How can people be so pessimistic all the time?

lostinrates

kabayiri wrote: »

I just hope we have enough conviction to see it through and fix things.

I haven't done a church help out like that but I hve spent a couple of christmases volunteering, and tbh, they are the ones I remember best. Christmas with friends and family (we usually have friends, other people on hristmas day and a party on boxing day) is wonderful, but not always life changing: voluteering was, for me, life changing.

Of course, different if you have small children or other issues, but worth doing at least once in a life ime IMO.

StevieJ

b0rker wrote: »

Because it fits in with their VI.

99% of the uber negative posters on this forum want house values to drop.

I would bet my house on the fact that as soon as any one of them bought a house then their tunes would quickly change.

I am not a raging bull. I expect house prices to drop a bit over the next few months. I am realistic like most of the bulls on this forum. It is the likes of brit, macaque and carolt that are the seriously fanatical HPC cheerleaders.

Negative Equity is theft.

HammerSmashFace (I think it's that ) has just bought a house, I am still trying to work out why as he thinks the market is going to crash

StevieJ

kabayiri wrote: »

My wife and I agreed last night, that the kids (and us) are going to spend more of the Xmas period helping out at a local Church, filling the shoeboxes they send out, etc, and less focus on receiving presents.

Same effect here, I think it really should be a time for helping the less well off, especially the kids, at home and abroad.

ess0two

StevieJ wrote: »

HammerSmashFace (I think it's that ) has just bought a house, I am still trying to work out why as he thinks the market is going to crash

He's just trying to save face,when for months he advocated waiting.

the_ash_and_the_oak

prob just wanted to hang his pets somewhere and not have the landlord evict him imo

izzybusy23

Dan: wrote: »

I guess it's the nature of this board (and why it's hidden from the public domain) or maybe it's simply pay back time? Cast your mind back 12-18 months when this board was very bearish and if anyone had a different opinion they were bullied off by !!!!!!? and Carol. How times have changed.

Errr, why is it payback time Dan????? I am at the point where I couldn't give a damn which way house prices are going. I'm just thankful I still have a job for the time being (restructure due in April '10) and so does my DH. Imagine the stress I would be under if I had taken out a whopping mortgage with the fear of a job loss due to a restructure being on the cards? There are way more important things than quibbling over a small percentage increase in house prices, like keeping a job, not been flooded (you really think those poor people in Cumbria give a damn right now how much their houses were worth? Probably not, they are probably more concerned about getting back to normal, having food, warmth, saving their sentimental possessions)

Despite people still losing their jobs and more and more people flocking to DFW in desperate need of financial advise, you still marvel and applaude HPI. :rolleyes:

Dan:_4

izzybusy23 wrote: »

Errr, why is it payback time Dan????? I am at the point where I couldn't give a damn which way house prices are going. I'm just happy I still have a job for the time being (restructure due in April '10) and so does my DH. There are way more important things than quibbling over a small percentage increase in house prices, like keeping a job, not been flooded (you really think those poor people in Cumbria give a damn right now how much their houses cost?). But despite people still losing their jobs and more and more people flocking to DFW in desperate need of financial advise, you still marvel and applaude HPI. :rolleyes:

Hi izzy.I agree with all of your post, execpt I do not applaude HPI

Mr.Brown_4

izzybusy23 wrote: »

Errr, why is it payback time Dan?????

I assume it is time to pay back the money. Or pay the piper. Almost certainly a reference to the exchange of money.

treliac

the_ash_and_the_oak wrote: »

prob just wanted to hang his pets somewhere and not have the landlord evict him imo

For heavens sake, I do think we should leave pets and strange customs out of it. I'm poised with my finger over the RSPCA phone number. Are landlords really expected to put up with such outrageous behaviour? :eek:

LydiaJ

I took "hanging pets on the wall" as a shorthand for "doing things that tenants are usually not allowed to do, such as keeping pets and hanging pictures on the wall".