FUCK

[lurch70]

i honestly believe that 80% of borrowers never see the numbers in an amortization schedule ... i bet most would have never borrowed if shown

http://www.bretwhissel.net/cgi-bin/amortize
plug in your #'s and tick "Show Amortization Schedule"

on just a $300K loan you pay over $347K additional in interest

 

[einride]

In China, savings is instilled in to your mindset at a very young age. 40-50% of all income gets put under the mattress for those fiscally frightening times when you are asked to turn in your straw hat and are sent home from the rice fields.

in communist china, money saves YOU



god i hope i did this right

 

[lurch70]

and this is the very reason China is getting triple bombed by the recession fears ... since people are already programmed to save and panic in these situations ... now they are REALLY not spending

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

in communist china, money saves YOU

Precisely. Bribe the prefect with money, booze and your wife and hope that he does have you shot

 

[dorian gray]

Although I'm not retiring for another...well, never...I've changed all my 401(k) investments to the most stable offering possible. I don't know if this is a mistake or not. I would imagine it's times like these where you can buy a bunch of shit when it costs nothing and you end up becoming rich because there's nowhere to go but up....BUT...I just can't take anymore negative numbers. I'm losing like $1000 a month in the one that's still at my old job and at my current company, I lose 100% of the employer-match every single week.

 

[lurch70]

 

[lurch70]

There are good thing in a bad economy, like buying 5 different properties for the usual price of one in some cases. ... if I had $1Mil I could have a nice place to live in all corners of the USA. ENJOY


Lets start with a colonial on the NY/CT border
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Out-Of-Area_CT_10573_1105443936
$450K


A condo getaway to Miami living in Downtown with a pool and in a few year old building
http://www.realtor.com/realestatean...ll-Bay-Dr-Unit-2120_Miami_FL_33131_1106575420
$152K


A too big a house in Las Vegas close to the Strip
http://www.realtor.com/realestatean...ilight-Chase-St_Las-Vegas_NV_89130_1105232800
$150K


I don't know how to Ski, but I could learn ... a house in Denver, CO
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/18808-E-52Nd-Ave_Denver_CO_80249_1106503775
$175K



$927K total so far ... got some mulah left over.


might as well get an apartment in Romania in the city where I lived:
http://www.casa-regal.com/en/details-apartments-938.html
$70K


Grand total $997K


So we are still under budget and these are obviously asking prices ... so we can make out with much less.
Anyway thanks for sitting through this nonsense ... just looked at all these things after a friend sent me a text last night from Las Vegas saying that "Vegas is dead"

 

[lurch70]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/01/world/AP-EU-EU-Summit.html?_r=1&hp

 

[lurch70]

this is fucking retarded

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/02aigweb.html?_r=1&hp

 

[J.]

let them fail. through struggle and adversity comes new ideas and opportunities. we need to start over, and let traditions fall

me and the wife were talking today and decided we want the gov't to pay for our mortgage as well. we've been fiscally responsible, always paying bills on time, yet we get no handout or help. how is this fair? the wife was right. she said that we should have bought some obnoxiously huge home that we couldnt afford, because then the gov't would have simply bailed us out and we'd stay there for a ridiculously low interest rate.

 

[dorian gray]

Read the articles. Wow. Those sums of money are just astounding. And AIG *still* cant pull their shit together. If the government paid off all my shitz, you can believe I'd be single-handedly propping up the economy with the free cash I'd have to blow on more shitz.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

let them fail. through struggle and adversity comes new ideas and opportunities. we need to start over, and let traditions fall

This is basically what I keep thinking. Bulldoze the house and start over, we'll survive living in a tent for a few years.

Sadly the rich pricks who own the house would rather screw us all than lose their shit.

 

[lurch70]

i just love how to word "billions" has replaced "millions" so easily in the last few months even without causing people to slap their foreheads.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

this is fucking retarded

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/02aigweb.html?_r=1&hp

this comes in last at the special olympics

 

[lurch70]

it really makes me want to give up living in a normal society and join the secret handshake & wink one.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

hey if you know somebody in there, put in a good word for me

 

[lurch70]

don't worry. all of you are coming with me

 

[dorian gray]

even DazedAndBrutal?

 

[neal]

it really makes me want to give up living in a normal society and join the secret handshake & wink one.

hell yeh! and i dont care how many fools i have to garrote with piano wire to get a seat at that table!

 

[Krilons Resa]