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He was not banned. He left voluntarily and asked me to delete all his threads and comments, which I did.

Seriously?

Did Bob have a complete break down, because the curious2 logo is also associated with Roberto A Ribas?

WTF? Now that it is all coming to a close the guy cuts, and runs?

His free home of the last few years was probably pulled from under him in his fairy tale land......try disney roberto .....always hope

I - for one (I am a housing bear right now, at least for the SF Bay Area - and I think it is around 20 % over valued, at the most - and we are going to have proportional inflation soon - if FED does not do away with the taper in the near future ) always thought that Roberto was spot on in his earlier days and almost morphed into an NAR cheerleader (without owing allegiance to the NAR) in his later life.

This forum is divided in camps - bear or bull - and the constant screaming and shouting seems to drown any constructive discourse - so hopefully, we will see some signs of intelligent life on this forum.

I will miss Roberto.

Call it Crazy says

You missed the point of my post!

The point of his post appears to be that there's, like, plenty of housing markets on the East Coast that not only have stayed down after the crash, but are continuing down... and that just by making that statement, it's a proven fact.

It's now on the internet, and they can't put anything on the internet that isn't true. I read it on the internet.

mbSFBay says

hopefully, we will see some signs of intelligent life on this forum.

You're welcome.

Probably some dickwad tried to get him in trouble for 'blogging at work' (which of course is the only reasonable place to do so!) so he realized too late 'uh oh im a public employee and these posts are during so called working hours'. then he trys to cya.

good luck to him! he got rich with math skills, the ultimate example of meritocracy in action.

Just because we're aren't being called morons & nitwits doesn't mean that we aren't morons & nitwits.

He was not banned. He left voluntarily and asked me to delete all his threads and comments, which I did.

Should his writings not be preserved for posterity? How can we learn from history when we erase it.

I don't know what you're looking at bob, but I click on those links and all I see is proof positive that any poor shlep that didn't buy in 2009/2010 made a HUGE mistake.

As evidenced by those graphs, housing EVERYWHERE is moonshotting.

Afterall, the best way to understand the entire world is to take my experiences of the hollywood lifestyles of the rich and famous super awesomes from the bay area, and assume that is how the rest of the world works.

People are trampling one another to bid over asking for average housing in Prince Georges county, and philadelphia city

If you notice, the east coast had the run up but never experienced the big crash. We didn't have a major foreclosure crisis like the West Coast did. New Jersey has plenty of foreclosures and a ton of people that are in default. However, the rate at which they address these problems in the court has been so slow (partly due to the laws and partly due to the process). There is a huge backlog, but it is akin to a faucet backing up and dripping out of a small hole. Waiting for those things to hit the market to affect prices just isn't going to happen.

We sold my grandfather's home in 2006. The guy that bought it was a contractor and his first order of business was to destroy the yard, rip up every fence, knock down trees, and god knows what else. He had a heart attack and passed away a few months into it. His girlfriend, who is not on the lease or title has been living in the home rent free ever since. She sends a check to the town for the taxes and the bank refuses to foreclose on the property for what I'm guessing is balance sheet reasons. I'm not sure how it is on the West Coast but there are houses every few blocks that have been completely vacated and never put up for sale by the bank.

theoakman says

Lower income towns in NJ have been consistently going down and never turned the corner.

Same thing around here, except I would have said "neighborhoods" instead of "towns".

He was not banned. He left voluntarily and asked me to delete all his threads and comments, which I did.

I wonder if he was getting too addicted. Hey, it happens.

justme says

Should his writings not be preserved for posterity? How can we learn from history when we erase it.

NSA has them.

Oil Can says

He was not banned. He left voluntarily and asked me to delete all his threads and comments, which I did.

I wonder if he was getting too addicted. Hey, it happens.

Bingo!

110 for days on end sucks. Taking it out on Internet randoms makes life even worse I'd imagine.

New Renter says

nw888 says

curious2 says

nw888 says

he's changed his name to thankshousingbubble, and his alias is egads101.

and his address to Hermosa Beach, CA. Why the change of address, and why does the alias have an age of 3?

