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Extreme Makeover Home Gets Flipped
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I only blame myself.
12/22/08
Answer was: They couldn't. I guess it was only a matter of time before people and banks realized this.
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I could see this coming a mile away. Once I started seeing 1200 SF three-bedroom cookie-cutter ranch homes being appraised at a million bucks on my TV, I said to my wife, "you know, if someone offered me a million bucks for our house, I wouldn't even ask you first before saying, 'SOLD.'" At the very worst, a million bucks would pay rent for just about any reasonable apartment for as long as it takes. Suckers.
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I am...so evil.@GirlyWhirl: @GirlyWhirl:
12/22/08
If you wore a circus-like outfit (anything with feathers or sequins) to your wedding you are doubly to blame.
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And the important thing is being right, not forging some common ground middle consensus. If that puts you squarely in one political camp, so be it. It's not about making everybody feel good when the President signs a bill into law. It's about having a policy that actually works.
12/22/08
Good thing Beranke is going to get us out of this mess, by getting them even lower, even longer.
12/22/08
The ENTIRE problem were these exotic loans that had no business existing in the first place being given to people who could clearly not afford them and had no intention of paying them back (with the expectation that they'd sell or refinance when they had to).
And that is a failure of regulation, nothing else.
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"He should be ashame of his damn self....These FRAUD PEOPLE makes it really hard for people to even purchase a home these days. I am going to put the HOUSTON LOCAL CON ARTIST ON BLAST, IF YOU SEE THESE PEOPLE ON THE STREET OFFERING REAL ESTATE AND/OR FINANCIAL SERVICES RUN!!!!! Rumor has it that these guys are FRAUD! ANTHONY WELCH (behind bars already), Ray Buchanon (does shady loans) Toni ( I believe he is the guy that owns that Miles J resturant (if not its worth investigating Toni maybe the alias.) There many more...Isiah would you put these shady loan officers, and Brokers on Blast for me??????"
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