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From: Mr. V on 5 May 2010 00:01
Very informative post Nonny, well stated.

I plan on looking around a bit at real estate during my Jooone visit;
maybe some other AVLVers will want to swap info?

I'd be looking for a one story with large garage / shop; rent it out
initially, maybe move in down the road after retirement, to do the
"snow bird" thing.

Winters in Portland can be a bit ... soggy.



From: Nonny on 5 May 2010 00:34

"Mr. V" <allagoshang(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:69bdea5e-a463-4a65-9384-b4b1ea0f9399(a)y6g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
> Very informative post Nonny, well stated.
>
> I plan on looking around a bit at real estate during my Jooone
> visit;
> maybe some other AVLVers will want to swap info?
>
> I'd be looking for a one story with large garage / shop; rent it
> out
> initially, maybe move in down the road after retirement, to do
> the
> "snow bird" thing.
>
> Winters in Portland can be a bit ... soggy.

I personally vetoed one because the listed "4-car garage," would
not have held our van, a pickup and the Smart car. Beware of
listing hype for garage space. Are you a fixer upper type, or do
you want something ready to live in? That's a major hurdle. At
my age, I can do things, but prefer to not do things. That
doesn't mean I won't do things, but just don't prefer to to them.
<VBG>

The home we took to escrow was listed as 4-car (ha), but the
resulting 3 car space was oversized inside to leave me lots of
room for a workbench, table saw, table sander, RAS, planer, and
other things that make it worthwhile to wake up in the morning.
<grin>

One home we visited had a built-in underground shooting range
beneath the pool. It's not off the card for us, but we're
considering it as a second choice. You literally walked down a
stairway by the pool, under a pavilion, into a wine cellar. You
then swiveled a concealed wine rack aside and entered another
little hallway. There, you moved aside a heavy vault-like door to
reveal a 7' tall, 6' wide by 75' long all concrete gallery with
automatic target retriever, pistol rest and great lighting.
Somehow, I doubt if Henderson inspectors know of its existence.
<grin> I loved it and we still might make an offer. The problem
was that the rest of the house wasn't in the best of condition.

There are some cool places out there.

--
Nonny
On most days,
it's just not worth
the effort of chewing
through the restraints..


