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1 posted on 12/05/2008 4:59:44 PM PST by thetru
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SouFun, the biggest real estate website in China ...

"Buying Amewica is SO FUN! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

2 posted on 12/05/2008 5:04:13 PM PST by LiberConservative
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I pay for a 100,000 Chinese to move to Detroit. Provided they each show a functional AK-47 at customs.


4 posted on 12/05/2008 5:05:41 PM PST by Leisler ("Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. " Lenin)
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Not a bad idea at all.


5 posted on 12/05/2008 5:09:11 PM PST by GOP Poet
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Good. Maybe the influx of buyers will help drive home prices back up a bit. (I know low prices are good for buyers, but for those of us watching our equity sink ever lower, higher prices would really be welcome.)


6 posted on 12/05/2008 5:11:51 PM PST by Maceman (If you're not getting a tax cut, you're getting a pay cut.)
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ping for later


8 posted on 12/05/2008 5:15:48 PM PST by Oratam
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Kalifornia will hit the new owners up with some hefty taxes, cause Arnie’s broke.


11 posted on 12/05/2008 5:25:07 PM PST by AFreeBird
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Wiverside Cawifornia.....gawden spot of West Coast!


13 posted on 12/05/2008 5:37:14 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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Alla youa house are berong to us now.

Nice Chinese famiry come live heah.

You get out now. You rive in stleet. We own youa asses.

15 posted on 12/05/2008 5:47:31 PM PST by stboz
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We came in second recently on two deals in the San Gabriel Valley. Chinese buyers, in both cases, came with cash and went 30 and 50,000 above the list price and blew us and other bidders out.

We're all worried about illegal Mexican immigration and rightly so, but the SG Valley has been seeing a big influx of Chinese and other Asians since the early 1990.

When the defense contracts dried up about the beginning of the Wilson administration, the Chinese, mostly from Hong Kong, put $5 billion into Cal and saved us. Maybe some of that will happen again.

18 posted on 12/05/2008 5:51:35 PM PST by nufsed
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Maybe they’ll also be able to take advantage of the govt. giving away the store. From the Wall St. Journal (12/3 I think):

“...he and a group of investor partners recently paid about $1.2 million for a bulk purchase of about 800 homes from Fannie Mae. That works out to about $1500 apiece on average. ... Mr. Barnes says he quickly resold for about $50,000 one of the Detroit homes purchased from Fannie for $1800.”

Needless to say anyone who fell for the BS story that the government would make money on their bailout “investments” should look closely at this deal — who else but the government would sell 800 houses for $1.2 million! No doubt Mr. Barnes will make a fortune reselling them for what they are really worth. And the taxpayers will absorb the loss.


21 posted on 12/05/2008 6:17:19 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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Well, we gave them all our jobs and debt. The globalists should be just fine with us selling them all of our land as well.


24 posted on 12/05/2008 6:22:50 PM PST by mysterio
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It is definitely becoming a bargain-hunters paradise in some areas. I think it’s going to get better yet.


25 posted on 12/05/2008 6:23:30 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Sounds great. We can use some help to thin out the excess inventory.


33 posted on 12/05/2008 6:58:38 PM PST by montag813 (www.FreepShop.com)
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Great. Even the Commies are more capitalistic than us.


35 posted on 12/05/2008 7:13:30 PM PST by keats5 (Merry Christmas fellow FReepers!)
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Hell, they can probably foreclose on the entire country in a few years if they can’t already.

Heaven help us all......


37 posted on 12/05/2008 7:19:31 PM PST by KoRn
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I smell a reality show in there....

Calling HGTV


43 posted on 12/05/2008 8:55:54 PM PST by Feiny (oooOOOooo look out the FR police are watching you post)
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btt


45 posted on 12/06/2008 12:26:09 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To put this article in perspective, Americans buy in foreign markets as well. It isn't uncommon for Americans to go to Mexico or South and Central America to buy a second property or retirement property. Or elsewhere in the world. The Chinese are merely doing the same when buying property in America. Except now, the prices are more inviting.

In an increasing global economy, we focus on foreigners buying American soil. But we forget, Americans have been investing and buying property overseas for the last century. Some of the buying, is merely flowing back this way.

50 posted on 12/07/2008 1:42:09 PM PST by ponder life
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Hi Joe, I buy you loooooon tyme.


58 posted on 12/08/2008 3:51:44 PM PST by wardaddy (Monarchists for Palin 2012)
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To: thetru; calcowgirl; hedgetrimmer; pissant; Calpernia

“said one Shanghai-based real estate executive. “However, there are plenty of people here who think this a great time for bottom-fishing.”

Well, that pretty much tells us what China thinks of us.
“Bottom-fishing’...of course that’s exactly what our good ol’ USA free traitors thought of China just a few years ago, isn’t it? What goes around comes around I suppose.


59 posted on 12/08/2008 4:01:31 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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