Home prices to hit bottom this year, report says
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SLos Angeles Renter says
SF ace is correct. I have 4 mortgages at 75/25% (maximum allowed for investment units) and some private money backed by equity on my office building. I also have a mortgage on my personal residence for the maximum conforming amount ($600,000) @ 4.25%.
The creative bookkeeping is mostly using my paid for house as collateral for the down payments on my rental properties. I suppose you might say that I'm not technically 100% financed since no single property is more than 75% encumbered, however I went from zero debt & zero investment properties to lots of investment properties and 100% of the value of those homes in debt.
If I could borrow another $5 million at 5% interest and spend it on real estate, I'd sign the paperwork today. There's almost no downside and there are opportunities for positive income flow everywhere.
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I usually love arguing with IWOG on here, but I am actually trying to figure out how to leverage up my investments too. I just purchased 3 condos for average prices of $40K including rehab (but I suppose discounting some backbreaking long days of work by me) and rented them for $800 each.
However, the long term income potential to me seems better to move a bit up to homes from 80 to 100K, and get loans. Then I can stretch my remaining 350K to way over a million dollars in new investments, and let future inflation if and when it shows up, kill the loans off.
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SF ace says
Not sure I follow. Isn't the proper way to look at an investment it's actual income, including amortized expenses? Who cares about cash flow? I can do reverse mortgage on my home and that's cash flow, but doesn't mean I'm generating income.
I've seen Iwog estimation of expenses, and it essentially ignores repairs and maintenance, vacancies, potential legal fees, not to mention his own labor.
It seems to me it makes no sense to use financial leverage at 5%, if the property is only returning 4% cap rate after a proper accounting of expenses. Not unless you're gambling on inflation.
On the other hand, I look at the numbers robertoaribas puts up and it makes me wonder if I shouldn't make a trip out there.
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I've actually posted expenses to excruciating detail. Here's a repost and a link from Sept. 2010. I've also talked in great detail about what insurance covers and what it doesn't cover, but I can't find the link at the moment. I don't worry about legal fees, I'm married to a lawyer but almost any potential problem can be handled in small claims court. No one ever said being a landlord didn't involve work.
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=528285
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SF ace says
That's more precise language. What I'm getting at is if you're not accounting for the decline in equity due to the deterioration and eventual repairs or replacements on your property, you're not getting a clear picture of the investment.
If a individual investor owning a rental property is an equivalent business to a REIT, then Iwog is somehow able to pull off lower operating costs than a REIT, even without economies of scale.
No, a roof, water heater, termites, washer/dryer, and a car to drive to your property is not an enumeration of "expenses to excruciating detail".
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So, explain again, which part of the "Bull Trap" concept do iwog, tatapu & nomograph do not understand????
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Dunross--
Well, does the bull trap usually occur when the price is back at the mean? Like it is in most places in the US?
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Tatapu. I guess you haven't consulted with your buddy iwog, before you wrote that post. It depends where you start drawing the mean from. I draw it back from 1975, which is when this bubble really started, which means there is no place in the US where we are back below the mean,
unless, maybe, Vegas or Detroit, and, even that is questionable.
Anyway, I can see that we can negotiate the "mean", but "Bull Trap" is non-negotiable. It occurs every time.
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dunnross says
Oh come on--the bubble really started in 1876. Draw the line back that far and you'll see that the bubble ended in 2009.
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dunnross says
Also, I don't see any signs of "Dispair" from any of the bulls on this blog, or any of the bulls that I know in real life. When we reach "True Dispair", all the Iwogs/Tatapus/Nomographs of the world will not be foaming at their mouths trying to argue with us, bears, about whether we hit the bottom in 2009 or not.
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tatupu70 says
I chose 1975, because 1975 is when this whole idea of "Ownership Society" has started. This is when a lot of current gov-t housing subsidies started, and this is when a lot of people started to think that "housing" was actually an investment.
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Now, I invite you or anyone else to look at the two graphs side by side, and tell me when this bubble started:


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real estate prices will bottom when those prices reflect a realistic expectation that the loan will be repaid....as long as the gov and the federal reserve are propping up the markets, prices will continue to decline and can not bottom. tax payers bailing out bad loans is not a viable business model.........
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709hannah says
Let me correct that, just a little. The gov-t is "trying" to prop up the market. Where on the FHFA graph do you see any gov-t manipulation actually working. The FED is throwing in everything but the kitchen sink, and all we get is a little blip in San Jose area, and, even a smaller one in Oakland. Well this dead-cat bounce is hardly the "Bull Trap", even iwog can be proud of!!!
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the gov is actually propping up the market. i didnt say it was maintaining a certain level. if we didnt have ZIRP and massive freebies to the banks (ala POMO's) the market would be at ZERO.....!.... there would be no real estate market because the financial system would be locked up!
in this case 'propping' means stopping the free fall.....!
