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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Micawber who wrote (44794)	11/17/2005 5:32:31 PM
From: redfish	Respond to of 306849

"I occasionally read this board for amusement and rarely for enlightenment." Look buddy, if you keep telling us how amusing you find us you shouldn't expect to receive anything but a "go f*** yourself," okay? Keep it polite or haul ass.

To: Micawber who wrote (44794)	11/17/2005 6:15:55 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

>> Has anybody taken a cursory look at the Yahoo boards for the homies? They are without exception predominately STRONG SELL sentiments, and have been that way for the past several months. That's quite a contrarian position, when you're in agreement with the Yahoos of the world.<< I'll see your yahoo posters and raise you a dozen "How to flip real estate and make a few million bucks in yer spare time" informericals!<G> Ghoulish? Becasue we think real estate is overvalued? I think not, unless you are overleveraged and yer ass is in a sling if prices do anything except keep going up-up-up. I think we've been pretty tolerant of dissenting opinion here, there's a fair range of bullish views expressed. I don't moderate. If you disagree, just make it cogent and try to avoid ad hominem attacks.

To: Micawber who wrote (44794)	11/18/2005 2:43:09 AM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 306849

I would think anyone who sold their house four years ago and shorted homebuilders the same time due to this board opening up would be a very bitter person by now<g>. In reality it shows just how far and ridiculous this bubble has become in certain areas of this country. I really don't know who the ultimate contrarian is. The masses still in the game expecting property to continue going up versus the few people shorting homebuilder stocks or who have cashed out completely? Seems most of the dollars are betting on this continuing and it actually is refreshing to hear intelligent conversation both ways. Up till now the dumb money has won big it seems sort of like the tech fiasco as a new paradigm was being called in 1999. As for Central Florida I know it well. Lived there and was involved in tons of deals as I did investing for a living. Have a large tract in Clermont which is perhaps the hottest land market going in the whole state now... Since I am not involved in any middleman businesses and have been strictly an investor for a long time my take would be different from contractor, realtor, mortgage broker or RE attorney still raking it in but not putting it on the line like I always have had too.