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Great article about rent vs. buy - also check out the interactive chart. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/realestate/11leonhardt.html?ex=1176955200&en=27ea77576a1810ca&ei=5070&emc=eta1

I'd like to get everyone's take on the use of a Buyer Agent. Like most people on the forum, I regularly scan the MLS, Zip Reality, Zillow, and other real estate websites. Of course the first question the listing agent asks me when I walk into an open house is whether I have an agent...

Troll Alert, again! So now you moved employment from Lennar to Standard Pacific?

Hi Earl, Tell your wife to get used to it. The Asians are moving in. If you start looking at and within the new model homes, you'll see pictures of Asians in the literature, frames, posters, and other marketing materials. Do you think that the builders are being stupid by targeting...

The purpose of this discussion is to share with each other some of the techniques/tricks/one-liners that agents and RE sales reps often use to try and get you to buy . This is to help each other avoid getting suckered or misled. For example: "You're not just buying a house, you're...

btw when I put "10' foot" i meant that I'm not going to touch it with a "million foot pole."

Irvine123, Thanks for the information. After viewing pretty much all of Villages of Columbus, I've already decided that I'm not even going to purchase or touch it with a 10' foot. Aside from half of the tracts being in Tustin (with your helpful school information), the following other...

Does anyone know if you use an agent, does the agent get 3% back from the builder? If Im going to buy from a the builder, I'll pull my aunt in to 'represent' me and have her just give me all of the money back after the transaction closes.

I honestly can't believe anyone would buy a home in this environment. Personally for us, we've been waiting it out for the past 2 years and now prices are starting to drop. I'm not going to buy at the first sign of drop especially having waited so long. (Plus renting at Woodbury Place...

Is it me, but are the exterior of these homes the most ugly things you've ever seen? These homes are still way overpriced for what you get. Also it seems the construction and materials look pretty cheap. Some of the models already started to feel 'worn down' and old. For >$900k, I would think...