Comments on: The farewell post! http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html Bubble? What Bubble? Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Coco http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35339 Coco Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:14:54 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35339 The Pope, From one blogger to the other, take a break. Do what you think is best for you. Coco (Everyone should own a blog for an extended period of time, then you would understand)<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35339">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> The Pope,

From one blogger to the other, take a break. Do what you think is best for you.

Coco

(Everyone should own a blog for an extended period of time, then you would understand)

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]]> By: slade http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35195 slade Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:49:02 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35195 I would like to echo the above post( #60), thanks for all the work you have put into this site Pope!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35195">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I would like to echo the above post( #60), thanks for all the work you have put into this site Pope!

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]]> By: billyb http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35193 billyb Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:26:20 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35193 hey thanks........been looking at this for sometime now and have gleen some important info.....Thank you. Your effort has been much appreciated.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35193">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> hey thanks……..been looking at this for sometime now and have gleen some important info…..Thank you. Your effort has been much appreciated.

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]]> By: GM http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35191 GM Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:15:18 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35191 I'll miss this site terribly. It has been my main 'fix' since VHB shut down. We've said goodbye to too many: VHB, Coco's news blog, Fish, and now Pope. All of you have been invaluable to me. It has been very trying, swimming against the current all these years, but all of you (posters included) have provided my family with strength. I still think there is a long way to go, and I will continue to look for help on the blogs as we try to make economic decisions that are best for us. I believe that making prudent decisions is going to be more crucial than ever in the upcoming years. Again, many, many thanks for all of your hard work, Pope. I sincerely hope that your efforts are rewarded with the home of your dreams purchased at an unbelievably discounted price!!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35191">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I’ll miss this site terribly. It has been my main ‘fix’ since VHB shut down. We’ve said goodbye to too many: VHB, Coco’s news blog, Fish, and now Pope. All of you have been invaluable to me. It has been very trying, swimming against the current all these years, but all of you (posters included) have provided my family with strength. I still think there is a long way to go, and I will continue to look for help on the blogs as we try to make economic decisions that are best for us. I believe that making prudent decisions is going to be more crucial than ever in the upcoming years. Again, many, many thanks for all of your hard work, Pope. I sincerely hope that your efforts are rewarded with the home of your dreams purchased at an unbelievably discounted price!!

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]]> By: ProblemBear http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35186 ProblemBear Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:32:04 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35186 I too am sorry that the Pope has issued his last Bull. ( Sorry for the really bad pun, but I kinda liked it!) Because of you and VHB and others, I sold an investment property close to the top and made some money. It would have been that much harder to do without reasonable, contrarian voices out there. Thanks. Best of luck in your future endeavours.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35186">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I too am sorry that the Pope has issued his last Bull. ( Sorry for the really bad pun, but I kinda liked it!) Because of you and VHB and others, I sold an investment property close to the top and made some money. It would have been that much harder to do without reasonable, contrarian voices out there.

Thanks.

Best of luck in your future endeavours.

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]]> By: umdesch4 http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35185 umdesch4 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:19:36 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35185 Add mine to the chorus of voices... Huge thanks to you Pope for your ringleader role in all this. I'm gonna miss this place Good luck with whatever it is you'll be up to next!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35185">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Add mine to the chorus of voices…

Huge thanks to you Pope for your ringleader role in all this. I’m gonna miss this place

Good luck with whatever it is you’ll be up to next!

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]]> By: observer http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35184 observer Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:44:15 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35184 Given all the work you've put into to maintaining this blog, I think you can be forgiven for one off day or more. It is not always easy for us posters to fully appreciate the work and worries that go into maintaining a blog. Getting less than polite legalese emails isn't something that would make my day either. Even benign tumors are tumors.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35184">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Given all the work you’ve put into to maintaining this blog, I think you can be forgiven for one off day or more. It is not always easy for us posters to fully appreciate the work and worries that go into maintaining a blog. Getting less than polite legalese emails isn’t something that would make my day either. Even benign tumors are tumors.