Don't know. Look at the threads. All the titles are changed, but they are Roberto threads. You'll notice that some show a location in Scottsdale as well.

If egads101 is Roberto I'm concerned for his well being. His comments make me think he's suffering from extreme heat delirium or maybe excessive scorpion venom.

Maybe both.

Wait a minute - I get it now.

Roberto is founding a new religion! The Oracle of Housing

He'll put his rentals into a trust which will "donate" all the profits to his holiness The Housing Oracle. Put on some robes, make some crazy talk and whamo you have the best tax shelter ever!

New Renter says

Well 1995 had a massive internet boom that lifted all boats. Maybe some new industry will come along-but until then it is just speculation and easy money.

How did the internet boom help North Carolina? Georgia?

RTP in NC has tech industry, including Cisco and others. Georgia had Scientific Atlanta, also ultimately bought by Cisco. So the internet boom did have ripples outside of SFBA.

Call it Crazy says

Come on over to the East Coast, I'll show you plenty of markets that not only have stayed down after the crash, but are continuing down.... there's plenty to choose from!!

Not to be super picky, but nearly every one of your examples has an uptick on the end. Also, it's indicative of house price and not necessarily reflective of how sales are doing. Ya know, if housing prices were inflated and have since "corrected," using former prices versus current prices as an economic gauge will show a lack of recovery every time.

But then again, I was told there'd be no math after hs...

He probably should have joined with an alias. Being a govt employee and having a trail of argumentative threads cannot be that good. Some idjit might forward his posting history to some other idjit in the college and things can get dicey.

But I will miss his postings-he had skin in the game and was talking from experience. Now that I have moved to a dirt cheap location am really thinking of possibly buying a property or two for renting. Though here prices don't shoot up and you are repsonsible for snow removal etc.

I think Bob had a nervous breakdown. His posts were getting more and more bizarre. It was almost like his account was hacked or something.

His rants and weird mood swings made me think he must be bipolar. People who are bipolar can have really down times and if they don't take medication, can really act strangely. Maybe that explains his bad ratings. I don't think he is a good teacher, based on what I've read.

Pussy.

Is that you, Bob?

I found a Poem on the internet for Mr. Roberto.

It had no author mentioned that I saw, simply
'Poems of the Soul'

Superegos really believe
They're holier than thou
They always know right
They always know just

They've always been
The voice
That tells you 'Do the right thing'

A Superego
Hears no evil
Sees no evil
Speaks no evil
Condemns all crimes
Drives all guilt
Wears it's halo proudly

And

They're so
Shiny perfect
Under the sun
Compared to us

heh, well Roberto does teach at a community college. Students always love to google their teacher's names. I'm willing to bet that one student read a bunch of threads and was heavily amused by his teacher acting like a jackass on the internet.

B.A.C.A.H. says

waiting_for_the_fall says

I think Bob had a nervous breakdown.

Then "be a man" and delete your link.

That's what I did and I am grateful to Goran for deleting his quote of my link.

It won't matter. Once on the Net - forever on the Net.

Straw Man says

B.A.C.A.H. says

waiting_for_the_fall says

I think Bob had a nervous breakdown.

Then "be a man" and delete your link.

That's what I did and I am grateful to Goran for deleting his quote of my link.

It won't matter. Once on the Net - forever on the Net.

Metadata don't phase me. We ain't in no 1937 soviet union.

On Roberto's Syllabus

Netiquette
Some of the content you will be dealing with may require difference of opinion. All students should respect other people’s opinions and think about the comments they respond to in the discussion board. I will not tolerate any explicit comments regarding ethnicity, gender, sexual related content, or inappropriate language. Appropriate action
will be taken if students violate other student’s rights.

https://www.scottsdalecc.edu/academics/faculty/roberto-ribas

or, some son of a bitch from this site called his school, and said he had a gun with him... causing security to come to his office, and have a nice chat with him.

they found such dangerous things on him as home made vegetarian bean stew, and herbal tea.

Just so you know, a terrorist threat at an educational institution is a felony, and the police have contacted the fbi.

