1 hour ago, paco said:

We went to an open house yesterday and it was the first time I masked up since the restrictions was lifted. 

I went to 3 open houses yesterday lol 

2 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

For some reason they think the vaccines are going to have an adverse impact years later even though literally no vaccine has EVER worked that way.

You just wait.  In 5, 10 years, lots of people who took the vaccine will be dropping dead of heart attacks, cancer, super AIDS, all sorts of things really, thanks to the vaccine

Just now, Agent23 said:

I went to 3 open houses yesterday lol 

Cat Lad friendly, I assume

1 minute ago, paco said:

You just wait.  In 5, 10 years, lots of people who took the vaccine will be dropping dead of heart attacks, cancer, super AIDS, all sorts of things really, thanks to the vaccine

Cat Lad friendly, I assume

all with steps in them so the fat Fer of the two can lose some damn weight!

2 minutes ago, paco said:

You just wait.  In 5, 10 years, lots of people who took the vaccine will be dropping dead of heart attacks, cancer, super AIDS, all sorts of things really, thanks to the vaccine

 

Jokes on us. When we die in 40 years people will be like "See, told you they shouldn't have gotten the vaccine"

I have no interest in wading into the housing market, but from what I've heard from those who are houses are getting multiple offers the day they're listed, sometime before they're even listed.

With that I'm surprised there are many open houses. Maybe it's overstated?

 

13 minutes ago, paco said:

When the vaccine FIRST came out and a person was skeptical, I could understand that.  Totally rational.

 

But now that literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have taken it and it's proven safe, why not now?  Makes no sense.

I know some people who have caught Covid and had absolutely no issues with it, including one that said he was sleepy for a week and another who felt like he had a mild cold for a couple of day. I also know people who have had awful reactions to the vaccines. At my age/weight and with my eating and exercise habits, I simply don't have any fear of coronavirus. I know that upsets a lot of people, but I just don't. It really is that simple. 

Plus, I just don't trust vaccines that spent, what, less than a year in development? J&J can't even make baby powder without giving people testicular cancer. I don't like the idea of being injected with coronavirus vaccine every six to twelve months for the rest of my life. No thanks.

Plus, plus, as an added bonus it makes ishlibs really angry and that makes me happy. 

4 minutes ago, Kz! said:

I know some people who have caught Covid and had absolutely no issues with it, including one that said he was sleepy for a week and another who felt like he had a mild cold for a couple of day. I also know people who have had awful reactions to the vaccines. At my age/weight and with my eating and exercise habits, I simply don't have any fear of coronavirus. I know that upsets a lot of people, but I just don't. It really is that simple. 

Plus, I just don't trust vaccines that spent, what, less than a year in development? J&J can't even make baby powder without giving people testicular cancer. I don't like the idea of being injected with coronavirus vaccine every six to twelve months for the rest of my life. No thanks.

Plus, plus, as an added bonus it makes ishlibs really angry and that makes me happy. 

How many people clapped and how long did their applause last?

41 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I have no interest in wading into the housing market, but from what I've heard from those who are houses are getting multiple offers the day they're listed, sometime before they're even listed.

With that I'm surprised there are many open houses. Maybe it's overstated?

From what I can tell it's been wild. We bought our house in December 2019, it was on the market for a few weeks and ended up getting it for like 15 grand under asking and negotiated some minor repairs. It's a great area on the water and best school district in the state so we felt really happy with it, but it's not like we got some massive deal on it either. Pretty spot on with the appraisal.

  Flash forward to this year and we have 3 friends looking for houses in a similar area and EVERYTHING is going significantly over asking and you're not negotiating any repairs.  Most owners are smart enough not to sell before showing the house off because the bidding wars are ridiculous.  One lost out in a 1200 square foot house that went 60k over asking and they were one of 17 offers. If you're looking for 500k plus homes you pretty much have to waive the mortgage contingency or you're pretty much guaranteed to lose out to a cash offer. Another couple lost out on a big beautiful home that went 150k+ over asking, cash offer, waived inspection AND they let the previous owners stay through the summer.  It's wild.

We're close with our realtor and apparently it's getting better, but still we got SO lucky. The interest rates are much better now but we just refinanced so really got the best of both worlds. 

10 minutes ago, Kz! said:

I know some people who have caught Covid and had absolutely no issues with it, including one that said he was sleepy for a week and another who felt like he had a mild cold for a couple of day. I also know people who have had awful reactions to the vaccines. At my age/weight and with my eating and exercise habits, I simply don't have any fear of coronavirus. I know that upsets a lot of people, but I just don't. It really is that simple. 

Plus, I just don't trust vaccines that spent, what, less than a year in development? J&J can't even make baby powder without giving people testicular cancer. I don't like the idea of being injected with coronavirus vaccine every six to twelve months for the rest of my life. No thanks.

Plus, plus, as an added bonus it makes ishlibs really angry and that makes me happy. 

And I know people who caught it and died

22 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I have no interest in wading into the housing market, but from what I've heard from those who are houses are getting multiple offers the day they're listed, sometime before they're even listed.

With that I'm surprised there are many open houses. Maybe it's overstated?

