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  • InLibrisLibertas
    Location : Mill Valley, California, United States

    I'm an independent investor. I make my living from the returns on my investments. I work at home, in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay area, or on my boat which I keep in the British Virgin Islands. I spent most of my career as an executive in high-tech, although I also spent time in banking. Down to one kid in university now!

Trumpettes

July 23rd, 2006 by reality

I found a new blog this weekend - Sacramento Area Flippers In Trouble - which provides listings where speculators are in the process of getting burned. Last year, even the National Association of Realtors (NAR) admitted that 40% of sales were to “second home” buyers. That doesn’t include the liars who claim they are buying a primary residence even though they are not intending to move in (to get a better mortgage rate), or the “stealth” speculators who are, in good faith, buying a new family home but who do not sell the old one.

As Warren Buffett famously said, “When the tide goes out, then you see who is swimming naked”.

Posted in Manias, Real Estate, Rogues and Rascals, Warren Buffett |

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