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Nov 5, 2011 3:29PM
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I'm soooooo glad we moved out of there....even after loosing enough to put 3 kids through college!

 

Nov 4, 2011 2:28AM
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It's so funny that throughout the article the one name that constantly gets thrown under the bus is the current President.  When we brought him into office the economy was failing and we asked him to clean it up, but if smart people thought about what they said before they decided to write articles they would also notice that it takes only a couple of months to completly ruin credit scores for individuals and then takes those individuals YEARS to fix what they turned to isht.

 

What is the difference with the housing communities and everyone who is being slammed by a failing economy? It took literally a couple months for people to realize that we were going from good to bad to horrific but it's been going on for quite sometime.  Now all of a sudden after we have hit the dirt and cannot stand on our own two feet and most homeowners are renting now we look for this ONE man to turn everything around overnight. Give me a break.

 

He is not the problem, until people stop pointing fingers at the easiest target we will never get to the root of the problem.

Nov 3, 2011 9:15AM
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Ok I am sorry but the only way we are going to get back to something stable is to let the banks fail. They have before and they need to again. History needs to repeat it self so we can rebuild.  Right now we are all sitting in some limbo that no one person or group of government is going to be able to fix. But we pay for all their meetings about what to do. Do you think they want to solve this problem? No,it is making them richer. Founded by a mulisha,fought for by a mulisha,maybe we need to start thinking like one :)
Nov 3, 2011 8:48AM
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The problems facing the country in this economic and mortgage crisis are much deeper than anyone can imagine, and that's why, if you're smart, you will buy a copy of "The Fruits of Graft" by Wayne Jett.  We love to blame simple things on the surface, things easily targeted and attacked; such as current presidents, past presidents, and everything in between.  And let's not forget attacking the rich.  We have been educated, from the time of our youth all the way through life's end to attack the rich, to promote class warfare.  Yet with all the politicians suggesting we attack the rich, nobody asks (since half our elected representatives are multi-millionaires) why do the RICH want us to ATTACK THEM?  It's because they see us as unable (too stupid and too easily misled) to discern what they are actually doing.  It should come as no surprise Bill Clinton's tax reform bill in 1996 was promoted on the "attack the rich" theme, yet when the Office of Management and Budget figured out who the rich were, it was found to increase taxes on anyone making more than $32,000 per year.  So, really, "tax the rich" schemes are put forth by governments because the rich are easy and reviled targets and passing a tax law is more easily accomplished than if they came out and said, "Really, what we WANT to do is tax the middle class and upper levels of the poor class."  In private they tell each other that tax law, or ANY law unfavorable to the general public, has to be done by promoting class warfare, because EVERYBODY hates the rich.  They can do this because, almost since the inception of our country, it has proven to be a very effective and popular tool.  They know ENVY is a big part of the American psyche and we love to see "THE RICH PEOPLE" torn down.  We are told they don't deserve what they've got, regardless of the efforts they put forth to become rich.  Would you think it was fair if your best friend, dirt poor from his youth, came up with an idea that was so beneficial to the public at large, that it resulted in him becoming a multi-millionaire, that because he is now a millionaire he should be viewed as scum and have the majority of his wealth taken from him?  How come all the millionaire dirt bags in Hollywood are not associated with the rich we want to destroy?  Is it because they cater to our basest instincts and that makes them acceptable?  Americans have a lot to learn - but most have contempt for knowledge, so they never will learn the seeds of destruction that flood over us now were planted during the early part of the 20th century with the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913.  A law passed without many senators and congressmen reading it, just like OBAMACARE.  If you would like great insight into what is happening to our country, and how that knowledge can help you fight  this financial crisis, buy "The Fruits of Graft" by Wayne Jett.  I got it on Kindle for $9.95.  I wish I had known this stuff years ago, it would have made a vast difference in my financial portfolio.
Nov 3, 2011 8:11AM
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Bloomberg-MSN is burying this article..........geeee, I wonder why?
Nov 3, 2011 7:25AM
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The institutions who got 'bailed out' should bail out the taxpayers who saved them. Unless they do, we will continue to see the 'Occupy movement' grow. I'm not good with history, but I think this happened before, where the middle class and poorest poor went after the rich and aristocrat .
Nov 3, 2011 6:54AM
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It's good to see a few posters making the comments that media pigs such as Bloomberg Businessweek, MSN, Forbes, Conde Naste, Zillow, etc. are NOT reliable sources to get any information from. We all know anything over the air waves is BS too!
It takes a bit of logic and to be well traveled for one to pick apart any one of these article that are written by complete morons that never graduated from journalism school and never got out in the field to do their research!
These idiots are also writing for financial tabloids and don't have any idea of what they are talking about.
And we have someone like Bernanke who really has no clue what he is saying. and no one knew what in hell Greenspan was saying either. Not sure if HE even knew what he was saying but he was the figurehead that the financial world was listening to. This clown should have been nailed a long time ago! The SEC has no clout and is not protecting the investor. It just runs around in its TuTu and simply slaps these thieving banks and Wall Street brokerages on the hand with a pitiful fine and lets them go on their merry way to start the scamming all over again. Congress does nothing.
 I think it's time for something to happen............................just when.........who the hell knows?

