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I can tell you with certainty that my wife would not have bought our current house if the previous owner died in it. The reason why I know this is that the husband did in fact die from a very aggressive cancer, and she wanted to make sure he didn’t actually pass in the house. My wife is Laotian and in her culture this would indeed be a very bad thing to happen in a house that you wanted to buy. She would be looking for his spirit everywhere.

On a similar note, when I was stationed in Japan I bought a Samurai sword, but I had to buy a newer one that was made in the traditional way. My wife forbid the purchase of an old original one (and I had my eye on a real nice one in Kamakura) because in Japanese culture when the Samurai warrior dies his soul passes into his sword, and my wife didn’t want the spirit of the dead warrior in the house.

You never quite know what beliefs you’re going to run into when you marry into another culture.

[Navydoc]

I can tell you with certainty that my wife would not have bought our current house if the previous owner died in it. The reason why I know this is that the husband did in fact die from a very aggressive cancer, and she wanted to make sure he didn’t actually pass in the house. My wife is Laotian and in her culture this would indeed be a very bad thing to happen in a house that you wanted to buy. She would be looking for his spirit everywhere.

On a similar note, when I was stationed in Japan I bought a Samurai sword, but I had to buy a newer one that was made in the traditional way. My wife forbid the purchase of an old original one (and I had my eye on a real nice one in Kamakura) because in Japanese culture when the Samurai warrior dies his soul passes into his sword, and my wife didn’t want the spirit of the dead warrior in the house.

You never quite know what beliefs you’re going to run into when you marry into another culture.

[Navydoc]

I can tell you with certainty that my wife would not have bought our current house if the previous owner died in it. The reason why I know this is that the husband did in fact die from a very aggressive cancer, and she wanted to make sure he didn’t actually pass in the house. My wife is Laotian and in her culture this would indeed be a very bad thing to happen in a house that you wanted to buy. She would be looking for his spirit everywhere.

On a similar note, when I was stationed in Japan I bought a Samurai sword, but I had to buy a newer one that was made in the traditional way. My wife forbid the purchase of an old original one (and I had my eye on a real nice one in Kamakura) because in Japanese culture when the Samurai warrior dies his soul passes into his sword, and my wife didn’t want the spirit of the dead warrior in the house.

You never quite know what beliefs you’re going to run into when you marry into another culture.

[Navydoc]

I can tell you with certainty that my wife would not have bought our current house if the previous owner died in it. The reason why I know this is that the husband did in fact die from a very aggressive cancer, and she wanted to make sure he didn’t actually pass in the house. My wife is Laotian and in her culture this would indeed be a very bad thing to happen in a house that you wanted to buy. She would be looking for his spirit everywhere.

On a similar note, when I was stationed in Japan I bought a Samurai sword, but I had to buy a newer one that was made in the traditional way. My wife forbid the purchase of an old original one (and I had my eye on a real nice one in Kamakura) because in Japanese culture when the Samurai warrior dies his soul passes into his sword, and my wife didn’t want the spirit of the dead warrior in the house.

You never quite know what beliefs you’re going to run into when you marry into another culture.

[Navydoc]

[quote=AK]Personally I wouldn’t go near any of the drive-by-wire models, rebate or no rebate.[/quote]

This reminded me of an interview I read a long time ago, I think in Car and Driver in the early 90s, with Lee Iacocca about the future of auto technology. He said “over my dead body will any car of mine have drive-by-wire. Even if it’s triply redundant it can still fail”. I don’t agree with the decision he made concerning the Ford Pinto, but looks like he may have been right about this one.

[Navydoc]

[quote=AK]Personally I wouldn’t go near any of the drive-by-wire models, rebate or no rebate.[/quote]

This reminded me of an interview I read a long time ago, I think in Car and Driver in the early 90s, with Lee Iacocca about the future of auto technology. He said “over my dead body will any car of mine have drive-by-wire. Even if it’s triply redundant it can still fail”. I don’t agree with the decision he made concerning the Ford Pinto, but looks like he may have been right about this one.

