[GunDoctor]

I’m at an 8….waaaaay bitter. Not because I did not buy but because with prices so out of whack I won’t. What a total waste of time. I would love to buy a home for my wife and family. Nothing wrong with renting but owning would be better if the price was reasonable. All of the silliness in the bubble has forced the financially prudent folks to have sit and wait this out. I would have been perfectly content with no bubble or huge price run up. Now I have to wait and watch the huge price run down in order have my piece of the american dream. Time is the most precious commodity known, you don’t get anymore when its all over. All this bubble accomplished was wasting everyones TIME.

I am bitter about the time wasted while this sorts itself out. I will buy eventually but the bubble has also taken about 4-5 years off of me owning my own home…that makes me bitter.

[GunDoctor]

I’m at an 8….waaaaay bitter. Not because I did not buy but because with prices so out of whack I won’t. What a total waste of time. I would love to buy a home for my wife and family. Nothing wrong with renting but owning would be better if the price was reasonable. All of the silliness in the bubble has forced the financially prudent folks to have sit and wait this out. I would have been perfectly content with no bubble or huge price run up. Now I have to wait and watch the huge price run down in order have my piece of the american dream. Time is the most precious commodity known, you don’t get anymore when its all over. All this bubble accomplished was wasting everyones TIME.

I am bitter about the time wasted while this sorts itself out. I will buy eventually but the bubble has also taken about 4-5 years off of me owning my own home…that makes me bitter.

[GunDoctor]

I’m at an 8….waaaaay bitter. Not because I did not buy but because with prices so out of whack I won’t. What a total waste of time. I would love to buy a home for my wife and family. Nothing wrong with renting but owning would be better if the price was reasonable. All of the silliness in the bubble has forced the financially prudent folks to have sit and wait this out. I would have been perfectly content with no bubble or huge price run up. Now I have to wait and watch the huge price run down in order have my piece of the american dream. Time is the most precious commodity known, you don’t get anymore when its all over. All this bubble accomplished was wasting everyones TIME.

I am bitter about the time wasted while this sorts itself out. I will buy eventually but the bubble has also taken about 4-5 years off of me owning my own home…that makes me bitter.

[GunDoctor]

I’m at an 8….waaaaay bitter. Not because I did not buy but because with prices so out of whack I won’t. What a total waste of time. I would love to buy a home for my wife and family. Nothing wrong with renting but owning would be better if the price was reasonable. All of the silliness in the bubble has forced the financially prudent folks to have sit and wait this out. I would have been perfectly content with no bubble or huge price run up. Now I have to wait and watch the huge price run down in order have my piece of the american dream. Time is the most precious commodity known, you don’t get anymore when its all over. All this bubble accomplished was wasting everyones TIME.

I am bitter about the time wasted while this sorts itself out. I will buy eventually but the bubble has also taken about 4-5 years off of me owning my own home…that makes me bitter.

[GunDoctor]

I’m at an 8….waaaaay bitter. Not because I did not buy but because with prices so out of whack I won’t. What a total waste of time. I would love to buy a home for my wife and family. Nothing wrong with renting but owning would be better if the price was reasonable. All of the silliness in the bubble has forced the financially prudent folks to have sit and wait this out. I would have been perfectly content with no bubble or huge price run up. Now I have to wait and watch the huge price run down in order have my piece of the american dream. Time is the most precious commodity known, you don’t get anymore when its all over. All this bubble accomplished was wasting everyones TIME.

I am bitter about the time wasted while this sorts itself out. I will buy eventually but the bubble has also taken about 4-5 years off of me owning my own home…that makes me bitter.

