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““Some gated, Orwellian community”. I would love to live THERE someday! ”

Just you wait: courtesy of “Homeland Security”

Is the community built in 1984?

Jack Says:

MAYWW…
naaaahh ….. for a minute there HARM, I thought we had a new acronym!

Sorry for the delay, but this one took a little time:
PAWNS (Pale Attractive Wayward Newsworthy Sweethearts)

Np - always happy to supply helpful new acronyms :mrgreen:

I tried searching for houses on realtor.com and then checking prices on ditech.com. It took me about 40 minutes (with interruptions) to check about 6 houses, so I give up. I didn't discover anything earthshattering--was checking SF and San Mateo/Foster City, and all I discovered was that for $700K+, I can be the proud owner of a remodeled 2 br 1 bath house with triple digit square footage. Yeehaa.

BayQT is right about ditech.com's calculator having its limits. Can't check condos or places with unit #s, and some houses, like she said, come up with 0$ as previous sale value.

New thread per GreenCanopy's request: "Land Prices & the Property Bubble"

Hey Harm ( SactoQT, Peter),

How do I get a topic to one of you (or whomever) to start a new thread? I think I missed the process somewhere along the line.

BayQT~

BayQT, you can:

(1) Post your idea under "Lurker's Turn", which is meant to be a meta-thread where anyone can post ideas for new threads (didn't work out that way 100%, but oh well...), or

(2) Register for a WordPress user ID (see link on main page under "Meta" section) and then email it to Patrick (p@patrick.net) asking permission to become a threadmaster yourself.

Oh, cool! I registered earlier today and then emailed Patrick for instructions. :-) I guess I kinda half-way figured it out myself, huh. I *do* remember that you mentioned Lurker's Turn thread but didn't know that it was where I could actually post an idea....I think I thought it was for *looking* for ideas.

I believe I've got it now. :-D Thanks much!

BayQT~

NP --and welcome to the club of Patrick.net thread moderators.
"You've taken your first step into a larger world" ;-)

:-) 8-)

BayQT~

I tried searching for houses on realtor.com and then checking prices on ditech.com. It took me about 40 minutes (with interruptions) to check about 6 houses, so I give up.

Jamie--
I think I found a quick/easy way to pull it off: I go to realtor.com, print up a bunch of property listings, then go to ditech and get the sales history. I managed to price out 20 homes during lunch today.

BayQt

If you go to the site admin page and click on the write tab, you should be able to write a post. I don't know if I'm lucky or what, but the first day I registered I got an email from Patrick saying I could post and that was that. I thought everyone who registered could post. Am I wrong?

Thanks, KurtS. Will try the printed listings method tomorrow!

If you go to the site admin page and click on the write tab, you should be able to write a post. I don’t know if I’m lucky or what, but the first day I registered I got an email from Patrick saying I could post and that was that. I thought everyone who registered could post. Am I wrong?

You're absolutely right. But after I registered I wasn't aware that I would receive email from Patrick. So not knowing what to do ( as I mentioned to Harm) I emailed Patrick regarding the procedure. I did, however, receive an email and all is well. :-D Thanks so much for your help.

BayQT~

Homeland Security has you on tape sniffing 100’s. Better get those granite windows Peter.

What's wrong with that? Have they declared them controlled substances?

Just noticed that this thread is 1 post shy of 300. Is that significant? Not really, but what the hell --why not put it over the top...