Comments on: Treasure house found in Santa Clara

By: SmilingCat

SmilingCat — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:26:46 +0000

If it’s like another house in Santa Clara not on Howard street but owned by a guy named Howard, the treasure’s there all right, it’s heroin.

By: DreamT

DreamT — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:33:21 +0000

I wouldn’t want to be caught underneath the house with whatever Poltergeist is pushing the floor upwards.

By: nomadic

nomadic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:01:26 +0000

Tear up the floor? I’d go under the house for a look first, then take down the drywall before trying such an expensive option.

The seller is the realtor, so maybe he has the story on the wall. Maybe it’s kind of like in the horror movies where it stretches out and you can see someone’s face and hands trying to reach through.

By: DreamT

DreamT — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:06 +0000

That green wall is fishy, the reflection of the lighting reveals a convex shape… Only way to be sure is to tear off the hardwood floor and find what’s pushing that partition wall upwards.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:18:11 +0000

And why?

Because real estater – the biggest idiot this blog has ever known – said so.

Didn’t he just say that last week’s stock market dump presented a buying opportunity?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:57:13 +0000

DOW SOARS! and has been soaring…and so will house prices

By: nomadic

nomadic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:28:38 +0000

Actually, sonarrat, I thought the picture of the inside – the one just inside the front doors where the treasure was supposed to be – was pretty funny. Nothing but a big, empty room. Not even an entryway or something to keep you from coming straight into the middle of the house.

By: sonarrat

sonarrat — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:18:08 +0000

I didn’t submit this because I thought it was a horrible deal – it’s pricey but it’s not too far off comps. I submitted it because of the Realtard saying there was treasure behind these doors, then providing the pictures which clearly show a standard flipperized interior treatment just like everything else on the market. I think it would have been more effective if there were no interior pictures. Ooh, mysterious!

By: nomadic

nomadic — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:40:54 +0000

The short sale ES posted definitely seems odd though. Still in Cupertino schools. The seller last October had bought it with 100% financing. Fishy.

By: DreamT

DreamT — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:01:10 +0000

nomadic – you missed the nerve but you did increase your estimate by 20% after I posted that factoid. I agree with your second estimate, and they should have started with a low price like everybody else.
Also it seems like there’s a cliff around $800k these days, if houses are priced lower they seem to attract much more interest, regardless of the final sale price. Maybe because of conforming jumbo+20%.