Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 14, 2013

Yup, that’s EX PERT advice all right.

Helga used to be a used car salesperson. Would have said salesman but you have to be PC these days.

Ex-spurt: a former drip under pressure.

Is it okay to say salesman if you’re Linux?

If you can’t get your sale price you could try a raffle.

On trying a raffle.

Two country boys decided to raffle off a mule. The mule was worth $200 and they sold 1000 tickets at $2 per.Problem was the mule died.When the winner went to collect his mule, the two men gladly refunded his ticket price.

Bought a house in the 70s. Soon got a tax assessment for three times what we were paying for it. Needless to say, thecounty wouldn’t buy it for their own assessed valuation. When we did sell, were lucky to get OUR purchase price….

I sure hope Victoria knows he’s planning to move to be near her.

or, rent out the house in maine, buy some property in georgia, and build your dream house there in georgia.

Real Estate to Reality Dictionary:.Lot gently slopes = On cliff facingGreat view = Of industrial waste siteFenced = 4 feet out of 600 feet of the perimeter has something that looks vaguely like a fence on it.Fixer upper = Condemed.Needs TLC = Bring a bulldozerLots of extras = Like mold, vermin, termites, and other “house guests.”Has character = One giant building code violation

“mishap” realty. lol. does Victoria want them to move in with her? lol true love,and all that jazz

And she’ll still want her 7% fee…. Somewhat like the financial planner who gets their fees; even when your stocks go down…. Great work if you cab get it….

Not to worry, it’s just a slight hiccup in the real estate market. Everything will be alright – after you learn to live ‘underwater’ !

i wonder if helga’s last name was misinformation before she married.

talk about robbery my condo HODs was 170.00 a month 15 years ago, now they are 500.00 and it now looks like a dump (project)…

I just check the online estimated value of my house yesterday and I went from being upside down by 43% a year ago and now right side up by 5%. Who knew.

Oh gee, a double talking sham; brilliant, but sure does smell…

I have been trying to sell my house for a year. Now it is in contract and this cartoon still resonates deeply! :(

Wow, you really are the governor of Florida…

YES, my head WILL explode….with your double-speaking, freakish thought process and your blithe assumption of ANYBODY’s accepting that claptrap.

Same rational Dems use on Obama’s economy.

The office just switched investment companies for our 401-K and the agent was straight forward enough to point out that a 25% “recovery” will not restore a 25% loss.

I already was aware of that, but some may not have been. It actually requires a 33 1/3/% increase to bring you back to where you started.

Hmmm- same as gov’t economics.

No, just space aliens

One of the few places that wasn’t hit by the housing bubble was my old home town of Pgh, PA. No one was artificially inflating home values there, because the market was slow to begin with. So properties are not under water there now.

Whenever you sell, buy, or build a house there are innumerable occupations ready to feed during the transactions.

A Realtor agency has a sign out: ‘We are hiring’. What they don’t say is ‘Commission Only’. One can starve with that compensation package.

Lady you will definitely not be my real estate agent.

All I can say is : I would never sell through a realty agent because they will tell you things just to get you to put more money out to “fix” a perfectly good house only to sell it to someone else who will re-do everything you have done, and on top of the fees you pay tax on capital gains for selling above your purchase price.

The problem with commission-based real estate agents is that long-term customer satisfaction actually reduces the agents’ income. More money is made if dissatisfied owners buy ANOTHER HOUSE as soon as possible. Does it really take 10 times the effort to sell a $1,000,000 house as a $100,000 one?