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OK, I will rant about education for a while........my credentials on this are well......a lot of education: BS in Chemistry and Math (Appalachian State), MS Physical Chemistry (Purdue Univ), Ph.D. Physical Chemistry(Wesleyan Univ.), PostDoc(C tal Tech), ExMBA(Stanford)........ What I...

ira01, Thanks for the information......I am not so excited about prosper P to P after you post.........

As I've stated on this blog before, I would never trust a real estate for valuations or mortgage information, but for networking and keeping everyone calm through closing they can be of great value. Roula helped on a house I purchased and did, I thought, a good job............

The person that paid 570 PSF is going to wake up with a wicked hangover in about 2 years....ouch. P.T Barnum's suckers are still being born every minute.

I would not want to be a mid level manager at a bank right now.........banks will go through 4 cycles of mid levels and 2 cycles of upper level managers before this real estate problem is over. Its pretty funny how many people on these blogs don't realize that banks are not friendly and...

This web page on prosper paints a different picture: http://www.prosper.com/lend/performance.aspx I am not sure what the truth is here.

From looking at the table on ipoplaya.com the new price for homes in much of irvine is sort of like $300.00 per square foot. I seem to remember that home is this area of Irvine were in the $450 PSF range a few years ago. This seems like a nice start to the correction in home prices......33%. By...

OK, Thanks...... I am going to try it.........seems like going to vegas.....and we all need to do that once in a while.......

Like many on this blog I am always looking for ways to improve yields on cash with minimal risk. I stumbled across prosper.com and it looked interesting. Anyone here have experience with prosper or any other P to P sites.

ipoplaya, Your chart is on my daily walk through of web sites..........I have news that 2 heatherwood went into escrow at 975K. I hope you will be able to update your chart with closing prices.

Graphrix, OK, you can bring your team with you........... Morekaos...... Send an email to sail_n_power@yahoo.com and I'll give you an update.

At lunch on Tuesday a guy at my company was saying that his neighbor was served last week. The server came to his house next to the foreclosed property to find out if the homeowner lived there any longer............ When will we have a reality TV show that takes a camera with the servers...

Ipoplaya, Your table is very interesting and give real insight into the market..........can't wait to see the final selling prices of the properties...... good stuff.

Hey graphrix, My floating hot tub is almost ready to start selling............if it would help, you are welcome to chill out behind my boat and float and soak for a while...........

During the days of Richard Nixon the term ........Plausable Deniability was born. There is no way one of these law suites will be won by a home buyer, the real estate agent just has to sit in the court room and look stupid and deny everything. Although most agents are dumb as rocks...

A year or so ago I came across a similar study by another organization............seeing that a scientist had a high prestige rating really shocked me. I have a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry(1983 grad.) and for years when asked my profession I used to mumble a few words and change the subject...

This article was in the OCR this past weekend. <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/money/home-house-beyer-1962150-price-three"> http://www.ocregister.com/money/home-house-beyer-1962150-price-three</a> In the article the woman mentions that a real estate agent told them to wait for a...

Why do people think that Real Estate prices will even follow inflation ? in one of the interviews with Shiller he makes this point..........for some reason during the 1990's Americans began to believe that real estate values would always beat inflation, that it was a great "investment"...

I'm in puerto vallarta this week......seems like a nice place..... Any information on the direction of Mexico Real Estate Prices.

The price reductions on some of the homes are starting to look pretty promising........there seem to be lots of SFR that are in the $320 - $350 PSF. It will be really interesting when these homes sell and the numbers start showing up in the local press. The acceleration downward will be...