[Rich Toscano]

FLU et al — This comment:

“What do these scores mean??? Absolutely nothing. You could send your kid to a top performing school, and your kid can still be an idiot 🙂 Just kidding…”

i think that’s very true, no need to say you’re kidding. vice versa would be true as well.

inspired a question I’ve long had, but i didn’t want to derail your thread… that said I’d be interested in yall’s thoughts:

http://piggington.com/fixation_on_school_districts

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

FLU et al — This comment:

“What do these scores mean??? Absolutely nothing. You could send your kid to a top performing school, and your kid can still be an idiot 🙂 Just kidding…”

i think that’s very true, no need to say you’re kidding. vice versa would be true as well.

inspired a question I’ve long had, but i didn’t want to derail your thread… that said I’d be interested in yall’s thoughts:

http://piggington.com/fixation_on_school_districts

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

FLU et al — This comment:

“What do these scores mean??? Absolutely nothing. You could send your kid to a top performing school, and your kid can still be an idiot 🙂 Just kidding…”

i think that’s very true, no need to say you’re kidding. vice versa would be true as well.

inspired a question I’ve long had, but i didn’t want to derail your thread… that said I’d be interested in yall’s thoughts:

http://piggington.com/fixation_on_school_districts

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

FLU et al — This comment:

“What do these scores mean??? Absolutely nothing. You could send your kid to a top performing school, and your kid can still be an idiot 🙂 Just kidding…”

i think that’s very true, no need to say you’re kidding. vice versa would be true as well.

inspired a question I’ve long had, but i didn’t want to derail your thread… that said I’d be interested in yall’s thoughts:

http://piggington.com/fixation_on_school_districts

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

This is the best threadjack ever.

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[Rich Toscano]

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[Rich Toscano]

This is the best threadjack ever.

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[Rich Toscano]

This is the best threadjack ever.

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[Rich Toscano]

This is the best threadjack ever.

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[Rich Toscano]

If buyers can achieve a good rental surplus (properly calculated) at the current level on purchase

This bit seems like a big “if” to me… if this is happening, I imagine it’s just in a few pockets and not widespread enough to form a regionally generalizable floor.

It still seems to me like the market, even the REO part of it, is pricing in a quick price rebound. People sometimes talk about getting positive cash flow without accounting for the opportunity cost of their down payment, or they talk about good deals where cash flow (often based on optimistic assumptions) is only slightly negative.

From a non-investor standpoint, there’s no doubt that despite all that has happened, there is still a sense of urgency for many people to get into a house. It wasn’t like this before the boom.

It still seems like the sentiment hasn’t been ground down to a point where there would be enough of a floor to offset all the REOs.

That’s my semi-coherent Friday afternoon 2 cents anyway…

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

If buyers can achieve a good rental surplus (properly calculated) at the current level on purchase

This bit seems like a big “if” to me… if this is happening, I imagine it’s just in a few pockets and not widespread enough to form a regionally generalizable floor.

It still seems to me like the market, even the REO part of it, is pricing in a quick price rebound. People sometimes talk about getting positive cash flow without accounting for the opportunity cost of their down payment, or they talk about good deals where cash flow (often based on optimistic assumptions) is only slightly negative.

From a non-investor standpoint, there’s no doubt that despite all that has happened, there is still a sense of urgency for many people to get into a house. It wasn’t like this before the boom.

It still seems like the sentiment hasn’t been ground down to a point where there would be enough of a floor to offset all the REOs.

That’s my semi-coherent Friday afternoon 2 cents anyway…

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

If buyers can achieve a good rental surplus (properly calculated) at the current level on purchase

This bit seems like a big “if” to me… if this is happening, I imagine it’s just in a few pockets and not widespread enough to form a regionally generalizable floor.

It still seems to me like the market, even the REO part of it, is pricing in a quick price rebound. People sometimes talk about getting positive cash flow without accounting for the opportunity cost of their down payment, or they talk about good deals where cash flow (often based on optimistic assumptions) is only slightly negative.

From a non-investor standpoint, there’s no doubt that despite all that has happened, there is still a sense of urgency for many people to get into a house. It wasn’t like this before the boom.

It still seems like the sentiment hasn’t been ground down to a point where there would be enough of a floor to offset all the REOs.

That’s my semi-coherent Friday afternoon 2 cents anyway…

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

If buyers can achieve a good rental surplus (properly calculated) at the current level on purchase

This bit seems like a big “if” to me… if this is happening, I imagine it’s just in a few pockets and not widespread enough to form a regionally generalizable floor.

It still seems to me like the market, even the REO part of it, is pricing in a quick price rebound. People sometimes talk about getting positive cash flow without accounting for the opportunity cost of their down payment, or they talk about good deals where cash flow (often based on optimistic assumptions) is only slightly negative.

From a non-investor standpoint, there’s no doubt that despite all that has happened, there is still a sense of urgency for many people to get into a house. It wasn’t like this before the boom.

It still seems like the sentiment hasn’t been ground down to a point where there would be enough of a floor to offset all the REOs.

That’s my semi-coherent Friday afternoon 2 cents anyway…

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

If buyers can achieve a good rental surplus (properly calculated) at the current level on purchase

This bit seems like a big “if” to me… if this is happening, I imagine it’s just in a few pockets and not widespread enough to form a regionally generalizable floor.

It still seems to me like the market, even the REO part of it, is pricing in a quick price rebound. People sometimes talk about getting positive cash flow without accounting for the opportunity cost of their down payment, or they talk about good deals where cash flow (often based on optimistic assumptions) is only slightly negative.

From a non-investor standpoint, there’s no doubt that despite all that has happened, there is still a sense of urgency for many people to get into a house. It wasn’t like this before the boom.

It still seems like the sentiment hasn’t been ground down to a point where there would be enough of a floor to offset all the REOs.

That’s my semi-coherent Friday afternoon 2 cents anyway…

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

Anyone can create a poll… just click on user forums to the left.

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