Comments on: Real Homes of Genius: Today we Salute you Santa Monica. Examining 5 Adjacent Homes for Peak Prices and Foreclosures. http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/ How I Learned to Love Southern California and Forget the Housing Bubble Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dimwit http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-41612 dimwit Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:56 +0000 http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-41612 madoff has it made! his cell must be bigger than those bedrooms. even with a fellow buggerer in there with him, he must be living the life of spacious delight. madoff has it made! his cell must be bigger than those bedrooms. even with a fellow buggerer in there with him, he must be living the life of spacious delight.

]]> By: Tom Lowe http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24819 Tom Lowe Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:50:04 +0000 http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24819 Savemode: you have been gone too long and are out of touch with reality on the ground here in the USA. One wonders which crony-driven industry and company you work for. You have yet to save $1 million but have already counted your chickens several years in advance and are talking to all of us like you already have it. The truth is that you are still just a wannabe US homeowner. Savemode: you have been gone too long and are out of touch with reality on the ground here in the USA. One wonders which crony-driven industry and company you work for. You have yet to save $1 million but have already counted your chickens several years in advance and are talking to all of us like you already have it. The truth is that you are still just a wannabe US homeowner.

]]> By: compass rose http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24453 compass rose Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:04:42 +0000 http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24453 Savemode has a point. The trend s/he describes may breed a new type of crap shoot/casino economy: do you have what it takes to attract the rare buyer who can afford to buy a house? I shared in another thread the item from the Contra Costa Times where one RealTor suggested that a bowl of oranges on the kitchen counter can be the magickal thingie that will get a buyer to put themselves in hock for decades. So I was thinking: ~ You know how feng shui was so popular? Or that silly man Paul Ray with his "lifestyles of health and sustainability" "market research" (which mistook the macroeconomic trend of wasteful self-absorption for sustainability)? Doc, you have my permission to steal this idea and run with it. That is, a consultancy based on the Proven Ancient Methods of the Illuminati, Templars, Shaolin monks, and Goddess-Priestesses of Pleistocene Czrcesny-Bolshitt for SELLING YOUR HOUSE. The sky is the limit where superstition meets fear and greed, as the New Age and many major religions have amply proved. ~ But seriously, isn't this what urban consumerist market economies always have done--create settings or relationships where people transact money and desire/whim/fetish? At some level, things like houses are the least real parts of the equation for buyers and sellers. ~ Real economic relationships are grounded in longer-term views and more local realities. Whimminess is constrained by the baleful glares of one's neighbors, and the danger of disrupting relationships you may need later. Local economies are open to terrible abuses...but aren't prone, I think, to global meltdown as are cash economies coupled with international supercomputers and statistical software. ~ Though we do see in history that some forces can destroy the locally based economic model just as efficiently. E.g., bubonic plague. ~ My dear father (who had 8th grade schooling and was one of the smartest people I ever knew) used to say, "Nothing is a guarantee of anything." :) ~ Anyway, reading this roundhouse solar plexus punch of a posting by DHB, I am in awe of the hundreds of millions of people who live in thousand-square-foot urban houses, and feel OK with that, apparently. I'd explode from angst no matter how many zeroes were on my house assessment. I'd feel that way living in the Cadillac Desert of SoCal in any case, given my physical condition (I need water to survive). ~ rose Savemode has a point. The trend s/he describes may breed a new type of crap shoot/casino economy: do you have what it takes to attract the rare buyer who can afford to buy a house? I shared in another thread the item from the Contra Costa Times where one RealTor suggested that a bowl of oranges on the kitchen counter can be the magickal thingie that will get a buyer to put themselves in hock for decades. So I was thinking:
~
You know how feng shui was so popular? Or that silly man Paul Ray with his “lifestyles of health and sustainability” “market research” (which mistook the macroeconomic trend of wasteful self-absorption for sustainability)? Doc, you have my permission to steal this idea and run with it. That is, a consultancy based on the Proven Ancient Methods of the Illuminati, Templars, Shaolin monks, and Goddess-Priestesses of Pleistocene Czrcesny-Bolshitt for SELLING YOUR HOUSE. The sky is the limit where superstition meets fear and greed, as the New Age and many major religions have amply proved.
~
But seriously, isn’t this what urban consumerist market economies always have done–create settings or relationships where people transact money and desire/whim/fetish? At some level, things like houses are the least real parts of the equation for buyers and sellers.
~
Real economic relationships are grounded in longer-term views and more local realities. Whimminess is constrained by the baleful glares of one’s neighbors, and the danger of disrupting relationships you may need later. Local economies are open to terrible abuses…but aren’t prone, I think, to global meltdown as are cash economies coupled with international supercomputers and statistical software.
~
Though we do see in history that some forces can destroy the locally based economic model just as efficiently. E.g., bubonic plague.
~
My dear father (who had 8th grade schooling and was one of the smartest people I ever knew) used to say, “Nothing is a guarantee of anything.” :)
~
Anyway, reading this roundhouse solar plexus punch of a posting by DHB, I am in awe of the hundreds of millions of people who live in thousand-square-foot urban houses, and feel OK with that, apparently. I’d explode from angst no matter how many zeroes were on my house assessment. I’d feel that way living in the Cadillac Desert of SoCal in any case, given my physical condition (I need water to survive).
~
rose

]]> By: ToadB http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24359 ToadB Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:47:13 +0000 http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24359 Two great articles about this: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bottom13-2008sep13,0,1768414,full.story http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/business/14spiral.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=business Two great articles about this:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bottom13-2008sep13,0,1768414,full.story

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/business/14spiral.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=business

]]> By: worm http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24353 worm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:54:44 +0000 http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/real-homes-of-genius-today-we-salute-you-santa-monica-examining-5-adjacent-homes-for-peak-prices-and-foreclosures/#comment-24353 I live at the beaches in San Diego. (south Mission Beach). Sales and prices slowed down slightly in 2007. This year they have stopped. One sale a month. This is a duplicate of what happen in 1991-1992. The prices in 1993 started falling a lot for the next three to four years. We were down 33% by 1996. While San Diego dropped 15%. When the prices start falling next year along the beaches and upper middle class homes in Southern California, it will be ugly. Option ARM will be a phrase that everybody will know by 2012. I live at the beaches in San Diego. (south Mission Beach).

Sales and prices slowed down slightly in 2007. This year they have stopped. One sale a month. This is a duplicate of what happen in 1991-1992.

The prices in 1993 started falling a lot for the next three to four years. We were down 33% by 1996. While San Diego dropped 15%.

When the prices start falling next year along the beaches and upper middle class homes in Southern California, it will be ugly. Option ARM will be a phrase that everybody will know by 2012.

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