John Bailo

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Flag Day
by John Bailo on 14 Jun 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Today is Flag Day. This video was assembled from clips I shot at Safeco Field by Google. They also selected and added the music. Somehow it figured out what ...

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Today Is H-Day
by John Bailo on 10 Jun 2014   4 comments, latest 10 years ago
The Hydrogen fuel cell production cars have landed. First Hyundai FCV is leased: https://twitter.com/ANativeAng

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This is what $120,000 buys you in Seattle
by John Bailo on 10 Jun 2014   4 comments, latest 10 years ago
This townhome, good condition, area:far but near highways and transit, sold for 120K. That's unheard of...until today! http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seatt Horns blowing outside of Jericho...

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Toxic Stench Must Wait for Community Manager
by John Bailo on 1 Jun 2014   16 comments, latest 10 years ago
It's been warm here the past few days, so for a while, when I smelled fetid garbage in my apartment, I thought maybe they hadn't cleaned the dumpsters yet. ...

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Home values in Philadelphia region tumble
by John Bailo on 29 May 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Full recovery continued to elude the Philadelphia region's residential real estate market in the first quarter of this year, as the value of a typical home fell 4.9 percent ...

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Colorado Springs-area home sales and prices decline in April
by John Bailo on 29 May 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Colorado Springs-area home sales and prices decline in April Through the first four months of 2014, home sales totaled 2,922, a 6.4 percent drop over the same period last ...

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Its a buyers market on Cape Cod
by John Bailo on 27 May 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Theresa Sammon and Brett Risser of Medford steeled themselves for an arduous search when they decided to look for a vacation property on Cape Cod, well aware of the ...

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New York Times is Expensive
by John Bailo on 23 May 2014   14 comments, latest 10 years ago
I was looking at digital subscription rates for the New York Times, and it seems expensive compared to other content options. For a comprehensive subscription (not just top news ...

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Chicken Brigade: Hyundai's Fuel Cell CUVs Arrive in SoCal
by John Bailo on 21 May 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
Hyundai's First Mass-Produced Tucson Fuel Cell CUVs Arrive In Southern California Today, at a port near Los Angeles, Hyundai's Tucson Fuel Cell CUVs began rolling onto U.S. soil, marking ...

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Buy vs. renting like buying carrots as opposed to parsnips
by John Bailo on 16 May 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Harvey Enchin: Are the benefits of home ownership over-stated? New supply can’t come on to the market fast enough to keep prices down, partly because builders might wait to ...

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House Prices Falling In Seattle Hinterland
by John Bailo on 16 May 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Around the Sound: Prices Falling Outside King & Snohomish It’s interesting that prices are actually declining in most counties now, despite still-low supply relative to demand. 2014 is definitely ...

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Elon Musk Cuckolded By Hydrogen!
by John Bailo on 13 May 2014   2 comments, latest 10 years ago
World's largest automaker dumps Tesla battery for fuel cells!! “It’s obvious Toyota doesn’t see a market for electric vehicles,” said John O’Dell, green-car analyst at the auto-research site Edmunds.com. ...

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Income Inequality Is Higher In Democratic Districts Than Republican Ones
by John Bailo on 13 May 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
The folks at Bloomberg Rankings, drawing on U.S. Census data, have measured the level of inequality—the Gini coefficient—in each of the 435 U.S. congressional districts. It’s a fascinating list ...

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My name is Watson, can I help you?
by John Bailo on 12 May 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Will IBM’s Watson Replace Sales Associates? May 12 (Bloomberg) –- Fluid CEO Kent Deverell discusses the future for digital retail on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/video Has ...

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Real home prices may decline for the next 30 years
by John Bailo on 4 May 2014   61 comments, latest 10 years ago
Here's Why Your Home Is Not A Good Investment Shiller also mentions that certain homes go out of style over time, dragging down prices. "What kind of houses will ...

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Are home-holders getting desperate....
by John Bailo on 2 May 2014   11 comments, latest 10 years ago
I was just out looking at a couple of homes towards the low end. One was a expansive property with a moderate 2-bedroom home, but off a roadway. Still ...

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California Building Hydrogen Fueling Network (Finally)
by John Bailo on 1 May 2014   21 comments, latest 10 years ago
California Energy Commission Awards FirstElement Fuel Inc. $27.6 Million Grant to Build Consumer Hydrogen Fueling Network by Fall of 2015 “Our goal is a seamless experience for consumers. When ...

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Rent Increase or Purchasing Power Decline?
by John Bailo on 16 Apr 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Seems to me the underlying trend is not increasing house prices so much as decreasing purchasing power of the dollar. What we see here is 2012 1 Year Change ...

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Cops Asking People to Retake The Streets!
by John Bailo on 2 Apr 2014   2 comments, latest 10 years ago
Greatest idea I've heard in a long time: Cops want you to stop crime by hanging out in sketchy areas But since cops can’t be everywhere at once, the ...

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Affordable housing: Middle class pushed to fringe
by John Bailo on 25 Mar 2014   7 comments, latest 10 years ago
Crappy inventory. High prices. Even those with jobs can get a house. Even saving $1,000 a month, it would take just more than 4 years to come up with ...

