currently living. But that is just me. And I don’t regret that decision today.
In a nutshell, don’t post something on here if you don’t want it commented on. That’s what we do here. And if you don’t want to be “misunderstood,” you will need to clarify yourself as this is not telephone or video. Your words can only be construed literally.
