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Look at sale prices. Not list prices – anyone can list a property at what they like. Rental investors are unlikely to touch those properties. Retail buyers will likely buy with a mortgage, where they’ll run into an issue of comps, at least in the next ~12 months.

After that, who knows? Glad that I have an offer waiting for bank appv’l on a 1 bedroom rental at a “last spring” price.

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Counselor … *shudder*, reminds me a bit too much of “Cape Fear” where the stalker used that title.

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^^^

Well said.

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How long had he known the client? I wouldn’t get too friendly on the first day, but I’m on friendly terms with quite a few clients. Went to a concert 300 miles away with one, dated two others at various points.

I personally don’t use the term “dude”, but it’s not horribly offensive either — one of the aforementioned people used that term quite a bit. Professional distance is great, but you spend 1/3 of your waking life at work, so you’re bound to meet interesting people.

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Bearishgurl – who says that the market was “right” pre-2003? Maybe it’s right now. Just because you lost your panties and bra on a house you bought in the early 2000s doesn’t make the current market wrong.

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Hey, I didn’t originally bring up people shooting each other. I was just taking the thought to its logical conclusion, having no particular love for overpaid cops or overpaid mobsters:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mob_pals_work_port_time_10m4LKcqZNJda7rEJkqDRN
(Yeah, it’s the Post, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.)

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Why the flying spaghetti f**k would anyone willingly work 60 hr/wk? Better to develop a freelance business and work 40 hr/wk very flexibly after hiring some other devs.

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So best outcome is for the cops and strikers to off EACH OTHER? Two problems: overpaid cops and overpaid strikers solved in one swell foop.

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Besides, lead was removed from gasoline around 1975 because it and other heavy-metals will contaminate a catalytic converter..

I meant residual contamination from leaded fuel — the lead doesn’t just disappear you know.

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Generally, it’s understood (or written into a contract) that I can send a temporary replacement for any tasks that requiring physical presence when I’m not available.

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Or in NY…

Frankly, Port Authority PD should be abolished and folded into NYPD on the NY side and NJ Transit police on the NJ side. This is disgraceful.

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Lead/other heavy-metal contamination on surfaces from fuel with metal compounds?

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College is useful for meeting PEOPLE (not just chicks). Note that Zuckerberg laid the initial groundwork for FB while at college, and probably met some connections that were useful to him there as well.

It’s also sad that the US puts a lot of emphasis on success in business, but not so much on basic scientific/medical research, non-I.T. engineering, and academic careers anymore. The world doesn’t start and end at I.T. entrepreneurship despite what some people may think. It’s a problem that the US lags behind the rest of the world in scientific research and in basic infrastructure.

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Problem is that CA has chosen to accommodate overleveraged bum-losers and do everything to keep them in “their” homes. In a just world, they would be in the foreclosure process as we speak.

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And my area (NY/NJ/CT) gets 3/10. Woot, woot!

Of course the real metric of whether you should buy or rent is effective cap rate. i.e., can it be the same or higher than mortgage rates, making it significantly cheaper to buy?

Precious few studies use that method, and include things like average taxes, average insurance, and average HOA fees in their metric.

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