[brooke]

“My beef is with the content of the reports.”

What does that have to do with you publicly launching personal attacks and spreading lies about my husband?

Another clumsy attempt at misdirection by ps.

I can’t believe you have the nerve to come here and post. You are now banned from the site. You are the first banning ever-congratulations.

~B

[brooke]

It’s the lying that’s the problem.

Perry, she is welcome to offer an alternate view but my problem is with her lying and abusive behavior. Rich always took the time to answer her constant emails about economic stuff and advice on starting a website. He was very patient (too patient) when she started spreading UNTRUE rumors about his private financial history and basically calling him a liar, and he even let her stay on the forum despite this behavior. He smacked her down on the forums a couple times, but considering the things she said to him, he has been incredibly patient with her.

After all that, for some reason we don’t understand at all, she started personally attacking Rich and spreading lies about him.

– She makes it seems like Rich rules this site like a tyrant, that he won’t accept criticism, and she calls him a “self-anointed guru.” The fact is that he has never banned a user, not even ps, except for comment spammer bots. And he never deleted a non-spam post, with one exception: when powayseller herself demanded it because she claimed it contained private info about her, and Rich gave her the benefit of the doubt. That’s the only post he ever deleted. And anyone who has talked with Rich knows that he is fine with people questioning his arguments and he actually likes it because it makes the arguments stronger.

– Rather than taking any responsibility for purposely starting untrue rumors about Rich’s history of real estate transactions and insulting his integrity, she completely mischaracterizes what happened in the that one thread and makes it sound like Rich is some sort of irrational and insecure hothead. Yes, she pissed him off. She pissed him off because she posted false info about him, and even though he asked her to stop she continued and then purposely started a false rumor with the intent to back him into a corner of giving out personal info he didn’t want to give. It was amoral and incredibly mean-spirited and Rich should have banned her on the spot, but he didn’t. Now she claims he “lost it” because she said he missed the boom, which is an outright lie. Go dig up the thread if you are interested and you will see.

– What she says are “mistakes” that she corrected in the voiceofsandiego letter are just different interpretations she had. The wrong interpretations, in my opinion, but I can see the difference between different interpretations and “mistakes.”

So Perry, if people want to disagree with Rich or even say he’s wrong or an idiot that’s fine. But she has personally attacked him despite his patience with her antics and worse she has published outright lies with the intent to make him look bad. Her behavior is disgusting and I think zk is right on with his diagnosis, especially the part about her taking advantage of others.

For new people, if you are wondering how I know all this stuff, it’s because Rich is my husband and I can tell you he is upset about her inexplicable personal vendetta against him and the lies she is spreading. On the positive side, thanks to everyone who has offered words of support here at at the voiceofsandiego. I really appreciate your coming to the defense of Rich and he does too. Rich wanted to make sure I mentioned his gratitude. The nice things people said are the one bright spot in this whole ugly mess.

~B

[brooke]

Rich NOT in “50% club”

FWIW – He thinks that gov’t will step in long before it gets to that level, either through inflation or direct intervention in the housing or mortgage markets.

~b

[brooke]

Sorry, images only. If it’s a graph you are talking about, you can just post a screen grab of the graph. If it’s actual data, you’d have to post the file somewhere else and put a link to it in your post.

~b

[brooke]

Thanks meadandale. I’ll pass that tidbit along to the HR types in case they haven’t already posted it there. (I’m just a developer trying to help out :0)

~b

[brooke]

Powayseller,

Your posts on this topic:

1st post: you provide FALSE information as fact without attempting to verify it

2nd post: by again arguing that your post was correct, you actually accuse Rich of lying

3rd post: FOR THE THIRD TIME (after being told you were wrong) YOU POST FALSE INFORMATION AS FACT: “So my brother and Rich did not buy real estate in this boom, because they saw the bubble.”

4th post: you accuse Rich of being defensive about being asked about his personal finances when YOU DIDN’T ASK HIM about his personal finances!!! YOU STATED FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT HIM. Read your post – there is no question there. His response was extremely measured considering you had just libeled him.

5th post: you now accuse Rich of overstating his gains, of hiding his personal finances b/c they would reflect negatively on him, and being a tyrant toward forum participants

6th post: you insult another forum participant and you accuse Rich of getting defensive AGAIN!

Powayseller, thank you for demonstrating your commitment to fact verification and rational analysis. I can only assume the rest of the forum participants will take this into consideration when reading your other posts.

[brooke]

sdrealtor,
The Mannions actually bought in December ’03 and put their house on the market in May ’06, where it stayed until Nov ’06.

You say:

“… buy in early 2003 before a huge jump in prices. All their appreciation came in the first 12 months and had they waited even a month or two their return would have been dramtically smaller.”

Hmmmmm, I guess they only got 1 out of those 12 months of dramatic appreciation.

Christina Mannion is an accomplished architect who has been featured in home design books. Considering these are my good friends, I know that she and Mike spent a lot of money and long hours over many weekends improving their 2nd home. Their intelligence and hard work deserve ALL the credit in my opinion.

[brooke]

Agreed -> upon second reading it really spun the whole issue postively toward homeownership and made the nay-sayers seem like stupid extremists. But we’ve known for years that the WSJ is biased.

[brooke]

Unfortunately, the journalist and his editor cherry-picked the quotes that created the most conflict and which balanced out the negative sentiment.

Although I don’t know the exact #s, we all know the market value of homes in San Diego didn’t appreciate by 50% in the last 2.5 years as the article seems to imply. The truth of the matter is that the Mannions are hardly typical — they are experienced home sellers who have specific expertise and who put a lot of hard work and money into improving their home. Despite all of that, the sale was still slow and stressful. In retrospect, the Mannions are completely aware that Rich was right about the risk they undertook and that they are lucky they sold when they did.

None of that made it into the article …

[brooke]

This is Brooke (Rich’s spouse and occasional webmistress). Thanks to misguided NASD regulations, Rich can’t easily post comment responses. But feel free to email him at [email protected] .

-b

[brooke]

I never saw the Bgates posts, but this begs the quesiton.
How come somebody can post in with the moniker SDrealtor after someone else named sdrealtor was posting for months ?
But a Bgates can’t ?

Is it because of the difference in Bgates’ opinions versus SDrealtor ?
Or did Bgates actually try to pass himself off as bgates ?

There’s nothing wrong with having similar names — the problem is this second Bgates was trying to impersonate the first one and make him/her look bad.

[brooke]

All his/her posts have been deleted and the fraudulent user account has been blocked.

If this kind of thing happens again we will start blocking guilty IP addresses from the site.

[brooke]

I think you could use the mysqldump command to do this. But in our case the database is pretty big at this point so we’ve just been doing weekly backups.

thanks,
Brooke

[brooke]

Update: it turns out that there was a hardware failure last night and (like vrudny suggested) our ISP had to restore the database from a 2-day old backup. That explains the missing 2 days of data. The corrupted tables I mentioned earlier were actually a symptom and not the cause of the problem.

Sorry again for those whose content was deleted.

brooke

[brooke]

All we can tell so far is that some database tables became corrupted. It’s not clear why this would have wiped out prior data like that. If someone (our ISP) restored the db from a prior version, that is news to us.

We have fixed the corrupted tables and are trying to find out why the data would have disappeared and whether it can be recovered. Many apologies to the people whose posts were lost. We will try to get them back but I have a feeling they may be lost for good.

brooke

PS – We are back from vacation and Rich will have some new content up soon.

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