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Not to mention protection, the oldest and best reason to pay taxes. If we lived without taxes (ie in a state of anarchy) any warlord could come and take your things, your family, your life at a whim. People who whine about taxes as much as islander are just too stupid to consider the alternatives.

But then islander’s already proven his lack of intelligence by proposing that, if no services were offered to homeless people, they’d all just go away.

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uh, we get health care and fire services and library services and road maintenance and police in return for the taxes. what do you offer?

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Sold stickers are only supposed to go on once the deal is firm.

It’s possible, even after all conditions are waived, for a buyer to decline to follow through on a transaction. There are consequences, of course, but it’s not unheard of. So a Sold sticker could get peeled off.

shikko Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 9:46 am
Are there any similarities between the flickered “for sale” signs? Same realty group, for example? This will help us determine if it’s mass stupidity (many realty offices) or willful deceit (a few realty offices).

I have fired more realtors (both with and without the ™) than I’ve worked with, mostly for reasons just like this: sheer incompetence, which is the professional manifestation of stupidity.

some supercilious tool said…It’s my opinion that practically all realtors get into the business because they’ve found they’re not fit for anything else. While in school, not one person I talked to ever said “I’m going to be a REALTOR™ after I graduate!” People don’t choose the profession, they back into it.

Nobody forces anybody to use a realtor. Sell your own house. Buy a house on your own. Fill yer boots. Why so much bitterness?

People pay, what, a few thousand bucks once every 5-25 years to sell their biggest asset. But they pay tens of thousands of dollars every year to the government. In the former instance, they have a choice to avoid realtor fees. In the latter instance, if they choose to avoid taxes they go to jail. Get your anger pointed in the right direction instead of being a whiny victim all your lives.

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Was last July not an unusually high number? Look at the historical data. To say this July is historically low is incorrect.

Okay, please look at this chart: http://tinyurl.com/5b66q4

Now please tell us what ruler or equation leads to the claim that 2400 (July 2008 sales) > 4900, 2750, 3600 (July 2007, 2006, 2005 sales respectively).

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“the historical data.”

As I’ve been trying to point out (I guess I’m too subtle for you) ‘history’ means different things to different people.

It’s completely accurate to say, “Historically Vancouver has had a population of under a thousand.”

Or, “Historically Vancouver has had no real estate market. If you wanted a house you picked a nice piece of land and built one!”

You’ve got to specify what bit of history you mean and preferably provide some data.

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Segoi!

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As long as you don’t count recent history. Compared to July of last year sales have dropped by 41%:
http://paul-northvancouverhome.....ntory.html

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They’ve been doing sticker flicker for the longest time. Even during the booming years back from 2004 to 2007. I went many BOSA and Polygon development pre-sales. One week I go there and they have only two units left on the second floor, the next week they have another unit on the third, the next week they have two on the first floor, the next week they have two more on the second floor. And this will go one for weeks and weeks.

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It’s a great shot, let me know if you have a problem with me using it here.

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Sales numbers are still above historical norms. Realtors having trouble keeping up. Prices to lag inflation rate but poised to slowly move up.

Sales numbers are always above historical norms…unless they aren’t. So please, tell us where we can see your data. Or do you not have any?

This July was one of the strongest in history for sales.

Must be opposite day.

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“This July was one of the strongest in history for sales.”

Yes, and if you count history back to Egyptian times we’re looking at a month that’s in the top 1%! Given the recent market conditions there is an exponential need for buyers and as sales show the actual number of buyers is dropping off from the last few years. Of course if you take pretty good sales and add them to record breaking listings you still have the recipe for a crash. In this case sales that are merely ‘good’ are like a pile of feather pillows trying to stop the listings locomotive.

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The Source, you’re kidding right? Or is that kool aid you’re drinking?

http://paul-northvancouverhomes.blogspot.com/

Numbers are up for July, it was the LOWEST amount of sales for that month in years.

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Year to date sales are strong. Total sales by revenue is indeed high and above historical norms. However July sales by units sold are the lowest since 2000. In 2000, July sales were around 1600 or so. the source is right: still a long way to go for this bad boy to be called horrendous. But we’re well on our way.

Get your affairs in order if you rely on real estate to make a living. It’s not too late to save some reserves just in case.

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A second listing MLS# V721464 – now at listed at $597. Shows the same owners as before the ’sale’.

Anyone know what the heck is going on here?

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I personally have looked at this townhouse; it has the smallest most useless deck with no view… there is no wonder it is a dog below 1 mil but cranking it up to 1.1M???

I notice they changed REALTORs (TM) to Gordon Marony “A Delta area REALTOR and former BCREA (2004-05) president… Oh, he’s a Delta agent trying to sell a townhouse in Yaletown, maybe that explains why he has no idea how to price…

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Realtors are having trouble keeping awake at their empty open houses.

Prices are falling, rapidly. They will likely continue to fall rapidly until a few years from now when things will finally land. Those without parachutes will go >>>splat<<<

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“Tijuana donkey show”

I thought your move was the ‘angry pirate’.

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