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	<title>Comments on: Gary Watts and the Incredible Logic Shrinking Machine</title>
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		<title>By: Ineniuggehippigord</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ineniuggehippigord</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Наша организация  без предоплаты по договору оформляет  пропуска METRO в сеть немецких гипермаркетов METRO Cash and Carry на частных лиц и сотрудников организаций!за 3 дня! карточка именная  обязательно с вашей фотографией(делается в самом магазине в вашем присутствии), с номером, штрих - кодом, магнитной полосой, названием организации, от которой вы будете нами зарегистрированы.Карты оформляются: на граждан России и иностранных граждан.Регистрация 
 производится  без предоплаты, то есть вначале мы оформляем вас, вы получаете карты-клиента, потом оплачиваете. 
 
Продаём карты клиента метро в METRO Cash and Carry,cash carry супермаркеты, карта metro москва, карточки в магазин метро кэш энд кэрр, как оформить карточку клиента метро кэш энд кэрри, metro-cc,  
 
Продаём карточки metro в METRO Cash and Carry,как оформить карту клиента метро кэш энд кэрри, metro rossia, метро кеш энд кэри, мэтро кеш энд керри, метро кэш энд кери, metro-cc, журнал metro,  
 
Продаём карточки metro в METRO Cash and Carry,карточки metro, метро магазин киевское шоссе, сеть гипермаркетов метро кэш энд кэрри, магазины метро адреса, история metro golden mayer, магазин метро ленинском,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Наша организация  без предоплаты по договору оформляет  пропуска METRO в сеть немецких гипермаркетов METRO Cash and Carry на частных лиц и сотрудников организаций!за 3 дня! карточка именная  обязательно с вашей фотографией(делается в самом магазине в вашем присутствии), с номером, штрих &#8211; кодом, магнитной полосой, названием организации, от которой вы будете нами зарегистрированы.Карты оформляются: на граждан России и иностранных граждан.Регистрация<br />
 производится  без предоплаты, то есть вначале мы оформляем вас, вы получаете карты-клиента, потом оплачиваете. </p>
<p>Продаём карты клиента метро в METRO Cash and Carry,cash carry супермаркеты, карта metro москва, карточки в магазин метро кэш энд кэрр, как оформить карточку клиента метро кэш энд кэрри, metro-cc,  </p>
<p>Продаём карточки metro в METRO Cash and Carry,как оформить карту клиента метро кэш энд кэрри, metro rossia, метро кеш энд кэри, мэтро кеш энд керри, метро кэш энд кери, metro-cc, журнал metro,  </p>
<p>Продаём карточки metro в METRO Cash and Carry,карточки metro, метро магазин киевское шоссе, сеть гипермаркетов метро кэш энд кэрри, магазины метро адреса, история metro golden mayer, магазин метро ленинском,</p>
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		<title>By: Southern California Real Estate Bubble Crash Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Gary Watts&#8217; Tenth Circle of Hell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Southern California Real Estate Bubble Crash Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Gary Watts&#8217; Tenth Circle of Hell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Burn in Hell (April 2006) Gary Watts Pulls His Head Out Long Enough to Stick It Back In (July 2006) Gary Watts And The Incredible Logic Shrinking Machine (August 2006) Gary Watts… Ignorant Optimist or Deluded Sociopath? (October 2006) Gary [...]</description>
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		<title>By: oc-ed</title>
		<link>http://www.socalbubble.com/2006/08/gary-watts-and-incredible-logic.html/comment-page-1#comment-784</link>
		<dc:creator>oc-ed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nnvmtgbrkr, well done response to the RE blather. One additional aspect is that buying at the higher price locks the owner into a higher property tax. In a falling market this is just one more fundamental reason to wait rather than &quot;buy now&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nnvmtgbrkr, well done response to the RE blather. One additional aspect is that buying at the higher price locks the owner into a higher property tax. In a falling market this is just one more fundamental reason to wait rather than &#8220;buy now&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am actually grateful to the shyters like Watts and Lareah.  The more suckers and idiots they convince to buy now, all the harder the landing and all the more buying opportunity for those who understand logic and common sense and waited on the side-line until the bottom fell out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am actually grateful to the shyters like Watts and Lareah.  The more suckers and idiots they convince to buy now, all the harder the landing and all the more buying opportunity for those who understand logic and common sense and waited on the side-line until the bottom fell out.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great analysis.  Now I&#039;m not sure who I despise more, Watts or or that scumbag shyster Lareah.  