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I vote for the 20% as well.

You’ll have the liquidity to invest. And you’ll have the tax shelter of the mortgage interest.

of course, SDR is right, you are talking about the future and several things could change. The interest rate may go up, if so, you’ll be better off increasing your down payment. In addition, the mortgage interest deduction in its current form will likely change. There will likely be a cap of some type, either in % or in total amount. That may lead you to want to pay more down as well.

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I vote for the 20% as well.

You’ll have the liquidity to invest. And you’ll have the tax shelter of the mortgage interest.

of course, SDR is right, you are talking about the future and several things could change. The interest rate may go up, if so, you’ll be better off increasing your down payment. In addition, the mortgage interest deduction in its current form will likely change. There will likely be a cap of some type, either in % or in total amount. That may lead you to want to pay more down as well.

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Not surprised by FL, more surprised about HI. Would have expected a lot more foreign activities in HI.

But then realized we are looking at recent activities. The graph produced a whole lot of questions for me.

How does the 7.7% foreign buying activity compare to before? Especially after prior bubble bursts?

What is the actual foreign ownership % of the entire housing stock?

Who in the world is buying in TN?

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Not surprised by FL, more surprised about HI. Would have expected a lot more foreign activities in HI.

But then realized we are looking at recent activities. The graph produced a whole lot of questions for me.

How does the 7.7% foreign buying activity compare to before? Especially after prior bubble bursts?

What is the actual foreign ownership % of the entire housing stock?

Who in the world is buying in TN?

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Not surprised by FL, more surprised about HI. Would have expected a lot more foreign activities in HI.

But then realized we are looking at recent activities. The graph produced a whole lot of questions for me.

How does the 7.7% foreign buying activity compare to before? Especially after prior bubble bursts?

What is the actual foreign ownership % of the entire housing stock?

Who in the world is buying in TN?

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Not surprised by FL, more surprised about HI. Would have expected a lot more foreign activities in HI.

But then realized we are looking at recent activities. The graph produced a whole lot of questions for me.

How does the 7.7% foreign buying activity compare to before? Especially after prior bubble bursts?

What is the actual foreign ownership % of the entire housing stock?

Who in the world is buying in TN?

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Not surprised by FL, more surprised about HI. Would have expected a lot more foreign activities in HI.

But then realized we are looking at recent activities. The graph produced a whole lot of questions for me.

How does the 7.7% foreign buying activity compare to before? Especially after prior bubble bursts?

What is the actual foreign ownership % of the entire housing stock?

Who in the world is buying in TN?

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[quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Everything I wrote here is facts, not opinions; and I provided data to support my statements.[/quote]
I’d say, you’re light on facts and heavy on opinions. You tried to paint the picture than poor people vote republicans and rich people vote democrats.

Here are some data to disput your claim. San Diego political map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California
Go to the politics section. Although San Diego turned blue in 2008, the districts w/ higher median household income and per capita income voted Republicans while the Districts with lower income voted Democrats.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, as of July 21, 2009, Orange County had 1,599,889 registered voters. Of these, 43.6% (698,140) are registered Republicans, and 32.1% (512,853) are registered Democrats. An additional 20.2% (324,669) declined to state a political party.[/quote]

sometimes selected presentation of facts is even worse than no facts at all. why focus on the Jews and Asians? why not focus on the fact that Hispanics and Blacks, both groups are poor, overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

are we trying to say low income Hispanic and Black are more enlightened than low income white?

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[quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Everything I wrote here is facts, not opinions; and I provided data to support my statements.[/quote]
I’d say, you’re light on facts and heavy on opinions. You tried to paint the picture than poor people vote republicans and rich people vote democrats.

Here are some data to disput your claim. San Diego political map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California
Go to the politics section. Although San Diego turned blue in 2008, the districts w/ higher median household income and per capita income voted Republicans while the Districts with lower income voted Democrats.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, as of July 21, 2009, Orange County had 1,599,889 registered voters. Of these, 43.6% (698,140) are registered Republicans, and 32.1% (512,853) are registered Democrats. An additional 20.2% (324,669) declined to state a political party.[/quote]

sometimes selected presentation of facts is even worse than no facts at all. why focus on the Jews and Asians? why not focus on the fact that Hispanics and Blacks, both groups are poor, overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

are we trying to say low income Hispanic and Black are more enlightened than low income white?

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[quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Everything I wrote here is facts, not opinions; and I provided data to support my statements.[/quote]
I’d say, you’re light on facts and heavy on opinions. You tried to paint the picture than poor people vote republicans and rich people vote democrats.

