This will be interesting:
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats renewed their effort to force former White House aide Karl Rove to testify in a probe into Justice Department controversies, presenting a challenge to President Barack Obama, who will have to decide whether to defend his predecessor's legal arguments. >[link]
Prices in our neighborhood have come down on the properties that were fixer-uppers or those that didn't fit with the neighborhood (two McMansions have been on the market for well over a year). But the cute, wee bungalows like mine still go quickly, and prices haven't gone down much at all.
Hee, Frisco is so dang cute!
I am a bit terrified to find out what my home is worth now although really the number is pretty theoretical to me. It's not like we are going to sell, we aren't even poised to refinance any time soon.
My town is full of entry-level condos/townhouses for the first-time buyer, so there are a lot of subprime borrowers here who are going under right now. The few luxury condo complexes are doing much better.
My apartment complex is raising their rents a bit. I got my unit in May 2006 for $750, and a B&N co-worker and her boyfriend got the same unit in a different building a few months ago for $850 (mine's gone up to $775).
Speaking of housing, congrats on your place selling, SuzyQ!!
Re: the rental discussion we had last week - my studio apartment that I rented for $995 (and now pay $1011 on) will be renting for $1295 once I move out. The market for studios and jr. 1-bedrooms is tighter than I thought.
I assume SF incomes are proportional(ish) with rents? Because I read $1295 and actually thought, "For *only* one month?!?"
t /lives in Ohio, paid $585/mo for a 1-BR
Or possibly my income is closer to the poverty level than I had previously thought.
oh, Suzi, YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!
Prices in my 'hood, especially on my street, have seemed to have leveled out and not dropped too much from the high of 18 months or so ago. But houses appear to stay on the market longer.
I'm paying $750/month for a house, but the landlord is a good friend. Bless his bear-ish heart.
Since I don't get paid per page (and don't have any idea -- probably a good thing that I don't -- how many pages I edit per year), I can't extrapolate that into per year.
Plus math is hard!
t /Barbie
I pay too much in rent, which hurts a lot right now.
Watching so much tennis I keep getting snippets about the Mitchell report. How do MLB fans feel about these claims/revelations?