@The Professor please delete all threads that link to identifiable places for him above, since this is your posting.

anony mouse says

or, some son of a bitch from this site called his school, and said he had a gun with him... causing security to come to his office, and have a nice chat with him.

they found such dangerous things on him as home made vegetarian bean stew, and herbal tea.

Just so you know, a terrorist threat at an educational institution is a felony, and the police have contacted the fbi.

@The Professor please delete all threads that link to identifiable places for him above, since this is your posting.

Wow. If someone did do this to Roberto, that's pretty messed up. You could ruin someone's life.

One of the reasons I try to keep my personal details very generic and offline for the most part. Too many crazies on the internet.

anony mouse says

they found such dangerous things on him as home made vegetarian bean stew, and herbal tea.

... but the thing which did him in was that toilet plunger he always carried concealed.

Goran_K says

Wow. If someone did do this to Roberto, that's pretty messed up. You could ruin someone's life.

I doubt it was a someone. It was something called Google. Doing what he did under his real name was quite idiotic.

that is scary. It is best to be anonymous on the internet. who knows what crazies are out there?

waiting_for_the_fall says

that is scary. It is best to be anonymous on the internet. who knows what crazies are out there?

That's been my policy for over 10 years. I keep it anonymous, generic, and easy to hide.

If that's true, that's about as low as it gets.

I didn't agree nor disagree with his posts, they were what they were, people who were offended by his boasts of his ability to flip houses need to get a life.

Though I would fault him for falling for the biggest sham the internet has pulled on the American public. Since the beginning of the internet the number one most important rule everyone was advised to follow was... "Always stay anonymous, never give out any personal information, not even your name."

I can't imagine why any intelligent person would ever either register to a website that required personal information that made public, or register on a site with their real name, or talk about where they work.

There are just too many bastards and shit heads out there, like the Asshole that would fuck with Roberts shit like that.

Unless his school just did their own investigation and found him and his discourse here on Patnet. In which case I would say, you did it to your self.

Any of you scratching your head wondering what in the hell I'm talking about need to read the article I posted in the misc board titled. "are you not entertained!?!?!?"

That's one of the worst part of the internet, people act like absolute animals because of the anonymity. They can terrorize someone from the comfort of their computer chair, typing away furiously, as they try and ruin someone's life.

Giving away all of your personal details (or even just a little) just gives them that amount of leverage to be a thorn in your side in real life.

I'm not so sure the person who did it was from here. I read the class reviews and there were a lot of angry students.
The person who said he had a gun may have been someone who got a bad grade.
Most young people don't realize calling in a threat like that is very serious. The FBI can tell what phone number was used to call in the threat from and can trace the person.
It is hard to get away with those types of threats anymore.

The NSA is listening everywhere.

What if they called from a public pay phone? They could call it in, and just disappear. So I think there is still a lot of anonymity with committing that type of crime.

There are cameras everywhere now. It is easier to trace someone than ever before.

anony mouse says

or, some son of a bitch from this site called his school, and said he had a gun with him... causing security to come to his office, and have a nice chat with him.

they found such dangerous things on him as home made vegetarian bean stew, and herbal tea.

Just so you know, a terrorist threat at an educational institution is a felony, and the police have contacted the fbi.

@The Professor please delete all threads that link to identifiable places for him above, since this is your posting.

I guess someone got tired of your rudeness roberto. karma is a bitch isn't it?

I've seen the camera quality, it's really shitty these days. In L.A, 90% of hit and run cases go unsolved even with video of the incident simply because they can't even identify the car because the video is so grainy and low resolution.

Can you imagine trying to get details on someone's face?

When Bob finds out it was one of his former students that did it, he'll be back.

I guess I've watched too many episodes of CSI, where there were bank atm cameras or store cameras that showed someone making a payphone call, etc.

All the FBI has to do is see who had failed grades in the last semester, find out who lives near the area the call came from, then interview those students and ask what they were doing during the time of the call.
Whoever doesn't have an alibi is the person that made the threat. Very easy.