Links and Minifeatures 09 25 Tuesday

Carnival of Personal Finance

Carnival of Capitalists

Upon several occasions, I've mentioned that initially overpricing a property is a good way to get less than it's really worth, and less than you could have gotten by pricing it correctly in the first place. Here's the best, most graphic illustration of why that I have yet come across, as well as the most understandable.

Sorry I haven't had the time to link out much of late. It's more important to get the internal links fixed (I'm into April of this year, and hoping to at least finish it before I go home), and then institute redirects for external links that have gone bad (I looked a few days ago, and had over 250k "404" errors at that time. I'm working on it!)

On the professional front, I have been finding some WOW! bargains in my usual stomping grounds in east county. There's a lot to be said for the older cities of east county (and adjacent areas of San Diego City). You tend to get a lot more for the same price than Clairemont, University City, Mira Mesa, etcetera, while the schools and construction standards are mostly better and the traffic is easier to handle. I've had two sets of clients change their own minds about where they wanted to buy, so far this year. As I said a few days ago, Affordability has improved a lot over the last year while people have continued to make more money.

Almost forgot! It was 29 years ago today that PSA Flight 182 landed in the North Park area of San Diego.