I see people with $100k+ cars all the time living in 1 bedroom apartments, it just doesn't make sense.You are young, pay off your debt from student loans etc, then save, then invest, then when you're 40 and you become suddenly aware of your mortality and have a midlife crisis, you can buy a lambo no problem.

Yes people that are completely unemployable are all the sudden going to stop selling drugs, stealing, and carjacking. 

I just saved this thread down as a PDF (into a "Brian Gibbons" folder) in case you suddenly come to your senses and decide that you're giving away too much for free...

With regular annual inspections including scheduled spraying for prevention of insects/bed bugs as a former employee of a broker and as a tenant my observation shows 10 years is about the maximum.Personally, in my opinion carpet is highly unhygienic, attracts odors and has a short life compared to hard surfaced floors and it amazes me that it has taken so many years for the trend to switch reflected in more apartment complexes featuring hardwood (I'm in Reno, NV where there has been a surge of bed bugs so this may be a big part of the switch-regular preventive fumigation in addition to that for prior to move-ins and outs is common too.)

It would then be BID UP by the other bidder and then the ghost bidder would suddenly drop off.

Then suddenly you don't get call backs.It's good to find contractors to work with that don't care if you're female and just want to do honest work for fair pay.

I had hoped to buy more from them, but they suddenly because less motivated and wanted higher prices.

And make sure it works while leaving yourself a conservative safety margin in case your solar generation under performs for some reason (say weather) and their usage suddenly increases (say they buy a hot tub).

It looks like a great deal in a good market, but a downturn and suddenly you're stuck with a bunch of over leveraged stuff.

REUTERS/Shannon StapletonMoreWASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. single-family home sales surged to a more than eight-year high in April and prices hit a record high, offering further evidence of a pick-up in economic growth early in the second quarter.The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new home sales jumped 16.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 619,000 units, the highest level since January 2008.