From: T Wake on 6 Dec 2006 12:39 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:el6e76$8ss_006(a)s867.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <3da7f$457628a4$4fe7071$17548(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > <snip> > >>They have to have reasonable credit. Not excellent, just >>reasonable, and a provable income. Excellent for a growing >>family or a retiree. >> >>The poor in this area can easily own a house without even >>trying real hard. > > As we're observing here in this newsgroup, it is a sin > to have to work for a living. The key for anybody to > buy their abode is knowing how to work and how to pay > their bills. Blah, blah. /BAH continues her disconnect with reality.
From: T Wake on 6 Dec 2006 12:45 <vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote in message news:el6hfq$d1a$7(a)reader2.panix.com... > *+-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 6 Dec 2006 12:47 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:157c3$45762976$4fe7071$17570(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... >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 6 Dec 2006 12:51 "Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote in message news:sb8cn2d10deuolai85oamf80mnubd4bsp5(a)4ax.com... > 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 6 Dec 2006 12:52
"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:e8eef$45762a64$4fe7071$17570(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... >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? |