Comments on: State seeks to eliminate age-restriction on new development

By: renter

renter — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:08:27 +0000

Chinese Drywall

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-16-chinese-drywall-sulfur_N.htm

By: Hard Place

Hard Place — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:02:23 +0000

Whew. Been a while since I posted here on the blog. Of course RE markets moving glacially slow. Finally glad my mom may agree w/ me about RE. She did a 1031 exchange at the beginning of the year for a commercial space in NY into a residential/commercial property in NY. She got the new property at a discount as the person was looking to unload. Fast forward a year and she looks like she has someone interested to buy the commercial space at about break even. I told her take the deal and run like a bandit. Stop rolling over and pay your taxes. She prefer to keep rolling it to pass onto us through her estate, but I told her better to have the cash now. Just don’t piss it away, either that or I may consider a 1031 in a particularly ravaged location like Florida, Midwest or maybe Calif. That’s the main RE issue I’ve been dealing with lately. Also my landlord recently cut my rent a substantial 10%+. I’m a happy camper!

By: Shore Guy

Shore Guy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:38:33 +0000

Yikes,

Alston?

By: Shore Guy

Shore Guy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:32:44 +0000

Here is one approach:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/16/iowa-senator-says-aig-executives-resign-commit-suicide/

By: yikes

yikes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:58:46 +0000

sorry, BACK INTO henry status

By: yikes

yikes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:58:27 +0000

Shore Guy says:
March 16, 2009 at 2:11 pm

I don’t know about the rest of the HENRYs here, but I am beginning to feel like our efforts to accumulate some wealth by scrimping, saving, and living well-below our means may have ben for naught and we are at risk of watching it all evaporate.

not totally. but buying a place and watching that large “safe money” dwindle rather rapidly to a much less comfortable #, which would boot us out of prestigious HENRY status, is also unsettling.

you can’t win

By: yikes

yikes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:52:51 +0000

buddy’s law firm in DC laid off 25 last week. he lost his secretary. he said most of the casualties were guys who had been there 6 months or a year.

they had had cuts in other branches, but his only now had to trim fat.

By: yikes

yikes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:12:37 +0000

while the public “wall of shame” isn’t something anyone would care about …

not being able to register your car without paying back taxes would certainly wake up a lot of people

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-16-amnesty_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

By: Clotpoll

Clotpoll — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:09:27 +0000

Would like to talk more guys, but I TIVOd 24 and now I have GG up and ready to view.

Anybody hear about some kind of financial problems on Wall St and with the government? I thought our new President fixed all that. Whatever…

By: RemainCalmAllisWell

RemainCalmAllisWell — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:04:06 +0000

Corzine Invites Budget Feedback on Facebook

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — “What’s on your mind?”

Gov. Jon S. Corzine is inviting New Jerseyans to share that thought with him on Facebook.

The governor on Monday said citizens are welcome to post “constructive and realistic” ideas on his $29.8 billion budget proposal on his Facebook page or the governor’s office Web site.

Corzine said he’s “interested in what people have to say and taking some time to answer their questions.”

Critics of the Corzine budget say he is penalizing middle class taxpayers by eliminating some property tax rebates and the property tax deduction on future state income tax returns.

Suggestions may be posted on Corzine’s Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jon-Corzine/40803443433

http://www.1010wins.com/Corzine-Invites-Budget-Feedback-on-Facebook/4029807

By: Shore Guy

Shore Guy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:30:14 +0000

Clot,

I have to admit that I was thinking more in terms of a product or date, but, I suppose the reasoning holds.

By: reinvestor101

reinvestor101 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:20:53 +0000

Lawrence Kudlow is a great American and that’s why he was not attacked by Stewart and “That One”. Kudlow appears in no videos used by Stewart because Stewart knows that he’s untouchable. That damn liberal, Steve Liesman could definitely be taken down a peg or two, but Stewart probably likes him because he supports “That One”.

Friday, Gibbs gushed that he enjoyed the damn show and he knows damn well he was also speaking for “That One”. This damn attack on Cramer and CNBC was strictly a White House operation done through a damn surrogate. This smacks of a watergate type of operation and there needs to be a damn investigation about how Stewart did this and why he didn’t attack Liesman and Faber. Something stinks like hell-as a matter of fact it smells like Chicago

By: Dissident HEHEHE

Dissident HEHEHE — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:20:03 +0000

Hearing loss occurs more with heavy abuse of narcotics. Tooth loss occurs frequently with heavy cocaine use.

By: safeashouses

safeashouses — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:47:14 +0000

#258 clot

Is losing your hearing another side effect? Why is he always shouting when he talks?

By: safeashouses

safeashouses — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:42:13 +0000

Australia, late to the party as usual

http://www.smh.com.au/national/red-alert-on-jobless-hot-spots-20090316-8zy4.html