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  • Market
    Who is Buying?
    Updated about 15 years ago
    1. US debt default looming August 2. 2. Greek default a possibility. 3. China may be headed for a hard landing. Who is so confident in each of these things...
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  • Neighborhoods
    Vinegar Hill....thoughts?
    Updated about 15 years ago
    Hi all! I noticed there are a few new Condo buildings going up in the Vinegar Hill section. I have read that it's "right next to the projects." However, I'm wondering...
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  • Services
    P.C. Richard is reliable
    Updated about 15 years ago
    A very experienced, friendly and polite P.C. Richard repairman replaced my refrigerator compressor this afternoon. Within 15 minutes he was done with the...
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  • Sales
    Gloom Doom & Boom (not the boom you were thinking)
    Updated about 15 years ago
    So, finally, two years later, we got the downgrade. I remember two years ago on this very board, I tried to warn people that this would happen. And that when it...
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  • Financing
    16 years to save up down payment ?!
    Updated about 15 years ago
    The best part... According to the National Association of Realtors, drawing upon national savings rate data, "it would take 9.5 years for the typical American...
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  • Market
    Signs of a Double-Dip Have Emerged
    Updated about 15 years ago
    "This is certain to get worse as Congress and President Obama try to work out a deal on the debt ceiling, she said." <a rel="nofollow"...
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  • Sales
    Poor form by the seller and his broker (shocking!)
    Updated about 15 years ago
    I put in a bid on a co-op in mid June, which was verbally accepted. It then took almost a month for the seller's attorney to send over a contract. When it finally...
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