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]]> By: The Pope http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35182 The Pope Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:09:19 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35182 Mea culpa, shutting down the blog without warning was a jerk move, this is obviously as much your site as mine. I've got a lot of offers for help and options to mull over, but I'm leaning toward making this a community run blog. While I decide, I'm going to leave the site running and give warning for any major changes. So this is farewell for me, not for Vancouver Condo (dot) Info. The conversation will carry on.. Maybe we'll do one more Friday Free-for-all as suggested. Thanks everyone!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35182">5</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Mea culpa, shutting down the blog without warning was a jerk move, this is obviously as much your site as mine. I’ve got a lot of offers for help and options to mull over, but I’m leaning toward making this a community run blog. While I decide, I’m going to leave the site running and give warning for any major changes.

So this is farewell for me, not for Vancouver Condo (dot) Info. The conversation will carry on.. Maybe we’ll do one more Friday Free-for-all as suggested. Thanks everyone!

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]]> By: Montery http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35180 Montery Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:43:10 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35180 "So long, and thanks for all the fish!" Really enjoyed reading your blog, Pope. Hope to see you around the blogosphere.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35180">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”

Really enjoyed reading your blog, Pope. Hope to see you around the blogosphere.

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]]> By: streel http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35178 streel Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:21:32 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35178 What a long, strange trip it has been......... Many thanks, and all the best<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35178">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> What a long, strange trip it has been………

Many thanks, and all the best

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]]> By: Apocalypse Chow http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35168 Apocalypse Chow Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:28:31 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35168 long time lurker, first time poster. THANKS POPE. for *years* before i found this blog i thought i was going insane, with everyone telling me that "real estate will only go up" and "you'll be priced out if you don't buy" and "you want to make money don't you?" -- but time and time again, the numbers and the math just never added up. meanwhile, so many of my contemporaries and colleagues slapped down a few grand, or all their savings, or nothing, and bought a place (read: CONDO) over the last few years. meanwhile, each friday night, for the last two years (or abouts), i've gone to sleep snug, reassured, and a bit smug, reading your blog. (don't think my girlfriend was too impressed, however, with my friday-night reading ritual!) more importantly, it's given me ammunition + knowledge to decode the propaganda and resist the hype machines of unscrupulous realtors and the local media that propped up the ponzi scheme for so long. thanks for keeping me sane, man. this blog has helped illuminate thousands of vancouverites! sad to see you go, but i'd be overjoyed if you stuck around. Vancouver Real Estate Apocalypse: Spring 2009!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35168">3</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> long time lurker, first time poster.

THANKS POPE. for *years* before i found this blog i thought i was going insane, with everyone telling me that “real estate will only go up” and “you’ll be priced out if you don’t buy” and “you want to make money don’t you?” — but time and time again, the numbers and the math just never added up.

meanwhile, so many of my contemporaries and colleagues slapped down a few grand, or all their savings, or nothing, and bought a place (read: CONDO) over the last few years.

meanwhile, each friday night, for the last two years (or abouts), i’ve gone to sleep snug, reassured, and a bit smug, reading your blog. (don’t think my girlfriend was too impressed, however, with my friday-night reading ritual!) more importantly, it’s given me ammunition + knowledge to decode the propaganda and resist the hype machines of unscrupulous realtors and the local media that propped up the ponzi scheme for so long.

thanks for keeping me sane, man. this blog has helped illuminate thousands of vancouverites! sad to see you go, but i’d be overjoyed if you stuck around.

Vancouver Real Estate Apocalypse: Spring 2009!

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]]> By: vanzee http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35167 vanzee Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:13:48 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35167 Thanks Pope I always liked the fact that you were trying to keep humor in the mix.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35167">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Thanks Pope I always liked the fact that you were trying to keep humor in the mix.

