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And I Thought You Were My Friend...


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2007 Oct 11, 5:08pm   23,543 views  227 comments

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I thought you were my friend...

I noticed that every housing-related article in my rss-feeds today has a negative headline. Negative reports on housing sales, housing starts, home-builders, mortgages, and housing prices. If they aren't predicting further drops, then they are blaming slow retail sales on housing and mortgage problems. In more and more articles, the REIC are being fingered as accomplices to fraud.

Boston Globe: "The US housing bust is like a leaking ship."
Bloomberg: "Retail Sales Slowed as Housing Fell"
Valley Tribune: "Realtor faces trial in alleged scam"
NBC: "Officials Say Mortgage Fraud Is Growing Problem"
AP: "Bear Stearns Predicts Ripple Effect of Real Estate Decline"
Bakersfield Californian: "Realtor Offices Raided By FBI"
Los Angeles Times: "Home prices expected to drop"
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and so on.

When they actually quote from a shill - either a realtor, or a NAR-dummy, or a home-builder - it is invariably with a counterpoint from a more credible source.

Has the MSM has finally clambered on to the bandwagon and left the REIC to fend for itself?

Should Patrick start reporting on articles that are still bullish on housing? Those are becoming harder to find!

SP

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204   DinOR   2007 Oct 17, 7:56am  

Since they should have my "new" (actually refurbished historic bldg.) office finished in January I figured it wasn't too early to shop for furnishings? I was hoping for that "Mike Hammer Investigations look".

The building is actually from the late 1800's and I'm open to suggestions!

205   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 17, 8:10am  

Kitty,

We are not that different. Either the cheapest or the most equisite. Anything in between, what they call the value items, is abominable. I would put together a few cardboxes and use them as my table.

206   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 17, 8:21am  

A beautiful house I can't afford right now. Actually, it really doesn't make any sense for a single man to live in a house, unless he can staff it with servants. If he were to have roommates, he would not be able to frolic around with his mistresses. So a beautiful condo/co-op (such as this one http://www.johnlscott.com/PropertyDetail.aspx?GroupID=53084101&ListingID=29368047) makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, I can't afford it.

Some guys like NY-style lofts. My personal feeling is that a loft doesn't induce a sense of intimacy and hence poor as a seduction location. Any thoughts on that?

What's the ideal size of an apartment/condo for use as a place of debauchery? 700 sqft, 800 sqft, 900 sqft?

207   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 17, 8:26am  

DinOR,

It depends on your budget and personal taste. PM me.

208   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 17, 8:54am  

Quote of the day:

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

209   HeadSet   2007 Oct 17, 9:14am  

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I thought enemies were the accumulation of some of the folks you compete with (especially for women), and personality conflicts.

Are you saying: "Gee, you seem like a smart fellow, I'll make you my arch-nemesis." And of course, "We'd be enemies, if you were not such a dimwit."

It also seems you are saying your friends are good looking dumbshits with bad character.

210   skibum   2007 Oct 17, 9:27am  

Boy GC,
Between the furniture preferences and the house/condo choices you describe, you seem to have the sensibilities of an 80 year old woman, or at the very least someone from the 19th century. If that's your style, maybe you should consider moving to Europe, or at least NYC or Boston.

211   HeadSet   2007 Oct 17, 9:39am  

I noticed that the $1.2 million property that GC linked to was conspicuously marked as sold. Is this a realtor's back door method to show on this blog that properties are still selling?

212   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 17, 9:47am  


It also seems you are saying your friends are good looking dumbshits with bad character.

Men like to flip logical switches, spewing out deductions like millions of sperms. I'm afraid that too many people, too often, make the mistake taking human language as something precise.

But in any case, not a bad conclusion. I do often draw good-looking people with a criminal (or rebelious, or devious) bent, especially in my youth.

NYC and Boston are too expensive. I have to slave myself away in order to live comfortably there. I consider work abominal. C'mon, the real reason why I didn't take that Google offer was that it was insufferable for me to work 10+ hours a day in a room with half a dozen smelly computer programmers. My nature is so strong and so untainted/unbroken by this world that I simply cannot work at a regular job, regardless how well it pays. Street begging is better than working at a wall street firm.

213   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 17, 10:04am  

After my quoting Lord Henry, some people suddenly decided to become my enemies.

214   HeadSet   2007 Oct 17, 10:08am  

Men like to flip logical switches, spewing out deductions like millions of sperms.

Huh? Where men like to "spew" sperm has nothing to do with logic. Most prefer good looking dumbshit women with bad character.

215   Different Sean   2007 Oct 17, 6:42pm  

OO Says:
The 17th Commie Powwow at Bejing just declared: the government will make it easy for Chinese people to benefit from non-salary source income (aka stock and house flipping).

hmm, are they commie or cappie? they also said nice things about the environment, sustainability, and giving up the habit of doing all the polluting for the world combined. "i love the smell of industrialisation in the morning, it smells like profits..."

no govt has ever really been very commie in this world, they have revolutionary marxist commie rhetoric with totalitarian command economy reality...

216   DinOR   2007 Oct 18, 12:51am  

"Street begging is better than working at a wall street firm"

WTF? What do you think these guys do all day? It's just panhandling (but with a sales script!) Sheesh.

