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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Re: re Secluded Seattle Area house in Tacoma

No, Twice in 16 months. That drops it down to 1 in 8. Who gives a fuck what happened before that? The bank told me I was supposed to call them every year to renew the stop payment or somebody could tag my checking acct. for $2.5k.
 
They don't get to treat me like dirt and ghost me after leaving a fucking dead tree in my yard for a year and a half, that was partially blocking the walkway exit. My punishment for notifying the city about a dead tree that was about to fall on Drew's house.
 
I could demand my $36 I paid for the stop payment before. I get the 3 day notice part, but fuck them. Try renting a house sometime in the last 30 years from a slumlord who the city told me was one of the worst in LA for back fines.

In a message dated 12/2/2021 8:34:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, parkerea1@hotmail.com writes:
 
The mailboxes have been broken into twice in like 14 years (or more?), that's something like two out of 144 months. Given the horrendous shit that you would go through if they happen to serve you a 3-day notice, I would definitely pay rent timely. Not worth it IMHO.

From: Brian Bentley <bentleybt@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 6:11:32 PM
To: parkerea1@hotmail.com <parkerea1@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: re Secluded Seattle Area house in Tacoma
 
Mexican standoff with owners over rent check continues. They are ghosting me and refusing to tell me when they are coming and I just told them if I leave it down there and they wait a week to pick it up and it gets stolen, I will deduct the stop payment fee from the next check and make them wait another week for it. If they three day notice me, I will stop paying completely and make them take six months to get me out.
 
I HATE RENTING! And it's only going to get worse when they transfer ownership. NOBODY is running this place right now.

In a message dated 12/2/2021 6:04:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, parkerea1@hotmail.com writes:
 
I didn't say we are not going to have a stock market correction. We are due for one, and it is likely. However, before the other day, because the market was so out of balance (that bit about the PE Ratio around 30) that I thought we were heading for something major -- not a 10% correction, but like a 30% crash. But now that's the Dow's PE Ratio is back in normal range I'm no longer freaked.

From: BentleyBT <BentleyBT@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 1:47:56 PM
To: Eric Parker <parkerea1@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: re Secluded Seattle Area house in Tacoma
 
10 days ago you claimed you had no idea that houses were growing at such an exponential rate whatsoever. Even though you were pouring over Zillow for hours where the graph is on the front of every single house listing there. now you're confidently predicting the future of the market? that's quite a swing. I didn't hear Mark say that. and I also didn't hear Mark say that we weren't going to have a stock market correction because stocks were not all that overvalued.

     
 
 
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On Dec 1, 2021, at 10:13 PM, Eric Parker <parkerea1@hotmail.com> wrote:

Houses can't possibly double again. As Mark said on that call, banks won't lend if the payments will be more than 30% to 40% of the customers income. If houses double, the average customer would be paying over 60% of their income for a house payment. No bank would ever make that kind of loan, because virtually every customer would default.

From: BentleyBT <BentleyBT@aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 4:47:37 PM
To: David L. Sanders <davidlsanders@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Secluded Seattle Area house in Tacoma
 
my issue is not that I want to move, even though I hate the city. I love my house. But the issue is I have spinal stenosis. you saw me dragging my feet across the floor and tripping repeatedly last night, so it's getting worse. I literally cannot lift any leg to walk more than about 3 inches due to my back

I have been told by the property manager that there's going to be "big changes here" in the next few months when the new owner takes possession of the property.
 
The only thing keeping me in LA right now besides my friends and my opiates and things I get from my doctor, is this house. If they throw us out or tear it down for a condo or anything else, I'm not gonna have a choice. 
 
Eric has also indicated there is absolutely nothing for houses worth a shit anywhere in Los Angeles County. So if I'm going to have to leave, I can't stay in California unless I rent. and I cannot rent, move all my stuff into a rental and then ever expect to make yet another move to a house in my physical condition and my age. I have ONE move left in me. not to mention renting in Los Angeles would remove the only thing about here that I like, which is my house, so I would still be in the same shitty city, only this time in a shittier house.

So what it comes down to is if this place gets turned inside out and everybody has to leave, the only possible alternative I can think of where I would be close enough that I could come back once a month to pick up my meds and use Margaret's address for my doctor. Is if I moved to Vegas. Vegas has affordable houses, is a giant megalopolis with lots of people and the Poker community was born there. there are four dozen state of the art casinos and enough Poker that I could go out three times a week be around people for five or six hours a day in an activity I definitely enjoy and have shown over the years that I can break even at.

it is also weed legal and I know the place and I like the place a lot already.
 
if I move to Denver or Seattle what do I do all day every day if I can't connect with people? and this would only be magnified if I were to truly get a good deal on a house which would be someplace out in the boondocks where I'm totally isolated from everything. I think I would last about a year to 18 months before I would blow my brains out.
 
 
 

     
 
 
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On Dec 1, 2021, at 7:26 AM, David L. Sanders <davidlsanders@msn.com> wrote:

I just can't imagine moving out of LA.  My life is pretty bad right now but moving would not help I think.        David
 
 

From: BentleyBT <BentleyBT@aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 12:13 AM
To: David L. Sanders <davidlsanders@msn.com>
Subject: Fwd: Secluded Seattle Area house in Tacoma
 


     
 
 
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From: Brian Bentley <bentleybt@aol.com>
Date: November 29, 2021 at 5:09:46 PM PST
To: barrytaft@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Secluded Seattle Area house in Tacoma
Reply-To: Brian Bentley <bentleybt@aol.com>

I talked with my financial analyst today for an hour on the phone. He told me I need to sit awhile because houses are doubling in "value" every two years. He said it's insane to buy an overpriced house now and he told me I was more in the $450 to $500k max range and not the $600-$700k. With my progressive spinal stenosis I am also more interested in single story houses which are impossible to find in the areas I want (which does not include Texas and Arkansas)
 
he expects some sort of market correction to lower prices some, but that as long as interest rates remain so low and CA a-holes continue to rush to all the markets I am interested in and over extend themselves with mortgage loans they can't afford, it''s financial suicide to invest in a home. I countered with what makes you think in two years, the home prices won't just double as they have every ten years since 2012? In three years, I will be too old to move IMO. Turn 66 in 3 months.
 
 
 

In a message dated 11/27/2021 2:58:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, barrytaft@gmail.com writes:
 
You can get those. You just need a van.
 
Ooops, sorry. Washington is for "lovers!"
 
I'm still recovering from when that show DEXTER ended with him hiding up there. The most obvious place for a serial killer to go!
 
Joeks aside, on a scale of 1 to I'M OUTTA HERE!, where are you with this concept? Halfway gone? 
 
If so I don't blame you. My most uncomfortably HAWT cousin lives in Lacey south of there. LOL
 
Mary, my mom, and I walked around Nisqually Nature Preserve and it was so beautiful it almost looked FAKE. Trees glistening in the filtered light, flowers and berries, egrets hunting rodents in tall grass, and even otters swimming out in the water. It was sick! :D

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 12:28 AM Brian Bentley <bentleybt@aol.com> wrote:
Nice quiet place to retire or enter the witness protection program. Cool finished basement where my Grunge band can rehearse. Love the trees in front blocking house from street. Would need a woman companion though.

In a message dated 11/26/2021 11:14:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, barrytaft@gmail.com writes:
 

 
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