Considering growing the family? Sell the old house first!

I’m a home builder foe some 40 years and have never see better homes or less interest in them. I’m no economist but perhaps if we want to become part of the new world order and “world” economy and have most of our construction workers underpaid non Americans and buy 99% of our stuff from non Americans then we should expect to live in homes like these non Americans left in their non America countries. In countries where there is cheap labor, no unions and jillions of poor people with no hope of ever owning a home you always have a few super rich folks who love the situation ( read almost everywhere but American). America is blessed with natural resources but her real strength is her people. If her people want to give up the best life the world has ever known, created by their own fathers who were non Americans and new first hand about bad economics, in order to get cheap lawn care and construction work and fill their houses and basements and garages with low cost wonderful toys for their kids then they deserve to live like every other overpopulated, low moral lifestyle, no respect for their parents country in the world. In any country where making a buck anyway you can, making more money for a small class than they can never spend in a hundred life times, and forgetting that there probably is a God and not a slick corporation who created love and this beautiful unique-for-mega-lightyears-around world; home ownership for the masses is not successful. Japan was ruled by a god but lost a war with us and had no neighborhoods like L.A. or St. Paul. China has been around for ever and doesn’t know anything about a tri-level with an above ground pool for the common factory worker. Our own South had cheap labor before the Civil War and what good did that do for the cotton picker? After all these years those workers are still behind most Americans in home ownership. Seems as if the skilled hardworking men and women of any society who build homes or cars or even toys but can not make enough money to buy those things then that group, except for those few who find a way no matter how get to the top, are in a heap of trouble. Looking back or forward seems the same.

That was during a time when the housing market just started to collapse and people were short saling everywhere and banks were foreclosing. That created a real flood of houses on the market and started the slow coming upside down equity issue we are now in the middle of. Had the people who owned their home sold while they still had equity, they would have saved themselves a whole lot of money and probably their credit as well.