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CDon says

Imagine how much better your calls would have been too had they not been clouded with the emotion of your feelings of what should be.

I have more than fine on my calls. Even though I stayed away from housing (aside from owning in areas outside of the SFBA), I loaded up on the market in 2009-2011 and have been rewarded handsomely. So, sure, housing hasn't done what I would expect or hope, but the reasons for that are fine with me, because my wealth verses housing costs just keep improving each year. Only 6 months through this year and most major stock indexes are up 20% or more. I still wouldn't add to my housing position, and probably won't until there is the inevitable shift. Interesting that already there is talk in the Feds meetings about easing up on the QE forever. It will come, there is no endless pit of money to play with. Although, there is war to distract everyone from our dilemma. Which I have predicted numerous times on here. Instead of admitting to our financial disaster, we will undoubtedly declare war and put fear back into everyone's minds. Give it a couple more years. The last thing you will think about is your house equity.

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Only 6 months through this year and most major stock indexes are up 20% or more

If housing didn't bounce back, do you believe the stock market would still be up 20%?

Whether it be QE or the manipulation of shadow inventory, a lot of people have profited from it, including those who didn't even purchase RE.

The biggest losers were the doom and gloomers who decided that they should keep holding cash because Cash was King.

zesta says

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Only 6 months through this year and most major stock indexes are up 20% or more

If housing didn't bounce back, do you believe the stock market would still be up 20%?

Whether it be QE or the manipulation of shadow inventory, a lot of people have profited from it, including those who didn't even purchase RE.

The biggest losers were the doom and gloomers who decided that they should keep holding cash because Cash was King.

I don't think it's wise to ever disrespect cash. Equities and RE are simply vehicles to transform a pile of cash into a bigger pile of cash in the end. That in itself makes cash king and deserving of a place on the top of the asset vehicles hierarchy.

zesta says

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Only 6 months through this year and most major stock indexes are up 20% or more

If housing didn't bounce back, do you believe the stock market would still be up 20%?

Whether it be QE or the manipulation of shadow inventory, a lot of people have profited from it, including those who didn't even purchase RE.

The biggest losers were the doom and gloomers who decided that they should keep holding cash because Cash was King.

Very true. QE is really at the root of any of the moves in real estate or equities. I admit that I underestimated the extend that this gov't/fed would extend itself to protect asset prices. Cash hasn't been a good place to be the last few years. My only regret is not at all about housing, it is that I should have just been buying and rolling over option calls on equities rather than owning the underlying stock. If anyone really had a crystal ball, like many believe they do, then why don't I here about people who did just that? No riskier than buying housing in this market IMHO.

I'm still kicking myself for not putting a hundy on the 6-9 exacta at preakness.

robertoaribas says

rentingwithhalfabrain, you are just lying and making stuff up on here. Sure, anyone can look backwards and say 'I should have done X on day Y' that has nothing to do with anything.

That simply does not count as thinking, it is just crap. By that same logic, I should have gone to California last year, and bought 10 homes on credit...

My point exactly. Looking backwards really proves nothing. If you are doing what-ifs then why housing? Why not out of the money calls and make some real money. Housing is so 1990s. It is old already...

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Why you keep harping on the other is amazing to me. Simply amazing.

Well, it might be because you were obviously lying. You know, just a thought.

RentingForHalfTheCost says

CDon
says

Imagine how much better your calls would have been too had they not been
clouded with the emotion of your feelings of what should be.

I have more than fine on my calls. Even though I stayed away from housing
(aside from owning in areas outside of the SFBA), I loaded up on the market in
2009-2011 and have been rewarded handsomely. So, sure, housing hasn't done what
I would expect or hope, but the reasons for that are fine with me, because my
wealth verses housing costs just keep improving each year.

OK, so suspending the whole MCD fake dates/expose "biasing" thing, perhaps you need to ask yourself, if you are doing awesome in making equities calls, why are your calls on housing so abysmal?

Remember, this site was, first and foremost a housing bubble site. It was originally populated by a lot of people who got priced out in the 2006 bubble, and waited out the 2007-2009 downturn. By 2012, all they wanted to know was "is this it"? - can we now buy and get on with life?

Yet, if you look at the beginning of this this thread, here you are, in early 2012, guns a blazing, telling people as follows:

- without job improvement, you can "bet your grandmothers china" that there will be "no housing improvement", and that "time will be our witness here. Don't say I didn't warn you."

- dunnross is telling us that we will see his nominal 1975 prices and you give it a "+1"

- you later tell us there is another "20% drop that is coming our way soon"

- you then get into a conflict with tatupu about what constitutes "real" data, irked that the MSM is ignoring the shadow inventory, saying "To say inventories are short for 2012 when we know the shadow inventory gorilla is walking into the room is crazy. The inventories are going to explode incredibly in 2012, just wait."

Mind you too, this is but one of many of your posts in early 2012 that had a certain, cocksure - pound the table certainty - that the people who were buying homes, even just to live in were making a terrible terrible mistake.

Well given that time has proven your remarks wrong don't be surprised that people are giving you a hard time about it now. Its just the way it goes. Given the overall certainty of your tone, had time proven you right, you would be deserving of praise - since you were not, you are deserving of ridicule.

So again, going forward, maybe your alleged fantastic predictions and performance in equities (all of which are presumably made without emotion) should be your guide in making further predictions on housing. Start being right for a while, and people wont be giving you such a hard time going forward.

There's a lot of lover's quarrels going on in this thread.

CDon says

why are your calls on housing so abysmal?

Simple answer. The Fed has bankrupt the country going forward. Sad to see. Myself, along with many others, never expected it. My calls on real estate follow the fundamentals and they have not changes. It is a shell game with the Feds holding all the cards at this point. Believe in it, if it is making you money, but until this shell game is over, none of my money will enter the game. Most people buying at this point, which is what determines the market prices, are counting on continual gains. I don't see how that is remotely possible. My nature would have me out at this point, so looking back I would still never enter. I have been in and out, have now been in and out of another runup in the stock market. I'm doing fine. You can have housing. I don't care for it much like this. Hope you get out at the right time.

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Most people buying at this point, which is what determines the market prices,
are counting on continual gains.

Where is the evidence that the investment component is the main driver of buying real estate?

robertoaribas says

It's time for me to take a break; maybe drive out to OC and hang out on the beach....

Laguna Beach? :)

Going to be crowded here this weekend.

RentingForHalfTheCost says

For most selling covered calls and getting a repeatable 6-10% annually is a great option.

True, and hopefully the stock won't raise that much past the target price when the option contract comes due. Greed should be contained, and playing a covered call option is a safe way to make a good return on investment.

Keep an eye on P/E ratio, when it gets past 22 then I would start selling or at least stop buying if I plan on holding my stocks for at least 5 or more years.

I think the next crash will come very quickly and with at least a 30% drop because almost everybody is expecting it. It will almost be like a run on the banks.