Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Good morning crew,

Welcome to November, folks. It looks like the property-buying frenzy is pretty much over for the year. Not that I saw any of it. Since April I lowered the price on my condo twice and never got a single offer, serious or otherwise.

And now, according to a story I just read, it looks like the housing market is about to take another dip. After all of the lawsuits over those "foreclosure mills" the number of foreclosed properties being dumped on the market fell, which gave real estate prices a little boost. A very little boost. Now that the scandal is starting to blow over a whole new slew of properties are about to go through the foreclosure process and hit the market at bargain basement prices.

So, it doesn't look like I'll be selling this year. But I guess I should look on the bright side; being broke means I don't have to worry about what to spend money on.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up." -Jay Leno

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"A new study shows that monkeys can look at photos and recognize other monkeys they know. However, the study also shows that monkeys are terrible with names." -Conan O'Brien

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"A new study found that bacon and freshly baked bread are Americans' favorite smells. Yeah, this morning instead of putting on cologne, I just rubbed my neck with a B.L.T." -Jimmy Fallon

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"This hotel stinks!" a guest complained when he showed up at the front desk to check out.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I got no sleep. Every 15 minutes this loud banging sound woke me up!"

I apologized for the noise and checked him out. A few minutes later, a couple showed up. Again, I made the mistake of asking how their stay was.

"Terrible!" they said. "The guy in the next room was snoring so loudly that we had to bang on the wall every 15 minutes to wake him up!"


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I was on my way out of the house to meet with a cantankerous client, and I was dreading it. The look on my face must have given me away because my five-year-old daughter asked what was wrong.

"I'm going to meet a mean woman who always yells at Daddy," I told her.

"Oh," she said. "Say hi to Mom."