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Wanted: YOUR TOYS
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[email protected]Date:
2008-01-28, 1:37PM EST
Wanted: YOUR TOYS
You: an average
American. You are deeply in debt and still continue to borrow every day to feed
your habit. You walk into Wawa and, for a measly $2.99 coffee and breakfast
sandwich, you rip out the credit card because you have no cash (that’s me behind
you in line). The concept of buying only those things you can actually afford is
foreign to you. You feel that a $500k home with a big screen TV and BMW in the
driveway are entitlements you deserve … even though you never finished college
and earn about $45k/year. Going back to school … improving your skills … these
are also distasteful to you. Math was not your favorite subject and, when the
mortgage brokers told you that you could borrow your way to riches, you bit
hook, line and sinker. Your mortgage rate has reset …you’re on the verge of
foreclosure, making minimum payments on your credit cards and the Yellow Pages
book on your kitchen table is opened up to “Bankruptcy Attorneys”. Gas prices
and utility bills are killing you. Your job is not as secure as you thought. You
are panicked. You are desperate. And the liquidation of assets (toys) such as
your Beemer, your Big Screen, your fancy electronic toys, your Sea Doo, that
nice new diamond ring bought with home equity cash … is going to be necessary to
buy food and heat.
Of course, it’s all someone else’s fault. That
someone else is …
Me: I sold my home at in late 2005 knowing full well
that this massive housing bubble was unsustainable (I was a math major – that
geeky guy you hated and despised in high school). And, no, you can’t copy my
test answers. I put over half a million in the bank (less than $100k in any one
bank to have complete FDIC insurance coverage). I didn’t have a mortgage because
I always spent less than I earned and aggressively paid off my mortgage in just
7 years. I also didn’t pay a Realtor commission when I sold – who needed a
Realtor to sell ANYTHING in 2005. I could have sold an outhouse for $250k to you
dopes back then. I am a renter and I rent a 3-bedroom home cheap ($1600/mo)
because the landlord has no pricing power. Rents are going to get even cheaper
as more housing supply comes on the market and desperate flippers will rent at
almost any price to soften the negative cash flow a bit. While you were buying
your McMansion, I paid cash for everything, have no debt whatsoever and SAVE
almost $30k/year. I don’t own a big screen TV or a boat. I have never bought a
new car and I never will (not an investment – a depreciating asset). I am
clearly *NOT* doing my part to support the US economy and you can blame me all
you want for not pulling my weight. I am going to be a homeowner again but not
for a few years. Housing is going to take a 50%+ haircut no matter what
“stimulus” Bush provides in the form of rebates and regardless of whether
Bernanke cuts interest rates to ZERO. The bond market will negate any interest
rate reduction in hours or minutes. That ¾ point cut last week was swallowed up
by the bond market in just 3 hours. It won’t matter a whit as there is too much
debt and leverage in play for this not to unwind very painfully. I am not in the
stock market either as that haircut will be equally painful. In the meantime, I
want to enjoy life so I’m in the market for a few toys; specifically *your* toys
(I don’t pay retail for anything). At the right price, my son would love to
watch sports on a nice big screen. I’m thinking of riding your jet skis this
summer (cheap, of course). I met a wonderful woman this past autumn and we are
hitting it off amazingly. She and I are like-minded with regard to the above.
So, she would not mind at all wearing that nice diamond ring even if it’s second
hand (she’d probably come in her panties if she knew I got it for dimes on the
dollar). My Jetta still runs nice but your BMW would be a great addition to my
driveway. I don’t care what you owe on it – I’m not paying that much. But I am
paying CASH. What have you got?
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