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]]> By: scullboy http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35162 scullboy Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:22:50 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35162 Hey Your Holiness, Thanks so much. Between you and VHB I was saved from the fate that awaits so many others in Van. In all sincerity I'd like to offer you and Mrs. Pope (if there is one) and any little poplin's my services. I'd be happy to swing by and make your guys a fantastic dinner any time you like in appreciation. Just hit me up at my own blog.... www.thelaughingchef.info . God knows you did enough for all of us, gratis... And browntown/satv I swear to God if you start bombing my blog with idiot comments you'll see the business end of my Shuns.....<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35162">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Hey Your Holiness,

Thanks so much. Between you and VHB I was saved from the fate that awaits so many others in Van.

In all sincerity I’d like to offer you and Mrs. Pope (if there is one) and any little poplin’s my services. I’d be happy to swing by and make your guys a fantastic dinner any time you like in appreciation. Just hit me up at my own blog…. http://www.thelaughingchef.info . God knows you did enough for all of us, gratis…

And browntown/satv I swear to God if you start bombing my blog with idiot comments you’ll see the business end of my Shuns…..

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]]> By: quietbear http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35161 quietbear Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:21:59 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35161 I've quietly enjoyed your blog and VHB for some time now. Always informative, sometimes thought-provoking, and occasionally illuminating. Best of luck.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35161">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I’ve quietly enjoyed your blog and VHB for some time now. Always informative, sometimes thought-provoking, and occasionally illuminating. Best of luck.

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]]> By: Anna M http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35160 Anna M Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:19:53 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35160 Pope, please take up people on their offer to keep running the site. We're right in the middle of the crash and I want toread a no bs take on what's going on in the real estate world. Please. and if not, then thanks for the months of entertainment and information. Anna<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35160">2</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Pope, please take up people on their offer to keep running the site. We’re right in the middle of the crash and I want toread a no bs take on what’s going on in the real estate world. Please. and if not, then thanks for the months of entertainment and information.

Anna

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]]> By: PresumingEd http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35158 PresumingEd Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:09:12 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35158 Long time reader. First time poster. I've been reading your blog, Chipman, the former VHB and a few others for a couple years now. I'm struck by how when the inevitable happened the steam came out of the endeavour in more than one case. Like the pleasure was being wrong and when you were right, it just wasn't fun anymore. Anyway, something to ponder over your free time. What I'd like to suggest, though, is to post less frequently. Like monthly. Give it some thought. Your voice is valuable, but it doesn't have to drain you. Let you run it, not the other way around. Either way, thank you for your clarity, your commitment and your perseverance. There were times in the early days when I thought my own ideas about real estate were crazy. It was nice to find a few voices online that felt the same. Good luck.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35158">9</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Long time reader. First time poster.

I’ve been reading your blog, Chipman, the former VHB and a few others for a couple years now. I’m struck by how when the inevitable happened the steam came out of the endeavour in more than one case. Like the pleasure was being wrong and when you were right, it just wasn’t fun anymore. Anyway, something to ponder over your free time.

What I’d like to suggest, though, is to post less frequently. Like monthly. Give it some thought. Your voice is valuable, but it doesn’t have to drain you. Let you run it, not the other way around.

Either way, thank you for your clarity, your commitment and your perseverance. There were times in the early days when I thought my own ideas about real estate were crazy. It was nice to find a few voices online that felt the same.

Good luck.

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]]> By: wolfey http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35157 wolfey Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:00:06 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35157 hi pope, thank you for such a great blog. You are the seeker of truth amongst the pile of sales dung seeping from all the crevices of all the unscrupolous sales reps. IF it were up to them 150 year mortgages are what you call extended affordability. I for one believe you have major positive karma coming your way to be who u are and trying to help others. I'm sure I speak for a lot of readers here, each one of us owe you a beer, even john. But you would probably die from alcohal poisoning before you got thru to everyone. But whaat A way to go! peace and good fortune...friend of the common man<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35157">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> hi pope,

thank you for such a great blog. You are the seeker of truth amongst the pile of sales dung seeping from all the crevices of all the unscrupolous sales reps. IF it were up to them 150 year mortgages are what you call extended affordability. I for one believe you have major positive karma coming your way to be who u are and trying to help others. I’m sure I speak for a lot of readers here, each one of us owe you a beer, even john.

