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If this isn't a sure sign of the times, I don't know what is:

http://www.sellyourpreconstruction.com/

Developers are going directly to the public to sell pre-construction sites. The last time I peeked, they would NEVER deal with the "unwashed masses" and only work with the "high class" professional brokers.

A caption from the home page reads....."Finally....Buyers meet sellers in the booming Real Estate market."

Question: If it's a booming real estate market, would they need such a site?

Dunno....maybe I'm just too stupid to figure out this here real estate thing. I'd better play it safe and go to a mortgage broker or real estate agent and trust them to tell me what I should do

Yep, here's the answer to the current market situation.

"This isn't a soft landing, it's harder than a soft landing," Toll told Reuters in an interview. But he denied the market was headed for a more dramatic decline in prices as some observers fear. "We are not crashing," he said.

He argued that demand for housing and consumer confidence in general have been hurt by concerns about terrorism, the war in Iraq and the response of the U.S. government to Hurricane Katrina.

Robert Toll, chairman and chief executive of Toll Brothers

Source: Reuters

Now that he's shared his expertise, it's clear as a bell. Last year when sales were soaring and there was no end in sight, terroism and the war had no effect. I know everyone across the country is in a state of complete panic over the Fed's response to Katrina......GIVE ME A BREAK!

Then, further in the interview he says:

"Next year, the company expects to build between 7,000 and 8,000 homes at an average price of $635,000 to $645,000. That's down from this year's expected production of 8,600 to 8,900 homes at an average price of $685,000 to $690,000."

Now, the average price will go down; but consider this:
Hard costs for land cannot be discounted, so where will they adjust their costs to maintain profit margins? Does materials and labor come to mind? If so, people will be getting a house with lower quality materials; put together with cheaper labor.....sound like a quality issue to you?

With so many new homes with SERIOUS structural defects, and rising, will this add to the problem? I don't think I'll be buying a Toll House....cookie maybe; but not my home.

You could be drowned by your own vomit or fluid filled lung.

Still no ‘pop’ here in the Westside of Los Angeles. Santa Monica, Brentwood, the Palisades are all are just humming along. Homes are sitting longer. Some by quite a lot.

Faggot, fuck off back to Craigslist. Is Sherman Oaks still Prime?

brahma,

Nothing wrong with vegetarianism. The problem is when they start proslytizing, especially when they proslyetize with misleading information. Also, they're a pain in social gatherings.

Try some vegetarian Indian cuisine, the vast array of vegetarian dishes possible will show how evolutionally deprived this country is when it comes to vegetarian cooking.

I have tried many different type of veggie cuisines and I do like some. Truffles, for example, are truly wonderful.

I actually like veggies a lot (esp. arugula, broccoli rabe, chards, exotic mushrooms) but I like to cook them with chicken broth and/or bacon drippings.

However, there is no point restricting myself to just vegetables when there are so much out there.

Sorry, I do believe that the detiny of a farm animal is to be harvested. BTW, how do you know that you are not being cruel to vegetables when you harvest them?

Often meat itself is tasteless but the seasonings provide the taste, aroma and flavor.

Try kobe beef and toro. They have more flavor than seasonings.

I heard somewhere that many vegetarians have converted after trying kobe beef.

I guess you will never grasp the hidden truth of animal cruelty until you yourself truly are victimised in a very bad way by lets say..the system…with very little possibility for redemption or recourse for no fault of yours.

I am sorry but animal cruelty really does not bother me. Do you know how many humans are suffering as we speak? I do not have time or energy to worry about food being mistreated.

No fault? How can you be sure?