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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 02:46 PM Original message |
Wilbur Ross Sees ‘Huge’ Commercial Real Estate Crash |
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BeatleBoot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. Do you know who Wilbur Ross is? |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Oh yes, he's one of the biggest vulture capitalists |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 03:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. True dat. Unfortunately if he says there will be death and mayhem... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. no duh. anyone that has been paying attention knows this. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 07:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I just checked that site out... |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
5. Main street in my little town is looking like a ghost town already... |
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bobshin (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. This may actually not such a bad thing... |
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PerceptionManagement (226 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 05:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. You'd still prefer to own? Really? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. There're strip malls around here 3-4 yrs old & never been occupied. Do developers get a tax writeoff |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 06:37 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. A bigger thing is that the banks just kept extending the loans so they |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-30-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. Who the hell DIDN'T see this coming a year and a half ago? |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. There's also much less NEED for commercial property |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Problem is what about people who don't have computers? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. All of that empty office should be turned into "education malls", open 8a-8p, with |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. yup - a great place for workers to train their foreign replacement, without impeding production |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. One specific objective is to implement local entrepreneurship communities.nt |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. P.S. How intimately are you acquainted with public "education"? it is most definitely a |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. to attempt to answer your strangely worded question |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Please specify that which you find "strange". Perhaps I can help you. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. P.S. That's a rather selective sample isn't it? |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. it's the one i know personally, and it's the most cited example of lack of education |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Now you have me confused. Are you saying that the tech example you used is an example |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. P.P.S. And of course you are aware of the dangers of inferring generalities from particulars(?) |
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mule_train (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. Wilbur is the only one worth listening to |
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robo50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. In my town, we have tens of thousands of empty office and commercial |
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ozone_man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
16. And some think the recesson is over? |
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pfitz59 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-31-09 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
17. a quick glance around town..... |
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Crowman1979 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
19. Hopefully this will influence people to move their businesses toward a city's downtown area. |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 09:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. In many places there is no "downtown" |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
30. the building I work in is collateralized for 160% of its market value |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
31. It doesn't take a billionaire investor or a weatherman. |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-01-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
32. Does this mean skyscrapers will have Chinese names?....n/t |
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