All Forum Posts by: Account Closed

This is starting to feel like a discussion that belongs in the off-topic forum. Almost political or close to the macro economics.

Based on the recent posts the housing market is but a drop in the bucket of fiat money, monetary policy and the evils of governments in control of the economy.

As RE investors how do people expect to make money even if they believe most of what has been said so far? Obviously Mike and some others are still investing in the US even if the paper they collect from the tenants is not worth anything.

Do we want to bring this back around to RE investing or do people want to continue the macro level discussion?

Mike - I would guess you have heard of the Austrian School of Economics plus the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Have you read much of their materials?

Welcome.

I would be interested in hearing more about your auction experience.

Jim,

Anything specific that you were doing? Forum use, the social networking pages, etc?

I have not noticed any delays that were longer than normal. I am across the pond so in the other direction from you.

The biggest delays I see are on the profile pages and even then the performance is pretty consistent plus reasonable.

If there is a local cache problem you might want to restart the browser and the machine. It should not matter but it does eliminate one variable from the equation.

To all,

The following is a bit long as the details may impact the situation. Please read to the end so we can compare details.

I know that you need to login more than once depending on what you want to do. While slightly annoying I am fine with it. I cannot quite figure out what the right order is so I just go along with the prompts.

Today I had a different but related issue.

I was reading some new messages in my inbox. I then when to the forum by following an ID for a user to their posts so I could see what they were writing. They had a specific question so I needed to get up to speed on prior discussions.

A bit later (never having logged out) I clicked on the forum button. I get the first page with the list of all the forums.

The display groups 4 or so forums at the top and then the other forums start. I opened a new tab for each of the forums in the first group that shows as having new activity since I last logged in.

I went to each tab, read the threads with new discussions, commented on a few, etc. At some point I wanted to view an individual's profile. I was prompted to login again. Remember that I had already read my inbox and created a note so I was pretty sure I was logged in. I know that I was logged into the forum as I had posted a reply.

I continued after the login.

When I was done reading all the threads that were new in the 3-4 forums I went back to the main page. I refreshed so I could see what forums has new activities. When the refresh was finished all the forums showed as having no new activity. I know there were a few with new activity that I never visited so what happened?

In the old system there was a problem with how state was captured. This meant that a person is assumed to have seen everything based on login time and not based on actually reading new threads. It appears the new system uses the same model. Maybe because the forum side of the house has not changed. What is going on with the login process? The behavior is inconsistent. Yesterday there was no problem while today there is. Likely I am taking a slightly different path but I can not put my finger on exactly what was different.

Can we get a technical description for what is going on and how best to avoid it?

Anyone else having a similar issue? As a work around what works consistently for you as a user?

Delays can happen and it has taken place before.

Exactly why and how much is the site, your end or something in between is hard to say without specifics.

When you notice things that appear to be off, capture the time and what you were doing. That way the site admins have a better chance to look at what was going on at the time.

It seems you misunderstood the problem. His active ID is 15 characters while the profile shows 16. A housekeeping issue from the change over appears to be more accurate.

I am sure Josh can have someone look at it so that the two match.

Ryan,

Minor point.

What states have switched to a judicial foreclosure process? Did they really switch from a trust deed process to judicial or are lenders just choosing the judicial process?

There were states that allowed both. I also expect the right to foreclosure is set out in the loan documents so it becomes defined when the borrower signs (subject to the document being legal when it is signed).

Can you expound on this a bit?

Toby,

Good to hear a bit more about your background.

When were you living in London? I moved to the UK in 1994 when I was hired by Swiss Bank Corp, London. I have lived in a few other places since but I have kept a place in London.

I am living near London Bridge now. Odd as it might sound today is starting as a sunny day here in the City.

Greg,

:welcome: back to BP.

As there are many new people here why not remind us who you are, why you are in RE investing and other things like that?

Mike is correct.

The definition of a recession is very clear. It can only be declared after 6 months of negative GNP. There is a specific entity that makes the declaration.

To say we have been in a recession for years clearly implies a lack of understanding of economics. There might have been some issues that the housing bubble has masked but a recession is not possible by definition.