Sarasota Area Sale/Rents Unaffordable

[beerme1]

Originally Posted by Carbondated

Your first post on the City Data Forums, and it is a personal attack on another poster. Personal attacks, such as yours, have no room on this thread.

Ok I have been looking at threads and his compelled me to reply. And because of the way I replied I have been told by a mod to read the TOS.
And now your response and all I can say is GOOD GRIEF.
Have you read his posts? Talk about personal attacks and rants!!!

Whatever.
I will get help from people on this forum and will do so probably even from you. His posts are not in the least helpful to anyone and are in fact derogotory to so many people in so many ways I lost count!!
I will offer up any assistance that I can when I see something I can answer also.

P.S. thanks for welcoming me!

[Messing About]

Yeah, I blew off his wordsmithiness after the first rant. There's something to be said for brevity.

My two cents:

I arrived in FL from AZ last December. I too was suffering from sticker shock, initially. Hadn't these folks heard there's a recession in town? But alas, I found solace in Charlotte County. I found a furnished 2b2b condo in a good part of PCH and after 4 months, (two weeks ago) I finally sold my Phoenix house at a lil lower than I paid in 2004. But I turned around in 8 days and purchased a beautiful waterfront home in PCH with a dock and boat lift for a lil more than he paid for it in 2003. That's how to play the housing recession. Do your homework. If you have to sell at a loss, make sure you know the current market year conditions we are facing. Sell low, but make it up on the back side and buy low too.

The only thing that will make me happier is to buy a beautiful boat to go on my dock . . . at a recession proof price, of course.