Sun Tzu – The Art of War

[blahblahblah]

Let them have these rotten houses. Actually, the more I think about it, being mobile may be worth more than having a home. In my many years of working in the software industry, very few places that I’ve worked are still around. Several shut down while I worked there, still others were bought out and moved elsewhere. In my line of work it seems to pay to be able to pack up and move to where the work is. Sucks but that’s the way it seems to be.

[PadreBrian]

That will work as well. Always good to be flexible.

[PadreBrian]

That will work as well. Always good to be flexible.

[PadreBrian]

That will work as well. Always good to be flexible.

[PadreBrian]

That will work as well. Always good to be flexible.

[PadreBrian]

That will work as well. Always good to be flexible.

[patientrenter]

PadreBrian, I agree that Bush was very culpable. Obama is reacting to a really nasty situation. He’s making mistakes in my judgment, but I don’t honestly get the same sense of “me and my buddies first” that I got from the Bush group. I’ll wait a while before pronouncing Obama guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now Larry Summers is a disaster, and….

I think your characterization of “mob and corporations” is pretty close, except I would add a professional class of politicians and lobbyists and consultants that has its grubby fingers all over the national economy’s controls. They take in influences from the rabble, and money from special interests, and take a little off the top in return for helping people arrange to be fed from the public trough.

[patientrenter]

PadreBrian, I agree that Bush was very culpable. Obama is reacting to a really nasty situation. He’s making mistakes in my judgment, but I don’t honestly get the same sense of “me and my buddies first” that I got from the Bush group. I’ll wait a while before pronouncing Obama guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now Larry Summers is a disaster, and….

I think your characterization of “mob and corporations” is pretty close, except I would add a professional class of politicians and lobbyists and consultants that has its grubby fingers all over the national economy’s controls. They take in influences from the rabble, and money from special interests, and take a little off the top in return for helping people arrange to be fed from the public trough.

[patientrenter]

PadreBrian, I agree that Bush was very culpable. Obama is reacting to a really nasty situation. He’s making mistakes in my judgment, but I don’t honestly get the same sense of “me and my buddies first” that I got from the Bush group. I’ll wait a while before pronouncing Obama guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now Larry Summers is a disaster, and….

I think your characterization of “mob and corporations” is pretty close, except I would add a professional class of politicians and lobbyists and consultants that has its grubby fingers all over the national economy’s controls. They take in influences from the rabble, and money from special interests, and take a little off the top in return for helping people arrange to be fed from the public trough.

[patientrenter]

PadreBrian, I agree that Bush was very culpable. Obama is reacting to a really nasty situation. He’s making mistakes in my judgment, but I don’t honestly get the same sense of “me and my buddies first” that I got from the Bush group. I’ll wait a while before pronouncing Obama guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now Larry Summers is a disaster, and….

I think your characterization of “mob and corporations” is pretty close, except I would add a professional class of politicians and lobbyists and consultants that has its grubby fingers all over the national economy’s controls. They take in influences from the rabble, and money from special interests, and take a little off the top in return for helping people arrange to be fed from the public trough.

[patientrenter]

PadreBrian, I agree that Bush was very culpable. Obama is reacting to a really nasty situation. He’s making mistakes in my judgment, but I don’t honestly get the same sense of “me and my buddies first” that I got from the Bush group. I’ll wait a while before pronouncing Obama guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Now Larry Summers is a disaster, and….

I think your characterization of “mob and corporations” is pretty close, except I would add a professional class of politicians and lobbyists and consultants that has its grubby fingers all over the national economy’s controls. They take in influences from the rabble, and money from special interests, and take a little off the top in return for helping people arrange to be fed from the public trough.

[AK]

Interesting find with the loan mod forum.

I’ve been browsing agentsonline.net for more raw intel on the broker/agent side of the story. I ran across warnings about bogus “all cash” offers from out-of-town “investors” that invariably fall through and waste everyone’s time. This certainly explains all the REO listings I’ve seen go pending then relist a week or so later.

“Buyers are liars!” some say on that forum. I’m sure lots of them are, but so is everyone else in the increasingly sordid real estate business right now. I’m sure that listing agent had no idea there were multiple lenders on that short-sale property, or that the seller really thought his old-growth vinyl flooring was solid hardwood.

I thought I was educated about real estate before I started my home search. Since then I’ve learned (a) I don’t know jack; (b) everyone lies, even when it serves no purpose; (c) you will find dry rot with your feet long before you find it through a visual inspection; (d) never open a refrigerator in an REO property.

[AK]

Interesting find with the loan mod forum.

I’ve been browsing agentsonline.net for more raw intel on the broker/agent side of the story. I ran across warnings about bogus “all cash” offers from out-of-town “investors” that invariably fall through and waste everyone’s time. This certainly explains all the REO listings I’ve seen go pending then relist a week or so later.

“Buyers are liars!” some say on that forum. I’m sure lots of them are, but so is everyone else in the increasingly sordid real estate business right now. I’m sure that listing agent had no idea there were multiple lenders on that short-sale property, or that the seller really thought his old-growth vinyl flooring was solid hardwood.

I thought I was educated about real estate before I started my home search. Since then I’ve learned (a) I don’t know jack; (b) everyone lies, even when it serves no purpose; (c) you will find dry rot with your feet long before you find it through a visual inspection; (d) never open a refrigerator in an REO property.

[AK]

Interesting find with the loan mod forum.

I’ve been browsing agentsonline.net for more raw intel on the broker/agent side of the story. I ran across warnings about bogus “all cash” offers from out-of-town “investors” that invariably fall through and waste everyone’s time. This certainly explains all the REO listings I’ve seen go pending then relist a week or so later.

“Buyers are liars!” some say on that forum. I’m sure lots of them are, but so is everyone else in the increasingly sordid real estate business right now. I’m sure that listing agent had no idea there were multiple lenders on that short-sale property, or that the seller really thought his old-growth vinyl flooring was solid hardwood.

I thought I was educated about real estate before I started my home search. Since then I’ve learned (a) I don’t know jack; (b) everyone lies, even when it serves no purpose; (c) you will find dry rot with your feet long before you find it through a visual inspection; (d) never open a refrigerator in an REO property.

[AK]

Interesting find with the loan mod forum.

I’ve been browsing agentsonline.net for more raw intel on the broker/agent side of the story. I ran across warnings about bogus “all cash” offers from out-of-town “investors” that invariably fall through and waste everyone’s time. This certainly explains all the REO listings I’ve seen go pending then relist a week or so later.

“Buyers are liars!” some say on that forum. I’m sure lots of them are, but so is everyone else in the increasingly sordid real estate business right now. I’m sure that listing agent had no idea there were multiple lenders on that short-sale property, or that the seller really thought his old-growth vinyl flooring was solid hardwood.

I thought I was educated about real estate before I started my home search. Since then I’ve learned (a) I don’t know jack; (b) everyone lies, even when it serves no purpose; (c) you will find dry rot with your feet long before you find it through a visual inspection; (d) never open a refrigerator in an REO property.

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