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July 5, 2008 at 8:12 AM #233460July 5, 2008 at 8:12 AM #233469
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ParticipantJust read at some of the posts and you’ll know why. I find the real estate posts useful and informative, but some of the other ones sad. Blogs are great information exchanges, but when they are high-jacked by blog-nuts who spend more time in virtual reality, than in the real world, it somehow seems to bring the worst out in people.
July 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM #233331temeculaguy
ParticipantI think it is a combination of things mentioned above but mostly the slowdown in posts or the deviation to gas prices, stocks and politics is because of the season. We all expected the decline in prices to stall from April to August, we are in a bit of an intermission. 80% of the posters are looking at a select few, higher end San Diego markets and those areas have yet to take serious 50% off hits, as their day approaches you will see an uptick in activity here. It is a boring time in the cycle. Another factor along the lines of what JWM said about life sometimes interferes, the sunshine, vacations, etc. has most of us distracted, as the days get shorter and the meltdown reumes, this site will be more active.
July 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM #233459temeculaguy
ParticipantI think it is a combination of things mentioned above but mostly the slowdown in posts or the deviation to gas prices, stocks and politics is because of the season. We all expected the decline in prices to stall from April to August, we are in a bit of an intermission. 80% of the posters are looking at a select few, higher end San Diego markets and those areas have yet to take serious 50% off hits, as their day approaches you will see an uptick in activity here. It is a boring time in the cycle. Another factor along the lines of what JWM said about life sometimes interferes, the sunshine, vacations, etc. has most of us distracted, as the days get shorter and the meltdown reumes, this site will be more active.
July 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM #233467temeculaguy
ParticipantI think it is a combination of things mentioned above but mostly the slowdown in posts or the deviation to gas prices, stocks and politics is because of the season. We all expected the decline in prices to stall from April to August, we are in a bit of an intermission. 80% of the posters are looking at a select few, higher end San Diego markets and those areas have yet to take serious 50% off hits, as their day approaches you will see an uptick in activity here. It is a boring time in the cycle. Another factor along the lines of what JWM said about life sometimes interferes, the sunshine, vacations, etc. has most of us distracted, as the days get shorter and the meltdown reumes, this site will be more active.
July 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM #233511temeculaguy
ParticipantI think it is a combination of things mentioned above but mostly the slowdown in posts or the deviation to gas prices, stocks and politics is because of the season. We all expected the decline in prices to stall from April to August, we are in a bit of an intermission. 80% of the posters are looking at a select few, higher end San Diego markets and those areas have yet to take serious 50% off hits, as their day approaches you will see an uptick in activity here. It is a boring time in the cycle. Another factor along the lines of what JWM said about life sometimes interferes, the sunshine, vacations, etc. has most of us distracted, as the days get shorter and the meltdown reumes, this site will be more active.
July 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM #233520temeculaguy
ParticipantI think it is a combination of things mentioned above but mostly the slowdown in posts or the deviation to gas prices, stocks and politics is because of the season. We all expected the decline in prices to stall from April to August, we are in a bit of an intermission. 80% of the posters are looking at a select few, higher end San Diego markets and those areas have yet to take serious 50% off hits, as their day approaches you will see an uptick in activity here. It is a boring time in the cycle. Another factor along the lines of what JWM said about life sometimes interferes, the sunshine, vacations, etc. has most of us distracted, as the days get shorter and the meltdown reumes, this site will be more active.
July 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM #233588trex
ParticipantStill lurking, but less frequently. I guess it seems to me that the housing market is on its way down, and we won’t buy for a year, I haven’t been keeping my finger on the pulse of the market as much. Plus there has been alot of OT posts, and I’m a bit narrow in my interests.
July 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM #233714trex
ParticipantStill lurking, but less frequently. I guess it seems to me that the housing market is on its way down, and we won’t buy for a year, I haven’t been keeping my finger on the pulse of the market as much. Plus there has been alot of OT posts, and I’m a bit narrow in my interests.
July 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM #233723trex
ParticipantStill lurking, but less frequently. I guess it seems to me that the housing market is on its way down, and we won’t buy for a year, I haven’t been keeping my finger on the pulse of the market as much. Plus there has been alot of OT posts, and I’m a bit narrow in my interests.
July 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM #233765trex
ParticipantStill lurking, but less frequently. I guess it seems to me that the housing market is on its way down, and we won’t buy for a year, I haven’t been keeping my finger on the pulse of the market as much. Plus there has been alot of OT posts, and I’m a bit narrow in my interests.
July 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM #233776trex
ParticipantStill lurking, but less frequently. I guess it seems to me that the housing market is on its way down, and we won’t buy for a year, I haven’t been keeping my finger on the pulse of the market as much. Plus there has been alot of OT posts, and I’m a bit narrow in my interests.
July 6, 2008 at 10:10 AM #233822cr
ParticipantRust – I was almost through the first page of responses before I realized this thread is 7 months old.
I’ve noticed the same thing though, and I think a big part of it is outside Rich’s updates there are more political hot-button discussions here than how to play your money in this market as Scoreboard and others said.
Maybe it’s because there’s no more debate that housing was inflated, it’s just a question of how far and how long, but even that varies from neighborhood.
As we wait this out though, and our savings gets eroded by rates to primarily help the irresponsible it would be nice to have some good input even just on how to beat inflation.
July 6, 2008 at 10:10 AM #233949cr
ParticipantRust – I was almost through the first page of responses before I realized this thread is 7 months old.
I’ve noticed the same thing though, and I think a big part of it is outside Rich’s updates there are more political hot-button discussions here than how to play your money in this market as Scoreboard and others said.
Maybe it’s because there’s no more debate that housing was inflated, it’s just a question of how far and how long, but even that varies from neighborhood.
As we wait this out though, and our savings gets eroded by rates to primarily help the irresponsible it would be nice to have some good input even just on how to beat inflation.
July 6, 2008 at 10:10 AM #233958cr
ParticipantRust – I was almost through the first page of responses before I realized this thread is 7 months old.
I’ve noticed the same thing though, and I think a big part of it is outside Rich’s updates there are more political hot-button discussions here than how to play your money in this market as Scoreboard and others said.
Maybe it’s because there’s no more debate that housing was inflated, it’s just a question of how far and how long, but even that varies from neighborhood.
As we wait this out though, and our savings gets eroded by rates to primarily help the irresponsible it would be nice to have some good input even just on how to beat inflation.
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