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[quote=Oxford]….He did show me this heating system that ran hot water through pipes in the slab….[/quote]

Oxford, sounds like a heat pump. I have some family members (in Europe) who are fanatical about lowering fossil fuel usage. Extremely well insulated house, cooled and heated by a deep heat pump, pumping cooled or heated water into flooring all through the house. Solar panels on top. I don’t think they use more than 50 euro a month in fossil fuels, through cold winters and warm summers.

But poor design or execution can lose most of the efficiency. I have to assume this person did a sloppy/cheap job of installation.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Oxford]….He did show me this heating system that ran hot water through pipes in the slab….[/quote]

Oxford, sounds like a heat pump. I have some family members (in Europe) who are fanatical about lowering fossil fuel usage. Extremely well insulated house, cooled and heated by a deep heat pump, pumping cooled or heated water into flooring all through the house. Solar panels on top. I don’t think they use more than 50 euro a month in fossil fuels, through cold winters and warm summers.

But poor design or execution can lose most of the efficiency. I have to assume this person did a sloppy/cheap job of installation.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Oxford]….He did show me this heating system that ran hot water through pipes in the slab….[/quote]

Oxford, sounds like a heat pump. I have some family members (in Europe) who are fanatical about lowering fossil fuel usage. Extremely well insulated house, cooled and heated by a deep heat pump, pumping cooled or heated water into flooring all through the house. Solar panels on top. I don’t think they use more than 50 euro a month in fossil fuels, through cold winters and warm summers.

But poor design or execution can lose most of the efficiency. I have to assume this person did a sloppy/cheap job of installation.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Oxford]….He did show me this heating system that ran hot water through pipes in the slab….[/quote]

Oxford, sounds like a heat pump. I have some family members (in Europe) who are fanatical about lowering fossil fuel usage. Extremely well insulated house, cooled and heated by a deep heat pump, pumping cooled or heated water into flooring all through the house. Solar panels on top. I don’t think they use more than 50 euro a month in fossil fuels, through cold winters and warm summers.

But poor design or execution can lose most of the efficiency. I have to assume this person did a sloppy/cheap job of installation.

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Come to think of it, why stop at banking? Why not have everyone be required to get all their money and goods, and permissions, from the one true source, our good and trustworthy politicians?

[patientrenter]

Come to think of it, why stop at banking? Why not have everyone be required to get all their money and goods, and permissions, from the one true source, our good and trustworthy politicians?

[patientrenter]

Come to think of it, why stop at banking? Why not have everyone be required to get all their money and goods, and permissions, from the one true source, our good and trustworthy politicians?

[patientrenter]

Come to think of it, why stop at banking? Why not have everyone be required to get all their money and goods, and permissions, from the one true source, our good and trustworthy politicians?

[patientrenter]

Come to think of it, why stop at banking? Why not have everyone be required to get all their money and goods, and permissions, from the one true source, our good and trustworthy politicians?

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[quote=ibjames]well.. the thought would be that a standard would be created that couldn’t be deviated from.. IE: 20% down and credit score is used, mirror for fogging is thrown away[/quote]

So the most important people driving our govt housing apparatus will say goodbye to overly easy cheap money for housing? That would be Barney Frank getting rid of 3% down FHA loans, and Ben Bernanke backing the Fed out of buying mortgages and Treasuries to artificially depress the cost of over-leveraged housing purchases. Wake me up when it happens.

[patientrenter]

[quote=ibjames]well.. the thought would be that a standard would be created that couldn’t be deviated from.. IE: 20% down and credit score is used, mirror for fogging is thrown away[/quote]

So the most important people driving our govt housing apparatus will say goodbye to overly easy cheap money for housing? That would be Barney Frank getting rid of 3% down FHA loans, and Ben Bernanke backing the Fed out of buying mortgages and Treasuries to artificially depress the cost of over-leveraged housing purchases. Wake me up when it happens.

[patientrenter]

[quote=ibjames]well.. the thought would be that a standard would be created that couldn’t be deviated from.. IE: 20% down and credit score is used, mirror for fogging is thrown away[/quote]

So the most important people driving our govt housing apparatus will say goodbye to overly easy cheap money for housing? That would be Barney Frank getting rid of 3% down FHA loans, and Ben Bernanke backing the Fed out of buying mortgages and Treasuries to artificially depress the cost of over-leveraged housing purchases. Wake me up when it happens.

[patientrenter]

[quote=ibjames]well.. the thought would be that a standard would be created that couldn’t be deviated from.. IE: 20% down and credit score is used, mirror for fogging is thrown away[/quote]

So the most important people driving our govt housing apparatus will say goodbye to overly easy cheap money for housing? That would be Barney Frank getting rid of 3% down FHA loans, and Ben Bernanke backing the Fed out of buying mortgages and Treasuries to artificially depress the cost of over-leveraged housing purchases. Wake me up when it happens.

[patientrenter]

[quote=ibjames]well.. the thought would be that a standard would be created that couldn’t be deviated from.. IE: 20% down and credit score is used, mirror for fogging is thrown away[/quote]

So the most important people driving our govt housing apparatus will say goodbye to overly easy cheap money for housing? That would be Barney Frank getting rid of 3% down FHA loans, and Ben Bernanke backing the Fed out of buying mortgages and Treasuries to artificially depress the cost of over-leveraged housing purchases. Wake me up when it happens.

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[quote=FormerSanDiegan][quote=tom]
now, comes the hard part.. actually manage to stop seeking out the info and “let it go” for the time being.[/quote]

I have been trying to “let it go” since 1995. I think that tracking real estate as a future, past or current owner (or combinations thereof) is an incurable disease, which many of us suffer.[/quote]

FormerSanDiegan, have you really been looking seriously at RE without buying since 1995? I thought no one came close to how extreme I was.

I don’t think I’ll reveal here, even in the safe Pigg nest, how long I’ve been looking without buying. But I was infected with the “tracking RE” disease before most Piggs were born. It really is incurable.

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