I guess even though Lareah backpeddles on his earlier comments and contradicts himself at every turn, its better than outright lying.  Watts just made #1 on my list of douchebags.  He even ranks higher than any polititian in history in my book.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great analysis.  Now I&#8217;m not sure who I despise more, Watts or or that scumbag shyster Lareah.  I guess even though Lareah backpeddles on his earlier comments and contradicts himself at every turn, its better than outright lying.  Watts just made #1 on my list of douchebags.  He even ranks higher than any polititian in history in my book.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>- Consumer spending is going to come to a grinding halt.  &lt;BR/&gt;- Interest rates going up&lt;BR/&gt;- RE and Constructions jobs which represent the majority of job growth in recent times is simply going to vanish in LA/OC.  &lt;BR/&gt;- ARMs are going to be resetting. &lt;BR/&gt;- Real estate Inventories are skyrocketing.  &lt;BR/&gt;- Oil prices are going up&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;...yet some clueless idiots are predicting soft landing?  Where are these &quot;experts&quot; living, on Mars?  Give me a break!  It&#039;s so obvious that the party is OVER and all the recklessness and mind numbing stupidity of the past several years is finally going to catch up to us.  The next few years is going to be very UGLY!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>- Consumer spending is going to come to a grinding halt.  <br />- Interest rates going up<br />- RE and Constructions jobs which represent the majority of job growth in recent times is simply going to vanish in LA/OC.  <br />- ARMs are going to be resetting. <br />- Real estate Inventories are skyrocketing.  <br />- Oil prices are going up</p>
<p>&#8230;yet some clueless idiots are predicting soft landing?  Where are these &#8220;experts&#8221; living, on Mars?  Give me a break!  It&#8217;s so obvious that the party is OVER and all the recklessness and mind numbing stupidity of the past several years is finally going to catch up to us.  The next few years is going to be very UGLY!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Anyone who thinks real estate is only going up from here, please buy today. Please.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I couldn&#039;t agree more. Go out and buy your house. That way we can cull out the rest of the idiots and get on with business at hand. Kind of an economic-Darwinism. So go out today and jump on your &quot;opportunity&quot; of a lifetime and suck it up with the most insane toxic loan you can find. Your going to do it anyway, regardless of what logic and common sense tells you, so get on with it. Hey, being that we&#039;re at the top of the market, you can always say you went out on top! Good for you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Anyone who thinks real estate is only going up from here, please buy today. Please.&#8221; </p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more. Go out and buy your house. That way we can cull out the rest of the idiots and get on with business at hand. Kind of an economic-Darwinism. So go out today and jump on your &#8220;opportunity&#8221; of a lifetime and suck it up with the most insane toxic loan you can find. Your going to do it anyway, regardless of what logic and common sense tells you, so get on with it. Hey, being that we&#8217;re at the top of the market, you can always say you went out on top! Good for you!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The author of that Yahoo/Weekly Standard study is a consultant to Freddie Mac. You think he&#039;s unbiased? Ha!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Bidding wars still in Manhattan&quot;?  He must be talking about Manhattan, Kansas, because I know a ton of people in NYC and all they keep talking about is how the real estate market there is DEAD. People are taking $200,000 of their asking price and their properties are still not selling. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyone who thinks real estate is only going up from here, please buy today. Please.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The author of that Yahoo/Weekly Standard study is a consultant to Freddie Mac. You think he&#8217;s unbiased? Ha!</p>
<p>&#8220;Bidding wars still in Manhattan&#8221;?  He must be talking about Manhattan, Kansas, because I know a ton of people in NYC and all they keep talking about is how the real estate market there is DEAD. People are taking $200,000 of their asking price and their properties are still not selling. </p>
