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Irvine Housing Blog Irvine Housing Blog Blogging about the latest in housing related topics for the master planned City of Irvine. Read about flips gone bad, sales trends, new home developments, and much more! Check out our community forums too! Articles
Bargain
2008-01-30 12:30:00 I’d gladly lose me to find you I’d gladly give up all I got To catch you I’m gonna run and never stop I’d pay any price just to win you Surrender my good life for bad To find you I’m gonna drown an unsung man I’d call that a bargain The best I ever had The best I ever had Bargain – ... More About: Rental , Rentals
When Doves Cry
2008-01-29 12:30:00 Dream if you can a courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike curious poses They feel the heat The heat between me and you How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world thats so cold? (so cold) Maybe I’m just too demanding Maybe I’m just like my father too bold Maybe you’re just like my mother Shes never satisfied (shes ...
Speculation or Investment?
2008-01-28 12:30:00 Ask yourself this question: Do you want to be rich? I’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks Let’s make lots of money You’ve got the brawn, I’ve got the brains Let’s make lots of money You can tell I’m educated, I studied at the Sorbonne Doctorate in mathematics, I could have been a don Oh, there’s a lot of opportunities If you know when to take them, ... More About: Investment
WOT 1-26-2007
2008-01-27 12:33:00 Weekend Open Thread From Calculated Risk. It appears we are having a problem with defaults. The above chart is based on a percentage basis, so it is adjusted for the increase in housing units over time.
Stepping Down ** Update 1 **
2008-01-27 12:30:00 Since our original post on August 2, our race to the bottom has been continuing. Our low price leader is really starting to race now. Their new asking price is $515,000. That is a full $100,000 below their 2004 purchase price. Wow! . There’s a lady who’s sure All that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway ... More About: Update , Rollback
WOT 1-26-2007
2008-01-26 12:33:00 Weekend Open Thread From Calculated Risk. It appears we are having a problem with defaults. The above chart is based on a percentage basis, so it is adjusted for the increase in housing units over time.
Unforgiven
2008-01-25 12:30:00 New blood joins this earth And quickly he’s subdued Through constant pained disgrace The young boy learns their rules With time the child draws in This whipping boy done wrong Deprived of all his thoughts The young man strugggles on and on he’s known A vow unto his own That never from this day His will they’ll take away-eay What I’ve felt What I’ve known Never shined through ...
Rain
2008-01-24 12:30:00 This one goes out to a struggling realtors lurking on the blog. We feel for you… Out of work, I’m out of my head Out of self respect, I’m out of bread I’m underloved, I’m underfed, I wanna go home Will you tell the folks back home I nearly made it Had offers but didn’t know which one to take Please ... More About: Rain
Under $200K
2008-01-23 12:30:00 I hear the train a comin’ It’s rollin’ ’round the bend, And I ain’t seen the sunshine, Since, I don’t know when, I’m stuck in Folsom Prison, And time keeps draggin’ on, But that train keeps a-rollin’, On down to San Antone. Well, if they freed me from this prison, If that railroad train was mine, I bet I’d move out over a little, Farther down ... More About: Rollback
Autumn
2008-01-22 12:30:00 To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose, under heaven A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to kill, a time to heal A time to laugh, a time to weep A time to build up,a time to break ... More About: Rollback , Autumn
Pretending
2008-01-21 12:30:00 How many times must we tell the tale? How many times must we fall? Living in lost memory You just recalled Working on the sound of the band Trying to get the music right Two go out working Three stay home at night Thats when she said she was pretending Like she knew the plan Thats when I knew she was pretending Pretending to understand Pretending, pretending Pretending, ...
