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Favorite Realt-whore Cliches


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2006 Mar 4, 10:08am   22,239 views  108 comments

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It’s not a house it’s a home.
Buy now or you’ll be priced out forever.
Renting is just throwing your money away.
You have to live somewhere.
They’re not making any more of it.
Real estate never goes down.
You’re just kidding yourself if you’re waiting for prices to fall.
Never a better time to buy!
I think you have a deep-seated fear of commitment.
Never try to time the market (when it’s falling).
It’s different this time.
_(insert location)_ is so desirable, people will want to live here no matter how expensive it gets.
Boomers/immigrants/rich people will keep prices permanently high.
Prices have achieved a permanently high plateau/new paradigm/soft landing.
_(insert location)_ is land-locked.
If you’re waiting for the perfect time to buy, you’ll be waiting forever.
You can’t lose in real estate –it’s a no-brainer.
Real estate’s seasonal; after _(insert holiday)_ things will return to normal.
The last housing drop was caused by _(insert unique, non-repeatable event: 9-11, collapse of Soviet Union, earthquake, hurricane, etc.)_; it’ll NEVER happen again.
STOP LOW-BALLING! STOP!! I REALLY MEAN IT!!!

Realt-whore quotes I’d like to see:

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Why, yes, I do drive looking through my rear-view mirror. Why do you ask?
Prices are not falling; they’re just appreciating in a different direction.
It’s perfectly normal for inventory to quintuple this time of year.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
These are not the droids you’re looking for, move along.
Didn’t I tell you NOT to low-ball?! STOP IT ALREADY!!!

Have any favorites of your own? Discuss, enjoy...
HARM

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96   DinOR   2006 Mar 7, 3:31am  

Davis_renter,

I hear ya! Somehow saying liberal and collegetown seems redundant. Not..... that there's anything wrong with that! What I DO resent is the whole "captive population" scenario. We have that in Corvallis and Eugene right along with the outright persecution of college students. People, it's college, they're college kids, they're SUPPOSED to have fun!

97   Peter P   2006 Mar 7, 4:01am  

New thread: Yield curve

98   Peter P   2006 Mar 7, 5:02am  

I hear ya! Somehow saying liberal and collegetown seems redundant.

Yes, but some more more liberal than others. I bet UCSD is probably more conservative than UCB. :)

99   surfer-x   2006 Mar 7, 5:40am  

We have that in Corvallis and Eugene right along with the outright persecution of college students. People, it’s college, they’re college kids, they’re SUPPOSED to have fun!

In SLO Mr. Right and his band of facist monkeys shoot Poly students on sight. How dare those students even presume to have any fun, come on now, the boomers already took care of the drinking/drugs/sex games, get back to your hole and study.

100   surfer-x   2006 Mar 7, 5:45am  

either you were on the corporate when you visited Japan or you have a deep pocket, I cannot afford to eat 6 meals in Tokyo if I am to foot the bill. Each meal costs at least 20 bucks, 6 meals a day will get me on the foreclosure.com in no time.

Either that or you haven't been to Tokyo lately, I went last year, went out to dinner with friends in Shimokitazawa, there were 6 of us total, food until full and sake until drunk, total price around 100 US. It is more expensive in SF than Tokyo, think 10+ years of deflation while we've had 10+ years of inflation. Sat in a whiskey bar in Ikebukuro and drank till piss drunk, really good stuff, had 6 kinds of makers mark, total price after 7hrs of drinking? 120 bucks, go to a bar in SF and drink for 7hrs, better have your HELOC credit card on you, "I'll put this round on the house".

101   Peter P   2006 Mar 7, 7:37am  

Actually, in Japan, if you stay away from crazy stuff (like O-toro, grade 12 Kobe beef, tiger fugu, etc) food is not expensive at all. Even abalone is affordable in Japan.

102   Peter P   2006 Mar 9, 4:05am  

Roid is prime!

103   LILLL   2006 Mar 9, 10:54am  

If you'll notice, the zillow zestimate hasn't been updated since Jan.28. (At least on my rented dwelling) So, the fact that it says the property has risen in price $7,000 in one week is old news. I want to see the current situation. Zillow has had the same facts on it for weeks now. Not only is their info not always correct...it's dated.

104   LILLL   2006 Mar 9, 10:55am  

Zillow Zucks

105   ArtimusMaxtor   2012 Jun 18, 11:14pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

No one wants to hear a Reatltor® say anything.
A self-inflicted fatal gunshot after a full confession would be enjoyable, however.

I concur. There is nothing more lowdown than a Realtor scheming to get your down payment and get a contract signed. Of course you need financing to. Women are man traps to begin with. A Realtor puts on a sensual dress. Give you glimpses of her cleavage and pops you a beaver. Little do you realize your on your way to being in debt to some guy for the rest of your days. All because you went to a house showing.

106   ArtimusMaxtor   2012 Jun 18, 11:29pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

Of course.
But everyone knows that if you're in a room with a Realtor®, you're being inducted into a fraud.

Realtor is sad beaver. lol

107   FortWayne   2012 Jun 19, 1:01am  

LILLL says

I predict the Fed will try to make a soft landing by raising interest rates once or twice more and then lowering them a bit...just to confuse us and get the buyers buying again.

I don't want people to get hurt by a crash...but then again...if prices stay this high, I'm also priced out of the market...as will be my kids and most of my friends and their kids.

I think you are right on track there. Fed had a deflationary wind allowing them to keep the low rates to foster liquidity. But every student of the market knows that rates have to go up eventually.

Cash and stocks feel really good right now.

108   FortWayne   2012 Jun 19, 1:05am  

"It is not a purchase, it's an investment."
"This is a great location to raise a family."

I think their entire profession revolves around appealing to emotions of the buyers wife, oldest sales tactic in the book.

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