Apple Real-Estate iSwap Ping!
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Posted on 10/08/2014 8:23:39 PM PDT by Swordmaker
“If you want a new iPhone, but you’re unwilling to take out a mortgage to afford it, you’ll find a sympathetic ear in Larry Else,” Ryan Grenoble reports The Huffington Post.
The real estate broker represents a Detroit homeowner who, after repeatedly dropping the price on a property he’s trying to sell, is now willing to trade it for an iPhone 6. Really.”
“‘It’s a real listing,’ Else told My Fox Detroit. ‘My client is overseas and he told me he would be willing to trade the property for an iPhone 6. It sounds to me like he wants the [iPhone 6 Plus] version, but I think he’s willing to negotiate,'” Grenoble reports. “The homeowner would also consider a 32 gigabyte iPad.”
“The broker told HuffPost his client lives in Austria and bought the house in 2010 for $41,000, likely believing it to be a smart investment as a rental property,” Grenoble reports. “Though it looked good on paper, the house was probably never in as good a shape as the owner was led to believe. ‘The seller was a victim himself,’ Else said.”
[The owner] might be willing to take anything, maybe even an Android. – Real estate broker Larry Else
MacDailyNews Take: Even an Android? That poor guy really is desperate.
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Who would want to live in Detroit?
rental property? Two bits per month?
Say, wait a second... this isn’t one of those deals where I need to get approval from some “historical commission” before I can paint my front door, is it?
*Detroit ping*
I feel sorry for the Austrian who was duped into buying this Detroit property. It’s pretty sad that he has to, in effect, do a near total write-off of his “investment”.
Perhaps he’s selling it for either one iPhone or six Android devices. JUST KIDDING for any of you who are non-Apple phone owners.
Why isn’t Obama buying him an i-phone?
Well, sounds like the market value of an iPhone 6 has been established
Detroit homes come with all their back taxes, by the way
Of course. Someone has to pay for the city services you won't be receiving.
You and your family live there. You work hard to keep up your home. You have a mortgage.
Then the neighborhood goes bad. Your home is broken into. Your kids aren't safe going to school. Your wife is threatened shopping for groceries.
You try to sell your home. It is worth nothing.
You can't pay off the mortgage and afford to buy a new home in a nice area. Your family is not safe where you live. The neighborhood gets worse every day. The stores close and are boarded up.
That actually happened to thousands of middle class families in Detroit.
If you want to feel sympathy, feel it for them. Not for some speculator living in Austria.
The only thing taxpayers will be funding if things do not change is generous benefits for the retired
Sounds like the movie “Gran Torino”
Fixed it for ya...
Exactly... I guess I am tired.
Yeah, I know. This one has six grand and change in its baggage. LOL!
Maybe he’ll do a swap one get six free deal?
Democrats get elected. There, fixed it for you.
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