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Friday, July 30, 2004 11:06 AM

To rent or to buy a house??

Spurred by some comments to a previous post I quickly run these numbers. They analyze the case of house price not rising in the next five years. I’ll take more time to check them if I really get to a point of deciding, but they should be correct.
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Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:10 AM

My quest for a new home...

I’m refining my understanding of how to value residential properties. There is this rule of thumb: buy when you can get a rent for the property which is at least 1.2% of the property price (or in another form, when the home price is 7x the annual
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:56 AM

Book: "The coming crash in the housing market", John R. Talbott

My wife and I are planning to move somewhere where you can walk to shops and restaurants. We were thinking about selling or renting our current suburbia home. So, as usual, I picked up a bunch of books from the local library. This is one of them. Amazon
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 3:21 PM

Please the perfect object stand up!!

I always thought: why people write this very long posts? Here you have it. How do I design my objects? What is the set of constraints that dictate my design decisions? People talk about objects in very different contexts. A certain amount of confusion
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:18 PM

My first (and last?) post...

Hello folks, My crazy coworkers finally convinced me to get my own blog. They think I’ll say something funny, but I won’t – so don’t link to me – it’s probably not worth it. For the few perseverant ones, here is what
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