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I see. I know just a couple of years ago, they were between 6 and 8 percent. Anybody know if they’re now between 12 and 16?

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Honest question here, but what’s the motivation for cutting the student loan interest rate?

I know when I was young there was a belief that the investment made in education was worthwhile because it typically increased your lifetime earning potential by much more than the cost of the higher education.

Also, last I checked the interest rates on student loans weren’t bad at all. Cutting them at half would put them below market (actually, below cost?). So again, why should that happen?

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Thanks gunbuster! I was interested where this was when it first got posted, so I don’t know why I didn’t ask then. Glad you resurfaced it.

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Any more details on this place, like maybe a street name and nearest intersection?

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Perry– Good find, but when did you start to consider any old real estate agent a professional?

(and I mean this as no slight to the agents that peruse this site. There are plenty of professional out there I’m sure, but for every one of those…)

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powayseller, I seriously doubt the duuude hates you, but is likely just dishing it back based on your suggestion that he “read up”. Especially when he appears to be a fairly intelligent guy when it comes to statistics and the like AND he’s just shared his “diverse opinion” on bubbles and mean reversion.

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No worries PS. I thought you were suggesting that somebody was spinning something in this thread as opposed to what somebody like NAR or CAR might spin.

What’s funny is that right now, the NAR seems to be pitching that all this inventory makes it a great buyer’s market and, of course, a great time to buy a house (and even with a likely increase in canceled listings, there’s still a heck of a lot of inventory out there). What a joke.

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powayseller– Can’t tell here, are you calling BS on me?

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You could live in a house or condo for that kind of money ($2100, that is). It wouldn’t be the newest place (although it could be for a condo), but it would still be clean and in a decent neighborhood

Being a house renter myself, I don’t have any great advice on apartment complexes other than there’s a lot of different options for apartments outside of what I would consider a full blown complex. Have you checked craigslist?

Also, any specific areas you’re interested in? I’m sure you could get a lot more focused advice.

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Yeah, congratulations! Thanks for keeping us posted throughout the process. I’m sure it was stressful. Now you get to join some of us and see how things progress from here. Keep in mind it’s like somebody else posted today, “like watching paint dry.” Yes, super slow drying paint, the slowest you’ve ever seen. Then again, I’ll bet the last couple of months seemed like an eternity to you at times.

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dz, thanks for granting me my point. I know it’s not your list and I really am just trying to point out how all the surrounding hyperbole hinders rather than helps.

All I want is facts and solutions! And I’m sure that’s what most of us want (or at least I hope it is).

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powayseller, did you read balasr’s post? What makes you think he (she?) needs to read the Primer? Is it because of the use of the dreaded words “different this time?”

Read the whole thing, sounds like he believes/hopes prices will come down, so I think he gets it.

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dz– I never cared much about Bush’s National Guard Service one way or the other, at least not enough to research it, but having spent a minute doing so, I’d say your “fact” is seriously in question. Check out this, this, and this. I don’t suppose we’ll ever know the truth.

The list is biased and anybody who’s been on the internet or been able to receive email in the last 5 years has received at least one flavor of it. If you can’t accept that, then you just hear what you want to hear. I’m sorry I picked the wrong example for you (it just jumped out at me), but do you really think the list is not biased? Hey, I’m trying to help here. Relying on biased support weakens arguments.

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PS– you misquote him and you misrepresent him. At least you toned it down from Jim saying “it’s a great time to buy” to “it’s a good time to buy”. He never said the former in his post (go search it) and he’s only just suggesting the latter may be a possibility. And when you come back with “I’d recommend him,” you’re really just talking out of both sides of your face.

I don’t agree with everything Jim says, but at least he truly seems open minded about things and is just throwing things out there for discussion. He is much less black and white than you.

The funny thing is that for the most part I tend to agree with your views regarding the future of the market, but it’s also your absolute certainty of the outcome that causes me to question it.

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Isn’t that what all political discussions eventually become (random, incoherant)?

It’s really partisanship that serves to create so much blather about nothing. Both parties have their fair share of problems and it’s just too easy to point out what the other side does wrong–much easier than solving real problems.

Sometimes you don’t even have to solve problems. Think about it, if Kerry had taken the high road on this, he could have come out looking like a winner. Imagine if he’d said something along the lines of “I’m sorry for any offense I have made toward our service men and women. I must remember that it is far too easy to for an attack on the policy of the current administration to come across as an attack on the men and women serving our country. I will do my best to support your efforts on behalf of our country and work toward finding resolution to the conflict in Iraq, which is something I’m sure we all want.”

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