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Thread: Real Estate Crash thread
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09-13-2019, 07:33 AM #7551
Real Estate Crash thread
Knowing there was going to be defaults in 03/04 does not equate to knowing Credit Default Swaps were going to help topple the economy. Everyone in the biz writing loans in that time frame saw the defaults. Heck we were putting loans together saving people who were sitting 120 days delinquent and even NODs (notice of default on title). What are the chances those guys were going to pull their head out and not spend their mortgage elsewhere? Never heard of a CDS when I was in the trenches (‘01-‘11) until it was main street news.
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09-13-2019, 07:50 AM #7552
^^yup. Housing was the spark that lit the financial crisis and seems so apparent now, but that spark could have been a regular housing issue if not for hedge funds, banks, pensions, regulators and legislators, ratings agencies, and leverage combined to form the right cocktail.
Decisions Decisions
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09-13-2019, 08:26 AM #7553Banned
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09-13-2019, 08:59 AM #7554Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-13-2019, 09:01 AM #7555
I can not deny; Seattle is not the same place it was 15+ yrs ago. It’s getting pretty tight up here and the traffic has been bonkers starting about 6 yrs ago. There are always compromises it seems.
Anyhow keeping sharing your experience and you’ll be doing me a favor if some people second guess and move elsewhere.
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09-13-2019, 09:06 AM #7556Registered User
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My company, which is on the east side, but still “Seattle”, just gave 13 electrical engineers the choice of relocating to Duluth GA (Atlanta exurb) or a severance package. Every single one took the severance. None of them are big time skiers or mountain bikers. They just like living up here with the slugs and snails.
U.P.: up
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09-13-2019, 09:09 AM #7557
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09-13-2019, 09:13 AM #7558
The smell of the sea air is addictive, glade if you grew up in western Washington you might like the gloom and wet a bit more.
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09-13-2019, 09:14 AM #7559Registered User
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09-13-2019, 09:19 AM #7560Banned
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This thread is about real estate and not me, but I truly don't mind the clouds and wet weather, it's the fact that the climate here is mind-numbingly temperate. And fuck eastern Washington. You all have managed to convince yourselves that someplace as scenic as Kansas is gorgeous.
I'm glad people like it though, you all can stay here and enjoy.
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09-13-2019, 09:31 AM #7561Registered User
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people are buying shitty 1985 pimped out linoleum and formica counter top townhomes here for over 700 sq ft still
it's all about location
walk down town walk to the lift
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09-13-2019, 10:00 AM #7562
I'd buy one in Dillon if the price was realistic.
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09-13-2019, 10:03 AM #7563Registered User
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and fastfred could remodel it for ya!
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09-13-2019, 10:27 AM #7564
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09-13-2019, 11:00 AM #7565
the difference between eastern wa & idaho geography is minimal.
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09-13-2019, 11:15 AM #7566Hucked to flat once
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09-13-2019, 11:19 AM #7567
Yes, flat as a pancake, dry sagebrush, cattle feedlots as far as the eye can see.
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09-13-2019, 11:26 AM #7568
It's been argued here, to me, that eastern Montana is materially different from North Dakota and NoDak is materially different from Western Minnesota. I frankly don't know what is obvious to this circus of assclowns and what isn't and when someones postnig stupid shit that everyone already knows just to sick their own dick like the post Lskier made I responded to and when they aren't. But thanks for jumping down my neck, I can always depend on you to do that, just like jumping down my neck for having the temerity to call CT a shithole.
Just like I don't get why some people here see network effects/clustering for outdoor recreation (where it's imo, a negative mostly) is the greatest thing ever and you should move to Jackson/SummitCo/wherever the fuck, and those same people don't see network effects/clustering as valuable for making money or finding a spouse or making music things which are way more popular with way more people. But that's the tribal vibe that makes this place so stupid and so toxic so often.
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09-13-2019, 11:41 AM #7569Registered User
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One stop shopping just got my life coach degree
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09-13-2019, 11:48 AM #7570Hucked to flat once
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Is dunfree cracking?
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09-13-2019, 12:05 PM #7571
It's everywhere, not just Seattle. I left there over 2 years ago after 20 years. It has changed a lot since then. But guess what, 20 years earlier it was changing, and 20 years before that. So has every single metro area. When you get back to SLC, it will have changed too. And it will continue to grow and change. But they have the best snow on Earth, so at least there's that.
And for those that think it's the millenials or gen Z moving to mtn towns, um, no. It's boomers. Lots and lots of retiring boomers....with crap tons of cash. At least the ones I see here in Bend. They are of course driving Tesla's. I thought the East side of Seattle was electric car city. But I see tons of electric cars down here, and of course the Porsche Cayenne and Macan's and the fricking Range Rovers and more Audi Q whatever's than just about anything else. To be sure, there are lots of rednecks and their lifted trucks and monster M/T's that hardly ever see a dirt road except to park at the local parking lot at the hiking/biking trails. Subarus? Please! Those are for the hippies who never stopped smoking dope and never really had a white collar job.
The developers have their hands in the pockets of every single city council member out West. Probably out East, Mid-west and every direction in between. But it sounds like you are close to quitting your day job. Winter is around the corner, and you can at least ski some Cascade concrete. Or not. All the best."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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09-13-2019, 12:05 PM #7572Registered User
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Not exactly a ringing endorsement given how shitty life in the Atlanta exurbs would be, at least to me. I fucking hate Atlanta. Most people who say they live in Atlanta don't even get to Atlanta more than a few times per year. They spend their lives in interminable traffic going from the suburb where they live to the suburb where they work to another suburb where their kids attend school to another suburb where their kids play soccer...all of which are 40 miles and a 3 hour drive to downtown Atlanta.
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09-13-2019, 12:10 PM #7573Banned
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You just described the Seattle Metro area as well. You never actually get where you're going out here, you get asymptotically closer to your destination as traffic gets worse and worse, and you either keel over from an aneurysm behind the wheel or say "fuck it, I'm going home, I'll order it online." And even if you don't drive, you're still making matters worse by supporting tech companies who haven't done a goddamn thing to make our lives better, despite blowing smoke up our asses constantly to that effect.
Nowhere is perfect, but some areas as less perfect than others.
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09-13-2019, 12:30 PM #7574
It's funny to hear complaints about Seattle traffic and how it's gotten terrible the last few years. I lived there for 2 years, over 25 years ago, and the traffic was awful then.
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09-13-2019, 12:32 PM #7575
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