<p>Anyone who thinks real estate is only going up from here, please buy today. Please.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Article:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/&lt;BR/&gt;20060822/cm_weeklystandard/homesafe&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20060822/cm_weeklystandard/homesafe</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Article:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/</a><br />20060822/cm_weeklystandard/homesafe</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20060822/cm_weeklystandard/homesafe" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/weekly.....d/homesafe</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I&#039;ve been told such a crash cannot occur with the current strong wage growth. True?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What strong wage growth? &quot;I&#039;ve been told&quot; is the worse part of your statememnt. Do some research, my friend. There are a lot of sites currently on the internet that will break down for you that over the last 10 years wage growth hasn&#039;t kept pace with inflation. Take out real estate, and you have nothing. We&#039;ve been riding a liquidity bubble that just happened to channel it&#039;s way through housing. The boom of the last 5 years? Never really happened. A 30% correction? If that&#039;s all it is, we&#039;ll be lucky.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh, if you can&#039;t afford a house, you can&#039;t afford it. Your choices are move or rent, period!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been told such a crash cannot occur with the current strong wage growth. True?&#8221;</p>
<p>What strong wage growth? &#8220;I&#8217;ve been told&#8221; is the worse part of your statememnt. Do some research, my friend. There are a lot of sites currently on the internet that will break down for you that over the last 10 years wage growth hasn&#8217;t kept pace with inflation. Take out real estate, and you have nothing. We&#8217;ve been riding a liquidity bubble that just happened to channel it&#8217;s way through housing. The boom of the last 5 years? Never really happened. A 30% correction? If that&#8217;s all it is, we&#8217;ll be lucky.</p>
<p>Oh, if you can&#8217;t afford a house, you can&#8217;t afford it. Your choices are move or rent, period!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if you can&#039;t afford it now, what choice do you have anyway but to wait? rates and prices will be what they will be no matter what you and i do or say. waiting may be hard but wait you must. try to remember all the arguments when nasdaq was at 5,000 that it was a new economy, new paradigm, and the old fundamentals didn&#039;t matter anymore. &lt;BR/&gt;nasdaq closed today, more than 5 years later, at 2147, almost 60 percent off its peak. (it bottomed at about 80 percent off its peak.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; in japan they had a real estate bubble in the 80&#039;s.  it burst and prices fell 50 percent and stayed down 50 percent FOR TWENTY YEARS. in early 90&#039;s, los angeles real estate fell 50 percent. yes there was terrible aerospace job loss then but this bubble is much bigger than that one. plus, massive job loss for housing-related sectors is coming (agents, brokers, construction workers, etc.). more than half the jobs created in california this decade have been real estate related. if you can&#039;t afford the current prices you are lucky because you will avoid the mistake of buying now that some people who can afford it will make.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if you can&#8217;t afford it now, what choice do you have anyway but to wait? rates and prices will be what they will be no matter what you and i do or say. waiting may be hard but wait you must. try to remember all the arguments when nasdaq was at 5,000 that it was a new economy, new paradigm, and the old fundamentals didn&#8217;t matter anymore. <br />nasdaq closed today, more than 5 years later, at 2147, almost 60 percent off its peak. (it bottomed at about 80 percent off its peak.)</p>
<p> in japan they had a real estate bubble in the 80&#8242;s.  it burst and prices fell 50 percent and stayed down 50 percent FOR TWENTY YEARS. in early 90&#8242;s, los angeles real estate fell 50 percent. yes there was terrible aerospace job loss then but this bubble is much bigger than that one. plus, massive job loss for housing-related sectors is coming (agents, brokers, construction workers, etc.). more than half the jobs created in california this decade have been real estate related. if you can&#8217;t afford the current prices you are lucky because you will avoid the mistake of buying now that some people who can afford it will make.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is an interesting blog.  I&#039;m a potential buyer who is waiting for prices to become realistic.  By realistic I mean someone earning 60-80k family income can afford a decent 3 bedroom home in a decent neighborhood.  Is that ever going to happen in SoCal?  If so, am I going to be waiting for years for this to happen?  I know we can&#039;t predict the future but what is the general feeling on this... how much is this thing going to come down?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If prices go from $600k to $400k, that is still way to expensive for most of us yet it represents a 33% decline which is by historical standards is a HUGE crash!  I&#039;ve been told such a crash cannot occur with the current strong wage growth.  True?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is an interesting blog.  I&#8217;m a potential buyer who is waiting for prices to become realistic.  By realistic I mean someone earning 60-80k family income can afford a decent 3 bedroom home in a decent neighborhood.  Is that ever going to happen in SoCal?  If so, am I going to be waiting for years for this to happen?  I know we can&#8217;t predict the future but what is the general feeling on this&#8230; how much is this thing going to come down?  </p>
