Housing Protest!

[BuyerWillEPB]

I just had a wild idea.

What if all of us “bitter renters” get together some time for a Housing Protest! We could march downtown with signs like:

LOWER HOME PRICES NOW!

STOP THE MORTGAGE FRAUD!

NO HOMES NO PEACE!

I know, I know, we are the reasonable and sane people who did NOT fall for the housing ponzi schemes. We are all much too calm and sensible for an idea like this, or are we?

Wow, I would actually be willing to do something like this. Something tells me the foreclosure “victims” will be marching and crying in the streets soon. Yet they were part of the problem by running up prices ever higher, and lying on mortgage applications etc.

Maybe we should have a preemptive protest to demonstrate how we were wronged first.

[yooklid]

Like this?

http://www.boycotthousing.com/home.aspx

[BuyerWillEPB]

I read the Temecula thread and saw

the Foreclosure Rally

And I just had to say, “I Told You So!”

Hahaha! Check out the date when I first posted this.

🙂 Classic.

[BuyerWillEPB]

I read the Temecula thread and saw

the Foreclosure Rally

And I just had to say, “I Told You So!”

Hahaha! Check out the date when I first posted this.

🙂 Classic.

[golfproz]

Relax, grab a beer, and let the crash happen. Anyone who was here for the last crash can tell you that it’s a SLOOOOOW process. I bought in 88, saw my place double in value in 2 years and then drop 50% over the next 5 years. Now it’s gone and quadrupled in value from the last low. I fully expect it to drop 50% again this time around. But I’m sure it will take a few years.
I wish the crash would speed up since I am looking to get a new place. I just can’t bring myself to drop 800K on a tract home on a postage stamp lot.

[golfproz]

Relax, grab a beer, and let the crash happen. Anyone who was here for the last crash can tell you that it’s a SLOOOOOW process. I bought in 88, saw my place double in value in 2 years and then drop 50% over the next 5 years. Now it’s gone and quadrupled in value from the last low. I fully expect it to drop 50% again this time around. But I’m sure it will take a few years.
I wish the crash would speed up since I am looking to get a new place. I just can’t bring myself to drop 800K on a tract home on a postage stamp lot.

[ocrenter]

a plug for myself…

you can alwaywas count on BMIT to connect the dots

[ocrenter]

a plug for myself…

you can alwaywas count on BMIT to connect the dots

[temeculaguy]

I love that link OC, everytime I see that picture I can’t help but notice the mispelled sign (Hundres of Forclosures). They should be protesting at their old high school for giving them a Disploma.

[temeculaguy]

I love that link OC, everytime I see that picture I can’t help but notice the mispelled sign (Hundres of Forclosures). They should be protesting at their old high school for giving them a Disploma.

[bob007]

I have a better suggestion. Move out to a state where real estate is cheap.

[bob007]

I have a better suggestion. Move out to a state where real estate is cheap.

[Diego Don]

Two reasons I don’t want to relocate Bob
I like living here.
I like leaving my windows open all year around.
Just 2 of many.

Edited to add this:
Hope that didn’t come across as rude. But I am wondering if you are new to the forum? If so welcome. And wondered do you live in southern California?

I am fine renting. Would like to own, but renting isn’t that bad. After confronting all my bitter issues. 🙂

I’m to lazy to protest. I’ll just wait.

[Diego Don]

Two reasons I don’t want to relocate Bob
I like living here.
I like leaving my windows open all year around.
Just 2 of many.

Edited to add this:
Hope that didn’t come across as rude. But I am wondering if you are new to the forum? If so welcome. And wondered do you live in southern California?

I am fine renting. Would like to own, but renting isn’t that bad. After confronting all my bitter issues. 🙂

I’m to lazy to protest. I’ll just wait.

[BuyerWillEPB]

bob007,

Actually, that is my Plan B.

However, my original goal has always been to stay here in SD because I like it here.

My Plan A was to get my degree, get a good job, and stay in San Diego. So, I went back to school in 1999 on the GI Bill and worked my way into UCSD. While I was finishing my engineering degree, the housing prices doubled, then tripled so that by the time I finished University at the end of 2004, and got a pretty good job mid 2005, the wife and I were COMPLETELY priced out of buying anything but a fricken 40 year old condo sh!tshack in Encanto or some such thing.

Imagine that, an engineer with a household income over 100K can’t afford an average single family house even in Clairemont. And by “afford,” I mean actually afford to pay back the loan, like a 30 year fixed, not some suicide loan like the I/O, Option ARMs, crazy money rental scams like that.

So yeah, I am pretty bitter after doing all the right things and STILL can’t buy a family home.

Anyhoo… My Plan B is Wichita, Kansas. I’ve researched it a bit, and traveled there for work a couple times. They are heavy into Aerospace companies there so should be good for engineer work. Most importantly, Wichita never participated in any fraud filled housing bubble like Southern California. Go ahead and Zillow.com the area. They have lots of great single family homes for less than $150,000. It’s pretty nice country there too, they have real seasons and everything.

The most shocking thing about Wichita is that common, average, regular people can actually afford to live there (GASP! the horror!).

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