From: Las Vegas Don on 5 May 2010 15:40
On May 3, 10:19 pm, Gary <Gary...(a)Yahoo.com> wrote:
> Walt wrote:
> > In article <ebe5326b-674b-46d1-a697-f3f88202f...(a)y36g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> >  Las Vegas Don <dstre...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Several months ago I
> >> suggested that people jump into the Vegas housing market, I was poo
> >> pooed by the normal group of homeless smelly drunk people, people in
> >> the ng.  I was correct, they were wrong as usual.
>
> > On July 17, 2008, Marsha posted a link to an LVRJ article that day headlined,
> > "New-home sales hold steady in LV", "Analyst expects trend to continue into
> > 2009".
>
> > To which real estate expert Las Vegas Don replied:
>
> >> Newsgroups: alt.vacation.las-vegas
> >> From: Las Vegas Don <dstre...(a)gmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:35:33 -0700 (PDT)
> >> Subject: Re: New-home Sales hold steady in LV
>
> >> Hi Marsha,
> >>   This is a great time to buy in Vegas.  The prices will only go up
> >> from the bottom.
> >> Don
>
> > On Dec. 9, 2008, Joe J. posted a link to an LVRJ article that day headlined,
> > "HOUSING: LV homes called undervalued", "National study puts city near bottom,
> > at 18.8 percent below market value".
>
> > To which real estate guru Las Vegas Don replied:
>
> >> Newsgroups: alt.vacation.las-vegas
> >> From: Las Vegas Don <dstre...(a)gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:38:15 -0800 (PST)
> >> Subject: Re: Las Vegas real estate article
>
> >> I have been saying this for the longest.  Homes in Vegas are at great
> >> deals right now.  People need to jump in there and relocate while the
> >> fishing is good.
> >> "Ya cruise, ya loose".
> >> Don
>
> > On Jan. 9, 2009, real estate genius Las Vegas Don replied in a thread entitled
> > "How bad is it?":
>
> >> Newsgroups: alt.vacation.las-vegas
> >> From: Las Vegas Don <dstre...(a)gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:54:32 -0800 (PST)
> >> Subject: Re: How bad is it?
>
> >> Invest in homes in Vegas right now.  The prices are low.
>
> > Oh, and then there's this observation by Don back in 2006:
>
> >> Newsgroups: alt.vacation.las-vegas
> >> From: "Don Strevel" <dstrevel@<deletethis>cox.net>
> >> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:24:59 -0800
> >> Subject: Re: housing market downturn?
>
> >> Peoples ability to remember things is not in anyway predicated upon what you
> >> say.  They suffer from convienient memory use, ...and loss.
>
> > So keep at it, Don.  A stopped clock, like your brain, will eventually happen to
> > be correct.
>
> >    --- Walt
>
> Walt,
>
> I get a daily email listing nothing but foreclosure sales in Vegas.
> There are 30 listings to a page. The email Saturday was comprised of 53
> pages and that is just the first day of the month. Foreclosures continue
> to rise here. The local economy is a wasteland. Businesses are closing
> left and right. The rental moving van places like UHaul can't keep
> trucks in stock due to so many people moving away from here, yet today
> Don says there is a huge influx of people moving here from California,
> after selling their homes there. California is perhaps just as bad as
> Nevada when it comes to home sales and value, perhaps only eclipsed by
> Miami or Florida in general.
>
> Don keeps saying that the housing market is improving in Las Vegas. My
> real estate agent, who has been a top selling agent in the valley for 17
> years, just closed her office and took a job selling condos. She hadn't
> sold a house in almost a year and the 3 listings she had were each on
> the market for over 9 months without offers. She only took listings she
> felt were priced reasonably and had a possibility of selling.
>
> MLS currently lists over 18,000 homes for sale in Las Vegas and that
> doesn't include houses in foreclosure or many bank owned homes. MLS says
> that the average time currently on the market for a owner owned home in
> Las Vegas is 13 months from listing to sale.
>
> The recent minor bubble of increased buying in Las Vegas and around the
> country is due to the Federal housing credit which ended at the end of
> last month. Not that it is over, you will see sales once again flatten
> and the minimal buyer frenzy is already past.
>
> Don has through the years shown that he has no grasp on reality as his
> stories of owing multiple houses here, in Memphis and Scottsdale, all
> owned by his phantom Nevada 'corps' are to say the least, amusing.
>
>         Gary
> --
>
> "Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own
> father can make you live forever if you telepathically tell him you
> accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul
> that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a
> talking snake to eat from a magical tree..... yeah, makes perfect sense."- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Gary,
I enjoy your sig file. I am try to be a good Christian and feel you
are correct to a degree. Just don't gore my organised superstition,
ok :) Problem is that people take those education stories literal
which does not speak well for their own mind. They are trua and
accurate, but some od rgw follower are stupid lemmings. You might be
surprised to know how much we probobly agree on a few things...damnit!

Would they feel the educational stories in Aesops fables to be the
same. Me thinks not.

Don
From: NomenNeisco on 5 May 2010 15:57
Las Vegas Don wrote:
did not learn how to spell in school.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Aparently u did not lern to handul ur nervus twich.
>
> Get a frickin life. Anything you want in life you must move on
> expidiciously.
>
> People that say something cannot be done are usually interupted by
> those doing that very thing.
>
> www.limewire.com
> Rush / Roll the Bones.

ya
you says we should be
buyin vegas property
so
where are all de vegas
propertys you be buyin

make it up dem bones
From: Las Vegas Don on 5 May 2010 18:07
On May 5, 1:57 pm, NomenNeisco <nob...(a)dizum.com> wrote:
> Las Vegas Don wrote:
>
>   did not learn how to spell in school.- Hide quoted text -
>
>
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > Aparently u did not lern to handul ur nervus twich.
>
> > Get a frickin life. Anything you want in life you must move on
> > expidiciously.
>
> > People that say something cannot be done are usually interupted by
> > those doing that very thing.
>
> >www.limewire.com
> > Rush / Roll the Bones.
>
> ya
> you says we should be
> buyin vegas property
> so
> where are all de vegas
> propertys you be buyin
>
> make it up dem bones

All is well in other peoples business. Ya want to rent one? If you
want to move to Vegas find a house on your own.

Shove dem bones
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