Living in a Fool's Paradise
by
myob
on 17 Sep 2014
24 comments, latest
10 years ago
This is a great article which goes into the history of San Francisco's housing crunch and the origins of the anti-development mindset in the city. It's well worth reading ...
Do weapons bans encourage mass murders?
by
myob
on 30 Apr 2014
3 comments, latest
10 years ago
I came across this blog post about the recent FedEx shooting in Georgia: http://market-ticker.org/akcs- The author is dead certain that the reason the shooting happened at the FedEx plant ...
Bank logic
by
myob
on 24 Feb 2014
4 comments, latest
10 years ago
Last summer, I bought a house during the couple of weeks when interest rates spiked and sellers were getting a bit nervous. Interest rates have dropped a little bit, ...
When would you buy?
by
myob
on 25 Jun 2013
30 comments, latest
11 years ago
I realize that this site attracts a certain viewpoint on housing, so I kind of know the answer to my question before asking :) We all know bay area ...
Builders hold lotteries for the chance to bid
by
myob
on 30 Apr 2013
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/3 This is crazy! I got priced out of the market a couple of months ago by a dozen cash offers coming in over my financed offer, so I ...
What does it cost to tear down and rebuild in the bay area
by
myob
on 21 Mar 2013
23 comments, latest
11 years ago
I'm looking for some first hand experience here, in case anyone has any. Say you buy a lot in a good area that has an old, unfixable, barely livable ...
anyone bid on a house recently?
by
myob
on 17 Apr 2012
67 comments, latest
12 years ago
I'm a happy long-term renter, but my fiance and I just saw a house in Sunnyvale, quite randomly, that we'd like to live in. The price is ludicrous, but ...
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