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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:29 PM, bob ford wrote:

> I agree.  I just don't like hypocrisy.  But, you did leave out a big  
> reason why you did so much business within gated communities.  The  
> relationship of the developers with lenders. The houses in those  
> communities are generally less expensive and easier to finance than  
> a similarly sized house in a central city historic neighborhood

The reason I worked there was higher sales prices and attendant higher  
commissions for the same work. The gated communities where I worked  
were much more expensive than typical subdivisions. Many of the sales  
were for cash. Only one sale failed due to financing and that was  
because a retired engineer thought he knew more than I did and chose  
to get financing through his credit union, headquartered in Denver.  
The seller tired of waiting and sold to another buyer. The engineer  
wrote a complaint letter to the real estate commissioner, the only one  
I ever had. I wrote a response and that was the end of it.

> Gene you said on this list once that "homesteading" was a "frame of  
> mind". I might be the only person left on the list that lives in a  
> city, but I don't think so. I've never hidden the fact that I live  
> in the city.  I intend to move back to the country in the not-too- 
> distant future.  I already own the property.  But for now, I just  
> hang in here and do the best I can do.
>
> I can't give you a good enough reason for why I initially moved to  
> the city.

Now you have to know I was tongue-in-cheek.

I try to not make judgements on how others live. Each life is unique.  
Stuff happens.