<p>If prices go from $600k to $400k, that is still way to expensive for most of us yet it represents a 33% decline which is by historical standards is a HUGE crash!  I&#8217;ve been told such a crash cannot occur with the current strong wage growth.  True?</p>
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		<title>By: nnvmtgbrkr</title>
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		<dc:creator>nnvmtgbrkr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;So I don&#039;t see any validity in any of your arguments so stop spreading false information. Not buying now is only going to make this more expensive, buy at $600k 6.5% payment=$3800 or $540k 9% payment=$4400 your choice ;-)&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Another clueless realtor or industry insider clinging desperately to false hope. I too am an industry insider, an owner of a brokerage for 5 years, in the biz for 15. But unlike you, I am realistic and truthful. Your argument is lame. You probably picked this one up in one of your spin indoctrinations. I&#039;ll use your example of 600K @6.% against the 540K @ 9% so I can educate any unexpecting &quot;sheople&quot; stumbling on to this site and buying into your pointless crap. For my money, I&#039;d take the 540 @ 9%. Why? According to your numbers the descrepency is $600 more per month for the cheaper house at the higher rate. But what you fail to explain is that a rate can be changed at a future date by refinancing. You can never alter the purchase price once you buy. So I save $60,000 by buying the cheaper house, pay the higher payment short term, and refi doiwn the line at a lower rate and sit pretty. But what if it takes some time for rates to come down? At $600 a month more per month, that would be $7,200 more per year in payments on the cheaper house. If it took 5 years for rates to come back down (it never takes that long) you would still be way ahead purchasing the cheaper house. Take your $7,200 more per year and multiply it by 5 and you get a $36,000 more made in payments over that period of time. But you have to remember that you gained $60,000 on the reduction in purchase price on the cheaper home. $60,000 betterin price - $36,000 more in payments = $24, 000 to the positive for the cheaper house at the higher rate. You&#039;re still way ahead on the cheaper house at the higher rate. Your argument sucks! &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now, everyone knows that rates are not going to hit the rate you claim, it&#039;s just another RE scare tactic. In fact, they&#039;ve stabilized and even dropped over the last few weeks. I called out on another site that a pause by the Fed would actually hurt realtors who&#039;ve been using the &quot;buy now before the rates go up&quot; crap. But I think I&#039;ve just successfully exposed that nonsense just doesn&#039;t work on paper.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#039;re going to have to do better than that, I&#039;m afraid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;So I don&#8217;t see any validity in any of your arguments so stop spreading false information. Not buying now is only going to make this more expensive, buy at $600k 6.5% payment=$3800 or $540k 9% payment=$4400 your choice <img src='http://www.socalbubble.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8221;</p>
<p>Another clueless realtor or industry insider clinging desperately to false hope. I too am an industry insider, an owner of a brokerage for 5 years, in the biz for 15. But unlike you, I am realistic and truthful. Your argument is lame. You probably picked this one up in one of your spin indoctrinations. I&#8217;ll use your example of 600K @6.% against the 540K @ 9% so I can educate any unexpecting &#8220;sheople&#8221; stumbling on to this site and buying into your pointless crap. For my money, I&#8217;d take the 540 @ 9%. Why? According to your numbers the descrepency is $600 more per month for the cheaper house at the higher rate. But what you fail to explain is that a rate can be changed at a future date by refinancing. You can never alter the purchase price once you buy. So I save $60,000 by buying the cheaper house, pay the higher payment short term, and refi doiwn the line at a lower rate and sit pretty. But what if it takes some time for rates to come down? At $600 a month more per month, that would be $7,200 more per year in payments on the cheaper house. If it took 5 years for rates to come back down (it never takes that long) you would still be way ahead purchasing the cheaper house. Take your $7,200 more per year and multiply it by 5 and you get a $36,000 more made in payments over that period of time. But you have to remember that you gained $60,000 on the reduction in purchase price on the cheaper home. $60,000 betterin price &#8211; $36,000 more in payments = $24, 000 to the positive for the cheaper house at the higher rate. You&#8217;re still way ahead on the cheaper house at the higher rate. Your argument sucks! </p>
