Letters to the Editor
cdunlea
Published Letters: 154 Editor's Choice: 35
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@Bored
[Read the article: More Red Sox junk buried?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe you guys don't beat people up, but that's not to say you don't kill them.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/05/05/yankees_red_sox_argument_ends_in_murder/
Well, I guess New Hampshire doesn't count as "down there".
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All you whiny bitches, thank you
[Read the article: Flip this house. Please!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You whiners are why owning today is the best deal going. Because if you owned, my equity would not have gone up in the past 2 years. I enjoy my tax deduction I get on living in my SFH in Massachusetts--not far from Cambridge--purchased at a good time. Best of all, you are my best client's friend; he owns three multi-family houses in Somerville full of ne'er-buyers like yourselves that will keep paying his investment costs every single month.
You know what he did with the equity in one of those multi's he refinanced? He closed purchase of a plot on buildable land. Overlooking the beach. In St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Retirement land.
In the meantime, all you contrarians keep covering his costs, and those of my other clients. We're counting on your short-sightedness to fund our retirements. Thank you!
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Maybe
[Read the article: A jumbo loan metaphor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I always figured it was a reflection of the demand to live in a place, factored with the availability of land for new construction. Put both together, and there's a reason why a two bedroom condo in the Back Bay/Beacon Hill area of Boston will run you $575,000 at least.
Maybe this doesn't need overanalysis. Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar.
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This confrontation can only end in tears
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and apparently many of the posters here are too immature to realize this.
Not a single poster has touched on what, to my older eyes, seems plausible: the mother already knows, and has known, for some time. As a man, I can tell you that none of us can hide a dirty secret from our wives for years on end that would have such a control over our lives--not a girlfriend, a drug/drinking/gambling problem, being secretly gay, looking at internet porn--even with the best of our faculties. A man in his sixties, generally speaking, is not as sharp and able to cover his tracks as a man in his thirties (as the LW demonstrated by her dad's forgetting to log off his email). The odds of her father screwing up at some point in the past five years are actually pretty damn high.
So, let's say I'm right. Mom knows, and maybe Dad knows she knows. Maybe they have an "understanding" that allows him to get his outlet for adventure after 35 years of marriage and allows her to keep a happy home for the kids and neighbors. And maybe, just maybe, she really doesn't care about his affair so long as it doesn't actually wreck the nice facade. BUT that understanding DOES NOT INCLUDE YOU. If you go to Mom, how will she feel? Embarassed? Ashamed, knowing that you expect her to escalate a workable situation into a conflict, just because YOU expect her to? She may deny the problem and turn on you because she doesn't want to face the situation head on. Your father, seeing this nice facade wrecked, might also turn on you. In the end, your mother may feel it's none of your business and blame you for the now-inevitable end of the marriage.
Be very careful of what you wish for. And don't assume that what you see is what it is.
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True equality
[Read the article: Women trade dead-end relationships for dead-end careers?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]will never be achieved until I see them fish for Alaskan crab.
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Sorry, Andrew,
[Read the article: Obama's big fat Countrywide mess]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but you deserve the beatdown you're getting here today. :)
To claim that
as Fannie Mae's CEO, Johnson worked closely with Mozilo facilitating what became an out-of-control mortgage boom.
is fairly ignorant, especially since you should know better as informed as you are. Countrywide's problems do NOT stem from Fannie Mae covered mortgages, which are purchased for cash by FNMA and merely serviced by Countrywide; the problems are centered around a) the traditional subprime products and b) the A-grade option arms, none of which FNMA will buy at gunpoint. Countrywide was forced to keep that paper on its warehouse line, or buy it back from other investors, because the MBS pools they created were determined to be riddled with sh*t loans and therefore well below investment grade.
The name Countrywide is radioactive waste to millions of Americans.
Not really. Countrywide, as much as I despise doing broker business with them for business reasons alone, is not nearly as loathed--or loatheable--as Ameriquest, Fremont, Option One, Household, or any number of other mortgage companies either out of business or one step from it. These guys are the primary cause of the mess. Countrywide's standards never were as low as these places'.
You might have had a point if a former CEO of one of these outfits was involved with Obama, but FNMA?? Their foreclosure numbers have hardly changed at all, and the biggest reason people lose their FNMA-mortgaged homes is due largely to traditional reasons: loss of job, death of breadwinner, medical emergency, etc.
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Mortgage brokers/appraisers
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The mortgage companies and property appraisers were no doubt trying to make a dishonest buck.
Oh, no doubt we were. All of us, of course. Yep, guys like me decided to rape the clients I've worked with for 10 years and everyone they referred to me who, despite having bum credit and borrowed funds, swore they could make the mortgage payment I pointed out to them.
I suppose I might have told them I couldn't work with them, the whole thing being so immoral and all, but I suppose they'd just get their loans from another broker; after all, those brokers had access to the same lenders I had, and had no qualms about legitimately making money to feed their families.
Yeah, I caused all of this.