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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141738)	4/20/2002 7:53:02 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Skeet, I like # 2. Keep the house, and rent it out. >>#2 sounds good long term but entails more risk.<< Opportunity always comes in the disguise of risk, you've been around this thread long enough to know the difference.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141738)	4/20/2002 9:08:56 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Skeeter it's very difficult to be a long-distance landlord. And isn't it true that most rented single family houses get rented out to people who will soon buy their own house, i.e. the rent has to be so high that they are very incentivized to buy their own house? The only families I know who rented houses were people who got relocated for work and could not immediately find a home to buy, but then soon did. No single people I know/knew ever rented a house. Apart from my first comment, this is anectdotal info at best so a grain of salt...

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141738)	4/21/2002 8:13:07 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 164684

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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141738)	4/21/2002 11:49:24 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

>>April 21, 2002 Two years after the Nasdaq stock boom ended in collapse, economists are starting to worry that housing might be the next investment bubble to burst. Half a decade of double-digit increases in many markets have pushed prices out of line with buyers' incomes, a trend many economists say cannot continue indefinitely. Small down payments and cash-out refinancings have left many homeowners heavily in debt. San Diego County is among the regions some consider at risk, because home prices here have risen roughly twice as quickly as wages since 1996.<< uniontrib.com

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141738)	4/22/2002 10:16:19 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

SB, more about housing in California, and Portland Ore. >>The upshot is that even so-called affordable markets in California are looking less attractive compared with those of economic rivals. In the third quarter of 1997, for example, Sacramento posted a median home price of $116,100 and the Inland Empire $114,300, compared with $152,000 in Portland, Ore. and $128,600 in Salt Lake City, according to the report. In the same period last year, Sacramento's $177,000 median had overtaken Portland's at $174,900, while the Inland Empire's median of $159,700 outstripped Salt Lake City's at $153,000.<< latimes.com