"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@lava.net> wrote in message
news:1208553301-sch@news.lava.net...
>
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Dan Birchall wrote:
>
>> okamuraj005@hawaii.******* (Jerry Okamura) wrote:
>
>>> ...it is "gambling", if you are buying your home in
>>> the hopes that the purchase will appreciate in
>>> value.
>>
>> All "investments" are "gambling" by this definition.
>> Not that I disagree with it, mind you. :)
>>
>> I guess I should be glad that I bought a small, cheap
>> home so I'd have somewhere to live in and call my
>> own, not so I'd have something to re-sell.
>
> Jerry doesn't buy that-- ie that people buy homes other
> than wanting to resell them. If he did, then he would
> have to admit that homeowners deserve consumer
> protection and a bailout for making bad decisions from
> shyster lending companies. He's just stated that two
> times in this thread, and can't conceive of any other
> reason for buying a house. In that sense, he's out of
> touch.
>
You have a bad habit of accusing someone of thinking or saying things
that
they never said.
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