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my kid wrecked my car; i paid 18k for it after rebate in a well-negotiated sale. I got back 28k from the insurance company. jeez.

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[quote=The-Shoveler]Probably much better investments out there.

Probably depends on the city and locations within the City as well. Large parts of SF have kind of turned into real sh#thole neighborhoods as I understand it, not sure if or when they be on the upswing again.[/quote]

are there?

if people are thinking of buying a house to rent out, is that really better than buying this?

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4% dividend.

why not long term? will cities really be emptied?

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i always assume my intuition is wrong. and assuming I’m an idiot with incorrect intuition usually works out to be correct.

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interesting question.

in my mind, pricing legal work, i’d want more money for a higher stakes case, even if the work were identical.

I’d also want more money if the client was difficult to work with.

not sure if house selling is different.

I’m wondering what the pitfalls are to representing one’s self in a sale.

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[quote=EconProf]I’d like to bring this forum topic back to it’s original question–is the Redfin model superior to, and about to displace, the traditional model of choosing a broker to sell one’s house?
This suspicion is prompted by the observation that, while house prices since the trough in about 2008 have doubled or tripled, the 6%, or perhaps now 5% cost to the seller has ballooned their compensation. Meanwhile technology has enabled buyers and sellers to access far more market information that was previously exclusive to brokers. Along comes a market disrupter, Redfin, that promises to radically cut selling costs. In addition, Redfin promises to vastly increase the home sellers exposure to potential buyers via virtual tours that artfully showcase the property with the new visual technology for potential buyers. COVID-19 and sellers’ reluctance to allow unlimited strangers to traipse through their house at inconvenient times or host awkward open houses further favors the Redfin approach.
SDrealtor and Jim the Realtor have correctly pointed out that having an knowledgeable and experienced realtor list your home and guide you through the selling process is valuable. But that roughly 2% of your selling price is a lot of dollars given today’s house prices. And Redfin’s virtual tours showcase the house in minutes to a market increasingly comfortable with new ways of doing business.
New technology, and now COVID-19 have disrupted so many industries and ways of doing things. I dropped the Union Tribune and WSJ after decades of subscribing because I now get my news free or at little cost on-line. Magazines are mostly gone. I’m guessing half of movie theaters are doomed. Malls are dying…the list goes on.
So the question remains: Will Redfin, and maybe similar companies (Zillow?) change forever the process of buying and selling real estate?[/quote]

Information is worth paying for, if its the product of thought. I subscribe to a wide range of many magazines and its worth it

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i used redfin to buy and got money back. agent was super patient, we were shopping about 18 m. and looked at about 50plus houses.

was a short sale, with problems mid sale, including who’d pay for a repair, and he did I guess ok, though I wasn’t fully pleased with how he handled it, but i dont think that was redfin, just pressure to close.

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Personally i cannot stand dense humanity, whether they are happy or protesting, theyre gross in large numbers.

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You wouldnt have wanted it pregentrification, or during gentrification either. So basically you, and no one wants to live near poor people.

Which is fine.

Me either.

But wait. I thought you said at one point all these protestors, fake, flown in temporarily, a potemkin village.

Shouldnt affect values either way in that case

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[quote=The-Shoveler]Still does not make me want to buy an expensive home in a recently gentrified neighborhood LOL.

But to each their own.[/quote]

You used the term war, not protest. Like exercising ones rights is an assault on the social order.

Frankly, your property values, all of our prop. Values, are based on the rule of law, on the stability it brings to america.

Shut down some protestors with terring federal military troops,, yeah, might benefit real estate values in one zip code.

But if thats the kind of nation you want to live in, well, youre bring down all our values.

America. Land of the formerly free, take a boot to the face and shut the fuck up, home of the brave enough to give all power to an authoritarian nitwit.

Im actually a tiny bit afraid to stay here but have no exit plan

lol

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[quote=The-Shoveler]OK,

Just a FYI, Protesters are now demanding you give up your home in gentrified Portland.[/quote]

Ok. Just fyi, A few morons with guns were screaming in a threatening manner at legislators in the capitol about masks.

Whats your point? Protesting in america is too dangerous if some people protesting yell upsetting things?

Hell, even fucking nazis get to mar h and the aclu will protect them. But america is so fragile no one may inartfully mention controversial things, like reparations.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie

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When we start blaming the NRA for school shootings, it seems fair to blame the protestors for the lootings.

Deal?

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Nyc could lose 30 perc of pop. And be too crowded. If rents were half, people could have some room to live.

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The internet is the city.

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Services?
Entertainment?
Banking/finance?
Art?
Sports?
Software?

Wealth is just making physical things and food?

Reading AGE OF JACKSON by schlesinger. None of our anxieties are new

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