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DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

I suspect they are listing it this way to meet the lender's demands for some sort of short selling attempt. Only thing that makes sense.

Owner sets the price in a short sale. We did well over 100 of these. Lender doesn't even know if you're selling. They have no say in it until you present an offer. From there the lender can accept or reject based on their own valuation (BPO's). The owner is ultimately in control until the lender forecloses.

This sounds like a situation where the owner has liquid cash outside of retirement funds. A short sale is a taxable event if you're not insolvent. So if you lose $100k you get taxed on that federally and state level. So the owner is likely setting the price at the debt owed (and maybe other debt) to pay it all off for tax avoidance.

709 days is not a serious listing either. It would have most likely been foreclosed on in that time frame if they were short selling. From my perspective it just sounds like a seller looking to pay off other debt and not wanting the home anymore as an investment.

you guys don’t think they’ll find ways to inflate prices again? why would they stop now. it’s not just housing our entire economy is based on inflation and debt.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

AmericanKulak says

I was alive and I waited, waited

The Red Hot Chile Peppers are boomers.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The Red Hot Chile Peppers are boomers.

Hmm, and I always thought they were shroomers.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The Red Hot Chile Peppers are boomers.

Jesus Jones, not RHCP.

Boomer if you go by the "1963 is last year of boomer"

In any case, he's got a hot 20 year old girlfriend. Keeps him going at 62.



School girls rule!

AmericanKulak says

he's got a hot 20 year old girlfriend

Your definition of "hot" and mine differ.

HeadSet says

AmericanKulak says

he's got a hot 20 year old girlfriend

Your definition of "hot" and mine differ.

Same. Not digging her at all. He also looks like a fag and always has. RHCP has also been massively overrated and I grew up in that era. Never bought an album. Most their stuff sounds overly produced and not original, as in not written by the band.

pedo

WookieMan says

HeadSet says

AmericanKulak says

he's got a hot 20 year old girlfriend

Your definition of "hot" and mine differ.

Same. Not digging her at all. He also looks like a fag and always has. RHCP has also been massively overrated and I grew up in that era. Never bought an album. Most their stuff sounds overly produced and not original, as in not written by the band.

One hot minute (w/ Dave Navarro) and Californication are two masterpieces of music. They are properly rated as one of the most influential bands of the gen x era and outstanding musicians.

HeadSet says

AmericanKulak says

he's got a hot 20 year old girlfriend

Your definition of "hot" and mine differ.

Sure I prefer my wife (who is a decade younger) but not that hot and not my type sounds like jealousy to me. Y'all would be thrilled to bang this decent looking chick at 62. Please. Sure he has a pedo whiff (possibly history) but what he's doing now is legal, either you're an adult with 18 or you aren't. Don't care about Kiedis but there are plenty of other musicians with such a significant dating age gap.

mell says

Y'all would be thrilled to bang this decent looking chick at 62

Maybe, but none of us would be banging her even if she were hot. Since we are all just looking, the comments on her appearance stand. Sorta like a comment that a particular NBA player is "not that good." Sure, that player is better than any of us will ever be, but we are just spectators that are comparing him to other NBA players. Besides, if at age 62 you want to bang a 20-year-old, just do what Jones did and whip out your wallet.

I know what I got!!!

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/12/new-existing-home-price-difference

New houses now cost less per square foot than old houses

zzyzzx says

I know what I got!!!

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/12/new-existing-home-price-difference

New houses now cost less per square foot than old houses

Cheaper land. We got ours at a massive deal considering it's fully improved with sewer, water, electricity, fiber and storm drainage. That's basically what we paid for. Now we just need to get this fucking house going. Tip, don't get two lots with an easement between the two. It's a bitch to vacate it.

zzyzzx says

I know what I got!!!

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/12/new-existing-home-price-difference

New houses now cost less per square foot than old houses

Thank you for putting this thread back on track.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

pedo

Feminist communist definition of Pedo. She's old enough to vote, be in the military, have a life or death job in emergency services of some kind, contract in any business, etc.

16-Sixteen is the ancient agreed upon age of maturity. And that was in times were famines were common so people developed more slowly, and there was far less socialization than today.

40-60 year old men and 19-20 year olds was normal until WW2.

We need to push back on the infantilization of people generally, like making excuses for 26 year olds that they're not really adults yet, or that somebody in their early 30s is still "Adulting". That's part of the Oligarch-Socialist program to tamp down on responsibility and freedom, which are naturally entwinned..

As the great Edvards Liedskalniņ of Coral Castle said, let the old birds screw the young guys and keep the young women "Fresh" for the experienced older men

But the Housing Experts on PatNet...

Seller has cut price $472k on this listing. 40% reduction from original list.

Down to a price below what they bought it for in 2020, before the pandemic spike in prices.

Worst of all: check out the HOA fee.

$2,300/month. Ouch.

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/03/14/mountain-view-real-estate-office-build-loan-economy-tech-buy-develop/amp/
Bay Area RE still having lots of vacancy. Heard, some are sold out for 1/4th of purchase price around in MV area! Never thought about these numbers before!

