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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Disqus - Latest Comments for squidly77</title><link>http://disqus.com/by/squidly77/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://disqus.com/squidly77/comments.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:31:41 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12413875</link><description>&lt;p&gt;radley i only post that kind of information when trolls lurk on this blog..i have tons of that a lot more damning than that&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;i have always said that it has been the real estate boards refusal to weed ot there own bad apples&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;nice of you to mantion bob truman though hes a great example&lt;br&gt;prostitutes guns law-suits it all goes for him&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;i have his past topics pasted for future use if he gets outta hand again..remember... the subject post titled&lt;br&gt;is this guy dangerous&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;most realtors work honestly and ethically&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:31:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12413445</link><description>&lt;p&gt;the calgary fraudster con-man who jilted RBC for 8.9 million through fraud  that appeared in todays herald has made it onto one of the big US blogs&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href="http://ml-implode.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://ml-implode.com/"&gt;http://ml-implode.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:18:47 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12413010</link><description>&lt;p&gt;from the above link&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wow.  To say that realtorsgroup had the “lowest productivity of any job in America” is pretty strong.  The author actually states that the real estate brokerage profession “should be ashamed of its dismal performance” and this was at the height of the bubble.  1.1 million agents in America come out averaging 6 home sales per year.  They work about 40 hours per sales which amounts to 12% of the work year or five hours per week.  And you wonder why I had such a frustration at the skewering of the auto industry from Wall Street and lenders.  Hypocrites.  At least these people put in their 40 hours.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:04:15 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12411051</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;There is enough blame to go around but the magnitude of blame for certain groups is certainly not equal.  I hold some of these “so-called” professionals to a higher standard because they are professionals (supposedly).  If you asked your cousin Johnny to operate on your foot and it gets massively infected with gangrene that is your fault.  But if you go to a medical doctor and the same thing happens, there is a certain shared responsibility at this point.  The same thing happened with real estate agents and lenders.  You were better off doing your own thing than listening to these people but many people fell for the suit and tie theatre and actually believed that most of these people knew what they were talking about.  They clearly didn’t.  The National Association of Realtors used to have an “anti-bubble” page which miraculously is no longer up.  Since the link is now inactive, thankfully another blogger over at Bubble Meter was smart enough to copy and paste some of the text back in November of 2005.  Let us look at some of their sage advice shall we?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/commission-money-real-estate-housing-zillow-redfin-ziprealt/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/commission-money-real-estate-housing-zillow-redfin-ziprealt/"&gt;http://www.doctorhousingbub...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do we copyright the word doctor, lawyer, engineer, chemist, or musician?  You would have to be pretty insecure to copyright your job title.  Do you really need any other reasons why the 6% commission is gone and rightfully so?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:10:48 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12389173</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2006/09/hps-message-to-realtors-of-america-gig.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2006/09/hps-message-to-realtors-of-america-gig.html"&gt;http://housingpanic.blogspo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:44:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12387945</link><description>&lt;p&gt;a mortgage broker and a huge bob truman fan..i think its a clone&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/"&gt;http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good advice from Bob Truman Blog&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once again Garth has attacked an innocent person who has come to ask him a reasonable question.  Check out the post here&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:15:19 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12387605</link><description>&lt;p&gt;another 4 weeks and another 323 trackable calgary foreclosures&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foreclosurescanada.com/stat2009.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.foreclosurescanada.com/stat2009.html"&gt;http://www.foreclosurescana...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;i believe that site reports the big 5 foreclosure totals only&lt;br&gt;i imagine that theres many more with the much riskier mortgage companies&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:07:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12385272</link><description>&lt;p&gt;the states are in big big trouble&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depression Era Unemployment Rate&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/07/depression-era-unemployment-rate.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/07/depression-era-unemployment-rate.html"&gt;http://www.calculatedriskbl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;allthough they paint a calm picture it is anything but&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:10:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12384301</link><description>&lt;p&gt;who ever you are posting under multiple posters names&lt;br&gt;your a sick dude man&lt;br&gt;you have been posting here there and everywhere using alias,s&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;heres why your so ill&lt;br&gt;its not enough that the REIC dominate (buy) the MSM&lt;br&gt;its not enough that the worlds economy is in tatters due to over priced real estate everywhere&lt;br&gt;you guys will even stoop so low as to interupt simple blogs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;you have spent days on this blog and all the alberta blogs attempting to disrupt them&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;expect to spend days and weeks going forward&lt;br&gt;you wont stop me from posting and i hope you stop no one else&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;all your screeming and kicking proves two things&lt;br&gt;firstly your without a doubt mentally challenged&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;secondly you prove with your every post that the blogs are correct and the realtors were dead wrong&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;once house prices have corrected way down we will no longer here from guys like you as youll be the one with your hand out either to the government or most likely on the street corner&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;any mention of anything real estate on a job application will result in denial of employment not just with me but with many many people and institutions&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:44:10 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12382911</link><description>&lt;p&gt;here comes the fraud..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALGARY - The Royal Bank of Canada has filed an $8.9-million lawsuit against one of its former employees and members of his family over allegations they orchestrated a complex mortgage fraud scheme that has left the financial institution facing millions in losses for properties with artificially inflated values.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;At the heart of the lawsuit are allegations the defendants -- including Ilan Levy, who worked with the bank as a mortgage specialist between August 2004 and March 2009 --approached people to allegedly buy real estate at prices that had been intentionally inflated over market value in exchange for fees between $20,000 to $70,000, according to court documents obtained by the Herald.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The defendants then apparently received payments of part of the mortgage loan proceeds, for Levy or companies under his control, that translated into at least $2.46 million, the documents allege.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;As a result, the bank claims it was "intentionally misled" into agreeing to loan more money than the properties were worth.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/sues+former+Calgary+area+employee+inflating+real+estate+values/1773990/story.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title=""&gt;RBC sues former Calgary-area employee for inflating real estate values&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:07:47 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12366428</link><description>&lt;p&gt;funny that i checked right after you&lt;br&gt;well i did leave this&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://albertabubbleblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://albertabubbleblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://albertabubbleblog.bl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;now go and get some sleep man&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:47:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12364466</link><description>&lt;p&gt;hes a definate weirdo cc&lt;br&gt;i would imagine it would take massive finacial pressure to have a mental break down of that degree &lt;br&gt;hes needs some iv injected diprivan or demerol&lt;br&gt;hes mad at a blog for petes sake !!&lt;br&gt;his gut must be killing him&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.monkeylounge.us/puke.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.monkeylounge.us/puke.jpg"&gt;http://www.monkeylounge.us/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:18:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12358820</link><description>&lt;p&gt;i remember the bulls posting here during the boom&lt;br&gt;theyd have their chests puffed and bully renters with intimidation&lt;br&gt;theyd claim their smartness with arrogant overtures&lt;br&gt;they mocked they laughed and they made some money for a little while anyways&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;now theyve been reduced to pathetic bottom feeder ststus&lt;br&gt;we all have a good laugh at them now...and whats their response&lt;br&gt;all they can muster is vulgarity and insults and no rebuttal at all&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ceeartea..heres an article you may enjoy you and this guy have much in common&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly09/frugality07-09.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly09/frugality07-09.html"&gt;http://www.oftwominds.com/b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:26:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: View from Bangalore</title><link>http://albertabubble.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-from-bangalore.html#comment-12357691</link><description>&lt;p&gt;test&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">squidly77</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:42:06 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>