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ParticipantYou are not a bear or a bull you are a dishonest Salesman. I am sorry I spoke for JG at all, his last post was fantastic. I thought he might be one of the less experienced types you BS. He handled it real nicely for himself. Look,I know your’e not going to stop doing what you do. Have at it. As far a SD Realtor if he is working the blog more power to him(If that is what you are saying). I like him in front of our Industries trademarks. I wish I was more of his demeanor myself at times. I won’t last long around here it would be bad for my health given my temper and how the anonymity of the WEB seemingly encourages outrageous behavior.
Best wishes.ParticipantMasayko,
I was hoping someone would make that comparison.
Best Wishes, Your day will comeParticipantsdr
I had been to your monitor earlier and already knew that you didn’t answer my critique of your four miracle days at all. You said your four days were typical. I said if those four days were typical of the recent past the zip would have sold out. I don’t deny there are a few happy seller’s in CV but your smokescreen doesn’t work with me.As far as fun goes, I don’t think it is fun for the people who don’t realize the extent that you are abusing reality. You told jj or what ever his psuedonym is, to subtiante his 1990-1994 median decline in La jolla,knowing how difficult that is becasuse of lack of data and then run back to the blog to flaunt and taunt him with a couple of 1998 or thereabouts prices, that is just cowardly. La Jolla dropped hard and fast and bounced back over the course of those years. These things can fall hard and fast so give up your mantra that it just isn’t going to happen. It might not but you don’t know. I bought a house in 1992 for 39%less than the previous buyer in 1991 and another in 1995 that the buyer didn’t hold title to for a year for 36%off and that was off the MLS.Could you venture a guess as to what that house fell from at the peak? People were doing it left and right from Oceanside to Tijuana. I know the Union Fibune has archives that say the total median decline was 17% so why don’t you go dig that up. Its real credible.By the way ,don’t out me in a fit of vainglorious revenge like you did Poway Seller using the MlS or Board data,if you can figure out a way. I will report you.Your comportment is unbecoming of a professional and another reason I am loathe to call myself a Realtor.Participantsdr,
sdr I feel like you are in a “Farming” mode and it interferes with your willingness to humor some of the more doom and gloom types and our notions here. For instance you abandoned my critique on your 4 miracle days in CV. Swept it under the table. I wanted to be a gentleman and drop it but you aren’t leveling with everybody here.ParticipantThe participant level of this blog is too small to get a good sample of Realtors that were working the last down turn. It would be nice to have a few pop in that were actually doing Volume at the time in these lovely Locations.It seem like %50 was to much for the median drop but maybee not. A near 50% was not uncommon in fact I recall My teacher at Anthony’s that La Jolla was broadly clobbered to the tune of about that.
ParticipantI remember a pretty nice house in Bird Rock going to the court house steps at 165k. I don’t know what it went for but those were indeed crazy times. I do know this huge craftsman in Kensington went for 125K, bid all the way up from 110K, no additional encumbrances. There was a publication I think it was called the San Diego Transcript. I’d like to see Auctions go out of fashion quickly and the San Diego Transcript chock full of houses in Bird Rock soon.Its amazing we are talking about a period between 10 and 15 years ago. I think the Macaroni is about to hit the fan.
ParticipantJJ,
Hate to bother you in the middle of a launch…
You still have your rocket scientist job after that little Space Shuttle Columbia thingy?ParticipantJJ,
You are making good points . Some clients come up to me and say I want to see x house. I do some research and find they have found the best deal for the area. They don’t want it though, They call me a week later …I want to see this house in this location, again they have found the best deal hands down. This type of person does not want to spend time with Realtors really. For many people the celebrity of buying a house is a big deal.They milk it and if you don’t have the whole cow forget it. I think sellers like what sdr is doing and it may have a profound effect on willingness to take his suggestion on price and other issues. HE has won them over. I think the staging and expensive presentation of literature can backfire too. There are plenty of people who would say “these people are trying too hard I am out of here.” Or “I am not paying for this crap”, If they feel the staging was a gimmick for suckers. Thats why I think the real deal is what do sdr’s clients think about it ….I think they are impressed.I think higher end buyer’s would expect it too if it is trendy too. Trend seems to have something to do with it. Besides a large percentage of people think that they should be sold to in a certain fashion, even if they are not aware of it.Participantsdr…I Never really thought about it much but reading your posts this last week or so, along with a little introspection and its pretty clear why I have only been advocating for the seller in 25% of my deals.I tend to want to guess you have a higher proportion of sellers in your mix of transactions? Advocating for buyers suits me just fine anyway. I do see the limitations of being one sided on the situation.
ThanksParticipantsdr…WOW..I know you are not the only one doing these kinds of things.Like some of the others here, I am not sure the strategies sell the houses. I am in the price & MLS sells camp along with the idea that a clean and neutral presentation of the house is best if anything is to be done along those lines.I do guess you have a repution for going the extra mile that is paying you dividends. Your strategies may work best in times like this when Turn key properties are getting the most action(If you agree with that?).If your selling clients believe it works and that something less would not have gotten the job done that is what matters ultimately.
ParticipantCongratulations slacker. Your life style and plans sound really great! My situation is a little different in severals way. I have 3 kids under 5 years old and I am 44.I have fairly nice house 2280 sq feet on 20 acres that I built with the ideas of living debt free and of capitalizing on my efforts at resale time or when we put it out as rental. I don’t mind enjoying that luxury until then. My two greatest puposes are to be able to stay close to my kids and to increase our financial freedom. I am not a frugality purist but I have those two reasons to keep me on track.
Bugs you are a really smart man..I think you are a man? You said you are only good at what you do for a living. If you don’t do speculative cultural analysis (I made that up) for a living you are a genius in at least two fields. I think you are an appraiser of pretty complex projects? Maybe that is someone else on the blog? Your line of thinking on the topic of baby boomers reminds me of something that I think might be an emerging trend. Extended families a la Mexico.That would be a cause and an effect of the shrinking economy scenario.I just can’t see people not having to pool resources in the future. I enjoy the idea myself,at least in theory.There is a family that is living like that out near where I live. Yes they are white. Three generations with multiple siblings in all three.I think the oldest generation may have mostly passed but there is at least one couple left.
ParticipantPerry I have a huge advantage. I was born into poverty and raised as a have not. I am not competing with my parents or anyone else. Another advantage, I married a smart woman…I let her pick out her own wedding ring.DUMB right? She picked out a $28 ring, thats twenty eight dollars!She loves it!Mine was $109. I had better quit bragging!
Best wishesParticipantBC
Maybe because they owed a lot more than market value minus commissions and other selling costs and maybe also they don’t give a darn what happens to the house?ParticipantWhy don’t you go to the other thread and ask them comes to mind?
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