housing crisis, really a crisis?

[89GASHOG]

Originally Posted by GeoRoss

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to go look at the number of trades now taking place in the commodity markets to see that something new is happening in those markets the all the new activity.

Uncle Ted agrees, so you must be right! Stevens offers energy blueprint: Politics | adn.com

[IDave]

Originally Posted by GeoRoss

The standard spiel given by the gov't that it is simply supply/demand thing is total crap.

This is so very true, and Henry Paulson just repeated that myth today.

Don't blame the buck for high oil price: Paulson - Yahoo! News

It's horse manure.


Oh, and Idaho has no closing attorneys, either. Must be an Eastern Liberal thing.

[GeoRoss]

Originally Posted by IDave

This is so very true, and Henry Paulson just repeated that myth today.

Don't blame the buck for high oil price: Paulson - Yahoo! News

It's horse manure.

Hear, hear!!!!!!

Originally Posted by IDave

Oh, and Idaho has no closing attorneys, either. Must be an Eastern Liberal thing.

I always knew all those folks who professed to be conservatives were in the pockets of trial attorneys the whole time.

[calphi27]

No attorneys necessary in Colorado either, but we must use "approved forms" that were made by attorneys.

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by concretejungle

EVERY buyer.

no, there are many states where you do not need an attorney

plus, why would I expect financial information from an attorney

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by tcb

100% of the people financing a home.

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by GeoRoss

Not in AZ. Just you, the title agency and your realtor if you have one.

'zactly, and your realtor does not even need to be present.....

Originally Posted by GeoRoss

My wife has a colleague that took a job in another state. He is having a bitch of a time selling his house that he bought several years before the peak. It is a crisis to him.

may I offer the opinion that he would be better off keeping the house as a second home; he'll want to come back eventually not that I would know

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by re_guderian

I have bought ..... 3 houses and some land, and ...

never an attorney present - three different states

[concretejungle]

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

no, there are many states where you do not need an attorney

plus, why would I expect financial information from an attorney

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

'zactly, and your realtor does not even need to be present.....



may I offer the opinion that he would be better off keeping the house as a second home; he'll want to come back eventually not that I would know

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

never an attorney present - three different states

like i said in my post, it's a NC thing, i don't know the laws of other states. I assumed and i was wrong.

If you are that smart and not worried about consequences of what you sign, go ahead. You shouldn't need an attorney to help with your docs or a REALTOR to help explain them either. You may need a good attorney down the road when you realized that you signed something you thought was one thing and actually was something different.