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spdrun
ParticipantIt’s not that bad. But let the goats keep believing it’s bad. 🙂
ParticipantI never saw the 2008-9 recession as a storm, only as an opportunity, and I did take it to some extent. I was never afraid as much as detached, but my priorities were different then vs now.
ParticipantAgreed. I should have bought more and gone harder with stocks. But that’s a good lesson for the next “opportunity.”
This being said, if someone has rental properties in a good enough area that they will rent profitably regardless of conditions, why would they NOT want an opportunity to pick more up cheaply?
ParticipantWe’ll see. It’s all a cycle.
ParticipantWhich is why we need a good old-fashioned recession in 2016. Good thing is, it will probably happen in the next 3-4 years if not earlier. Historically, the US has never gone much over 10 years between starts of recessions.
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Tock.ParticipantMost people “don’t want to become a landlord, it’s too much trouble.” You’re also not thinking of people with HELOCs that are resetting, and people who are running out of options after their foreclosure was delayed by the Homeowner’s Bill of Rights.
ParticipantYou’re already said that your circle of acquaintances is largely self-limited 🙂
ParticipantHow many people do you personally know who take selling their home lightly?
ParticipantMaybe sellers aren’t in a hurry or desperate to sell… I wouldn’t be.
Most sellers aren’t the average person on this forum. If the house is on the market, they want to sell it. Either they need to move and they don’t want to be landlords (it gets a bad rap), they can’t make payments, or they want to move up. Most listings are also by broker, and brokers want to earn a commission. Therefore, there’s pressure to sell.
ParticipantGood. Lingering homes are the solution, not the problem. Time for uppity sellers to get some sense drilled into them by Mr. Market.
ParticipantWhat if utilities went out an hour or a half hour before opening time, due to residual storm damage? Losing power hours to days after a storm due to utility engineers having to power lines down to make repairs is a pretty common thing. Sounds like everyone survived.
Fortify! Only the strong survive.
ParticipantSprinklers typically work from a roof tank. As I said: no one died. No need to over-react.
And you’re complaining about extravagant spending, but upset that they’re not spending more money on a student that annoys one of yours. What gives?
ParticipantOhmygahd! The kids had to WALK a bit to use the bathroom! How HORRIBLE that they got a bit of exercise! Did they die? Were they permanently maimed or suffer from PTSD from having to locomote on their own two feet with a full bladder?
As far as the “kill” story, if I had a dollar for every time someone said “I’m gonna kill…” without resorting to homicidal actions, I’d be rich now. They saw it for what it was. Not a credible threat worthy of calling in the police, so they dismissed it.
NJ does’t keep its kids in rubber coccoons. This isn’t a bad thing.
The math consultant thing sounds like basic cronyism and corruption. Don’t tell me this never, ever happens in CA.
950 kids per district, is a good thing, BTW. It avoids the creation of mega-districts where kids have to ride the bus long distances and where parents are distanced from the educational system. Three schools with a principal and assistant principal isn’t out of line. The number of custodians may be, but remember that buildings are older and weather is harsher in NJ than in CA.
ParticipantIt’s healthy to have slacker peers as well as super-type-A achiever peers. Slackers teach valuable lessons to kids as well. How to relax and enjoy life, not run like a headless chicken from organized activity to activity. Play some pickup ball after school. Go to the woods, crack open some beers, and hang out with members of the correct gender.
Success shouldn’t consist of 50+ hour weeks, day-in-day-out with a week or two off per year, only to be made redundant in 20 years and die of a heart attack in 30. Teaching kids how to be type-A heart-attack fodder in their teens is awful.
He played an evil psychopath, but I always found Steve Buscemi’s quote in Con Air to be very apt…
“Now you’re talking semantics. What if I told you insane was working 50 hours a week in some office for 50 years… at the end of which they tell you to piss off?
Ending up in some retirement village… hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time.
Wouldn’t you consider that to be insane?”
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