But you would probably die from alcohal poisoning before you got thru to everyone. But whaat A way to go!

peace and good fortune…friend of the common man

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]]> By: Anonymous http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35156 Anonymous Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:55:08 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35156 Pope, You rock. Sad to see you go. Its alway exciting to see you comment on the blog<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35156">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Pope,

You rock. Sad to see you go. Its alway exciting to see you comment on the blog

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]]> By: gadwin http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35153 gadwin Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:20:41 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35153 Pope, sad to see you go! <b>Great job with the blog and the best of luck to you!</b><p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35153">3</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Pope, sad to see you go!

Great job with the blog and the best of luck to you!

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]]> By: 1-vote http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35152 1-vote Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:19:23 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35152 Vote wisely next may,<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35152">-1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Vote wisely next may,

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]]> By: I emailed you http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35151 I emailed you Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:14:29 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35151 Hey Pope. Thanks for the years of spot on coverage. I emailed you on vancouvercondo.info [at] gmail.com proposing something. Do you ever check that email? Is there a better way to get in touch?<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35151">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Hey Pope.

Thanks for the years of spot on coverage.

I emailed you on vancouvercondo.info [at] gmail.com proposing something.
Do you ever check that email? Is there a better way to get in touch?

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]]> By: solipsist http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35150 solipsist Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:51:17 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35150 Adieu, Your Eminence, Just as we sorted out the sign-in thing, that I could post again... I wrote a great, rambling fare-thee-well, but it got lost - because I was not signed in... Suffice it to say that you have beat me to it. It is hard to be fresh when all is so stale. I have avoided my own blog for a few days now, and have been pondering a life without it. All the best pope, and thanks for all the fish. solipsist<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35150">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Adieu, Your Eminence,

Just as we sorted out the sign-in thing, that I could post again…

I wrote a great, rambling fare-thee-well, but it got lost – because I was not signed in… Suffice it to say that you have beat me to it. It is hard to be fresh when all is so stale. I have avoided my own blog for a few days now, and have been pondering a life without it.

All the best pope, and thanks for all the fish.

solipsist

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]]> By: Pete Brown http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35149 Pete Brown Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:34:02 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35149 I loved checking this site out, however, I don't blame you for wanting to shut it down. Too much stress and hassle and is it worth it. Us posters don't realize what it takes and how much anxiety it can create. My only thought is, do we live in a democracy that free thought can be struck down by threats of lawsuits!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35149">2</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I loved checking this site out, however, I don’t blame you for wanting to shut it down. Too much stress and hassle and is it worth it. Us posters don’t realize what it takes and how much anxiety it can create.

My only thought is, do we live in a democracy that free thought can be struck down by threats of lawsuits!

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]]> By: blueskies http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35148 blueskies Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:20:28 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35148 wait! what if satv started a bull blog! would you all follow it?<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35148">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> wait!

what if satv started a bull blog!

would you all follow it?

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]]> By: browntown http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/12/the-farewell-post.html#comment-35147 browntown Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:17:15 +0000 http://vancouvercondo.info/?p=813#comment-35147 oh yeaah nutbags! remembers browntown recommend buying luved ones for xmas- wheelbearoh's and stocks in "acme helicopter"! blog might stop but printing press keep firing up rockets! good regards real estate guru nutslaps! turn out the lites!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-35147">-12</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> oh yeaah nutbags! remembers browntown recommend buying luved ones for xmas- wheelbearoh’s and stocks in “acme helicopter”! blog might stop but printing press keep firing up rockets! good regards real estate guru nutslaps! turn out the lites!

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