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kidwoo

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but underwriting standards exist this time around. Might some people end up underwater? Sure. But the house of cards has more glue.
You look like the kind of man that would benefit from some over waterway passage property. Take a look at this little gem. $500k but you better act quick, there's been lots of interest. I can give you our finance department's number, they can walk you through it and have you out of here lickity split.

 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
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“The last mortgage crisis, back then you had very little down payments,” he said. “Literally, you had stated-income loans. They don't exist anymore. You could just say, 'I make $500,000 a year,' and they'd say 'OK,' and write it down.”

In addition, preceding the last crash, buyers could choose their home appraiser, tilting the balance of power in their favor, Vidal said. Buyers could also get loans in which borrowers would pay less than the amount due on their interest.

"You had a thing called negative amortization loans,” Vidal said. “Say your payment was $3,000 a month. You could get a negative amortization loan where your payment was only $2,000 a month, add it to your loan, and as long as your property was appreciating more than what you were adding to the loan, you can actually live in a really expensive home with a very little down payment and hope that the appreciation would cover what you were adding."

This time around, the housing boom is being fueled by near-record-low interest rates, millennials coming of home-buying age and other legitimate demand drivers, Vidal added, and not by buyers making purchases through risky mortgage loans they should not have qualified for.

The run-up in prices, though, is similar to what happened prior to the housing crash.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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When I bought 4 years ago the average down payment in my neighborhood was something like 35%-50%. Now it is only 10%. That cash ain't flying around like it used to. Also shows increased risk. However that is also indicative of people buying homes and not investors buying houses.
 

Adventurous

Starshine Bro
Mar 19, 2014
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Okay that's one.

More residents moved up here last year than I've ever seen before during the pandemic and it's such a douchey market all the real estate groups publish their sales data. It was rich fucks retreating. Based on my unscientific observations of stinkeye above a patagonia logo on the trails, they're here for good. I'm more talking about what's going on now during this rebound/backlash whatever you want to call it. This isn't just people moving to a new residence, not at all.
Plenty of links posted in this thread already. I'm getting a very 2007-2008 vibe.
You know it's bad when Outside magazine writes an article about the Lake Tahoe market (https://www.outsideonline.com/2422318/tahoe-zoomtown-covid-migration). One of the guys they're interviewed was so salty I sat there wondering if it was you. :rofl:
 

kidwoo

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The specific minutia is different. But if you've learned anything in our short time on earth in america is that you won't learn how this is being manipulated until after it crashes. Most of this inflationary shit and whatever new loaning product they've come up with is designed to be hidden.

Credit default swaps from bundling for instance, is still happening. Vocabulary specialists wrote all the same shit in 2007 because they got hung up on what the things were called.

Predatory lending is still happening.......because they benefit from creating debt, regardless of how they get there. Edit: see westy's post.

There's an entire industry that is deeply invested in making you think "this time" is different/safer etc to keep you playing along and not looking.
 
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kidwoo

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You know it's bad when Outside magazine writes an article about the Lake Tahoe market (https://www.outsideonline.com/2422318/tahoe-zoomtown-covid-migration). One of the guys they're interviewed was so salty I sat there wondering if it was you. :rofl:
I saw that.
My words would be unpublishable.



I could tell you some interesting things about some of the people quoted though.

It goes like "oh yeah fuck yeah, gimme that money, everybody come check this out, wooooo, I'm rollin in it, everybody should know about this, see our instagram"

........one month later

"why all the assholes coming up here thinking they can do whatever they want because they have money? who told them this was okay?"
 
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Fool

The Thing cannot be described
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I could tell you some interesting things about some of the people quoted though.

It goes like "oh yeah fuck yeah, gimme that money, everybody come check this out, wooooo, I'm rollin in it, everybody should know about this, see our instagram"

........one month later

"why all the assholes coming up here thinking they can do whatever they want because they have money? who told them this was okay?"
I'm shocked.
 

kidwoo

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I'm shocked.
It's so funny to watch how 20 years ago mountainbikers were so bad for the environment. Then the money they bring reached a critical mass that couldn't be ignored so now it's okay. Now it's ebikes/motorcycles/snowmobiles whatever.

Nothing will be done to address this kind of shit though. It would be so easy to just ban the sale of shitty 5 dollar sleds and leave a loaner stash of something durable at the bottom of these places. Instead we just get shocked that microplastics are now abundant in the largest lake in north america.
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
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media blackout
Okay that's one.

More residents moved up here last year than I've ever seen before during the pandemic and it's such a douchey market all the real estate groups publish their sales data. It was rich fucks retreating. Based on my unscientific observations of stinkeye above a patagonia logo on the trails, they're here for good. I'm more talking about what's going on now during this rebound/backlash whatever you want to call it. This isn't just people moving to a new residence, not at all.
Plenty of links posted in this thread already. I'm getting a very 2007-2008 vibe.
will they last their first wildfire though?
 