<p>Now, everyone knows that rates are not going to hit the rate you claim, it&#8217;s just another RE scare tactic. In fact, they&#8217;ve stabilized and even dropped over the last few weeks. I called out on another site that a pause by the Fed would actually hurt realtors who&#8217;ve been using the &#8220;buy now before the rates go up&#8221; crap. But I think I&#8217;ve just successfully exposed that nonsense just doesn&#8217;t work on paper.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re going to have to do better than that, I&#8217;m afraid.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Hoping rents will rise because someone paid a lot for something is like buying a stock at an inflated price and hoping company earnings increase because you bought it for so much.&quot; -John Doe&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I watched one 3 bd, 2 1/2 bath townhouse that was up for rent in Jan at $3200, then in March it was down to $3000, and in May down to $2800.  Of course, during this whole time the sucker-owner was carrying it along.  Didn&#039;t catch the finale, but now I see several other 3 bd 2 1/2 bath houses going for $2200.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The townhouse owner probably couldn&#039;t afford the negative carry costs and tried to get it in the rent.  Too bad his/her foolishness cost them months of rental income.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just because some desperate sucker still owes $650k on the house and is asking that price, doesn&#039;t mean the house is worth a penny over $500k.  Certainly NOT if no one is buying it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When reality hits and the first negative-equity homeowner accepts defeat, the whole house of cards comes down.  And it is likely coming very soon...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hoping rents will rise because someone paid a lot for something is like buying a stock at an inflated price and hoping company earnings increase because you bought it for so much.&#8221; -John Doe</p>
<p>I watched one 3 bd, 2 1/2 bath townhouse that was up for rent in Jan at $3200, then in March it was down to $3000, and in May down to $2800.  Of course, during this whole time the sucker-owner was carrying it along.  Didn&#8217;t catch the finale, but now I see several other 3 bd 2 1/2 bath houses going for $2200.  </p>
<p>The townhouse owner probably couldn&#8217;t afford the negative carry costs and tried to get it in the rent.  Too bad his/her foolishness cost them months of rental income.</p>
<p>Just because some desperate sucker still owes $650k on the house and is asking that price, doesn&#8217;t mean the house is worth a penny over $500k.  Certainly NOT if no one is buying it.  </p>
<p>When reality hits and the first negative-equity homeowner accepts defeat, the whole house of cards comes down.  And it is likely coming very soon&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: John Doe</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Doe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to agree with Anon... whichever that one is.  But, rents are going nowhere fast in Socal.  There is a LOT more inventory coming online in Orange County with such a high buy-to-rent participation ratio, renters have a lot to choose from.  Normally rents and housing prices move in lock-step, however due to &quot;affordability&quot; loan products, they have been decoupled.  However, rents always are determined based on rental supply vs. rental demand because rents have to be paid out of current income, not out of future income like deferred payment plans like interest only and neg-am products allow housing purchase prices to decouple.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have said it before, and I will say it again for those who are not economically inclined... &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt; If rental housing stock exceeds the rental demand, prices fall, that&#039;s a simple economics principle. There are some excellent examples of that; look at small urban centers in places like the Southern Tier of New York, or upstate for that matter, as well as many places in Pennsylvania. Real rents have been falling in some places for 30 or more years because of excessive supply. Nominal rents are down for the past 15 years due to major pullouts in several cities.