Blue says

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/03/14/mountain-view-real-estate-office-build-loan-economy-tech-buy-develop/amp/
Bay Area RE still having lots of vacancy. Heard, some are sold out for 1/4th of purchase price around in MV area! Never thought about these numbers before!

Commercial vacancy, you mean?

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Seller has cut price $472k on this listing. 40% reduction from original list.

Down to a price below what they bought it for in 2020, before the pandemic spike in prices.

Worst of all: check out the HOA fee.

$2,300/month. Ouch.

what's the cap rate ? I assume it can be a short term or vacation rental

a buddy of mine bought a 1 bedroom condo at The Summit on Panama City Beach for around $175,000 at the peak in 2006

he was making at least 15% annually on this investment as a vacation rental 10 years ago even with the on-site management company running it

he still owns it and likely making a lot more money on it

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a lot of families are skipping the 1 week vacation at Disney World and embracing the beach ecotourism experience

can fish and snorkel on the beach on the white sands of the Gulf of Mexico from Orange Beach, Alabama to north of Naples, Florida

its more economical to rent a beach condo for 6 nights and not go out to eat

that is why it can be a good investment as far as buying a vacation rental on the Gulf of Mexico

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AD says

a lot of families are skipping the 1 week vacation at Disney World and embracing the beach ecotourism experience

I don't think Millennials with kids want to spend the money on Disney. A big maybe, but I'd do Disneyland again. Disney World I'll never go to unless it's with future grand kids.

I like the FL panhandle as I've mentioned before. At heart though I'm a Caribbean type guy. The panhandle is the closest water wise to the Caribbean on a calm day and with better sand. The weather is much better in the Caribbean outside of hurricane season though. We try to go in January (Caribbean) and it's 82ºf and sunny most of the time. Water is warm.

I'd say panhandle is still probably a good long term investment for a vacation rental if you buy right. My old man made about $200k in the late 90's early 2000's on a condo in Navarre Beach. Only owned it for about 6 years. Rented it out so cost were covered and small profit.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Commercial vacancy, you mean?

Office building on Middlefield Road Mountain View. I don't have address, it should be old EMC office.

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Reading this about net immigration of rich people into the USA for 2024, is this going to benefit California and Miami Beach real estate ?

https://patrick.net/post/1347834/2022-10-15-i-have-some-bad-news-about-the-economy?start=176#comment-2089734

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AD says

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Reading this about net immigration of rich people into the USA for 2024, is this going to benefit California and Miami Beach real estate ?

https://patrick.net/post/1347834/2022-10-15-i-have-some-bad-news-about-the-economy?start=176#comment-2089734

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Only if these rich ppl are stupid enough to buy R/E in a falling market.

AD says

It's a good time to buy a house.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1esftl4/when_and_how_much_to_lower_price/

When and how much to lower price?

TDLR: They are too stupid to lower the price enough to sell and somehow think that what they owe on the house is what they should sell it for. Yes, they took out a HELOC.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

What most don't know is price cuts are a marketing tactic. Even if they're small. Price cuts show up in the buyer's MLS feed that the brokers set up. So even small price cuts can help a buyer see the property again or drop into a new buyers price point. It also gets listings bumped in the IDX feeds to sites like realtor.com, zillow, redfin, etc.

As ridiculous as this sounds, we'd have sellers sign a form with the listing agreement that we were allowed to do $1 price cuts up to $100. It worked. Buyers would tell us at showings unprompted. Reason is that most buyers may not be all that serious at first and just scan through what the broker sent them.

80/20 rule. 80% of buyers are morons when it comes to real estate. 19% have a solid idea of the market. 1% knows their shit. That's why the $1 price cut worked on most buyers. 15 years of anecdotal evidence on 1k+ deals.

WookieMan says

What most don't know is price cuts are a marketing tactic. Even if they're small. Price cuts show up in the buyer's MLS feed that the brokers set up. So even small price cuts can help a buyer see the property again or drop into a new buyers price point. It also gets listings bumped in the IDX feeds to sites like realtor.com, zillow, redfin, etc.

As ridiculous as this sounds, we'd have sellers sign a form with the listing agreement that we were allowed to do $1 price cuts up to $100. It worked. Buyers would tell us at showings unprompted. Reason is that most buyers may not be all that serious at first and just scan through what the broker sent them.

80/20 rule. 80% of buyers are morons when it comes to real estate. 19% have a solid idea of the market. 1% knows their shit. That's why the $1 price cut worked on most buyers. 15 years of anecdotal evidence on 1k+ deals.

Car dealers are doing this too. I've once subscribed to price alerts on one car I was interested in on Autotrader and discovered the seller kept changing the price from about $1K above KBB down in $100 increments until it hits KBB and then he bumps it back up and repeats the game. The car has eventually disappered from the site, meaning they did find a sucker to buy it above KBB.

Eric Holder says

Car dealers are doing this too. I've once subscribed to price alerts on one car I was interested in on Autotrader and discovered the seller kept changing the price from about $1K above KBB down in $100 increments until it hits KBB and then he bumps it back up and repeats the game. The car has eventually disappered from the site, meaning they did find a sucker to buy it above KBB.