Pesqueeb

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I'm getting a very 2007-2008 vibe.
This has been the point of probably 95% of my posts in this thread. Perhaps some of "the rules" have changed, yet I remain FIRMLY convinced that fundamentally nothing has changed post Great Recession.

To be fair though, I've been saying these things for the better part of a decade at this point so clearly, even if I happen to be correct, my sense of timing it is awful.

but underwriting standards exist this time around. Might some people end up underwater? Sure. But the house of cards has more glue.
Oh you sweet summer child.

:stupid:
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
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I just know I had to prove my bona fides when applying for this latest debt-injection. Many months of statements from this and that, a real appraisal on the house in question, etc.
 

OGRipper

back alley ripper
Feb 3, 2004
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NORCAL is the hizzle
Yeah lenders are being a little better (including asking for at least some down payment) but anyone who thinks the regulations will protect them or the market is seriously confused. There are still plenty of people over-paying, skipping appraisals, etc. Many of those will not be able or willing to carry a place that is under water. I don't think we'll see a bust like '08 but I can see some market corrections on the horizon for sure.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
20+ people bidding on a house isn't the same as people getting 5 year interest only ARMs and mouth breathing dimwits proclaiming "it's a great time to buy, prices will only go up"

I don't see a housing crash taking down the economy like it did in 2008. But a good economic downturn will very likely cause a housing crash. Just wait for a tech bro to invent something that will automate tech bros.
 
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jonKranked

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Yeah lenders are being a little better (including asking for at least some down payment) but anyone who thinks the regulations will protect them or the market is seriously confused. There are still plenty of people over-paying, skipping appraisals, etc. Many of those will not be able or willing to carry a place that is under water. I don't think we'll see a bust like '08 but I can see some market corrections on the horizon for sure.
yea, as nice as it would be to sell right now, the flipside is buying something now would probably not be the best choice in the long run......
 

OGRipper

back alley ripper
Feb 3, 2004
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NORCAL is the hizzle
yea, as nice as it would be to sell right now, the flipside is buying something now would probably not be the best choice in the long run......
Yeah, but I think it depends on the market you're in and whether you want to stay in the same market or move elsewhere. I bought my place in SF in 2010 when prices were rock bottom. I'd get a crazy good return right now but the only way it would make sense to sell now is to buy in a much cheaper market. In that case I'd come out ahead - way ahead - and I'd have no problem carrying a cheaper place through a flat/weak period. SF is a nutty market but I think the same applies in other places.
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
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Yeah lenders are being a little better (including asking for at least some down payment) but anyone who thinks the regulations will protect them or the market is seriously confused. There are still plenty of people over-paying, skipping appraisals, etc. Many of those will not be able or willing to carry a place that is under water. I don't think we'll see a bust like '08 but I can see some market corrections on the horizon for sure.
Market corrections that don't lead to systemic failures across the economy are just fine by me. Perhaps I'll buy a third house by then at a cheaper price.

:D
 

kidwoo

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I just know I had to prove my bona fides when applying for this latest debt-injection. Many months of statements from this and that, a real appraisal on the house in question, etc.
You still had to do that in 2006 too. At least here. Even for a home equity loan taken out on the property you were buying to leverage the value of that home to pay for it :rofl:
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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kidwoo

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Want affordable housing? Open up a Cinnabon.


Women in the bottom quartile of property values were 3.4 times more likely to be obese than women in the top quartile.


Number 1 warning sign that yo shit just got all gentrified: skinny ass white women speedwalking in yoga britches at 10:30am when everyone else is at work.
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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Women in the bottom quartile of property values were 3.4 times more likely to be obese than women in the top quartile.


Number 1 warning sign that yo shit just got all gentrified: skinny ass white women speedwalking in yoga britches at 10:30am when everyone else is at work.
Stayed a few weeks with a friend in Virginia when I was a gainfully unemployed bum who lived a in a neighborhood that fit this perfectly.

10:30 was a luxury athletic wear and monster truck stroller fashion show.

Here the wimmins have to work so it is the 6:00 PM mass migration to yoga class.
 

junkyard

You might feel a little prick.
Sep 1, 2015
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Explain like I'm an aircraft mechanic with a history of traumatic brain injury?

if you make lots of profit selling a property, you don’t pay taxes on the profit if you buy another property within 30 days, thus keeping your money invested in the economy and merica. It’s how someone grows a real estate portfolio and a reason to sell and keep things moving.

I’m no expert but I would be less likely to sell if I had to pay taxes. Or would have to sell at a higher price or raise rent. Otherwise why reinvest? If I already paid the taxes I could do anything with the money. Move it out of the country, high yield account, stocks or bonds, Mexican mining companies whatever.

but I am in the business so my opinion is jaded.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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I thought that rule only counted if the property was your residence and the proceeds were rolled into another residence. If not, then it should be that way.
 

Pesqueeb

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I thought that rule only counted if the property was your residence and the proceeds were rolled into another residence. If not, then it should be that way.
:stupid:

I also was under the impression that it only effected you if you were in the residence for a short-ish period of time. If you're flipping residences for instance.