@shawngorham 5 of our friends tried and play that dance (soca market) and lost out on homes for 2 years because they thought they could come in at list price or under. You may not like the market and conditions- but to say the ONLY reason brokerages do this is for their benefit is false.
@shawngorham In general, it’s better to price under actual value to attract a larger pool of demand and get 2-3 competitive bidders upping. There’s a balancing act of being egregiously lower than actual value, and just a bit under to attract more demand.
@shawngorham If you list at 900k, you hit a pool of buyers that are looking at that ideal “budget”, but what if they fall in love with the home? Home buying is a consumer product and still an extremely emotional decision. Especially buyers that have lost multiple offers already.
@shawngorham If you think the home is worth 1M and list at 1M, that is not an effective marketing strategy for selling a home and the best opportunity to get above actual value. There are exceptions to the rule, but right now, demand > supply in majority of areas.
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
@The_I_in_Team @Rothmus Was coming here to post this exact answer and brilliance already struck. With the sheer volume to buy the hunter time with the rifle- challenge is light work. Also, NOT having the rats is a huge problem for any scenario. Any other two combo- the rats will overwhelm you
@theraleighwill This is a complicated topic and I see some people so quickly to jump to one side or the other to vilify misinformation
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I thought this did a good job of citing data and what actual medical promise has been found;especially for breast cancer + invermectin
@wiley_inc@Kanan_Jarrus_@kenklippenstein Those are business exchanges. He happened to be in a business where the model was figuring out how to deny services for an already paid product. If you can’t handle customer feedback, the business isn’t for you.
@realEstateTrent We travel a decent amount to some nice places and I could see the perception you’re talking about. 90% of it comes from my wife using credit card points and hacking from 10x travel. Keep the credit cards paid off each month at zero- but hacking the portals makes it easy
@SecretCFO Bullied as a kid too. Something that always resonated with me was teaching about insecurity.
Insecurities spill out and manifest as bullying.
The bullying is a reflection of their weakness, and their insecurities.
It had nothing to do with me. Helped me build confidence
The US American dock strike is expected to cost the US Economy up to $5 billion per day in lost trade, and sharply raise prices for consumer goods, per FT
Guy I know was making hundreds of thousands a year, but stayed in an apartment he and his wife had outgrown.
Why?
Rent control.
He was paying a couple grand a month, and it made no sense to move when the same unit would cost 2x.
He had an insane deal, and didn’t want to give it up.
So, many like him stay in their apartments for many years.
It keeps apartment inventory low, and increases rents for everyone not lucky enough to be under rent control.
This is what the US housing market has become.
Millions and millions of people locked into 3% loans for the next 25 years.
In fact, almost a quarter of US homeowners have loans below 3%, and nearly 80% are paying under 5%.
Just like my friend, people aren’t going to move and pay double for the same house, or even 50% more.
They’re going to stick it out for a long time, and not sell.
Keeping prices high for everyone else.
The American housing market:
Rent control at grand scale, with no end in sight.