[GunDoctor]

hmmm,

quick question:
Do you as a buyer have a right to see the confidential remarks, or are those just for the agents. It seems like a major conflict of interest if the buyers agent is getting 10K back and you as the buyer don’t know about it.
I see confidential remarks on many listing, do you have a right to see this correspondence?
this may just be how the systems works?…I am just curious and now a bit cautious.
thanks
Gun

[GunDoctor]

hmmm,

quick question:
Do you as a buyer have a right to see the confidential remarks, or are those just for the agents. It seems like a major conflict of interest if the buyers agent is getting 10K back and you as the buyer don’t know about it.
I see confidential remarks on many listing, do you have a right to see this correspondence?
this may just be how the systems works?…I am just curious and now a bit cautious.
thanks
Gun

[GunDoctor]

hmmm,

quick question:
Do you as a buyer have a right to see the confidential remarks, or are those just for the agents. It seems like a major conflict of interest if the buyers agent is getting 10K back and you as the buyer don’t know about it.
I see confidential remarks on many listing, do you have a right to see this correspondence?
this may just be how the systems works?…I am just curious and now a bit cautious.
thanks
Gun

[GunDoctor]

hmmm,

quick question:
Do you as a buyer have a right to see the confidential remarks, or are those just for the agents. It seems like a major conflict of interest if the buyers agent is getting 10K back and you as the buyer don’t know about it.
I see confidential remarks on many listing, do you have a right to see this correspondence?
this may just be how the systems works?…I am just curious and now a bit cautious.
thanks
Gun

[GunDoctor]

hmmm,

quick question:
Do you as a buyer have a right to see the confidential remarks, or are those just for the agents. It seems like a major conflict of interest if the buyers agent is getting 10K back and you as the buyer don’t know about it.
I see confidential remarks on many listing, do you have a right to see this correspondence?
this may just be how the systems works?…I am just curious and now a bit cautious.
thanks
Gun

[GunDoctor]

Great advise thanks,

fighting with my wife about buying was vastly more difficult all the way up until this summer. she and most of her friend who would get togeather and talk about how much money they were making by simply owning. Hell I almost capitulated and figured that mayby prices do only go up. My only saving grace was that I grew up poor, real poor, and there is no way in hell I would pay over half a million dollars for some of the shacks that I was seeing. I work to hard to pay Half a mil and come home to mediocrity. I basically told the wife that we could not afford California and that we would just move back east were people and prices were “SANE”

Now a funny thing happened over this summer. Two of her frineds who were making all of the “money” in real estate are going into forclosure. She spent a couple of nights talking to them on the phone as they were crying and in distress. Before that happened she was all about getting whatever mortgage we could to get into a house.
Now she flat out told me that we will only take a fixed rate mortgage no matter what “I smiled when she said that” What a change of direction

That is how I know that this market is a dead as a doornail. When the financially uneducated “yes I count my wife in this group,” sentiment turns from its all easy money to “I don’t want to stay up and cry at night” its done like dinner.
I can see that my next fight is going to be to convince my wife around 2009-2010 to acutally buy someting. Could I wait all the way until 2012…yes. But I am more concerned with obtainig a nice place for my family and less with saving every last nickle.
gun.

[GunDoctor]

Great advise thanks,

fighting with my wife about buying was vastly more difficult all the way up until this summer. she and most of her friend who would get togeather and talk about how much money they were making by simply owning. Hell I almost capitulated and figured that mayby prices do only go up. My only saving grace was that I grew up poor, real poor, and there is no way in hell I would pay over half a million dollars for some of the shacks that I was seeing. I work to hard to pay Half a mil and come home to mediocrity. I basically told the wife that we could not afford California and that we would just move back east were people and prices were “SANE”

Now a funny thing happened over this summer. Two of her frineds who were making all of the “money” in real estate are going into forclosure. She spent a couple of nights talking to them on the phone as they were crying and in distress. Before that happened she was all about getting whatever mortgage we could to get into a house.
Now she flat out told me that we will only take a fixed rate mortgage no matter what “I smiled when she said that” What a change of direction

That is how I know that this market is a dead as a doornail. When the financially uneducated “yes I count my wife in this group,” sentiment turns from its all easy money to “I don’t want to stay up and cry at night” its done like dinner.
I can see that my next fight is going to be to convince my wife around 2009-2010 to acutally buy someting. Could I wait all the way until 2012…yes. But I am more concerned with obtainig a nice place for my family and less with saving every last nickle.
gun.