Nov 3, 2011 6:46AM
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Can't believe they didn't mention Fargo North Dakota. Workers are sleeping in their vehicles because builders can't keep up with the demand for housing.  Housing prices have increased dramatically due to an overwhelming demand caused by the boom in the oil and high tech jobs market.
Nov 3, 2011 6:16AM
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No revelations in this article - "First there is a mountain, then there isn't, and then there is."   I'm a capitalist, as long as everyone is playing by their highly-touted darwinian rules, but when they get caught fleecing the masses, and then cry 'bailout' to be footed by the very same taxpaying proletariat, I am, fellow suckers,outraged and no longer a fan.
Nov 3, 2011 6:13AM
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I'm sure many will agree that banks are not very forthcoming with mortgage loans. Nobody wants to take risks anymore. Laid out in front of us, is a future of doubt and concern for everyone, but is the government implementing effective long term solutions to our failing economy? As time goes on, the banks will be foreclosing and the idea of borrowing any money will disappear. So let the banks continue to do business as usual, destroying people's dreams and inheriting all those property taxes. In due time, the banks will go broke..........and then the rich will be asked to loan their millions to rescue the banking industry......because by then, there will not be a middle working class left to squeeze anymore.

 

Shame on this government for allowing this country to faulter.......a country founded on freedom and collapsing with greed. I guess being a proud American is soon becoming a "thing of the past"

Nov 3, 2011 6:06AM
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Ok then lets figure out how to fix it and get rid of the problem.  Sart wrting the fbi and demand investigation and prosecution of the wall street crooks, creat gide lines for realistate and wall street so this don't happen agian. Get rid of all these politicians we have in Congress.   Congress lifted  these rules in 99 and look what happened, we need a sound realistate market.  If you can't afford a home buy a condo there is no shame in that.  What really matters anyway, a happy life not millions of dollars. 
Nov 3, 2011 5:52AM
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A 1% sales tax on wall street would solve all the problems.
Nov 3, 2011 5:51AM
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Let's all try something new.  Go back to what are parents told us; If you can't afford it, don't buy it.  Do we really need homes that are 3500 square feet with Olympic size swimming pools, 5 T.V's 4 cars, designer phones etc.  Come on folks really...
Stop blaming  everyone on wall street, hello there all crooks anyway. 
Stop pointing at Washington, again all crooks.
Guess what, we'll have a better day and the market will return (perhaps a more honest one).  But next time folks, let's not bite on the, no down, one-percent interest rate, stated income Mortgages.

Nov 3, 2011 5:50AM
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iowa....I think your over generalization on up scale housing doing well is a relfection of your biases, not data.

 

Around chicago there are plenty of .5-1.5 Mil homes going at half price if you want some, and I think the 100K to 200K ones starting to do OK again.

 

 

Nov 3, 2011 5:34AM
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Apparently "A House" sold in the top rated city, and none sold in the lowest rated city. I love statistics!!
Nov 3, 2011 5:31AM
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MSN censored a prior post that I read this morning on the commentary.  This is even more disturbing...it is okay to slander the president continuously but to mention that the top national banks are asking for ridiculous standards for mortgages gets censored?? 

 

 BTW, the specifics were:  the broker had a family that was declined because  the bank asked for 6 lines of credit as verification for a loan on a mortgage and another where a SS recipient was asked for medical records and for proof of 3 years of future income for final approval.   Perhaps these were the facts that incited the censorship??  fine.  use the words "alleged" but I happen to have a ding letter like that in my office from a top national bank.  

 

the media throws freedom of press around like compost whilst bashing the President and is censoring opinion blogs?  Now I'm pissed AND I vote, write, petition, register others to vote, rally, and boycott.

Nov 3, 2011 5:14AM
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Everyone knows Zillow is pathetically horrible. Why was this used as a base?

Nov 3, 2011 5:07AM
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Did you notice that it is working class homes that have tanked but the $400,000 homes are doing great.  The rich just keep getting richer.  Of course you can make all kinds of excuses for this but the real reason is they put the pinch all all the people working for them and put their profit margins higher.  They aren't richer because they work harder than the rest of us hard working Americans.  They are richer because we do the work and they get richer.  They didn't lose their homes and can keep upgrading while our homes are in the gutter.  Then they all act like they don't get the sit-ins all over the country.

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