A Tall Oak Tale ** Update 2 **
2008-01-20 12:30:00 We have a sale to report. 111 Tall Oak was asking $659,000 in the summer finally sold for $590,000. The unit was purchased on 3/6/2006 for $725,000. That is 18.6% loss in less than 2 years not including commissions. Basically, the second mortgage was a complete loss. It looks as if our seller at 111 Tall ... More About: Update , Rollback , Tale
Salton ** Update 1 **
2008-01-19 12:30:00 Big price reduction to start the new year. The price dropped from $560,000 to $495,000. Prices are plunging… Christmas time is here again Christmas time is here again Christmas time is here again Christmas time is here again Ain’t been round since you know when Christmas time is here again O-U-T spells “out” Christmas Time is Here Again — The Beatles . . ... More About: Update , Alton
The Beast
2008-01-18 12:30:00 I left alone my mind was blank I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind What did I see can I believe that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy Just what I saw in my old dreams were they reflections of my warped mind staring back at me ‘Cos in my dream ... More About: Rollback , Beast
Angel
2008-01-17 12:30:00 I sit and wait does an angel contemplate my fate and do they know the places where we go when we´re grey and old ´cos I´ve been told that salvation lets their wings unfold so when I’m lying in my bed thoughts running through my head and I feel that love is dead I’m loving angels instead and through it all she offers me protection a lot ... More About: Angel
Shelter
2008-01-16 12:30:00 Well alright, you gave it all up for a dream Fate proved unkind, to lock the door and leave no key You’re unsure, Well baby I’m scared too When the world crushes you Let me be your shelter, shelter From the storm outside Let me be your shelter, shelter From the endless night Disillusion has an edge so sharp It tears at your soul and leaves ... More About: Shelter
Show Me
2008-01-15 12:30:00 Well, I can see no reason, You’re living on your nerves. When someone drops a cup and I submerge. I’m swimming in a circle. I feel I’m going down. There has to be a fool to play my part. Show Me the Way — Peter Frampton . . Today I want to show you how to chase the market down. Sometimes I feel sorry ... More About: Rollback
Rent Versus Own
2008-01-14 12:30:00 Talking to myself and feeling old Sometimes I’d like to quit Nothing ever seems to fit Hangin’ around, nothing to do but frown Rainy days and mondays always get me down What Ive got they used to call the blues Nothing is really wrong Feeling like I don’t belong Walking around some kind of lonely clown Rainy days and mondays always get me down Rainy ... More About: Versus , Rent
WOT 1-12-2007
2008-01-13 13:18:00 Weekend Open Thread Since we are getting so many comments lately, and since our update posts recycle these comments, it has been suggested we create an open thread for weekend discussion. Here you go. More About: News
House Price to Income
2008-01-13 12:30:00 This is what people are referring to when they say prices revert to the mean. You can clearly see the bubble of the late 80s and the price deflation that followed. You can also get a sense of the magnitude of our current bubble. . . Just for fun today, I want to share a couple of items ... More About: News , House , Income , Price
WOT 1-12-2007
2008-01-12 18:18:00 Weekend Open Thread Since we are getting so many comments lately, and since our update posts recycle these comments, it has been suggested we create an open thread for weekend discussion. Here you go. More About: News
Duet ** Update 1 **
2008-01-12 13:30:00 This was first posted on September 11, 2007. Now our desperate sellers are considering becoming floplords. They haven’t moved much on the price, but now they are offering the unit for rent at $2,395. If this is a fair rental rate (it probably is), then the property is worth about $382,300 with a gross rent ... More About: Update
Carnage
2008-01-11 12:30:00 Trapped in purgatory A lifeless object, alive Awaiting reprisal Death will be their acquisition The sky is turning red Return to power draws near Fall into me, the sky’s crimson tears Abolish the rules made of stone Raining Blood — Slayer . . Trapped in the purgatory of their home, awaiting repossession, the slow death of bank acquisition. The sky is falling; it is raining blood; ... More About: Carnage
Lonetree
2008-01-10 12:30:00 The heart is a bloom Shoots up through the stony ground There’s no room No space to rent in this town You’re out of luck And the reason that you had to care The traffic is stuck And you’re not moving anywhere Beautiful Day - U2 We are running out of land. There’s no room, no space to rent in this town. You’re ...
Northwood Pointe Cottages
2008-01-09 12:30:00 Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The ringing of the division bell had begin Along the long road and on down the causeway Do they still meet there by the cut The grass was greener The light was brighter With friends surrounded The night ... More About: Rental , Rollback , Northwood , Ages
Seron Aid
2008-01-08 12:30:00 Did you see the lights As they fell all around you Did you hear the music A serenade from the stars Wake up, wake up Wake up and look around you We’re lost in space And the time is our own Did you feel the wind As it blew all around you Did you feel the love That was in the air The sun ...
The Fallacy of Financial Innovation
2008-01-07 12:30:00 And the hardest part Was letting go not taking part Was the hardest part And the strangest thing Was waiting for that bell to ring It was the strangest start Everything I know is wrong Everything I do it just comes undone And everything is torn apart Oh and thats the hardest part Thats the hardest part Yeah, thats the hardest part Thats the hardest part The Hardest ... More About: Financial , Innovation , Fallacy , Alla
Stillwater
More articles from this author:2008-01-06 12:30:00 We all came out to montreux On the lake geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didnt have much time Frank zappa and the mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground Smoke on the water, fire in the sky They burned down the gambling house It died with an awful ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
