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That's pretty much who I'm assuming. Somebody like Blackstone. My niece had a house outside of Raleigh,NC last year. The house sold as soon as the agent listed it. Some outfit out of Texas, I think they ended up either renting or flipping it.

A lot of the investment buying around here is cash offers. Now whether they turn a profit when they try to flip is another story. I haven't checked rental rates lately, Either way it's the average home buyer who is getting screwed

On the plus side we've stopped getting mail and phone calls from brokers asking if we want to refinance.

We closed June 1 2020. Nothing like watching a house being built 700 miles away. I think at one point we were up about $70 thousand with one of the best lots in the sub. Not looking to sell anytime soon, I figure it will be on our heirs. I'm curious to see where it goes, the ones that did buy and sell quickly did ok. There is still one on the market that hasn't seen movement at least on Realty.com and Zillow. Upside it is a big military area and a college town. Good location between two major shopping areas (Richmond and Newport News). I am hoping that tempers things a bit.

Maybe this has already been posted because I can't remember where I saw it. Mike Schmidt batted ,196 his first full season in the bigs... https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schmimi01.shtml I also think the fact that everyone is struggling has put extra pressure on Tork.

The Rep doth protest too much...

Not to mention a wife who wouldn't stay home smile and bake chocolate chip cookies.

This is what happens when you have a foreign born alien running for office in a state he doesn't live.

This probably belongs in the minors thread but say a headline from the Toledo paper that Lloyd is out for unannounced reasons today, not sure for how long. The story was behind the Blade's paywall. if I was into conspiracies I'd wonder.

As we were saying. As we wee saying....

And another one bites the dust...

Hey I still want live radio shows in small markets and control boards with slide pots...

I agree whole heartedly. Yet a lot of the people I see whining about gas and grocery prices are the same people who are ardently opposed to things like good mass transportation. A decent healthcare policy (basic medicare for all would be a good first step), who oppose efforts to enhance education and training programs in areas where they are really needed. Especially as we enter the post service industry world. Yet they'll still cling to their two bedroom SUVS as god given rights (small g on purpose)

Exactly

And folks will still cling to their guns and gas guzzlers. We're still cheaper than a lot of other countries.

Maybe it's the old man in me today, but Trump was the conduit for a lot of what has been festering in this country for decades. He made it acceptable, not necessarily to the main stream but to enough to make it dangerous. Trump spurred on by Right Wing Media, folks like Rush, Hannity, even Tucker and such would have never had the chance to have a platform like they do now 30 or so years ago. Not to mention a generation of opportunistic politicians who see the golden ring. And to all those folks its mostly a way to get richer, but to their audience its gospel.

Harking back to Watergate for a moment. It really wasn't until John Dean's testimony and more importantly the revelations about the missing 18 minutes on the taping system that the reality of what was happening at the time was significant. If I recall correctly, it really wasn't until the vote of the House Impeachment Committee that reality really didn't set in. Times are different, the two parties are more divided now than in 1974. I'd really like to know what turned so many of what we thought were conservative but not crazy Republicans to the dark side?

"Right Wing Wack Jobs" will just get craftier. Just look at Virginia where the current governor managed to walk a fine line between trying to ignore Trump and embrace his policies without the bluster and vitriol. When you have 40 plus percent of the voting population baked in just because they have an R beside their name it's an uphill battle. Organizing Democratic voters is like herding cats. Republicans are like sheep it just takes a couple of crafty dogs.

His younger brother Harrison Ruffin Tyler is still alive but not in good health. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

I'm old enough to get briefly sucked in by the Columbia Record Club and Book of the Month clubs.

TV ministers have been doing it for years. Before that itinerate "snake oil" salesmen. Not to mention politicians. Poor and desperate people fall for these scams, the ones we think know better and just riding his coat tails for the power and money. Exactly why some people don't want critical thinking taught in schools. Or even money management.

This is as big of a crime as the lies leading up to 1/6. This puts him into the TV Evangelist category. Just shows how much he despises the poor folks who voted for him. If he does run again I'd make it the cornerstone of my campaign. He lied and swindled you....

That's basically what they did in Michigan for the Democratic primary. Especially since two candidates dropped out days before the primary. I'm not sure of the votes were counted in advanced at the registrars office though. Meanwhile in the general, Republican controlled legislatures like Pennsylvania passed laws forbidding early counting of mail in votes (the Pa Legislators championed voting by mail early in the pandemic. Until Trump said differently.