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709hannah says
Well, I would still argue that, even in that case, both, the all-cash and the "priced-out-of-the-market-back-in-the-bubble-heydays" crowds would still come in for a "Bull Trap" experiment. You see, the purpose of the bubble is to suck in as many suckers as possible, both, on its way up, and on its way down. If the market went straight to 0 from the top, nobody would be suckered in on the way down, and it wouldn't be so much fun, now would it?
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by bull trap do you mean in the RE industry...i.e. R.E. buyers coming in and buying thinking it is a bottom...?
i agree....i know at leat 10 people that have just bought a home.....some are already underwater numerically. 2 couples had to sell the new house and move (for job related reasons) and one lost a but load of money and the other still hasnt found a buyer and their listing price is less than their mortgage...sucks!
the old 'i dont care about price' and ' R.E. wil not go down in my area' really trashed these people....but when the wife says she wants a house..well...you buy.
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709hannah says
Yes, as you can see on the graph, it's the "Return to Normalcy" crowd thinking that the market has "Stabilized". It's the iwogs, tatapus & nomagraphs in the world, coming in to catch the falling knife. "Shadow Bubble" is another word for this "Bull Trap". It occurs because of the allure of self-made millionaires who made a bundle on the housing bubble is still fresh in people's minds, especially the ones who missed the heydays and are now thinking that this is their last chance to get it, before they are completely priced out.
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dunnross & 709hannah,
You guys are absolutely correct. Home prices will not hit bottom until 2039. Renting is your best bet for the next 28 years :)
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I think that is the problem, to an average person who does not consider long term it only comes down to "how much a month". Thats how cars are sold to the poor, houses follow. Not a very prudent way of shopping.
So as soon as government provides 30 year loans prices go up to match 30 year mark. If max loan length was 3 years prices would drop accordingly.
At least that's how I see it.
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It's cute how you try to get him to reply.
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Now that's funny.
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+99, Iwog is a lying POS.
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justme says
I do believe this is a violation of the new TOS.
I wouldn't mind if you actually had examples of me being a lying POS, but we both know you don't.
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Not to change subject but I am interested in finding a termite insurance contract like you describe...any recommendations (CA, Los Angeles)?
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iwog says
BS Alert. Nikkei average tripled from 2003 to 2007, only to plunge back down before the 2003 low.
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It's absolutely precious how you try to get his attention. Just adorable.
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Here is the chart. The fact remains that our own S&P has actually underperformed the Nikkei so far, in this dead-cat market rally:
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iwog says
Fortunately for you, lying is not a violation.
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I'm flattered, but no thanks. I don't like you that way.
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LOL, Patrick, funny spam.
Russian hackers ad here.
Have they registered or just hacked in?
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No no no, according to Shiller the bottom is now. LMAO
Get ready for decades of decline. We are following the path of Japan except we don't have the savings and strong industrial exports to do as "well" as they have.
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pazuzu says
Yep, until next year, then that will be the bottom... and then the next year will be the bottom.... and so on.....
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pazuzu says
Call it Crazy says
you do realize its been over 2 years or something since IWOG bought, and he's been routinely making rental income the whole time... No housing crash... Heck, I'm coming up on 2 years since my start to buying again in this crash, and my prices are all up over 50% on the earliest purchases.... Rent + tons of appreciation, that you guys really don't seem to understand!
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LiarWatch says
Hi Darrell,
Which idiot called 2007 the bottom? You can run, but you can't hide Darrell. Are you still renting from Roberto, or did he evict you? :)
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LiarWatch says
Darrell,
Actually, that was your ex-girlfriend. Not only did she screw the public, but she screwed you pretty bad before dumping you. Is that why you're so bitter?
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Why are all the specuvestors on this site so vile? If it was such a gravy train, they'd be silently smirking in the corner counting all their free money. Instead, they spend time here, patting themselves on the back, trying to put down others, pimping for the NAR, and (at least in my observations) whoring for the democrats. Id ask how you people sleep at night, but its obvious, not very well
So sad. The worst will be these clowns will be crying foul when the market crumbles and they are crushed by their own leverage. It will be the evil GOPs fault and they will be demanding that the smart democrats throw the banks another trillion dollar bone to try and make them whole. Sucks for those of us that are forced to pay for this crap
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errc says
errc: It must really be sad to live a life that bitter and pathetic! I'm sorry you totally screwed up your market timing, but being jealous and praying desperately for me to be wrong isn't a good use of your time.
you could grow up, and quit being a whiney little biotch, but who am i kidding, that will never happen!
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LiarWatch says
just as dumb with a new name!
so everyone who post negative experiences is telling the truth, but anyone who posts positive experiences, must be lying!
Nothing like biasing all of the information you receive to agree with your preconceived viewpoint! no wonder you both are always wrong on your decisions!!
Not withstanding the fact, that I actually give verifiable information for everything I write, and you don't!
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LiarWatch says
actually, it would be for me. Given the dynamics of real estate, it would take a couple years to turn Phoenix around, and go back down to new lows... plenty of time for me to rake in the rental income, save my salary, and then, buy a few more homes to rent out...