The Original Gay Porn Community - Free Gay Movies and Photos, Gay Porn Site Reviews and Adult Gay Forums
-
Welcome To Just Us Boys - The World's Largest Gay Message Board Community
In order to comply with recent US Supreme Court rulings regarding adult content, we will be making changes in the future to require that you log into your account to view adult content on the site.
If you do not have an account, please register.
REGISTER HERE - 100% FREE / We Will Never Sell Your InfoPLEASE READ: To register, turn off your VPN (iPhone users- disable iCloud); you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.
Political Cartoons, Memes & Amusing Videos
- Thread starter opinterph
- Start date
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2006
- Posts
- 122,940
- Reaction score
- 4,433
- Points
- 113
NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
^ He basically defined every known demagogue in history. Not Nostradamus, by any means.
But not lost on us as we face the whirlwind.
But not lost on us as we face the whirlwind.
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2006
- Posts
- 122,940
- Reaction score
- 4,433
- Points
- 113
That's too true, and not just with newly-built homes: I've watched as banks transformed the valuation of foreclosed houses from $75k to $100 or even $125k. Though why they do baffles me given how many business locations are sitting empty downtown; that sort of suggests to me that the local economy just isn't going to support the income levels needed to pay for such houses.
On the other hand things are shifting; one house not far from me got remodeled and listed at $150k, where it sat and sat with no one even doing more than drive-by looking. Then the listed price got dropped to $140k, then $125k, and ended up selling for $90k. Yet there's a tragedy in there: the payments at that price would have been affordable to the family who lost it due to foreclosure! I talked to them the week they finally moved out and learned they had tried to negotiate a different payment plan but the bank wasn't interested; they even tried getting a new loan from a different bank to pay off the existing loan and have lower payments (they'd been paying on it for over eight years). A contractor I know who does home remodels estimated the bank took a $30k loss on the place -- when they wouldn't have taken a loss at all if they'd been willing to renegotiate.
Something not surprising at all is that it's the bigger banks with managers brought in from out of town that act this way; the regional and local banks work with people (the bank involved in the above is one that engages in several unethical practices that don't quite break laws; it's the one that businesses with out-of-town owners use).
