Don't think about buying a new house, just do it
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This guy reminds me of some cop saying "You don't mind if I look inside your car trunk?"
"Yes"=you don't mind.
"No"=you don't mind.
The argument would ensue and the cop would blame you for the "confusion" over giving him permission to search you.
The sales nonsense is so typical. The guy probably has one: "ABC, Always Be Closing!"
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"Don't think at all and just cut me the commission check so I can add 22' chrome to my Mercedes, while you are trapped in an overpriced house and have to keep driving your 10 year old Corolla until it explodes". Realtors suck
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This guy is a piece of shit and if he pulled something like this on anyone I know he would be kicked to death on the spot. If inspired, likely he'd have his face pissed on.
"Oh. home buyuz, they all MO-rons! Just dazzlem with this bit of rhetorical derring do. Say, 'Do you love your wife enough to do the right thing and buy this house or are you gonna doom her and your kids to homelessness?' See, right there, the only answer is YES or the wife goes ballistic and his gonads are crushed to dust. It's even better if she's pregnant. You say the same thing and point at the baby bump and shout really loud at him when you get to the part about homelessness. If there are kids with him, wow, lotta drama potential there. Point at them when you get to the homelessness part. Pick one up and ask him or her, 'You know your daddy doesn't want you to die on the street, do you?' "
If you are ever at one of his showings take a shit on the stairs and leave.
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RentingForHalfTheCost says
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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clambo says
Never heard that one, but you wouldn't fool an Irishman (or woman) that way:
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Prospect = mark
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APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says
Hahahaha.... but wait a minute I drive a 2002 corolla!
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Uh, we drove a 1994 Corolla until the transmission imploded last summer. It was a good car.
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I actually can't understand why people are so utterly desperate to mortage a home. If you go into higher end neighborhoods with good schools and a central location, any home that is priced within recent comps tends to get TONS of traffic and multiple offers. At least for LA and OC.
I have to consider that people are lying about the reason they are buying. I am pretty sure they still believe that housing is a great investment and that is why they are purchasing...they are dumb enough to think that they will be making tons of cash(formerly known as bubble cash) by mortgaging a home.
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Patrick says
You could have easily lost 10 new Corolla's if you bought in 2006 in the BA. ;) So, in effect by sticking with the trusty 2004 and not buying you actually can trade in that imploded car for a parking lot full of new ones. ;) Now that is a good investment.
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This scum-sucker in the video pronounces 'prospect' the way a cannibal would pronounce 'baby'
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I think his natural calling is as a TV evangelist. He has the necessary creepy air about him.
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Good sales people (bad sales people?) take ongoing training to separate you from your money. Us meek citizens do NOT get training on how to keep it.
Buyers need to practice saying NO.
Try this, Visit some car lot and when the sales people give you a price, you respond with "ARE YOU SHITTING ME" ? and go home. Fun Huh ? Next weekend, try TWO car lots.. Start slowly at first, soon you should be strong enough to decide your own destiny, not the bum washing your windshield.
Cultures from the middle east test your character through negotiation skills.
Are you EASY ? a CHUMP ? a MARK ? Will you sign before reading ?
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Patrick says
I had a 1976 SR5 in college. It was great.
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I'm still rocking a 1991 BMW 318iS that I picked up in 2005 with 140k miles. I am at about 218k now with the original motor & transmission (I swapped the rear diff for a 4.10 LSD another enthusiast was selling). Some folks in the car club I started have 350k miles on the original motor. To the best of my knowledge, all of my motor's internals are stock still, although I have torn it down a couple of times to fix timing chain assembly issues. When your oil pump is a positive displacement gear pump, driven directly off of the crank shaft, it doesn't respond well to pieces of hardened steel chain roller bearings being sucked up!
When this motor blows up, which may be soon thanks to some suspicious noises in the valve train (increasingly noisy lifters & suspicions that the crank's thrust bearing is on its way out), it'll be time for a fully built marginally-SMOG-legal version of the motor. Mmmmm...8500RPM red line & ~205hp (crank), and ~5kg of moving mass knocked off of the valve train / crank assembly...
I certainly can't describe owning at as being "trouble free" and keep a straight face, but it's a good little car otherwise. ~155hp (crank) in a ~2400lb car with 55/45 weight distribution & no suspension components more than 3 years old makes for a fun ride. New cars, including new BMWs, are fat pigs thanks to all the various safety requirements and creature-comforts that people have come to expect. Yeah, they are faster & can hold a corner better, but they just lack the tactile feedback & nimble feel of older, lighter cars.
This thread is now about cars.
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Try this: laugh heartily at the criminal scum trying to take your money and bellow: "Are you shitting me? I wouldn't pay half that for this heap of trash, even if it came with a year's worth of thrice-daily blow jobs from your leprous whore of a mother!"
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