[Navydoc]

[quote=AK]Personally I wouldn’t go near any of the drive-by-wire models, rebate or no rebate.[/quote]

This reminded me of an interview I read a long time ago, I think in Car and Driver in the early 90s, with Lee Iacocca about the future of auto technology. He said “over my dead body will any car of mine have drive-by-wire. Even if it’s triply redundant it can still fail”. I don’t agree with the decision he made concerning the Ford Pinto, but looks like he may have been right about this one.

[Navydoc]

[quote=AK]Personally I wouldn’t go near any of the drive-by-wire models, rebate or no rebate.[/quote]

This reminded me of an interview I read a long time ago, I think in Car and Driver in the early 90s, with Lee Iacocca about the future of auto technology. He said “over my dead body will any car of mine have drive-by-wire. Even if it’s triply redundant it can still fail”. I don’t agree with the decision he made concerning the Ford Pinto, but looks like he may have been right about this one.

[Navydoc]

[quote=AK]Personally I wouldn’t go near any of the drive-by-wire models, rebate or no rebate.[/quote]

This reminded me of an interview I read a long time ago, I think in Car and Driver in the early 90s, with Lee Iacocca about the future of auto technology. He said “over my dead body will any car of mine have drive-by-wire. Even if it’s triply redundant it can still fail”. I don’t agree with the decision he made concerning the Ford Pinto, but looks like he may have been right about this one.

[Navydoc]

This very thing happened to us while our deadbeat landlords in Carson were trying to dump the place for which they grossly overpaid. I found the listing for our house while searching Redfin after we got a notice from a loan workout ambulance chaser. I figured something was up, so I looked for our house. Sure enough, there it was, listed as a short sale. The listing said “Don’t disturb tenants, street view only”. The single picture was a drive by, through the window of a car. You could see the door frame of the car in the picture! I know the picture had been recent, as the flower pots I put on the front porch with the roses in them were present, and in full bloom. I called the number on the listing and what told what a great investment opportunity it was. Got a good deal of silence when I informed the realtor I was the tenant occupant.

The listing was begun in August, we got the first mortgage investigator at the door in November. As some Piggs may recall, I was extremely worried about being tossed out on my ass a few months before being transferred to Bethesda.

I just checked the property a few weeks ago, the trustee sale was back in October. Somebody bought it for $425,000, the “investors” who bought it in May 2007 paid $709,000.

[Navydoc]

This very thing happened to us while our deadbeat landlords in Carson were trying to dump the place for which they grossly overpaid. I found the listing for our house while searching Redfin after we got a notice from a loan workout ambulance chaser. I figured something was up, so I looked for our house. Sure enough, there it was, listed as a short sale. The listing said “Don’t disturb tenants, street view only”. The single picture was a drive by, through the window of a car. You could see the door frame of the car in the picture! I know the picture had been recent, as the flower pots I put on the front porch with the roses in them were present, and in full bloom. I called the number on the listing and what told what a great investment opportunity it was. Got a good deal of silence when I informed the realtor I was the tenant occupant.

The listing was begun in August, we got the first mortgage investigator at the door in November. As some Piggs may recall, I was extremely worried about being tossed out on my ass a few months before being transferred to Bethesda.

I just checked the property a few weeks ago, the trustee sale was back in October. Somebody bought it for $425,000, the “investors” who bought it in May 2007 paid $709,000.

[Navydoc]

This very thing happened to us while our deadbeat landlords in Carson were trying to dump the place for which they grossly overpaid. I found the listing for our house while searching Redfin after we got a notice from a loan workout ambulance chaser. I figured something was up, so I looked for our house. Sure enough, there it was, listed as a short sale. The listing said “Don’t disturb tenants, street view only”. The single picture was a drive by, through the window of a car. You could see the door frame of the car in the picture! I know the picture had been recent, as the flower pots I put on the front porch with the roses in them were present, and in full bloom. I called the number on the listing and what told what a great investment opportunity it was. Got a good deal of silence when I informed the realtor I was the tenant occupant.

