tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14348191.post115447857004773646..comments2023-10-25T02:17:45.945-07:00Comments on Marin Real Estate Bubble: What Decade Is This Anyway?Marinitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778945220593425787noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14348191.post-1154583037856585552006-08-02T22:30:00.000-07:002006-08-02T22:30:00.000-07:00Back then I was a kid who worried a lot about nucl...<I>Back then I was a kid who worried a lot about nuclear armageddon...</I><BR/><BR/>I know the feeling. We were basically at ground zero, located near Boeing and a nuclear sub facility. <BR/><BR/>The area had already seen a big slump due to an aviation downturn aka "last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights". Five years later, real estate was <I>just</I> picking up again. That said, the bitching about housing was largely absent amongst friends. Back then, a decent single-salary family could buy a new, custom-built waterfront home. That's hardly the case for Puget Sound homes now.marine_explorerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03092782038855356359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14348191.post-1154554665052436792006-08-02T14:37:00.000-07:002006-08-02T14:37:00.000-07:00Back then I was a kid who worried a lot about nucl...Back then I was a kid who worried a lot about nuclear armageddon and the Great Trashing of the Planet (really, it bothered me a lot). The cost of housing was the last thing on my young mind.<BR/><BR/>So, if you were awake enough then to remember, then please write something up and I'll post it. I am sure it would be of great interest to the roughly 1000 daily unique visitors to this site.Marinitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01778945220593425787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14348191.post-1154551613488814472006-08-02T13:46:00.000-07:002006-08-02T13:46:00.000-07:00You didn't mention what happened in Marin County R...You didn't mention what happened in Marin County R.E. during the late-70s. Housing was being repriced as so many baby-boomers were buying first homes and first move-up homes. <BR/><BR/>At the time, a handful of speculators known to all the real estate agents were buying anything... as long as it could be purchased with nothing down (or cash back at sale). I spent a summer interning with a broker who owned about 30 Marin County houses. He lived off of tax-free cash-out refis for several years then lost it all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14348191.post-1154538110905148672006-08-02T10:01:00.000-07:002006-08-02T10:01:00.000-07:00Can't we have an "all of the above"?Can't we have an "all of the above"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com