I'm finding this forum really really interesting however a lot of this information isn't applicable to NY Metro area where the 50% rule or even say 20% isn't possible and  just won't apply and seems to be more fantasy than reality.  

Note another raised her ugly head and chimed in while ago, in an incomprehensible blathering of fantasy, assuming facts not in evidence, ranting about jibberish as if, they are drunk.

Oof.This is like someone entering the NFL draft without knowing what a football is and then telling Tom Brady to go to hell when he tries to help you.

The only difference is that, in the case of the 2008 spike in energy prices, the money didn't go towards plugging holes in the public finances but was instead spent on English football clubs (well, not all of it, but I am sure you get the point) which have become the latest 'must have' amongst the super-rich in the Middle East.For all those reasons, I am becoming increasingly convinced that the ultimate outcome of this crisis will turn out to be deflation – not inflation.

The seller obviously has wild fantasies of the property's true value but, at the same time, wants out from under it.

I recently spoke to my soon-to-be property manager who informed me that there is talk of the school expanding and putting in a new football field a 'stones throw' away from the multi-family building.  

Justin if you look at ABB availability during football season you will also see activity in the Churchill downs area.

Americans are holding a fantasy view of their piece of the American dream\middle class membership.

I think the owner is living in fantasy land with that $140K price tag, considering what he's selling, even in Federal Hill.

Here's my background:-Scholarship to University of Nevada for football.