Pain in the neck sometimes but we now have the lowest maintenance fees in the City we are in.

On short sales so far the signals are this will increase the interest from lenders in short sales.

I refi'd it in June, but it took 3 months and was a pain.

Well, then you are probably upside down on all of them.If you are concerned about your FICO, anything less than a full 100% payoff or keeping the payments current until the market turns around is going to hurt.Many will debate the degree of the pain but at this point, there is not much point to it.

It's just not going to be as steep.Unfortunately the effects will now be longer lasting because we just added a burned to tax payers that will only compound the pain and accelerate a weakening dollar and higher inflation.Next Monday could be the bombshell.

If that's correct, that would really signal these HOAs will be in trouble in coming months and years.If you're really determined to buy here, apply rental economics.

However, it seems to encourages more bad behavior because people won't feel the pain of bad decisions.

You get the point.Is it a pain in the ***?

You just need to make it painful enough for the city officials that they give in.

Craigslist (Buyers - Sellers - Renters)Craigslist is King, no question, but such a pain in the butt with all the flagging from competitors.