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ParticipantWhat Bugs said. Ditto!
ParticipantWhat Bugs said. Ditto!
ParticipantThey have been extremely successful & popular with sellers & buyers in the Northwest. So much so, that the realtors tried to lock them out of the MLS but there was a lawsuit and Redfin won (hands down). There was a story about this on 60 minutes around six months ago.
New-Renter: Their site doesn’t run slow for me. I have cable. Are you using cable, DSL or dial up?
ParticipantThey have been extremely successful & popular with sellers & buyers in the Northwest. So much so, that the realtors tried to lock them out of the MLS but there was a lawsuit and Redfin won (hands down). There was a story about this on 60 minutes around six months ago.
New-Renter: Their site doesn’t run slow for me. I have cable. Are you using cable, DSL or dial up?
ParticipantThey have been extremely successful & popular with sellers & buyers in the Northwest. So much so, that the realtors tried to lock them out of the MLS but there was a lawsuit and Redfin won (hands down). There was a story about this on 60 minutes around six months ago.
New-Renter: Their site doesn’t run slow for me. I have cable. Are you using cable, DSL or dial up?
ParticipantI moved from SD to the upstate area of South Carolina 2 1/2 years ago after living in SD for over 30 years. The weather here is not bad. We have three months of hot weather that I don’t care for but the rest of the year is fairly pleasant. Winters are very mild and snow is rare but less than an hour away if we want to see it in the higher elevations of the Smokey Mountains. Homes & taxes are cheap when compared to CA prices. You can buy a nice home here for $250k and up. There are more than a few religious zealots and more churches per square mile than any place in the country but we’re not into organized religion and don’t let them interfere with our enjoyment of the area. We’re in the Greenville-Spartanburg area. If you’re considering a move to the east coast, the economy is very good in this area and growing.
ParticipantI moved from SD to the upstate area of South Carolina 2 1/2 years ago after living in SD for over 30 years. The weather here is not bad. We have three months of hot weather that I don’t care for but the rest of the year is fairly pleasant. Winters are very mild and snow is rare but less than an hour away if we want to see it in the higher elevations of the Smokey Mountains. Homes & taxes are cheap when compared to CA prices. You can buy a nice home here for $250k and up. There are more than a few religious zealots and more churches per square mile than any place in the country but we’re not into organized religion and don’t let them interfere with our enjoyment of the area. We’re in the Greenville-Spartanburg area. If you’re considering a move to the east coast, the economy is very good in this area and growing.
ParticipantI moved from SD to the upstate area of South Carolina 2 1/2 years ago after living in SD for over 30 years. The weather here is not bad. We have three months of hot weather that I don’t care for but the rest of the year is fairly pleasant. Winters are very mild and snow is rare but less than an hour away if we want to see it in the higher elevations of the Smokey Mountains. Homes & taxes are cheap when compared to CA prices. You can buy a nice home here for $250k and up. There are more than a few religious zealots and more churches per square mile than any place in the country but we’re not into organized religion and don’t let them interfere with our enjoyment of the area. We’re in the Greenville-Spartanburg area. If you’re considering a move to the east coast, the economy is very good in this area and growing.
ParticipantPrices will continue to skid downward. Foreclosures will increase even though Countrywide and other lenders may adjust the rates because most of the owners in CA bought their home and hoped to make money from the continued appreciation. Now that the cat is out of the bag, how many do you think will keep making their payments and the cost of keeping up a home? If this site is still up and running in late 2011, people will still be posting questions like, “when will we hit the bottom”? Then, a couple of years after that, people will be posting the question, “when do you think that prices will start rising again”?
This is a long-term “down cycle” to the bottom and it’s going to be a long, long, time before prices start climbing again. (In bubble markets) I now live in Greenville, SC (left SD in the spring of 2005) which has a good economy but never had the run-up in prices like CA and other bubble markets so we’re not feeling hardly any drops in value with real estate. We are like the majority of the country. So, when you read these proclamations from the NAR, they may apply (somewhat) to many markets such as the one I live in but they aren’t going to apply to CA for a long time.
ParticipantPrices will continue to skid downward. Foreclosures will increase even though Countrywide and other lenders may adjust the rates because most of the owners in CA bought their home and hoped to make money from the continued appreciation. Now that the cat is out of the bag, how many do you think will keep making their payments and the cost of keeping up a home? If this site is still up and running in late 2011, people will still be posting questions like, “when will we hit the bottom”? Then, a couple of years after that, people will be posting the question, “when do you think that prices will start rising again”?
This is a long-term “down cycle” to the bottom and it’s going to be a long, long, time before prices start climbing again. (In bubble markets) I now live in Greenville, SC (left SD in the spring of 2005) which has a good economy but never had the run-up in prices like CA and other bubble markets so we’re not feeling hardly any drops in value with real estate. We are like the majority of the country. So, when you read these proclamations from the NAR, they may apply (somewhat) to many markets such as the one I live in but they aren’t going to apply to CA for a long time.
ParticipantPrices will continue to skid downward. Foreclosures will increase even though Countrywide and other lenders may adjust the rates because most of the owners in CA bought their home and hoped to make money from the continued appreciation. Now that the cat is out of the bag, how many do you think will keep making their payments and the cost of keeping up a home? If this site is still up and running in late 2011, people will still be posting questions like, “when will we hit the bottom”? Then, a couple of years after that, people will be posting the question, “when do you think that prices will start rising again”?
This is a long-term “down cycle” to the bottom and it’s going to be a long, long, time before prices start climbing again. (In bubble markets) I now live in Greenville, SC (left SD in the spring of 2005) which has a good economy but never had the run-up in prices like CA and other bubble markets so we’re not feeling hardly any drops in value with real estate. We are like the majority of the country. So, when you read these proclamations from the NAR, they may apply (somewhat) to many markets such as the one I live in but they aren’t going to apply to CA for a long time.
ParticipantSDAppraiser: Since sales are substantially down, how is it that you & others are still as busy as 2005? My best friend is a mortgage broker in SD and his business has been in the toilet since early 2007.
Enquiring minds would like to know.
ParticipantSDAppraiser: Since sales are substantially down, how is it that you & others are still as busy as 2005? My best friend is a mortgage broker in SD and his business has been in the toilet since early 2007.
Enquiring minds would like to know.
ParticipantSDAppraiser: Since sales are substantially down, how is it that you & others are still as busy as 2005? My best friend is a mortgage broker in SD and his business has been in the toilet since early 2007.
Enquiring minds would like to know.
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