Then again? Maybe I SHOULD have GC decorate my new office!

(Uh... just no "spewing" o.k?)

I.... don't think so.

217   DinOR   2007 Oct 18, 1:41am  

O.K, so what exactly was it that drove a perfectly happy "work from home" guy to go the trouble and expense of signing a commercial lease and getting an "office"? I just get the sense it's killing you, right?

After the Idon'tknowhowmanieth time at the local tavern with a client and the ultra-hip, been workin' there for 3 weeks server gal comes by (after making sure all her ultra-hip friends were well attended to) she gets around to seeing if we didn't wander in there by mistake?

No sister, I assure you it was not a mistake. See... I've coming to this bar (like my father before me since....) Oh Ya' Know, just forget it! I'll get MY OWN fricken "bar". And thus it started. I don't know how many of you folks have been through the same... BS but I happen to think it's a great idea! The monthly expense (including utilities) is around $225. Park on the street.

Just get a "Headset Consulting" or "SP Engineering" decal up on the door and start having fun! Cigars, the game and a wet bar. Oh and no more sugar daddy tips for so-so service. Why!? In three weeks there will be a NEW "been there for three weeks" gal!

Whadda' ya' say?

218   HeadSet   2007 Oct 18, 2:42am  

DinOr,

So your getting an office had nothing to do with the wife? "I married you for better or worse, not lunch. You go find a place to work and get out of my hair!"

"HeadSet Consulting" sounds good ("con" plus "insult" equals "consult"), but I am hoping property values fall enough for me to pick up a few rental houses. That way my shingle can say "HeadSet Properties." After all, renting will be the new "black." Former FBs will espouse how clever renting is over owning, and actually quote Patrick at their trendy parties.

219   Bruce   2007 Oct 18, 2:53am  

DinOr,

Your historic office sounds interesting - I got a quick visual of Jake Giddis's office in Chinatown.

In SF, you'd find craftsman or mission making a certain sense, if a little stiff, but OR has me stumped. Where in conniption is SFWoman? Bet she'd have great ideas.

220   DinOR   2007 Oct 18, 3:00am  

Headset Consulting,

There were a few clients that I ran out of excuses and places to meet. "So gee DinOR, when are you getting a "real" office?" I kind of got tired of the... snide remarks and people saying "I'd refer so and so to you but they're... you know, "old fashioned".

Since I'd been greatly humbled by a bear mkt. that lasted THREE times longer than historic norms I've learned to live with "smug" remarks. (Who here hasn't?) Now we even have "imported smugness".

Alas, it was the Mrs. that insisted I get an office "big enough for the two of us" when she leaves the trad. workforce in the next few years. And... actually you're right (I was thinking "big enough for a pool table) so you got me there. :(

It wasn't my intent however to imply that a) this would be TOTALLY "a guy thing" b) you can't have ANY fun w/ females present and c) that I haven't been snubbed by an equal number of male servers for not expressing interest in the 'wine list' and insisting on... whatever's on draught!

221   DinOR   2007 Oct 18, 3:10am  

Bruce,

Great minds must think alike!? We have quite a bit of mission furniture in storage and I'd considered rummaging through it and perhaps dusting it off. I fear, however, that the kindly gentleman who is doing the renovation has a wife that has already reserved the "cat bird" office and I find myself wondering...? Now why would she do that? Oh I get it, he does the "reno" and she does the... interior design "consulting"?

Welcome to small town Oregon! So, I can have my wife decorate it (and say good-bye to Mike and Jake) yet keep peace in the family or embrace the ideas of my LL's wife and win over a new client? WWMHD?

222   Bruce   2007 Oct 18, 3:23am  

DinOr . . .

What would Mata Hari drink? Scotch, I bet.

Nice choices there, guy. Peace at home v client schmooze. Bet you figure out a way to do both. Personally, I think designers are a little scary.

We will want pictures, you know.

223   DinOR   2007 Oct 18, 3:31am  

Bruce,

And "straight" to be sure! I'm sure a man's man like Mike Hammer wouldn't give a rip about what some w-o-m-a-n thought of his "place of business". I however, am not Mike Hammer. (Damn)

I'd say more broadly "conultants" in general are scary. (But this builder is after all... quite successful) Hmm...?

224   Bruce   2007 Oct 18, 3:43am  

I'm waiting for the thunderclap.

Someone here just said "successful builder"!!!1!!1! Heh.

225   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 18, 6:06am  

DinOR,

I have a desk for you:

[IMG]http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8727/2013lgge9.jpg[/IMG]

226   GallopingCheetah   2007 Oct 18, 6:06am  

DinOR,

I have a desk for you:

[IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7796/184lghg2.jpg[/IMG]

227   SP   2007 Oct 18, 1:33pm  

@DinOR said:
SP Engineering

Sounds like a plan - so what exactly would we do? Or is that not that important? I know a couple of people who followed this plan:
Step 1: Form a company, design a "cool" logo get cards and stationery
Step 2: T.B.D.
Step 3: Complete global domination

It is a great plan, but they are still stuck on step 2. :-)

SP

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