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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 01:58 PM Original message |
Armageddon for Home-Owners? 12 Facts That Show We're in the Midst of the Worst Housing Collapse in U |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. thank God we're not letting homeless families live in empty houses, though! |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Why would anyone carry a mortgage, or pay for a house at all, |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I've been able to keep up with my house payments yet I wouldn't begrudge a |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I would stop paying in a heartbeat if all I had to do to get a new home |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. So: "I, Lance Boyle, upon becoming homeless, will refuse a vacant shelter, |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Didn't get a reply to that one! |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. EDIT |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Apparently your plan is that I, Lance Boyle, upon becoming homeless |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Good. I trust you also don't begrudge homeless children such roofs over their heads? |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Official "won't somebody think of the CHILDREN!" desperation-in-argumentation fail. n/t |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Official "too damned heartless to care about CHILDREN!" response |
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chowhound (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. i would rather have a home that i had control over |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I don't think the question is whether you'd "rather." A lot of people don't get their "rathers" |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. But that is the most easily ignored part! |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. And yet, the house next door to mine, which has been empty |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. How do you know they're immigrants? n/t |
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golddigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Why by their olice skin color of course. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Actually, if I have to speak Hmong to communicate with them, |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. The Hmong? There are now a number of Hmong people |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. So what happens when supply is really high and demand is really low? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 04:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Actually, it's not the rich who are buying the houses now on the |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I read an article not too long ago that said Chinese Nationals |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-16-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I wish it were so here in central Fl |
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