From: T Wake on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3da7f$457628a4$4fe7071$17548(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>>They have to have reasonable credit. Not excellent, just
>>reasonable, and a provable income. Excellent for a growing
>>family or a retiree.
>>
>>The poor in this area can easily own a house without even
>>trying real hard.
>
> As we're observing here in this newsgroup, it is a sin
> to have to work for a living. The key for anybody to
> buy their abode is knowing how to work and how to pay
> their bills.

Blah, blah. /BAH continues her disconnect with reality.


From: T Wake on

<vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote in message
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> *+-What kind of house sells for $19,000? An outhouse?
>
> Use FSBO.com. Only you have to run a search for each state, with a max
> price.

Very few (other than plots) going for under $20,000


From: T Wake on

"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
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>T Wake wrote:
>
>> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
>> news:dd9f8$45759abe$4fe71d5$13578(a)DIALUPUSA.NET...
>>
>>>krw wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>In article <4575811C.AEDAD6A9(a)hotmail.com>,
>>>>rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>I rather doubt that it does happen all the time in the USA. I
>>>>>>>>>>>suspect
>>>>>>>>>>>it's just another of your fanciful folksy notions.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Nope. It's fact.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I still don't believe you. Your 'facts' have been rather fanciful
>>>>>>>>>to date.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>All of my brothers and sisters bought their own home before they
>>>>>>>>got legal (21). They were on their second or third car. They
>>>>>>>>worked and supported themselves. All of my relatives on my mother's
>>>>>>>>side had some kind farm business before they were legal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>None were rich. None were even middle class. Most were poor.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>/BAH
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Teenagers buy their own homes, and "none were right -- none were even
>>>>>>>middle
>>>>>>>class."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There's your problem -- you have no idea of what "middle class"
>>>>>>>means. Hint:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>middle-class teenagers are not able to buy their own homes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Right. Poor ones manage to do so. One of the lessons you learn
>>>>>>when you grow up poor is how not to spend money.
>>>>>
>>>>>Dear BAH,
>>>>>
>>>>>the 'entry price round here for even a modest single bedroom apartment,
>>>>>never mind
>>>>>a house is the equivalent of �300,000.
>>>>>
>>>>>Please explain how a 'poor person' can acquire one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Live elsewhere.
>>>
>>>A bank is having trouble locally selling a perfectly livable
>>>house with an asking price of $19,000. I'll bet anyone with
>>>a job and $100 cash and a reasonable credit history could
>>>move in tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> What is the average income in that area? What sort of rental incomes do
>> people pay? What is the employment rate in the area? What is the
>> population makeup (numbers and age groups would be ideal)?
>>
>> I will buy it tonight if there is a reasonable chance I can rent it out
>> again.
>
> All just answered in another posting.

Read and replied.

> You'd have a rough time managing it from where you are. You
> could get a local realtor to manage it for you, but who
> makes sure they don't cheat you......

It might be worth the extra effort.

> If I wait a while I can probably buy it for a few thousand
> less.

If I were you, I would buy it now before some one else sees sense and buys
it.


From: T Wake on

"Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:57:28 -0000, "T Wake"
> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
>>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:4576059D.2EF6C63D(a)hotmail.com...
>>>
>>> T Wake wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another problem of conscription is you force the undesirables into the
>>>> military (right wing extremists, left wing extremists, religiously
>>>> intolerant bigots etc) and even provide them with military training.
>>>
>>> I've heard this is deliberately happeening in the US forces. What better
>>> way to
>>> learn how to kill ppl ?
>>
>>It is the same over here. The Armed Forces generally recruit from people
>>who
>>cant get jobs anywhere else. Sadly, the large proportion of the ill
>>educated
>>who enlist also come from the hotbeds of right wing extremism and racial
>>intolerance.
>>
>>I am fairly sure the US military has a robust policy at weeding them out
>>when they are identified. My recollections of working with Americans is
>>that
>>they were a _lot_ less tolerant of the "banter" that was flung around than
>>Brits were.
>
> They were good at weeding them out. I don't believe that is happening
> as it once was. But I'd need to research this some. Another of those
> 'ideas' I've developed from reading the tea leaves of essentially
> apocryphal sources.

Nothing wrong with that, there is merit to trying out new ideas.


From: T Wake on

"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
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>T Wake wrote:
>
>> "Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote in message
>> news:qrc9n25pv8c1emhv84kpqn03e1rcvkgc3p(a)4ax.com...
>
>> Another problem of conscription is you force the undesirables into the
>> military (right wing extremists, left wing extremists, religiously
>> intolerant bigots etc) and even provide them with military training.
>
> The usual military training teaches people certain skills.
> Don't worry, generally speaking leadership is not one of
> those.

Weapons and tactics are the ones they are after though. Leadership is not
taught in the US? Or it isn't one wanted by left/right wing extremists and
other undesirables?