Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Good morning crew,

One of the fun things the girlfriend and I like to do on Sundays is crash open houses and pretend like we're interested in buying. Especially when the houses are way out of our price range.

I mean, how often do you get to walk around inside of strangers' houses?

So we were checking out a pad last Sunday when I got into a conversation with the realtor who was showing the house about my condo. I leveled with her and told her that the condo had not sold last year so I took it off of the market.

She offered to do a free market analysis and tell me what kind of position I am in to sell in the current market. I received her email today.

My position is not good.

But I didn't need a market analyst to tell me that. I just read a story this morning which said that housing prices are the lowest they have been in ten years.

The thing to consider, of course, is when did the housing bubble begin to expand (above normal market price, that is)? If it was in 2002 then that means the curve has bottomed out. And when you are at the bottom the only place to go is back up.

Unfortunately, all of my equity is still wiped out. All I have to do now is wait another ten years.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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