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In a balanced market, you&#039;re right that costs get pushed through, but in an unbalanced market with substantial new stock, it doesn&#039;t matter what someone paid for it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hoping rents will rise because someone paid a lot for something is like buying a stock at an inflated price and hoping company earnings increase because you bought it for so much. &lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Good luck with rising rents...as I see it, we got plenty of rental stock to go around, and with rents a little over 2X the national average... they might have some room to move, but not much.  Renters have a much easier packing up their stuff and moving out of state if expenses get to be too much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to agree with Anon&#8230; whichever that one is.  But, rents are going nowhere fast in Socal.  There is a LOT more inventory coming online in Orange County with such a high buy-to-rent participation ratio, renters have a lot to choose from.  Normally rents and housing prices move in lock-step, however due to &#8220;affordability&#8221; loan products, they have been decoupled.  However, rents always are determined based on rental supply vs. rental demand because rents have to be paid out of current income, not out of future income like deferred payment plans like interest only and neg-am products allow housing purchase prices to decouple.</p>
<p>I have said it before, and I will say it again for those who are not economically inclined&#8230; <br /><i> If rental housing stock exceeds the rental demand, prices fall, that&#8217;s a simple economics principle. There are some excellent examples of that; look at small urban centers in places like the Southern Tier of New York, or upstate for that matter, as well as many places in Pennsylvania. Real rents have been falling in some places for 30 or more years because of excessive supply. Nominal rents are down for the past 15 years due to major pullouts in several cities.</p>
<p>In a balanced market, you&#8217;re right that costs get pushed through, but in an unbalanced market with substantial new stock, it doesn&#8217;t matter what someone paid for it. </p>
<p>Hoping rents will rise because someone paid a lot for something is like buying a stock at an inflated price and hoping company earnings increase because you bought it for so much. </i></p>
<p>Good luck with rising rents&#8230;as I see it, we got plenty of rental stock to go around, and with rents a little over 2X the national average&#8230; they might have some room to move, but not much.  Renters have a much easier packing up their stuff and moving out of state if expenses get to be too much.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>watts, is that you?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In the Bay Area, rents have already started to come down with so many units available.  This week the ads show at least a 10% price decline since May.  (Example: 5 Bd 3 Bath in Alameda--$2600, in May they would have been asking closer to $3000)  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;More empty unsold homes will soon be up for rent as well, likely lowering rents even further.  If the suckers can&#039;t sell their money pit, they can&#039;t move out and rent, now can they?  I don&#039;t see rents increasing from here.  Overcapacity is your pallbearer, RealtWHORE!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hey Realtwhore, you should adjust your ambitions to being a rental manager.  At least then you&#039;ll get some (not much) income.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>watts, is that you?</p>
<p>In the Bay Area, rents have already started to come down with so many units available.  This week the ads show at least a 10% price decline since May.  (Example: 5 Bd 3 Bath in Alameda&#8211;$2600, in May they would have been asking closer to $3000)  </p>
<p>More empty unsold homes will soon be up for rent as well, likely lowering rents even further.  If the suckers can&#8217;t sell their money pit, they can&#8217;t move out and rent, now can they?  I don&#8217;t see rents increasing from here.  Overcapacity is your pallbearer, RealtWHORE!!!</p>
<p>Hey Realtwhore, you should adjust your ambitions to being a rental manager.  At least then you&#8217;ll get some (not much) income.</p>
<p>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what&#039;s with all the hate in here? If prices go down then interest rates will go up.  Also rents are set to skyrocket in the near future?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So I don&#039;t see any validity in any of your arguments so stop spreading false information. Not buying now is only going to make this more expensive, buy at $600k 6.5% payment=$3800 or $540k 9% payment=$4400 your choice ;-)  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And if you buy now at least you don&#039;t have to deal with rising rents.  Buying a home is always a wise decision for the long term.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what&#8217;s with all the hate in here? If prices go down then interest rates will go up.  Also rents are set to skyrocket in the near future?  </p>