 

The family I know listed their house in Montco for $500k and got an offer for $600K cash, the next day.

24 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I have no interest in wading into the housing market, but from what I've heard from those who are houses are getting multiple offers the day they're listed, sometime before they're even listed.

With that I'm surprised there are many open houses. Maybe it's overstated?

 

As of noon there were 3 on ours and ours wasnt the strongest.  And they expected more to come before the deadline.  We submitted our first one day 1.

23 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I have no interest in wading into the housing market, but from what I've heard from those who are houses are getting multiple offers the day they're listed, sometime before they're even listed.

With that I'm surprised there are many open houses. Maybe it's overstated?

 

My sister-in-law just moved to SoCal from Iowa, and we went to look at houses for her. Looked at 9 houses on a Saturday, they all had multiple offers by Monday. They have the open houses to start bidding wars.

3 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

How many people clapped and how long did their applause last?

Believe me when I tell you, Albert was in no mood to clap in the several days after his second dose. 

1 minute ago, paco said:

And I know people who caught it and died

Yeah, and I know a guy who is a year older than me who ended up in intensive care for multiple months with complications from it. His main issue was weighing 400 pounds, unfortunately.

3 minutes ago, paco said:

And I know people who caught it and died

I know two that caught it and died, both were over 50. I know 5 who caught COVID and beat it.

3 of them, all had a intestinal form of it - got violently sick for 1-2 days, lost sense of smell. 1 was sick for months, supposedly over it, but he coughs all the time now. Everyone lost the sense of smell and taste. 1 it has not returned after nearly a year.

 

39 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

For some reason they think the vaccines are going to have an adverse impact years later even though literally no vaccine has EVER worked that way.

I haven’t noticed any difference with anything prior to the shot. I still have a terrific attention sp…

 

Oh look, a quarter!!

12 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

From what I can tell it's been wild. We bought our house in December 2019, it was on the market for a few weeks and ended up getting it for like 15 grand under asking and negotiated some minor repairs. It's a great area on the water and best school district in the state so we felt really happy with it, but it's not like we got done massive deal in it either. Pretty spot on with the appraisal.

  Flash forward to this year and we have 3 friends looking for houses in a similar area and EVERYTHING is going significantly over asking and you're not negotiating any repairs.  Most owners are smart enough not to sell before showing the house off because the bidding wars are ridiculous.  One lost out in a 1200 square foot house that went 60k over asking and they were one of 17 offers. If you're looking for 500k plus homes you pretty much have to waive the mortgage contingency or you're pretty much guaranteed to lose out to a cash offer. Another couple lost out on a big beautiful home that went 150k+ over asking, cash offer, waived inspection AND they let the previous owners stay through the summer.  It's wild.

We're close with our realtor and apparently it's getting better, but still we got SO lucky. The interest rates are much better now but we just refinanced so really got the best of both worlds. 

you have to be an absolute idiot to buy a $500k+ home and waiving inspection.

1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

you have to be an absolute idiot to buy a $500k+ home and waiving inspection.

2 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

you have to be an absolute idiot to buy a $500k+ home and waiving inspection.

 

Just now, paco said:

man, the price of triple-wides has gone through the roof....

3 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

you have to be an absolute idiot to buy a $500k+ home and waiving inspection.

I wouldn't have the balls but I get the impression that's relatively common this past year. Bring along a contractor friend on the walkthrough and hope they can point out anything major, then hope for the best 🤷‍♂️

Who waives home inspection? This is a thing? Sure, when we bought our home the inspector found 20 things wrong. We whittled it down to two, the seller complied, done deal. As buyers, we could have said the seller didn't have to do anything, we'd fix it ourselves. Just because you get an inspection doesn't mean it has to hold up the sale. Get the inspection anyway so you know what you are buying into.

Apparently Mitch McConnell has been paying for radio ads in Kentucky trying to persuade people to get vaccinated.

Anybody not into home inspections, please post your SSN and Full Name/Address here please.

3 minutes ago, toolg said:

Who waives home inspection? This is a thing? Sure, when we bought our home the inspector found 20 things wrong. We whittled it down to two, the seller complied, done deal. As buyers, we could have said the seller didn't have to do anything, we'd fix it ourselves. Just because you get an inspection doesn't mean it has to hold up the sale. Get the inspection anyway so you know what you are buying into.

I'm sure a lot of them still get inspectors afterwards to check things out, but yeah waiving it as a means to withdraw from the sale is a thing. When even tiny crappy houses are going way over and getting close to 20 offers you gotta stay competitive somehow. 

6 minutes ago, toolg said:

Who waives home inspection? This is a thing? Sure, when we bought our home the inspector found 20 things wrong. We whittled it down to two, the seller complied, done deal. As buyers, we could have said the seller didn't have to do anything, we'd fix it ourselves. Just because you get an inspection doesn't mean it has to hold up the sale. Get the inspection anyway so you know what you are buying into.

 

Just now, Toastrel said:

Anybody not into home inspections, please post your SSN and Full Name/Address here please.

In this market, its extremely common.  If you are offering the same or a little less than the other guy but you waive inspection, you are getting the house.