Lucky me!
This week I’ll be with our daughter Natalie on her 6th grade trip to Astro Camp in Idyllwild. I’ll be back Friday, and in the interim Donna, Richard, and crew will be handling the business as usual.
The last time we went on a real vacation was August, 2007, and during that week the mortgage industry meltdown began – what will happen this week?
And most importantly, who’ll be minding the blog?
I’ll leave you with this short youtube from Encinitas. The first house is an REO listed for $479,900 that has several offers on it, and was marked pending on Friday. The second house is the closed comp, and the third house just listed for $551,000. The video ends abruptly when the memory card runs out, but you’ll get the idea – will house #3 be able to benefit from the other two, price-wise?
I’ll give you 125,000! Volts, that is. No kidding the third place “needs TLC”, about 50k worth.
Have a great vacation, Jim, but WHO is gonna call
that listing agent? I sure hope you can call before you go…
Enjoy the trip with your daughter, Jim!
It will be a nice break from all this bubble stuff.
Is it too much to hope that your vacation will trigger another RE meltdown? 😉
I’m not too keen on that neighborhood because there was alot of turnover between ’05 and ’07. However, those who buy now, have the cash and credit and this will bring stability to the neighborhood moving forward. This neighborhood is good and I like the wide street. But, compared to the hood across El Camino Real just over the hill and down. The cars to driveway ratio averages around 3.5 : 1. One home had 5 cars parked in the driveway and lawn – these are normal sized driveways.
These sold in the low-$400,000s in 2001 and 2002.
And most importantly, who’ll be guarding the pound?
Dammit Jim! I’m a blogger not a Realtor™!
Still I’ll try to keep the mob under control. Now go have a good time. I did the same thing with my oldest kid when she was in sixth grade.
I changed it on the fly – I’m outta here!
Where’s the Ice Cream truck?
Have a great vacation.
3rd one has the “shabby chic/distressed look” look in the kitchen. Isn’t that in right now?
Have a great vacation Jim. Enjoy the well deserved time off.
Have a wonderful vacation, Jim.
I am in the title industry, my last vacation was in Sep. 07, right after Homebanc started bouncing checks! We got married on that trip, came back and I was told there is no more work. About to take my first vacation since then as well. Is this a sign of recovery! Naw, we are just the few flourishing off this foreclosure madness!