<p>So I don&#8217;t see any validity in any of your arguments so stop spreading false information. Not buying now is only going to make this more expensive, buy at $600k 6.5% payment=$3800 or $540k 9% payment=$4400 your choice <img src='http://www.socalbubble.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />   </p>
<p>And if you buy now at least you don&#8217;t have to deal with rising rents.  Buying a home is always a wise decision for the long term.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SCOREBOARD&lt;BR/&gt;Bubble Bloggers - 1 &lt;BR/&gt;Naysayer Realtwhores - ZERO&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And that ZERO doesn&#039;t just refer to won (in their case, lost) debates, it also refers to the number of their closings for the 2nd half of 2006!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(good luck finding us, realtWHORE!!!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SCOREBOARD<br />Bubble Bloggers &#8211; 1 <br />Naysayer Realtwhores &#8211; ZERO</p>
<p>And that ZERO doesn&#8217;t just refer to won (in their case, lost) debates, it also refers to the number of their closings for the 2nd half of 2006!!!</p>
<p>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!  </p>
<p>(good luck finding us, realtWHORE!!!)</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Furthermore, concerning housing in Orange County, I&#039;d prefer to heed the advice of a true professional, not some shady realtwhores.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(reconnect the following 4 lines for the link.)&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.pimco.com/&lt;BR/&gt;LeftNav/Regional+Market+Commentary/&lt;BR/&gt;Global+Credit+Perspectives/2006/&lt;BR/&gt;Kiesel_For_Sale_06+2005.htm&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;PIMCO VP Mark Kiesel sold and is renting.  Smart guy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Furthermore, concerning housing in Orange County, I&#8217;d prefer to heed the advice of a true professional, not some shady realtwhores.</p>
<p>(reconnect the following 4 lines for the link.)<br /><a href="http://www.pimco.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pimco.com/</a><br />LeftNav/Regional+Market+Commentary/<br />Global+Credit+Perspectives/2006/<br />Kiesel_For_Sale_06+2005.htm</p>
<p>PIMCO VP Mark Kiesel sold and is renting.  Smart guy!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The bubble naysayers are getting more worried as evidenced by their greater presence on these blogs lately.  Likely they are realtors and flippers who know they are screwed and are trying desperately to find blame.  Rather than blame themselves and the Realtor cheerleaders like Watts and Lereah, they attack the bloggers.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why are they here?  THEY ARE SCARED SHITLESS!!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for the OC couple with the $165k annual income, they could easily spend $4500+/mo using a 30-yr fixed.    Or else they&#039;ll be forced to live on the edge with a non-trad.  Deductions become debatable due to the AMT.  Typical realtor/mortgage brokers won&#039;t alert them to these issues.  If they bite, they aren&#039;t smart.  Of course, with realt-whore friends like the guy above (notice how he says &quot;trust me&quot;), they won&#039;t get good advice and maybe will jump in (and suffer the consequences).  However, prices can&#039;t keep going up with only those options available to a modest upper income family like that.  With home prices flat and a non-trad, there&#039;s no equity to gain---why not rent?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If the OC couple is truly smart and educated, they&#039;ll rent.  These naysayers truly reveal their motives and idiocy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;btw, I&#039;m anonymous because when the shit hits the fan, I don&#039;t need some psycho ex-realtwhore trying to track ME down (1 of 55 working CA adults is a real estate agent---that will soon be a lot of pissed-off unethical losers).  The internet is great for that sort of thing.  Rather, I plan to direct the newly homeless to their REAL enemies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The bubble naysayers are getting more worried as evidenced by their greater presence on these blogs lately.  Likely they are realtors and flippers who know they are screwed and are trying desperately to find blame.  Rather than blame themselves and the Realtor cheerleaders like Watts and Lereah, they attack the bloggers.</p>
<p>Why are they here?  THEY ARE SCARED SHITLESS!!!!</p>
<p>As for the OC couple with the $165k annual income, they could easily spend $4500+/mo using a 30-yr fixed.    Or else they&#8217;ll be forced to live on the edge with a non-trad.  Deductions become debatable due to the AMT.  Typical realtor/mortgage brokers won&#8217;t alert them to these issues.  If they bite, they aren&#8217;t smart.  Of course, with realt-whore friends like the guy above (notice how he says &#8220;trust me&#8221;), they won&#8217;t get good advice and maybe will jump in (and suffer the consequences).  However, prices can&#8217;t keep going up with only those options available to a modest upper income family like that.  With home prices flat and a non-trad, there&#8217;s no equity to gain&#8212;why not rent?</p>
