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Q: How long before it hits the bay area?
A: It has - read this while looking for rental properties in Mountain View - what a deal - not!
“my house is currently on the market for sale, because the housing market
is very slow right now, and I haven’t found a buyer yet, so I put it for rent;
if you rent my house, you also agree that you will let my agent show
the house to protential buyer when it needed.
asking $2300.00/mth +deposit+ credit check. â€
Encouraging to know that Mountain View IS being affected and we ARE NOT special!
Q: Do you think that all the houses that have just gone pending on the MLS will loose their funding and go back on the market?
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2007 Mar 12, 5:31am
Q: Do you think that all the houses that have just gone pending on the MLS will loose their funding and go back on the market?
Good question. Probably not ALL of them. If my wife and I had offered and been accepted on one of those, we'd almost certainly get our funding, and I'm sure there are other gainfully employed people with downpayments buying right now with 20+% down and enough salary to actually afford the overpriced crapboxes. A better question is... what percentage of accepted offers are going to lose funding before close?
I'm guessing 20%, and it will peak in August at 45%, and start falling precipitously in September, mainly because very few subprime loans will even be submitted for approval by lenders. Then we'll get down to 5-10% through Q1 2008 as lenders finish their 'tightening' in the Alt-A and Prime markets.
Q: How worried are you that whatever the government does to 'bail' the industry will hit the JBRs for a goodly precentage of their saved cash, through stock/inflation/tax/etc? (say, more than 5%)?
Q: How worried are you that whatever the government does to ‘bail’ the industry will hit the JBRs for a goodly precentage of their saved cash, through stock/inflation/tax/etc? (say, more than 5%)?
VERY worried. See next thread.
This thread is now closed. Thank you all for your great response.
I'll save "Ask a FB" for another lazy weekend.
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