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What do we want? RATE CUTS! When do we want them? 9/17/25! When I say RATE, you say CUT! RATE! CUT! RATE! CUT!

$1,860/sqft is beyond delusional for that house.

Tiiimmmmmbbeeeerrrrrrr!!!

No idea, I was being facetious. $500k cut, $1M cut, why not $1.5M? 🙃

Only 1M? Toll is dropping prices by 1.5M!

That's exciting! Can you share the source on that?

Seems like Elevate is moving along steadily. Only about 20 lots left as of now out of 82. https://www.tollbrothers.com/luxury-homes-for-sale/California/Elevate-by-Toll-Brothers-at-Great-Park-Neighborhoods It doesn't seem like they've pushed prices up much, if at all, in the past few months...

The tax deduction/exemption happens at the individual level on their 1040. Employers do not get a direct tax benefit.

So much of home price appreciation is simply inflation. Compare *real* (i.e. number minus inflation) residential property prices: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=n8TX vs *nominal* (i.e. just the number) residential property prices: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QUSN628BIS For...

I've had an LG front load washer/dryer for about 10 years. Still works great. One of my friends purchased a front load a year or two ago and said the newer designs fix some of the problems of the old ones. The biggest problem with my front load washer is mold will accumulate in and around the...

Lol, yes you're right. My literal bro, who is a tech bro in the bay area sitting on big RSU gains, experiences the effects of this. He is on the missed out side of the homeownership equation in his favorite city, Los Altos. Despite his solid performance and tenure at a well known bay area big...

Scroll Redfin or Zillow for a bit. There's been a lot of price drops lately, even in Irvine. I expect it will continue in the near term.

What a nightmare. Sorry you had to experience all of this. I'm curious about PMP. Would you mind elaborating on PMP's role in all of this?

What was it about your experience with Toll that leads you to think that?

In the time it took you to type that post you could have googled the source of electricity generation in China. China used coal to generate 58% of it's electricity in 2024. China emitted 5,640 metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2024, the most ever on record in a year...