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To: John Vosilla who wrote (288566)	11/3/2010 11:01:38 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

LOL...yes. BTW...that dangerous guy with the motorcycle and bandana won the congressional seat.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (288566)	11/3/2010 11:20:47 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Home Ownership for Q3 2010 - 18.8 Million Vacant Housing Units economicpopulist.org The Home Ownership rate just dropped to 66.9% in Q3 2010, down from 67.3% a year ago. This brings home ownership back to 1999 levels. Rentals have a national vacancy rate of 10.3%, in comparison to 11.1% in Q3 2009. That's pretty astounding, over 1 out of 10 rental units are empty

To: John Vosilla who wrote (288566)	11/3/2010 11:23:02 AM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

John, would you say the same thing if your lefty brethren hadn't suffered the debacle they did yesterday? From some reason I don't think so. Lefty John never offers a single objection when rabid lefties bentway, koan, tejek, Rex, Giggling Bob, etc. inundate this thread with their pathetic lefty crap.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (288566)	11/4/2010 11:47:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Interesting analysis of the states and their business taxes.........it includes a map of the states showing which states have the best and worst tax environment for business: taxfoundation.org

To: John Vosilla who wrote (288566)	11/4/2010 5:24:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

This is what some developers are having to do to survive in certain sub markets of the Seattle metro area. Downtown Bellevue is overbuilt with condos so they are converting to apts. However, downtown Seattle continues to sell its condos albeit very slowly. Second tower at Bravern converting to apartments seattletimes.nwsource.com Another interesting factoid I learned about this market last week. Foreclosures are much worse in the suburbs than they are in the city of Seattle. I have suspected for some time that Seattle is becoming like SFO......the city is stronger than its suburbs and housing prices tend to be higher.....an unusual characteristic in this country.