Home Ownership

[Gustoo]

He got a good hand in the sense that his predecessor was a famously well known scum bag so people are willing to give Biden a bit of a pass. That’s what’s happening.

Sorry you’ve never been to a random lake in Arizona where men literally wear t shirts with the nazi SS logo and are openly pro nazi white supremacists.

The above community is one I am familiar with and it’s turned a corner since the trump presidency. Not to say the race war aspect of Trump is his invention, his dumb ass just made it worse.

(Race politics in USA is just to keep us internally divided enough to support with vehemence whoever democrat or republican to fight the bad one on the other side) the real result though is racist weirdos come out of the wood work. Future is grim there’s a lot of nice (geographically) places I no longer consider viable living places in America.

[MrSparkle001]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Biden can still get literally shit on during a speech on live tv about world war 3 and the media will still not make fun of him.

A bad hand that is absolute bull honkey.

Saudi Arabia is making fun of him. Make of that what you will.

[Jibartik]

He got a good hand in the sense that his predecessor was a famously well known scum bag so people are willing to give Biden a bit of a pass. That’s what’s happening.

This is a full house. It's about as good a hand as you can get in politics.

Sorry you’ve never been to a random lake in Arizona where men literally wear t shirts with the nazi SS logo and are openly pro nazi white supremacists.

If this is what people encounter in their lives then I live a deeply privliaged one.

[Reiwa]

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is there a word for when the economy recedes like this?

[Rethalis]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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is there a word for when the economy recedes like this?

Fear mongering, virtue signaling lockdowns.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Rethalis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fear mongering, virtue signaling lockdowns.

Take it up with Tromp

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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is there a word for when the economy recedes like this?

yeah "the guy I voted for got a bad hand"

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Gatordash [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Index funds- where you go to learn the global economy actually relies on Apple's stock price.

I’m more worried about Tesla’s portion of the stock market tbh

[Gatordash]

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I sold my old home on Open Door. Closes next Friday. So far everything has been exactly like Open Door said it would be. I'll update if it actually works. What Open Door offered me seems too good to be true so I will be skeptical until the money actually hits my bank account.

Pretty interesting business model. I originally thought they were in the business of flipping homes on a large scale to make money but essentially Open Door's business model is to fuck realtors out of their commissions. Which I'm kinda all for. My realtor was pretty pissed when I told her I'm trying out an I-buyer.

OPENDOOR UPDATE: You should all try Opendoor when selling your home. I got an extra $70k and didn't have to fix or show my home at all.

Selling your home to Opendoor is legit. Just starting there because I was skeptical of it. If you've ever bought or sold a home, you know you will be signing a ton of paperwork that you only read small portions of and never know what's in there. Opendoor explained the entire process to me and everything happened exactly like they said. There was no "fine print" to the process.

How it works is you fill out some basic home info online and they give you a range of what they will offer. You then have a Zoom call where you walk around your home showing everything to them. Lastly, they have an inspector come out to look at your backyard and the foundation of the home. That is it. It took a week from when I submitted my home info to get a finalized offer price. I closed the home in two weeks. No one ever even went inside. After that you basically pack up your house and take some pictures showing that its empty. They have an escrow company contact you (you can pick your own but I just went with Opendoor's suggestion) to fill out all the paperwork. They contract with some online notary where I signed everything on my phone while I was at work.

I live in Las Vegas where everything is a master planned development with HOA's and all that. I only say that because MY EXACT HOUSE sold 3 weeks before my finalized price from Opendoor for 70k less than their offer and 30k less than Offerpad's offer. That being said, I happened to have the exact home Opendoor is looking for. They want single family starter homes in nice neighborhoods because they re-do the carpeting, paint it, and can sell it right away.

To my understanding, they way Opendoor makes money buying homes is from cutting out the realtor. They charge a 5% 'service fee' on the sale of your home in place of the typical 6% 'commission' your realtor would charge. So if they buy your house for $500,000, they take 25k of that. But even still, from your perspective as a seller, you are saving $5k because your realtor would have taken 30k instead of the 25k. Opendoor will also take out money for repairs. You can probably negotiate this but I didn't. They wanted $7k in repairs for my house which seemed reasonable.

All of this info, including the fees and closing costs, was given to me up front in the "finalized offer" they gave me a week after I contacted them. Its a free offer and they ended up paying me more than what I would have got on the open market unless my home value went up 70k in 3 weeks. You should all try it.

[unsunghero]

My realtor I saw at a family gathering over Easter weekend since he’s a family friend. He asked how I was liking the house and I joked that it was going up $1000/day

I was totally kidding, but I just looked it up and it did indeed go up in value $30k in the last month, which comes out to $1000/day

House makes way more money than I could…