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Reality Sets In
by John Bailo on 21 Mar 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
House near me: Mar 12, 2014 Listed (Active) $91,000 Sep 11, 2013 Sold (Public Records) This home was foreclosed. REO (Real Estate Owned Home) $244,081 Jul 31, 2006 Sold ...

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Blood and Stones: "landlords really cant extract much more rent"
by John Bailo on 17 Mar 2014   2 comments, latest 10 years ago
Fed Inflation Goal Is Elusive as U.S. Rents Stabilize: Economy The costs to lease residential real estate, the second-biggest component of the price measure tracked by U.S. central bankers, ...

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Maui? Maui Rents Cheaper?
by John Bailo on 12 Mar 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
Rents for homes on Maui, Big Island decline http://www.bizjournals.com/pac I'm a big believer that as the top end rents go, the cascade trickles down. We'll see ...

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I'm Goin' To Kansas City, Here I Come (for less rent)
by John Bailo on 12 Mar 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Rent Growth Levels Drop as Construction Rises in Kansas City http://www.propertymanagementi

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Vacancy rates higher than expected in first REO to rental deal
by John Bailo on 12 Mar 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Houses a bad investment to begin with for big money? http://www.reuters.com/article And this: Rents Used to Pay Blackstone Leased-Home Bonds Decline 7.6% http://www.sfgate.com/business A guy can't make a dishonest ...

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What $1,600/Month Can Rent You Around New York City
by John Bailo on 28 Feb 2014   15 comments, latest 10 years ago
Holy Crap...a whole lot more than I imagined! What $1,600/Month Can Rent You Around New York City http://ny.curbed.com/archives/

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GOP Tax Reform Looks Great...Except for Urban Liberals
by John Bailo on 27 Feb 2014   39 comments, latest 10 years ago
I've been reading the GOP tax reform proposal and it looks great to me; however, almost no news media outlet is reporting it correctly. They keep saying it cuts ...

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They Built Bike Lanes...But the Hipsters Didn't Come
by John Bailo on 19 Feb 2014   8 comments, latest 10 years ago
East Portland: Despite efforts, plans and money, lasting success slow to arrive in Lents Lents isn’t a case of broken promises so much as promise unrealized -- or overstated. ...

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High Rents Force Out Artists
by John Bailo on 18 Feb 2014   Posted 10 years ago
As if it were obvious, but now someone has done an analysis: The two maps below show the location of independent and community-based (ie. non-commercial) cinema, visual arts, performance ...

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The house price-to-rent ratio has been falling since 2008
by John Bailo on 17 Feb 2014   Posted 10 years ago
The house price-to-rent ratio has been falling since 2008. From 2008 to Q2 2012, house prices have plunged deeply, while median rents have been more or less static, according ...

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Guaranteed World Stipend...In Bitcoins!
by John Bailo on 15 Feb 2014   2 comments, latest 10 years ago
Imagine if we invalidated all current world currencies and inaugurated a new system. Each citizen of the world would be given a guaranteed annual stipend of 1,000,000 bit coins. ...

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Buy the farm? Prices dropping
by John Bailo on 13 Feb 2014   6 comments, latest 5 months ago
Farmland prices in Iowa fell 3% over the second half of last year, and those in Nebraska fell 1%, according to estimates from the Farm Credit Services of America, ...

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Canadas rental market is on a downward slope
by John Bailo on 13 Feb 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
The demand for rental units peaked nationally in 2012, according to an analysis that will be released Thursday by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce economist Benjamin Tal. Toronto hit ...

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Manhattan Rents Drop for Fifth Straight Month
by John Bailo on 13 Feb 2014   Posted 10 years ago
The median rental price slipped 1.1 percent year-over-year to $3,114 in January, according to the latest report from Miller Samuel prepared for the Douglas Elliman, the brokerage. Although rental ...

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Rising house prices used to be considered good news. Not any more
by John Bailo on 12 Feb 2014   7 comments, latest 10 years ago
Hah, Patrick's primary contention...many, many people want lower housing costs not higher ones...come true. So, one small bit of newspeak unravels. It's time to change the language of house ...

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India Ready To Riot
by John Bailo on 11 Feb 2014   5 comments, latest 10 years ago
I've been scanning a lot of articles about social unrest in India reaching a breaking point. Yesterday it was one where they want to put a "none of the ...

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Prices falling across South Jersey
by John Bailo on 10 Feb 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
Home sales on rise, but prices falling across South Jersey Michael Kadas needed nearly five years to get anything more than a nibble on his five-bedroom home in a ...

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Waiting List for Hydrogen powered Tuscon
by John Bailo on 7 Feb 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Coming in 2 months. Sign up for the waiting list here: https://www.hyundaiusa.com/tuc

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Rent and Income on a "Collision Course"!
by John Bailo on 7 Feb 2014   5 comments, latest 10 years ago
How Much Higher Can Rents Go When Incomes Are Falling? The Census Bureau has data showing that real incomes have been shrinking since 1999. Somewhere along the trend line, ...

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Silicon Valley apartment rents flatten
by John Bailo on 7 Feb 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Silicon Valley apartment rents flatten as supply catches up with demand Apartment rents in San Jose and the surrounding area barely budged in the fourth quarter, as new apartments ...
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