<p>If the OC couple is truly smart and educated, they&#8217;ll rent.  These naysayers truly reveal their motives and idiocy.</p>
<p>btw, I&#8217;m anonymous because when the shit hits the fan, I don&#8217;t need some psycho ex-realtwhore trying to track ME down (1 of 55 working CA adults is a real estate agent&#8212;that will soon be a lot of pissed-off unethical losers).  The internet is great for that sort of thing.  Rather, I plan to direct the newly homeless to their REAL enemies.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guys, these could be realistic prices for this market... trust me there are people who can afford these prices.  A lot of people in Orange County are making a lot of $$$, six figures is quite normal these days.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A dual income family can easily pull in $180+k or more.  To give an example... Friend of mine, he makes $90k, wife makes $75k..both educated professionals combined income $165k and looking to buy here in Irvine, around $550k townhome.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The waning of demand is just a pause, as people realize that prices are staying flat or appreciating marginally they will resume their purchase plans.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guys, these could be realistic prices for this market&#8230; trust me there are people who can afford these prices.  A lot of people in Orange County are making a lot of $$$, six figures is quite normal these days.  </p>
<p>A dual income family can easily pull in $180+k or more.  To give an example&#8230; Friend of mine, he makes $90k, wife makes $75k..both educated professionals combined income $165k and looking to buy here in Irvine, around $550k townhome.  </p>
<p>The waning of demand is just a pause, as people realize that prices are staying flat or appreciating marginally they will resume their purchase plans.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the person who described Gary Watts as a &quot;public personality.&quot; Yeah, I saw him out with Paris Hilton the other night.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the person who described Gary Watts as a &#8220;public personality.&#8221; Yeah, I saw him out with Paris Hilton the other night.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The agents in my office listen to this guy like he can&#039;t be wrong, it&#039;s so lame.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When you desperately want to believe something that just isn&#039;t so, you tend to put great stock in the person who says that it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The agents in my office listen to this guy like he can&#8217;t be wrong, it&#8217;s so lame.&#8221;</p>
<p>When you desperately want to believe something that just isn&#8217;t so, you tend to put great stock in the person who says that it is.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the part that says &quot;call the other agents and have them take down their for sale signs, at the VERY LEAST put them on rotation&quot;. I&#039;m an agent, and I would laugh if another agent asked me to take down my sign so they could put up theirs. What would my client think? I just like how he assumes it won&#039;t be a problem, and if there is a slight problem we could maybe to a sign rotation...LMAO. Fool. The agents in my office listen to this guy like he can&#039;t be wrong, it&#039;s so lame.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the part that says &#8220;call the other agents and have them take down their for sale signs, at the VERY LEAST put them on rotation&#8221;. I&#8217;m an agent, and I would laugh if another agent asked me to take down my sign so they could put up theirs. What would my client think? I just like how he assumes it won&#8217;t be a problem, and if there is a slight problem we could maybe to a sign rotation&#8230;LMAO. Fool. The agents in my office listen to this guy like he can&#8217;t be wrong, it&#8217;s so lame.</p>
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		<title>By: John Doe</title>
		<link>http://www.socalbubble.com/2006/08/gary-watts-and-incredible-logic.html/comment-page-1#comment-806</link>
		<dc:creator>John Doe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Character Assasination?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There is no reference to his character, just his a question to his competency to issue forecasts for real estate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Character Assasination?</p>
<p>There is no reference to his character, just his a question to his competency to issue forecasts for real estate.</p>
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