Here are some data to disput your claim. San Diego political map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California
Go to the politics section. Although San Diego turned blue in 2008, the districts w/ higher median household income and per capita income voted Republicans while the Districts with lower income voted Democrats.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, as of July 21, 2009, Orange County had 1,599,889 registered voters. Of these, 43.6% (698,140) are registered Republicans, and 32.1% (512,853) are registered Democrats. An additional 20.2% (324,669) declined to state a political party.[/quote]

sometimes selected presentation of facts is even worse than no facts at all. why focus on the Jews and Asians? why not focus on the fact that Hispanics and Blacks, both groups are poor, overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

are we trying to say low income Hispanic and Black are more enlightened than low income white?

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[quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Everything I wrote here is facts, not opinions; and I provided data to support my statements.[/quote]
I’d say, you’re light on facts and heavy on opinions. You tried to paint the picture than poor people vote republicans and rich people vote democrats.

Here are some data to disput your claim. San Diego political map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California
Go to the politics section. Although San Diego turned blue in 2008, the districts w/ higher median household income and per capita income voted Republicans while the Districts with lower income voted Democrats.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, as of July 21, 2009, Orange County had 1,599,889 registered voters. Of these, 43.6% (698,140) are registered Republicans, and 32.1% (512,853) are registered Democrats. An additional 20.2% (324,669) declined to state a political party.[/quote]

sometimes selected presentation of facts is even worse than no facts at all. why focus on the Jews and Asians? why not focus on the fact that Hispanics and Blacks, both groups are poor, overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

are we trying to say low income Hispanic and Black are more enlightened than low income white?

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[quote=AN][quote=briansd1]Everything I wrote here is facts, not opinions; and I provided data to support my statements.[/quote]
I’d say, you’re light on facts and heavy on opinions. You tried to paint the picture than poor people vote republicans and rich people vote democrats.

Here are some data to disput your claim. San Diego political map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California
Go to the politics section. Although San Diego turned blue in 2008, the districts w/ higher median household income and per capita income voted Republicans while the Districts with lower income voted Democrats.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, as of July 21, 2009, Orange County had 1,599,889 registered voters. Of these, 43.6% (698,140) are registered Republicans, and 32.1% (512,853) are registered Democrats. An additional 20.2% (324,669) declined to state a political party.[/quote]

sometimes selected presentation of facts is even worse than no facts at all. why focus on the Jews and Asians? why not focus on the fact that Hispanics and Blacks, both groups are poor, overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

are we trying to say low income Hispanic and Black are more enlightened than low income white?

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[quote=briansd1]It also interesting that most Jews vote for Democrats. Jews are arguably the wealthiest population in America.

It’s also interesting that Mormons vote for Republicans. The church is wealthy, the Mormon people not so much.

Japanese-Americans, another wealthy subset of the population, tend to vote for Democrats. Chinese-Americans also lean democratic.

Vietnamese-Americans, a poorer subset of the Asian-American population vote Republican.

In the deep South (as opposed to the peripheral south), poor Christians vote Republican.[/quote]

it is also interesting brian will always be able to find a Republican vs Democrat angle with every topic. 🙂

kinda like someone else on this blog will always be able to squeeze something in about the evil of MR/HOA.

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[quote=briansd1]It also interesting that most Jews vote for Democrats. Jews are arguably the wealthiest population in America.

It’s also interesting that Mormons vote for Republicans. The church is wealthy, the Mormon people not so much.

Japanese-Americans, another wealthy subset of the population, tend to vote for Democrats. Chinese-Americans also lean democratic.

Vietnamese-Americans, a poorer subset of the Asian-American population vote Republican.

In the deep South (as opposed to the peripheral south), poor Christians vote Republican.[/quote]

it is also interesting brian will always be able to find a Republican vs Democrat angle with every topic. 🙂

kinda like someone else on this blog will always be able to squeeze something in about the evil of MR/HOA.

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[quote=briansd1]It also interesting that most Jews vote for Democrats. Jews are arguably the wealthiest population in America.

It’s also interesting that Mormons vote for Republicans. The church is wealthy, the Mormon people not so much.

Japanese-Americans, another wealthy subset of the population, tend to vote for Democrats. Chinese-Americans also lean democratic.

Vietnamese-Americans, a poorer subset of the Asian-American population vote Republican.

In the deep South (as opposed to the peripheral south), poor Christians vote Republican.[/quote]

it is also interesting brian will always be able to find a Republican vs Democrat angle with every topic. 🙂

kinda like someone else on this blog will always be able to squeeze something in about the evil of MR/HOA.

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