How did we get from “So my brother and Rich did not buy real estate in this boom, because they saw the bubble” to people wanting my bank records? Thanks to PD for bringing a little humor back in 🙂
The whole thing would have been avoided if Rich had simply answered, “I owned a San Diego home from 199x – 200x, and an Austin, TX home from 200x – 200x.” In essence, you guys did miss the boom because you owned real estate in Texas which appreciated 4% annually and did not keep your San Diego home from the late 1990’s, nor buy a San Diego home when you returned in 2003.
As I also said, so what? Does someone writing about real estate markets need to be an expert on real estate in the past? No. They only need to be an expert now. And you definitely know a lot about real estate markets.
As far as the boys who got into the mix above, they quickly went into auto pilot, seeing a golden opportunity to try to belittle me, a delight for that group of boys. In this way, they are giving me more free publicity. As celebrities are well aware, negative publicity is better than none. So these nice boys have given me not only publicity, but the kind of thick skin that comes in real handy. Heck, some people might even accuse me and Rich, with Brooke as accomplice, for orchestrating this entire post to increase traffic to this site and increase anticipation of my own debut. (Remember when lots of people thought powayseller was Rich in disguise?)
