The Real Estate Thread: Buying/Selling/Tips/News

[Chris_H_2]

Post here for anything real-estate related, including Doug’s inevitable 49 trips back and forth up the coast to make an offer on a house only to have it pulled from the market, or Bammer bringing up the market conditions in the greater Seattle area for the 306th time as if they’re somehow unique.

[doug rr]

we officially start the drive home to LA today
will be home on friday...

good night seattle

[Bammer]

One of my best friends and his wife are both Realtors. He called me a few days ago to let me know that she was previewing a home on the market for a client and the owner hadn’t secured their dog (chow chow / akita mix). The dog attacked her and very luckily another agent was there to drive her to the hospital. He texted me pictures which I only glanced at very briefly (I get queasy with this stuff) … an absolutely gnarly gash on her forearm and a big bump on her head (probably other bites and such that I didn’t even see). I didn’t look closely at the pictures, I can tell the injuries are severe.

Anyway he was calling to ask about which attorney I know who can represent her as far as her injuries (one of my other good friends from college is a baller attorney in this field).

Fuckin chow chows … we had one growing up (a mix). They really suck.

[bodysnatcher]

Awww but then that couple might not be able to afford their million dollar house. Think of the millionaires!!

[doug rr]

how much is the house listed for?

[Bammer]

how much is the house listed for?

This is in the greater Los Angeles area. So, a lot.

[Bammer]

Awww but then that couple might not be able to afford their million dollar house. Think of the millionaires!!

Think of the rest of us whose insurance rates will go up now.

[doug rr]

how much is the house listed for?

This is in the greater Los Angeles area. So, a lot.

i read today where a 3bed 1 bath house in pasadena was listed for 1.2 million and went for 2.4...1 bathroom

[doug rr]

my wife and i talked about just selling our place here and just renting for the rest of our lives in north washington state and vancouver bc...

[Bammer]

Same guy (who I grew up with here) was walking home from the bars about 15 years ago (in Santa Monica … he moved to LA after high school) and narrowly escaped being randomly stabbed to death by what was likely a gang initiation attack. I saw the hole in the t-shirt where the knife cut through.

This couple has now (both) cheated death.

[Bammer]

Property taxes going up so much

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Bammer]

Now I have my eye on some houses in Tampa, FL.

I’m all over the place.

We met with a financial adviser who was just kinda like “I think you’re good and this isn’t necessary. Don’t stress yourself out.”

[E.H. Ruddock]

bammer in Tampa seems like a perfect fit

[Bammer]

I’m sorry, did I say I’d be stepping foot in Tampa?

[E.H. Ruddock]

I’m just saying, it seems like your kind of town!

[epilogue]

I will never be able to afford a house. Congrats to those that have and may the joy of home ownership rain down on you and your family for generations!

I will be eternally jealous and live vicariously through each of you.

This post is absolutely sincere, btw.

[Bammer]

Durden if I’m not mistaken you live in one of the most expensive housing markets that exists. There are other places in this country where housing is a fraction of the cost. Obviously you know that. I’m just saying it can be done. Location location location.

[epilogue]

Yeah but I have no marketable skills or training in anything other than theatre. I can afford a house somewhere else if I keep my theatre job. But I can't afford a house working at the Gap somewhere else.

[epilogue]

Right now we're doing some planning, getting ducks in rows, and figuring out what it would take to get a little vacation home nearby -- in Pennsylvania, for example.

We'll see how that goes.