Comments on: Success Story: A Buyer Finally Becomes an Owner

By: anon8mizer

anon8mizer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:52:56 +0000

Congrats missionite. btw I constantly refer people to the buy vs rent spreadsheet you built on your blog so thanks for that.

By: thefrontsteps

thefrontsteps — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:54:11 +0000

Okay boys and girls, time to end the discussion and bickering and get back on track. You’ve said your points and the judge has decided enough is enough. Moving on….

By: fluj

fluj — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:29:40 +0000

Maybe. Maybe it’s merely the same six people who like to make the same derisive jokes constantly and can’t stand a contrary voice.

By: noearch

noearch — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:41 +0000

my my…sounds like more than a few people have had a problem with Fluj…

By: Anna Marie Hibble

Anna Marie Hibble — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:13:07 +0000

Though Frontsteps is uber-liberal about comments, I’ve edited out specifc name use. Let’s keep the anonymity we enjoy when we don’t use our real names, or don’t mention exactly where we live. Everyone deserves to limit the amount of personal info on the web

By: fluj

fluj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:51:16 +0000

Missionite, by constant bloviating do you mean never bringing anything up, and merely responding to a litany of incorrect assumptions by errant dilettantes pertaining to investments that were in point of fact not my own? They only knew my name, guy. I said nothing initially about any of them, and there have been more than two. You see all of this in a certain way, as if everything on real estate blogs about marketing/selling — to you. Mentioning a neighborhood’s name is nothing, but I didn’t even do that.

By: fluj

fluj — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:58:18 +0000

Ha. “Constant bloviating.” “specific location”

By: anon

anon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:34:02 +0000

Missionite, congrats! Enjoy your home for many years. I have referred your rent/own calculator to many friends and appreciate your hard work on it.

Fluj, once again you have proven what a tremendous a-hole you are.

By: anna

anna — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:19:49 +0000

i’m totally out of the loop on this argument, obviously, but just want to say again to missionite: congrats, and thanks for sharing. sorry if it all sent some bad feelings your way. it’s surprising and sad how often sharing stuff does that.

By: missionite

missionite — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:10:46 +0000

Fluj,
Your constant bloviating about your real estate investments on another blog led some posters to determine the exact location of those investments based on the clues you yourself provided. And while from what I understand you did eventually manage to sell those properties, it took quite a while as I recall, and the prices weren’t quite as high as what you were initially seeking. Now I have no idea if there was a connection between the circumstances of those transactions and your online persona, but I can honestly tell you that if I discovered you were the owner of a property I was interested in, that would count as a serious strike against that property. So when I described you as a case example for why I felt hesitant about getting into any location specific details about my recent purchase, that’s the example I had in mind.
I’m happy to share my story and experience for the benefit of others who may be interested, but I prefer to maintain my relative anonymity while doing so. I hope you can understand and appreciate where I am coming from.

Lucy Lu, Financial Samurai,
Thank you! I honestly thought I would never get here. I was trimming the hedges today, and I can’t tell you how ridiculously into it I was. I could have just trimmed those hedges forever.