[MollieW]

I will be moving to LV in the next 6 months and I promise to try to help your economy as much as possible!!!. Not trying to be a grave robber, just someone who will be able to retire with prices lower than here in CA

[Exaday]

Originally Posted by MollieW

I will be moving to LV in the next 6 months and I promise to try to help your economy as much as possible!!!. Not trying to be a grave robber, just someone who will be able to retire with prices lower than here in CA

Which is sorta how the Vegas housing market got so bad :P

Kalifornians would sale their way too expensive homes and come to Vegas where to them the houses were so cheap they'd buy them 20% above market values. It was hard for a regular person to get a house. Demand went up and so did the prices. I blame Kalifornia.

I actually have little knowledge of economics or real estate in other words I don't really know what I'm talking about.

[skisickie]

we thought we did so well bought in 09 for 65k
last assesed at 23k

What the flip ever you could not build our house for 23k
and we have a big back yard, granite and tavertine floors
Whatever the banks & gov are doing. I don't want to know

[Danknee]

Originally Posted by macgeek

(I saw one and started singing "
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" By The Monkees)

Little Boxes (weeds theme song) - YouTube

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by skisickie

we thought we did so well bought in 09 for 65k
last assesed at 23k

What the flip ever you could not build our house for 23k
and we have a big back yard, granite and tavertine floors
Whatever the banks & gov are doing. I don't want to know

Assessed? that is 35% of market. Be glad.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by Exaday

Which is sorta how the Vegas housing market got so bad :P

Kalifornians would sale their way too expensive homes and come to Vegas where to them the houses were so cheap they'd buy them 20% above market values. It was hard for a regular person to get a house. Demand went up and so did the prices. I blame Kalifornia.

Same thing happened in Key West. When I left, the billionaires were buying all the island's real estate from the mere millionaires. No way a cop, teacher or cook could buy a house in Old Town on a normal salary.

To paraphrase Scrooge, "If the poor want to live in Key West, they had better be rich."

So it's not JUST Californians. It's anyone who has enough money to buy what they want, price or value be damned.

California just makes a nice scapegoat.

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Same thing happened in Key West. When I left, the billionaires were buying all the island's real estate from the mere millionaires. No way a cop, teacher or cook could buy a house in Old Town on a normal salary.

To paraphrase Scrooge, "If the poor want to live in Key West, they had better be rich."

So it's not JUST Californians. It's anyone who has enough money to buy what they want, price or value be damned.

California just makes a nice scapegoat.

BEAR in mind, when I refer to people that have come here and ruined the place, I NORMALLY refer to KALIFORNICATORS

These are the lowlife getrich quick type that in the 1860's were called Carpetbaggers in the south

Kalifornicators move to Kalifornia from the last place they raped and will go back there with their tails between their legs.

They came and said we HATE the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia and we want Nevada to be just like it.


ONLY thing the CALIFORNIANS did was to whisper in the ear of the KALIFORNICATORS that Nevada was a get rich quick paradise and the Kalifornicators ran here like Lemmings rushing to the sea.


NOW we need to do the same thing....maybe send em to Arkansas

[Atlas1337]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Same thing happened in Key West. When I left, the billionaires were buying all the island's real estate from the mere millionaires. No way a cop, teacher or cook could buy a house in Old Town on a normal salary.

To paraphrase Scrooge, "If the poor want to live in Key West, they had better be rich."

So it's not JUST Californians. It's anyone who has enough money to buy what they want, price or value be damned.

California just makes a nice scapegoat.

Are public servants supposed to be able to buy island property in tourist/rich enclaves?

I think public workers are still grossly over compensated. Not much in pure salary but in benefits, particularly pensions.

[Exaday]

Originally Posted by Atlas1337

Are public servants supposed to be able to buy island property in tourist/rich enclaves?

I think public workers are still grossly over compensated. Not much in pure salary but in benefits, particularly pensions.

I thought he was being a little sarcastic.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by Atlas1337

Are public servants supposed to be able to buy island property in tourist/rich enclaves?

I think public workers are still grossly over compensated. Not much in pure salary but in benefits, particularly pensions.

I wasn't being sarcastic at all. The super rich who live in Key West demand schools and roads and electricity and service in restaurants (and everything else) -- but they have priced the island completely out of the reach of the people who normally perform these services.

It's a very big problem in high-demand areas -- like Aspen, Manhatten, Key West and San Francisco.

The Florida Keys are particularly hard to reconcile, because there are no suburbs for the middle class to relocate to.