Remember last year this time doom and gloom posts every 10 seconds...now every hour.

normal? 10.3% unemployment rate in NYC? the state billions of dollars in the hole?

steveF, you are one insensitive SOB.

aboutready, can you answer me one question. Why in the world would you not have bought late last year when evry buyer and their mother were deer in the headlights. You could have scored huge. Now, inventory is 3k lower, demand is back with higher prices. Were you paralyzed by fear? what? You will never have an opportunity like that again in your lifetime. Please explain?

ohh and I forgot.....the recession is over.

so how much do you figure she lost out on?

well, since no one was buying in late december/early jan. I saw desperate condo studio owners lisitng @ 20% lower than 2007. Now lisitings/sales are around 5-6 % lower than 07. Wait until this spring.Forget about it.

so how much could you have netted on this deal if you sold tomorrow?

steve, honey, you're just misguided. you've been telling me to buy for years. and guess what, you've been wrong before, big time.

wait until 2011, maybe 2012. then we'll talk.

oh, and if the recession is over, why are so many people still unemployed, and not likely to be employed in the near future? and what has happened to all of that debt that still needs to be refinanced?

dream on, steve. dream on.

"lisitings/sales are around 5-6 % lower than 07" Is the theory here that listings and sales are the same thing? Not likely. And while I'm at it, I'll take the under on condo prices at a 5% discount to 2007. The false precision of 5-6% below 2007 is pretty funny too, unless we're talking a sample of one here. I'm not normally as negative on stevie as some, but this thread is well up there on the "dumbest things posted by steveF" list.

with a half million studio...fsbo(edge residential) 65k...full service 40k.

as the commercial real estate bomb just begins to mushroom this guys is talking bull market. too funny.

its only a fleshwound

if there was ever a cheerleader for a happier future, it's SteveF.
if this was a cheerocricy I would vote for SteveF.
go Steve go!
Here's to you........................

The sun will come out, tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow, there'll be sun
Jus' thinkin' about, tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
'til there's none

When I'm stuck with the day that's gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin and grin and say, ohhh

The sun will come out, tomorrow
So you gotta hang on 'til tomorrow
Come what may...

Chorus:
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You're always a day away

(instrumental)

The sun will come out, tomorrow
So you gotta hang on 'til tomorrow
Come what may...

(repeat chorus)

Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You're always a day a--way!

Lost Souls. Forever analyzing, attend evry seminar, knowing every sales for every building, can list all the brokers names and who they work for. Spend every extra moment on SE. Ridicule every buyer out there......when does it begin for you folks? In 30 years, you'll still be waiting. But the annoying part is how you spread you misery to others. Get lostand crawl back to your rocks.

well....that's a lot of data to chew on.

steveF, did you know that same data a year or two or so when you advised buying? because if you did you're a suck ass advisor.

I might pull the trigger this spring..gotta see how bad this next leg down is gonna be. I take much solace in knowing that I will buy closer to the bottom than to the top.

i take much solace in buying the right place at a good price... though it would be exciting to be in the market waiting to see how bad the next leg down will be.

SteveF is still a moron.

The reason the post slowed is... everyone knows it now. Last year, it was novel information. Now even morons like Steve know.

"well, since no one was buying in late december/early jan. I saw desperate condo studio owners lisitng @ 20% lower than 2007."

Remember, this is the same moron who in early Jan said that prices were NOT down 20%.

He's still a moron.

And if he's still saying UP, you know it must be more DOWN.

Fsteve...

hello hfs....

Lost Souls.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/30/the-housing-speculators-return/

"Some people have a strong emotional need to buy a house, and those people will always be able to find themselves some kind of good reason why they should Buy Now. But if you’re genuinely on the fence about whether to buy or not, then looking at mortgage rates isn’t going to be nearly as useful as looking at local rental rates, and their possible future course. Right now is one of those rare times when prevailing rents might actually fall rather than rise — in which case the rent vs buy calculator is likely to tip even further into “rent” territory. If it signals a “buy”, and you have the money to purchase a house, that’s great. Just make sure you’re happy with the house qua house, and you’re not kidding yourself that you’re making an “investment”."

Well done by Felix Salmon to make the rent vs. buy argument persuasively without even using numbers. Who know that Felix Salmon's SE screen name was Rhino86?

Fsteve. What are you a priest? Lost soul bc I don't believe in leveraged consumption and a lottery bubble income system? Get a clue and grow up. One day when your kids works their azz off to compete in thE olympics and beats mike phelps by 10 sec and his gold is taken away just bc Greenspan says only the first heat counts, you can tell me about your 'morality' o' high priestess of the always buy god.

> Lost Souls.

Ha, coming from the moron who is trying to sucker others into buying his condo to make up for HIS mistake.

SteveF is not only a moron, he's scum.

Definition of insanity; Posting the the same threads and expecting a different outcome.
Of course, as I was told on another thread, I have plenty to learn about mental illness.

IMO, prices will go down. Wait another yr or 2 or 3.