01.18.2007 - Thursday Open Thread
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Job increases will keep Seattle immune. Look at the examples Arizona, Nevada, Utah are having great job growth exceeding 3% and California and Florida are the two states adding the most jobs in 2007. Just look at their housing market...booming!
Well, it looks like I've found the reason for the lack of 'Shug comments as of late... zillow's bringin' the pain to his little slice of paradise there in Ballard...
12/06 503K
1/07 496K
Around a ~7K haircut in little under a month. That's gotta hurt.
Man, I sure am curious as to what was said on those comments that are deleted.
If you must know t,v & mr.b...
After parusing 'Seattlest' condo blurb, I came across TheTim's protest comment, and as courtesy deleted my comment that referenced said article..
Darn, I thought it was something demeaning from shug directed at you. thank
Grivetti,
I wouldn't call it a "protest comment." I was just pointing out the interesting similarities between the two posts. I'm assuming that it was just a coincidence, and Michael came up with the same ideas as me independently.
Here's the link.
I saw a post on RCG, where the author stated that one of her favorite things about Seattle was the great weather from April/May to October.
IMO, the weather doesn't really get consistently good here until late June. It sometimes can last until October, but that isn't the norm.
A few stats I found about Seattle:
# of Cloudy days a year: 226
# of Partly cloudy dats: 82
# of Sunny days: 58
If the "good weather" does last from April to October, and also includes all 58 days of annual sunshine, then that would be an average of 8.28 days of sunshine per month during that time period.
Links:
http://www.weathertoday.net/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city.php
http://www.weathertoday.net/weatherfacts/cloudy_asc.php
I am ashamed to say, but I got caught up in watching American Idol last night due to it having been here in Seattle. I was bummed that there were a couple of sunny days shown, but was happy to see the torrential downpours during most of the filming. OK America, it's like the first part of the show ALL THE TIME.
I'm seeing a new trend locally and am wondering how prevaelent this has become. There are now three different houses (3-4 bedrooms) on my street that are being occupied by at least 3 people. I don't mean families, I mean roommates. Two of them I believe are being rented, and one was apparently bought by 3-4 people together to live in. To add to this, I myself and living in half a SFH that was converted into a duplex. So that's at least four houses on my street of ~30 that are now multi-occupant. It might have something to do with the houses being almost twice as expensive as they were 3-4 years ago.
Richard, I'd say they are all under 35 at least. Some of them are students at BCC, I believe. Which renting out a SFH to multiple tenants isn't a new idea, it does seem strange to me that three different houses on the same street decided to do it in just the last year. One of them only after sitting for sale for 5-6 months.
wanderer,
The Odd Couple was about a couple of middle aged guys who room together.
I've heard the model for young professionals in the area is to buy a housee they can't afford and rent out extra rooms to roommates.
It is more difficult to follow that model when you are married.
Latest F&*ked Borrowers on Craigslist
"We own multiple corner townhomes in the development. We will consider all reasonable rent offers."
They don't even offer a price for the rental. Let's make a deal!
Here's another one of Paul Allen's beautes up for sale.
"Hurry on this one. If this unit is not sold then owner will hold on as Rental and make the equity himself."
ROFL! ... and association fees are only $462/mo!
"and with the new towers coming up next year, the 1BR units without the bonus area will start selling in the 500's, meaning, this unit could be worth approx 15-25% more than it is now in just 1 year."
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