re: The Housing Market - Boomers need to understand that they've waited too long

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These houses can sit for 6-12 months before they are eventually dropped to what they are worth.

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start high and negotiate brah. Or are you not understanding how commerce works? What do you care if an estate is willing to wait it out? Are you suggesting the people who lived and died in those houses should have sold before they died? And then what?

all of these real estate bitch threads are so so stupid

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The ones you linked are $122, $85, $96 /sf. That's dirt cheap where I'm from.

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Here a 2400 sq' home is $380/sq ft

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start high and negotiate brah. Or are you not understanding how commerce works? What do you care if an estate is willing to wait it out? Are you suggesting the people who lived and died in those houses should have sold before they died? And then what?

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You have a stroke or something? You turned into RogertheShrubber/777Tiger lite overnight (I think they also had strokes that caused them to turn tarded)

mingo i promise when you get older your capacity to care about what other people think, about real estate or anything else, will decline as well. And you’ll wonder why on earth you chose to argue about stupidity on the internet in the first place

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50k in updates? Maybe triple that and you might get somewhere

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He put in a new dishwasher, stove and master bathtub only lol

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Perhaps this is true. I don't know where. I haven't heard of one of my boomer acquaintances do that. Seems like I would have heard of one. Hell, even the ones I've known to go into assisted living is paying their way out of money and investments.

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I imagine observation bias. No different than thinking the denizens of the MT board are reflective of the general population.

Median retirement savings by age
Age range
Median retirement savings
Under 35
$18,880.
35-44
$45,000.
45-54
$115,000.
55-64
$185,000.
65-74
$200,000.
75 and older
$130,000.

Sauce: LINK

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selfish

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hang on
is the premise of this argument that older sellers are being selfish by asking a premium for their investment? Really?

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so understand how this attitude affects everyone,

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BUT it doesn't effect "everyone". Just like always there are some that maybe effected. Most want. Many will croak today. The croak rate will take care of this.

There are other places for those that wait too long to go. I know where.

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Median retirement savings by age

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And so when they can't go where they want they go where the gov't sends them. My wife's cousin was one of them. She never had a house and very little savings. She suffered from ALS and they found a place for her.

I’m dealing with it right now, basically living in Virginia trying to figure out what and where the living situation for my MIL will be. Her husband just died, she’s had a stroke, and she owns the house…which if on the market I would price very high because if she’s not living in it we will need every penny we can get from it. If that takes time then we will wait

but yes let’s whine and cry about real estate prices for another three pages