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Where are the drops? I want them now!


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2006 Oct 4, 6:20pm   17,259 views  187 comments

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Back in May there was a thread called "What if we are wrong?"

Clearly, for the most part, we were not wrong. Prices are indeed dropping. Florida, Sacramento, Boston - all being hard hit.

But most of us are in the Bay Area - especially along the San Francisco - San Jose vector. Prices are flat, volume is high - but where are the drops? Especially from Mountain View up through the Peninsula.

Imagine my dismay when I saw who was last on this list:

Declines

So... what if we were right, but not so right about the Bay Area? Is San Jose really that special?

To paraphrase Madonna in the BMW Film "The Star", I want my price drops... and I want them NOW!

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171   Randy H   2006 Oct 6, 5:36am  

But hey, I bow down to the King of Blog Etiquette. I’ll step out of the conversation so you can reign supreme as you like.

Nice. Calling me names makes it so much nicer.

Were you to go back and read the thread from the start you'd realize that half of that above isn't even directed to you at all.

Here's my admission. Lots of other regulars have had their point of meltdown. I still remember when SFWoman finally had it with "equal time" crap and started calling out extremist right ideologues.

Well, I've had it with a couple of folks here, of which SQT is definitely NOT one, who continually make sexist, elitist, racist, and parochial arguments, then making up data, fabricating statistics, and using their own personal experiences as evidence for everything they utter. I'm not going to sit by and do the nicey nice "I think we agree on X buy what about Y" crap anymore. I'm either going to call bullshit or spend my time pulling numbers somewhere else.

SQT, I am truly sorry that you jumped in right at that epiphanius moment. You clearly feel strongly about your position, and I appreciate that. But I'm not in the mood to equivocate right now either.

172   Peter P   2006 Oct 6, 5:36am  

Where’s a troll when you need one?

Didn't you see the big one on the last thread?

173   Randy H   2006 Oct 6, 5:39am  

And my apologies to everyone, mostly to SQT. And for the ill timing of my posts. I tend to have an out of date cache when I submit.

HARM, I do get defensive. I'm far from perfect. The problem is that there's a couple of folks here who know exactly how to get under my skin and they've escalated that of late.

174   Claire   2006 Oct 6, 5:40am  

Peter P,

But they didn't bite and post anything to attack.....perhaps I could be devil's advocate and start trolling for awhile

175   DinOR   2006 Oct 6, 5:43am  

"Association of Used Car Salesman" Damn! LOL!

That would actually be another great additition for HARM-X Industries. We send you a "membership card" and when any realt-whore starts BS'ng you about how they're going to put in a new school just down the road or "they're addressing those issues" you just whips out your AUCS card and BAM! (Shuts 'em right up). I'm thinking $19.95 for a 100 and FREE SHIPPING on orders over $20!

176   Peter P   2006 Oct 6, 5:43am  

any data to back that up or are you just spouting bull again?

With all indications pointing to the end of the boom, bulls are officially defeated. We should not waste energy trying to defeat something that has already been defeated.

177   Claire   2006 Oct 6, 5:43am  

Yep - let's see, now is a really good time to buy, before the mortgage industry tightens the lending standards - quick........, plus, some sellers are offering concessions and price reductions of over a $1, that's got to be good.

I'm also in Mountain View, we're special, prices never go down or only by a little bit, some people have reduced their prices because they've heard some of the negative articles, but now Moody's report suggests everything is rosey, so I better put a bid in now, before the prices start rising in the good schoold districts!

178   speedingpullet   2006 Oct 6, 5:45am  

Wow.
Watching you guys fight is as exciting* as reading the 69-post blockbuster topic at Pigginton's, imaginatively named "Does Powayseller Post Too Much?"

*not.

179   Peter P   2006 Oct 6, 5:53am  

you suggested we start a civil war. I tried to oblige by giving you a target.

More list wrestling. Sunomono wrestling.

If you’re going to resort to logical and polite argument in response, we’re not going to get far towards that war. So I preemptively surrender.

Damn...

By the way, that condo in Burlingame you keep posting is lovely. Let me know when you try to bid so I can get my entire clan to chip in, just so I can outbid you.

Too bad I cannot afford it. It is all yours.

180   DinOR   2006 Oct 6, 5:53am  

"bulls are officially defeated"

How many people here wish they'd met Peter P years ago? Show of hands.

Peter, you have no idea how much of my life I've spent flogging a dead horse! Kind of like when a boxer continues through the ropes swinging at a guy that's already KO'd! Then wind up breaking your wrist hitting the trainer's stool. I swear.

181   astrid   2006 Oct 6, 6:08am  

I hope you all won't mind a new thread.

"10 Things I Hate About Big Boomer And/Or Casey Serin"

http://patrick.net/wp/?p=327

182   FRIFY   2006 Oct 6, 6:13am  

The problem is that there’s a couple of folks here who know exactly how to get under my skin and they’ve escalated that of late.

You've been living in Marin too long - this blog is more like San Francisco. You've got to ignore the tenderloin bums peeing into the garbage cans as well as the guy on the street corner screaming about socialism (oh wait, that's me).

183   speedingpullet   2006 Oct 6, 6:15am  

@ LILLL: re Sherman Oaks POS with a '5' in front...

Is that north or south of Ventura Blvd?
Only place I've noticed with a 5 in front that's s.o.b is on Dickens - problem being that its almost literally underneath the 405....;-)

But, I have noticed the '8s' turning into '7s' on the flats sth of Ventura..conversely...1mill+ asking prices within spitting distance of the onramp to the 101..."easy access to freeways"...go figure.

184   salk   2006 Oct 6, 7:06am  

The Blue Angels and any other aeronautical daredevil show should be banned for stupidity. Do people really need these things for entertainment? The fact that the Blue angels think they need to prove something actually diminishes my confidence in them. Dont show it, go do it.

185   Randy H   2006 Oct 6, 7:16am  

You’ve been living in Marin too long - this blog is more like San Francisco. You’ve got to ignore the tenderloin bums peeing into the garbage cans as well as the guy on the street corner screaming about socialism (oh wait, that’s me).

That much is definitely true. I don't know about Marin sometimes. I had a job opp earlier this year in Chicago. Sometimes I really miss Chicago. If they could only add climate control it would be the best place in the US hands down.

186   salk   2006 Oct 6, 7:23am  

NYC is still the center of the universe and London its capitol. 10 years ago 3 of us shared a studio at Lexington and 31st with drug dealers and hookers patrolling the area. Lots of hookers. Everyone wants a condo in NYC. But why buy when you can stay at the Mercer? Just back from Vegas and it seemed desolate but they keep putting up the towers. There is a project on the strip that makes WTC look like a sandbox.

187   surfer-x   2006 Oct 6, 2:50pm  

@random user, shouldn't you really be back on craigslist looking for people to fuck your sister while you stand by with your camcorder?

Do you have a point you piece of fucking shit troll fuck or are you just here because your hand is tired from spanking your small fucking chinese cock?

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