Now, it's that the houses are completely on the verge of collapse, and listing agents are accepting retail non-203k non-FNMAHomeStyle offers with quick closes, and then getting upset that they aren't closing fast due to the condition of the collateral, because they've deluded themselves into thinking that "hot market" somehow means that the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and Fannie Mae property standards (not FHA, Fannie Mae) have gone out the window.

We're near Whole Foods""I just use Lyft to get to work""It's a lot quieter""I love the BBQ & Beer garden""Parking is easy"It is a place that has and, I believe, will continue to be on the up and up.Every quote above is the ingredient for tech hipsters and some high prices.Now, if your buddy's place isn't dated / could collapse during the next little earthquake / on landfill, then I would certainly consider it!

But with a less good friend it might have ended the friendship or caused the deal to collapse into litigation.I hope other new people can learn something from this and avoid repeating my mistake on their first or second property.Roger, I have emailed you about joining that group, thank you.

I did drive past the area just now and I saw things I didn't like like houses with collapsed roofs and other unsightly landmarks, so it could explain the price a bit.

I got my first job in the fall of 2008 and then I witnessed the country collapse before my eyes. 

I do know a fair amount about credit scores and theoretically, IF someone with otherwise great or good credit somehow had their financial world collapse on them and they filed for bankruptcy or were foreclosed on, I suppose that would fit your idea of someone with one big screw up on their credit that disqualifies them, at least temporarily from buying a home.

We don't have the crazy financing pre-2008 that led to the housing collapse.

He suspected there being a break, collapse or disconnection in the pipe. 

I know I bought my first home as a condo, built in 2007, in the run-up to the great collapse.

Without tenants, even the most prestigious real estate portfolio will eventually collapse.