The Journalo Thread

[Okeefenokee]

Didn't any of you ever have grandparents who'd point somewhere and say, "all this used to be trees"? Things change. The people in my sleepy little town have been seeing change occur since my dad was little and they first got telephones and televisions. High speed internet came in about ten years ago.

You improve and improve and improve an area for long enough, and wouldn't ya know it, the property values start to go up.

Since the thread is supposed to be about journalos, check out TFC if you haven't already.

http://www.wethefifth.com/

[Montegriffo]

The craziest thing of all is the teardown, where someone buys a house in an expensive town for around $600K, tears the house down and builds a million + house. The next town over has subsidized housing as well, but the middle class can't pay the property taxes on houses they've owned forever.

There is of course an answer to this,

[MilSpecs]

The craziest thing of all is the teardown, where someone buys a house in an expensive town for around $600K, tears the house down and builds a million + house. The next town over has subsidized housing as well, but the middle class can't pay the property taxes on houses they've owned forever.

There is of course an answer to this,

I've been laughing at these all night.

Sorry, I'll stop hijacking the thread.

[Montegriffo]

The craziest thing of all is the teardown, where someone buys a house in an expensive town for around $600K, tears the house down and builds a million + house. The next town over has subsidized housing as well, but the middle class can't pay the property taxes on houses they've owned forever.

There is of course an answer to this,

I've been laughing at these all night.

Sorry, I'll stop hijacking the thread.

I'm going to run out of them if I can't learn to ration myself.......

[Martin Hash]

I was thinking we needed a place to chronicle media hyperbole and hypocrisy. I'll start with Keith Olbermann, ranting about how the election of Trump is the end of the Republic.

I used to like this guy!

Is this the hyperbole of The Left? Well, if they take up arms, I know which side I'll be on.

[Okeefenokee]

[SuburbanFarmer]

There is of course an answer to this,

I've been laughing at these all night.

Sorry, I'll stop hijacking the thread.

I'm going to run out of them if I can't learn to ration myself.......

Goddammit man. Slow down! You're burning through the stash!

[Ex-California]

Didn't any of you ever have grandparents who'd point somewhere and say, "all this used to be trees"? Things change. The people in my sleepy little town have been seeing change occur since my dad was little and they first got telephones and televisions. High speed internet came in about ten years ago.

You improve and improve and improve an area for long enough, and wouldn't ya know it, the property values start to go up.

Since the thread is supposed to be about journalos, check out TFC if you haven't already.

http://www.wethefifth.com/

That's how its supposed to work, we're living in bubbles here that come from overvaluation and people treating real estate as a stock market

[Okeefenokee]

Didn't any of you ever have grandparents who'd point somewhere and say, "all this used to be trees"? Things change. The people in my sleepy little town have been seeing change occur since my dad was little and they first got telephones and televisions. High speed internet came in about ten years ago.

You improve and improve and improve an area for long enough, and wouldn't ya know it, the property values start to go up.

Since the thread is supposed to be about journalos, check out TFC if you haven't already.

http://www.wethefifth.com/

That's how its supposed to work, we're living in bubbles here that come from overvaluation and people treating real estate as a stock market

People need to realize that the artificial value of inflated property in places like Cali and NYC cuts both ways. You can take part in it, and if you're fortunate, make money, but you have to realize it's a gamble and a charade. Get out to someplace more reasonable if you want your investment to be in something real. That's what the real in real estate means.

[Ex-California]

Didn't any of you ever have grandparents who'd point somewhere and say, "all this used to be trees"? Things change. The people in my sleepy little town have been seeing change occur since my dad was little and they first got telephones and televisions. High speed internet came in about ten years ago.

You improve and improve and improve an area for long enough, and wouldn't ya know it, the property values start to go up.

Since the thread is supposed to be about journalos, check out TFC if you haven't already.

http://www.wethefifth.com/

That's how its supposed to work, we're living in bubbles here that come from overvaluation and people treating real estate as a stock market

People need to realize that the artificial value of inflated property in places like Cali and NYC cuts both ways. You can take part in it, and if you're fortunate, make money, but you have to realize it's a gamble and a charade. Get out to someplace more reasonable if you want your investment to be in something real. That's what the real in real estate means.

I don't care about investments, I care about living in my own home.

Part of it is my own fault for choosing a career that has to be in a large media market, but that doesn't mean I have to like the speculation bubbles. Especially since we saw what they can do when they pop just ten years ago.