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Luciferous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 02:24 PM
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6. I used to watch those house flipping shows, and a lot of them took
place in California. I was always in awe that people actually paid those ridiculous amounts of money for houses that would be less than 100k in my area... of course I realize that California prices are going to be higher, but some of those prices are just insane.
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  -Today's "home prices falling" news is sad. So was a former $750K median home price in Silicon Valley Amerigo Vespucci  Dec-10-10 01:32 PM   #0 
  - Not for me  Recursion   Dec-10-10 02:13 PM   #1 
  - Yes, that is my point...homes are for people to live in  Amerigo Vespucci   Dec-10-10 02:19 PM   #3 
     - Yeah. I try not to "I told you so" my friends  Recursion   Dec-10-10 02:23 PM   #4 
        - I had a friend...who was a Realtor...try to talk me into buying a townhome with an A.R.M.  Amerigo Vespucci   Dec-10-10 02:26 PM   #8 
           - People started thinking of the borrowed money that paid for the house as "theirs"  Recursion   Dec-10-10 04:00 PM   #13 
  - Wow. $400K range is way too inflated for  Skidmore   Dec-10-10 02:17 PM   #2 
  - If you went out the front door and to the left...  Amerigo Vespucci   Dec-10-10 02:23 PM   #5 
  - I used to watch those house flipping shows, and a lot of them took  Luciferous   Dec-10-10 02:24 PM   #6 
  - I thought a foreclosed house in my subdivision that sold for $300,000 four years ago sold for ...  NNN0LHI   Dec-10-10 02:25 PM   #7 
  - The house next door to us was foreclosed, vandalized & finally sold for $63,000.00  SoCalDem   Dec-10-10 02:38 PM   #9 
     - Jeebuz  NNN0LHI   Dec-10-10 03:04 PM   #11 
  - I'd be mad if I paid 3/4 of a Million dollars and still had to live in the South Bay.  Warren DeMontague   Dec-10-10 02:45 PM   #10 
  - Savage has no Bay Area radio home these days  Newsjock   Dec-10-10 03:50 PM   #12 
     - That guy is a real piece of ....work.  Warren DeMontague   Dec-10-10 08:33 PM   #14 
  - How is the market in the richer towns: Palo Alto, Los Altos, etc?  andym   Dec-10-10 09:26 PM   #15 
 

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