- May 8, 2012
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Sounds about right. It's getting out of hand out there. Kind of makes me wonder where all this money is coming from. I know a lot of it is coming from overseas.
Home Buying & Real Estate Thread
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Sounds about right. It's getting out of hand out there. Kind of makes me wonder where all this money is coming from. I know a lot of it is coming from overseas.
- Jul 13, 2005
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Easy pass on SF. Overrated overpriced city compared to everywhere else in California.
- Sep 5, 2010
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Northern Virginia, about 30-45 minutes from DC, which is a seller's market. No recent enhancements. The average size is around 1100-1200 square feet for a bottom unit. Our board is pretty lax, thankfully. The head of the board lives on the same block as me, and I've made pretty good friends with the vice board too.
- Mar 22, 2003
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Nailed it amigo - all of my GSB/Haas folks have left other than like 4-5
- Mar 22, 2003
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Your neighbor got that much because people wanted to see how handsome
pmatic
really is… THE RUMORS ARE TRUE!
- May 8, 2012
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I agree with you, but I still do a lot of business out there, because of involvement we have in tech. Been traveling back and forth from NYC to SF to HK. Need a space out in SF.
You're in a pretty good area. Back when I was working with a lot of commercial real estate companies, they had a lot of properties in their pipeline out in North. VA and the DMV area. Still amazing how there's still growth out there. Majority of work is coming from govt sector? I remember there were tons of govt contractors making the move.
HBS here.
We still have a few guys out there, but many of my GSB buddies have gone out to TX.
- Mar 22, 2003
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Hank Scorpio
interesting - I only have two classmates out in TX, a bunch are now in Seattle actually. Madrona is on fire.Should have hit GSB man!
B Sox
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- Mar 31, 2011
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Waiting to hear back on an offer I submitted over the weekend for myself. Not a fan of being on this side of the transaction 
- May 8, 2012
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Should have hit GSB man!
I applied and got in! At the time, I was living out in SF working in PE.
Back when my mom was alive, I took her out to PA to visit the campus. She fell in love with it, but ultimately, I went with HBS because I had 2 letters of rec from two 78' and 81' HBS alums. Class of 78 ran UBS investment banking for 30 years (built out the damn business), Class of 81 was Blackstone PE CIO. They sold me on HBS hard. It was really hard to pass it up at the time. Interesting how things turned out now though. I run my own PE firm and we're mainly focused in the TMT space.
Oh, the irony
- Jul 13, 2005
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A lot of major cities have emerging tech hubs. Is the competition and cost of living to go out there really more worth it?
- Mar 22, 2003
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Hank Scorpio
nice man - close friend is at Silverlake. I’m actually out the game and “retired”.I’ll be back in PA in 2 weeks for a few weddings in Napa/Healdaburg (3 in 8 days lmao). Soon to be in-laws still live in PA.
- May 8, 2012
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My principle motivation is to save time. I've added up all the hours, and I spent roughly 1200 hours up in the air these past 8 years. That's probably based on 144 hours in a 12 month moving average.
I'd rather cut cost than having to be up in the air. That why I bought a place out in HK.
- Mar 22, 2003
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Just have spots in both - if you are spending that much time in both no reason not to
- May 8, 2012
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I’ll be back in PA in 2 weeks for a few weddings in Napa/Healdaburg (3 in 8 days lmao). Soon to be in-laws still live in PA.
That's awesome man! SL has been making some strong moves as of late. We got into ABNB a few years ago during a Series B round. Still have our holdings post-IPO.
- Mar 22, 2003
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B Sox
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- Mar 31, 2011
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Well, got my offer accepted. Looks like we're heading 30 min south to the burbs at the end of next month
datznasty
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- May 25, 2001
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Impulse buying ona house bruh like its a 4$ wireless charger by the register at Wal Mart
- Aug 10, 2003
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my realtor just got back to me... they said my offer was second to the highest bidder and asked me to match which I would have to add 15k to match or at least increase my original offer... mind you my original offer was 20k over list and waiving inspection and appraisal...too rich for my blood so I will go to the other place where my offer was already accepted which I'm paying 20k less for...I have to fix up the bathrooms to make it real nice so I will just use the extra 20k on that instead
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- Dec 19, 2013
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Just remember once you sign that **** yours.
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Depending on the sizes, 20k can go a pretty long way on the bathrooms remodel...
Also, just curious, how old are you
you go boy
.?
- Mar 10, 2013
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We just got a quote to do our master bath… $23k. Nope. I’ll go $15k but no more. It’s a pretty easy job too.
- Jul 13, 2005
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I would rather put that extra 20k into a better remodeled house. Split over a 30 year mortgage thats what an extra 2k down payment?
- Sep 20, 2007
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Just got hit with my lovely California Supplemental Tax 
- Dec 3, 2007
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Seeing a lot of MFH that I passed on years ago coming back to the market for 3-4x what they sold for and getting snapped up quick is breaking my heart. Should've been willing to take more risks. SMH.
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- Jul 30, 2017
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Is this in Franklin or brentwood?About 6 weeks out from closing . We got lucky in the Nashville market and signed before it got really crazy here
we built in 2018 and have a decent amount of equity. Feeling very fortunate and hoping we can sell our current home with ease