[GunDoctor]

Great advise thanks,

fighting with my wife about buying was vastly more difficult all the way up until this summer. she and most of her friend who would get togeather and talk about how much money they were making by simply owning. Hell I almost capitulated and figured that mayby prices do only go up. My only saving grace was that I grew up poor, real poor, and there is no way in hell I would pay over half a million dollars for some of the shacks that I was seeing. I work to hard to pay Half a mil and come home to mediocrity. I basically told the wife that we could not afford California and that we would just move back east were people and prices were “SANE”

Now a funny thing happened over this summer. Two of her frineds who were making all of the “money” in real estate are going into forclosure. She spent a couple of nights talking to them on the phone as they were crying and in distress. Before that happened she was all about getting whatever mortgage we could to get into a house.
Now she flat out told me that we will only take a fixed rate mortgage no matter what “I smiled when she said that” What a change of direction

That is how I know that this market is a dead as a doornail. When the financially uneducated “yes I count my wife in this group,” sentiment turns from its all easy money to “I don’t want to stay up and cry at night” its done like dinner.
I can see that my next fight is going to be to convince my wife around 2009-2010 to acutally buy someting. Could I wait all the way until 2012…yes. But I am more concerned with obtainig a nice place for my family and less with saving every last nickle.
gun.

[GunDoctor]

Great advise thanks,

fighting with my wife about buying was vastly more difficult all the way up until this summer. she and most of her friend who would get togeather and talk about how much money they were making by simply owning. Hell I almost capitulated and figured that mayby prices do only go up. My only saving grace was that I grew up poor, real poor, and there is no way in hell I would pay over half a million dollars for some of the shacks that I was seeing. I work to hard to pay Half a mil and come home to mediocrity. I basically told the wife that we could not afford California and that we would just move back east were people and prices were “SANE”

Now a funny thing happened over this summer. Two of her frineds who were making all of the “money” in real estate are going into forclosure. She spent a couple of nights talking to them on the phone as they were crying and in distress. Before that happened she was all about getting whatever mortgage we could to get into a house.
Now she flat out told me that we will only take a fixed rate mortgage no matter what “I smiled when she said that” What a change of direction

That is how I know that this market is a dead as a doornail. When the financially uneducated “yes I count my wife in this group,” sentiment turns from its all easy money to “I don’t want to stay up and cry at night” its done like dinner.
I can see that my next fight is going to be to convince my wife around 2009-2010 to acutally buy someting. Could I wait all the way until 2012…yes. But I am more concerned with obtainig a nice place for my family and less with saving every last nickle.
gun.

[GunDoctor]

Great advise thanks,

fighting with my wife about buying was vastly more difficult all the way up until this summer. she and most of her friend who would get togeather and talk about how much money they were making by simply owning. Hell I almost capitulated and figured that mayby prices do only go up. My only saving grace was that I grew up poor, real poor, and there is no way in hell I would pay over half a million dollars for some of the shacks that I was seeing. I work to hard to pay Half a mil and come home to mediocrity. I basically told the wife that we could not afford California and that we would just move back east were people and prices were “SANE”

Now a funny thing happened over this summer. Two of her frineds who were making all of the “money” in real estate are going into forclosure. She spent a couple of nights talking to them on the phone as they were crying and in distress. Before that happened she was all about getting whatever mortgage we could to get into a house.
Now she flat out told me that we will only take a fixed rate mortgage no matter what “I smiled when she said that” What a change of direction

That is how I know that this market is a dead as a doornail. When the financially uneducated “yes I count my wife in this group,” sentiment turns from its all easy money to “I don’t want to stay up and cry at night” its done like dinner.
I can see that my next fight is going to be to convince my wife around 2009-2010 to acutally buy someting. Could I wait all the way until 2012…yes. But I am more concerned with obtainig a nice place for my family and less with saving every last nickle.
gun.

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