Didn't think about cars. Less regulation there. All realtors have to have something to show a price change. Some states an email might be okay, but we just knocked it out up front with a document.

Only legal issue we had was one listing where the seller lied and said their property never flooded. New owner talked to the neighbor and found out it frequently flooded. Seller paid $15k and our office paid $15k. Wasn't our fault, but it satisfied the buyer and got us out of a bigger shit show.

WookieMan says

What most don't know is price cuts are a marketing tactic. Even if they're small. Price cuts show up in the buyer's MLS feed that the brokers set up. So even small price cuts can help a buyer see the property again or drop into a new buyers price point. It also gets listings bumped in the IDX feeds to sites like realtor.com, zillow, redfin, etc.

A shitty marketing tactic, then.

When prices continually drop like that, buyers will be incentivised to hold out. Just like when stockholders see their shares' price continuously increase, they are incentivised to hold the stock instead of selling.

WookieMan says

80/20 rule. 80% of buyers are morons when it comes to real estate. 19% have a solid idea of the market. 1% knows their shit. That's why the $1 price cut worked on most buyers. 15 years of anecdotal evidence on 1k+ deals.

Well, I guess that I - at least - am not one of those morons. Or I am because I eventually lose out to the buying moron who does purchase it why I act what is otherwise rationally.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Happening in Central Florida too. They're cutting a few thousand off every 3-4 weeks.

They got a LONG way to go.

Even if the Fed started dropping rates in September, buyers aren't going to bite .

AmericanKulak says

Happening in Central Florida too. They're cutting a few thousand off every 3-4 weeks.

They got a LONG way to go.

Even if the Fed started dropping rates in September, buyers aren't going to bite .

Too late this time of year. School is starting. No one is moving. They can cut all they want. A 60-90 day closing timeline puts you near the holidays in a new house. Next spring will be interesting. Outside of jobs, 90% of people don't "need" to move currently with the rates they have locked in.

No one buying 2 years ago is already moving except in rare cases. The inventory isn't coming up. Prices are down based on interest rates, but they're still selling.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Well, I guess that I - at least - am not one of those morons. Or I am because I eventually lose out to the buying moron who does purchase it why I act what is otherwise rationally.

So you don't own, don't buy and you lose out in 10 years. That's fine. Your choice. I ain't judging. I'm just speaking to what I know is fact. Over 30,000 hours in RE in 15 years. I'm the dip shit. I'll take the heat. I just know what I'm talking about, so it doesn't move my needle.

Every property bought and NOT refinanced WILL be worth more when you sell it in 10 years. Show me a scenario not in a ghetto and you got me. You can't.

WookieMan says

Every property bought and NOT refinanced WILL be worth more when you sell it in 10 years. Show me a scenario not in a ghetto and you got me. You can't.

I can.

After inflation adjusted terms, this nice house is 90% CHEAPER than it was 34 years ago when it was first bought for $500k in 1990. Presently selling for $649k. Look at the pictures of it. It seems well kept up.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/112-E-Ridge-Rd-Charleston-WV-25314/22597118_zpid/



Oh looky! They started playing the little dorky price dropping game you love starting in 2022! Still, if they did sell it in 2022 for their $719k asking price it still would have been pretty much as total loss in inflation-adjusted terms as it will be should they sell it for the $649k price now.

Not a ghetto neighborhood even though it is in Charleston, WV. It's in the ritzy part of town. Yes, every city has at least one of those.

Don't try to move goalposts right now because you didn't explicitly define 'ghetto'. i.e. "Well, the whole state of WV is GHETTO!" or some crap like that. WV is poor but the entire state is not Oakland or Detroit. Certainly not this neighborhood. You made your bed. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

Nor should you even try to bitch about me insisting on using inflation-adjustments since that is what most INVESTMENT DECISIONS calculated over time are supposed to be made by, I do believe.

Actually, your problem isn't the vague ghetto definition fuckup. It's assuming every house in America that even does sell for more than bought for makes money in inflation-adjusted terms.

Don't
Even
Try



If those WV hicks parked their $500k into the Fortune 500 and reinvested their dividends instead, they would have had 1,286.70% inflation-adjusted total return. It would be worth $6,933,489.71 right now.

But you are a Certified Real Estate Expert on PatNet! What do I know? I just am good at realizing that you aren't very good with probabilities involving millions of homes in America dispersed in very unique market circumstances.

So next time, you might want to say something more like this:

WookieMan says

In most cases, every propertyproperties bought and NOT refinanced WILL be worth more when you sell it in 10 years. Show me a scenario not in a ghetto and you got me. You can't. That, at least, has been my experience in my XX years in real estate.

I have to agree with DATF on this point. Living in the Charlotte NC area from mid 90's to early 2000's it was always a buyers market. Outside of a few hot locations home prices did not keep up with inflation. For a few blissful years starting in 2019 it was a sellers market and we basically named our price and didn't negotiate on the two homes we sold during this period. I thought "this must be what it's like to live in California" where home prices outpace inflation by double digits.