The listing was begun in August, we got the first mortgage investigator at the door in November. As some Piggs may recall, I was extremely worried about being tossed out on my ass a few months before being transferred to Bethesda.

I just checked the property a few weeks ago, the trustee sale was back in October. Somebody bought it for $425,000, the “investors” who bought it in May 2007 paid $709,000.

[Navydoc]

This very thing happened to us while our deadbeat landlords in Carson were trying to dump the place for which they grossly overpaid. I found the listing for our house while searching Redfin after we got a notice from a loan workout ambulance chaser. I figured something was up, so I looked for our house. Sure enough, there it was, listed as a short sale. The listing said “Don’t disturb tenants, street view only”. The single picture was a drive by, through the window of a car. You could see the door frame of the car in the picture! I know the picture had been recent, as the flower pots I put on the front porch with the roses in them were present, and in full bloom. I called the number on the listing and what told what a great investment opportunity it was. Got a good deal of silence when I informed the realtor I was the tenant occupant.

The listing was begun in August, we got the first mortgage investigator at the door in November. As some Piggs may recall, I was extremely worried about being tossed out on my ass a few months before being transferred to Bethesda.

I just checked the property a few weeks ago, the trustee sale was back in October. Somebody bought it for $425,000, the “investors” who bought it in May 2007 paid $709,000.

[Navydoc]

This very thing happened to us while our deadbeat landlords in Carson were trying to dump the place for which they grossly overpaid. I found the listing for our house while searching Redfin after we got a notice from a loan workout ambulance chaser. I figured something was up, so I looked for our house. Sure enough, there it was, listed as a short sale. The listing said “Don’t disturb tenants, street view only”. The single picture was a drive by, through the window of a car. You could see the door frame of the car in the picture! I know the picture had been recent, as the flower pots I put on the front porch with the roses in them were present, and in full bloom. I called the number on the listing and what told what a great investment opportunity it was. Got a good deal of silence when I informed the realtor I was the tenant occupant.

The listing was begun in August, we got the first mortgage investigator at the door in November. As some Piggs may recall, I was extremely worried about being tossed out on my ass a few months before being transferred to Bethesda.

I just checked the property a few weeks ago, the trustee sale was back in October. Somebody bought it for $425,000, the “investors” who bought it in May 2007 paid $709,000.

[Navydoc]

[quote=CA renter]
Good to hear you are doing well and enjoying your new home. Now that you’ve been there a while, how do you like living back east vs. California?[/quote]

Well it was quite an adjustment, but we’re adapting just fine. My wife’s feelings about the place changed dramatically after we found a few nice international markets where we could find some of the ingredients she needs to make Thai food at home. This week we’re in San Diego again visiting my in-laws, headed back tomorrow. Just prior to coming here last weekend we got 24″ of snow (!). Dug out just in time to make our flight. Even though sometimes snow is a pain, I’m glad my wife and daughter are getting to experience it. The hospital at Bethesda is fantastic, and is being combined with Walter Reed.

Brian- Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading your posts and I must say your view of the world seems quite jaded, even pathologic.
You say you’d rather see the world rather than own a house? Why are those things mutually exclusive? I may be a bit older than you Brian, but I wonder which of us has seen more of the world. I’ve been to 40 of the US states, Japan, Korea, Thailand, England, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Some of those countries more than once. We’re heading to Thailand again this summer, and you know what? I get to come home to a nice home that I can’t be forced out of by a returning landlord or have foreclosed out from under me because a deadbeat landlord didn’t pay the mortgage.

I agree that happiness can be achieved while renting, but the title of this thread asks if it’s better in you home you own, and in my opinion it clearly is.

In addition, you comment on how sex with your spouse isn’t as good as with an extramarital lover. Well, I wouldn’t know because I’ve never cheated on my wife, and I’m not so fat, ugly or smelly that I couldn’t. I realize there are different strokes, but I wouldn’t want to be single again for anything. Could it be Brian that you MUST find contentment within yourself because you’re incapable of forming a relationship in which you could find happiness? If this is true I genuinely feel sorry for you.

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