Comments on: Taos Rental Disconnect http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/ John Hamilton Farr's Living Planet Mystery Tales from Taos, New Mexico Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:57:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John H. Farr http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 John H. Farr Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:23:37 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1353 Thanks. I have no doubt we will find a way... Thanks. I have no doubt we will find a way…

]]> By: Steve Ingham http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Steve Ingham Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:19:19 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1352 What's the old saying...."Patience is a virgin" .....or something like that....Hold on...."Good things come to those who wait....or not" But I am keeping positive thoughts you find JUST what you are looking for and/or NEED....whichever comes first! Steve What’s the old saying….”Patience is a virgin” …..or something like that….Hold on….”Good things come to those who wait….or not”

But I am keeping positive thoughts you find JUST what you are looking for and/or NEED….whichever comes first!

Steve

]]> By: John H. Farr http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 John H. Farr Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:25:33 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1351 That's pretty much it, I'd say, although a nice wrenching economic depression would put a stop to most of that. It's probably already winding down, too, although don't bother to ask a realtor: even the hipper ones have drunk the kool-aid and are quite hopeless. When I first came here nine and half years ago, Bill Whaley, publisher of Horse Fly, told me that the rich folks come in, build or buy their extravagant homes, and then discover Taos isn't really where it's at. What he meant is that there isn't a wealthy <em>scene</em> in Taos. This place has always been poor and isolated, and nobody really gives a shit about the rich. There's even a tradition of "dealing" with them when they get too obnoxious (the dark side of the Code of the West)... According to Whaley (nine years ago!), the wealthy newcomers take about six months to learn all this and then sell out, decamping for Santa Fe or some other place where they can read about themselves in the paper. Taos just isn't that sort of town, thank God. Anyway, for the last however many years, this activity has contributed to the real estate market "churning" that maybe a hundred people think is really cool. Add the bubble economy to the mix, and you have what Steve has noticed. This too shall pass, I reckon. Meanwhile, don't do what I did the other day and check out real estate in nice safe places like my honey's Iowa homeland: solid, pretty, shiny-clean and mostly boring homes to satisfy the shell-shocked! "Wow, we could buy all THAT for only $400 - $600 a month!" The great unwinding has only begun, though. And there are many wonderful places here, as I keep telling myself. :-) That’s pretty much it, I’d say, although a nice wrenching economic depression would put a stop to most of that. It’s probably already winding down, too, although don’t bother to ask a realtor: even the hipper ones have drunk the kool-aid and are quite hopeless.

When I first came here nine and half years ago, Bill Whaley, publisher of Horse Fly, told me that the rich folks come in, build or buy their extravagant homes, and then discover Taos isn’t really where it’s at. What he meant is that there isn’t a wealthy scene in Taos. This place has always been poor and isolated, and nobody really gives a shit about the rich. There’s even a tradition of “dealing” with them when they get too obnoxious (the dark side of the Code of the West)…

According to Whaley (nine years ago!), the wealthy newcomers take about six months to learn all this and then sell out, decamping for Santa Fe or some other place where they can read about themselves in the paper. Taos just isn’t that sort of town, thank God. Anyway, for the last however many years, this activity has contributed to the real estate market “churning” that maybe a hundred people think is really cool. Add the bubble economy to the mix, and you have what Steve has noticed.

This too shall pass, I reckon.

Meanwhile, don’t do what I did the other day and check out real estate in nice safe places like my honey’s Iowa homeland: solid, pretty, shiny-clean and mostly boring homes to satisfy the shell-shocked! “Wow, we could buy all THAT for only $400 – $600 a month!”

The great unwinding has only begun, though. And there are many wonderful places here, as I keep telling myself. :-)

]]> By: David http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 David Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:29:17 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1350 Steve - most of the people buying the pricey stuff don't even live here. It artificially increases our real estate costs, pushing "regular" houses out of reach of the everyday resident. It's a shame. Really, you don't get much for your money here. The views are great, but it's not exactly a hotbed of activity! Steve – most of the people buying the pricey stuff don’t even live here. It artificially increases our real estate costs, pushing “regular” houses out of reach of the everyday resident. It’s a shame. Really, you don’t get much for your money here. The views are great, but it’s not exactly a hotbed of activity!

]]> By: Steve Ingham http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 Steve Ingham Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:11:36 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1346 It AMAZES me when I check Taos Real Estate sites....places most people would consider a TOTAL SHACK....SERIOUSLY, are asking up to $200,000 for the opportunity to buy in paradise.....How do they get away with that? Are there that many idiots willing to fork over that kind of money for a dilapidated building just to live in TAOS??? WOW is all I can say......and if you don't believe me - just Google Taos Real Estate and see for yourself....I feel for you John....Hope you find some local willing to give you a deal on a DECENT place to live! Steve It AMAZES me when I check Taos Real Estate sites….places most people would consider a TOTAL SHACK….SERIOUSLY, are asking up to $200,000 for the opportunity to buy in paradise…..How do they get away with that? Are there that many idiots willing to fork over that kind of money for a dilapidated building just to live in TAOS???

WOW is all I can say……and if you don’t believe me – just Google Taos Real Estate and see for yourself….I feel for you John….Hope you find some local willing to give you a deal on a DECENT place to live!

Steve

]]> By: John H. Farr http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 John H. Farr Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:31 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1337 Well, for $1,050 a month, it can be yours.... Well, for $1,050 a month, it can be yours….

]]> By: Carmel http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1336 Carmel Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:16:25 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1336 That could be the worst house I've ever seen. That could be the worst house I’ve ever seen.

]]> By: John H. Farr http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 John H. Farr Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:32:35 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1335 No kidding! I honestly never heard of it until I started reading blogs. It would seem that the "analog" surfer culture has had more of an influence than I give it credit for. No kidding! I honestly never heard of it until I started reading blogs. It would seem that the “analog” surfer culture has had more of an influence than I give it credit for.

]]> By: Michael Zed http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/03/29/taos-rental-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-1334 Michael Zed Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:35:24 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=2696#comment-1334 Re: WTF Been around for a while in surf lingo, and doubtless other vernacular useages. My first noting of it on the internet was in 2000, when a surf website was launched named Swell.com. The internationally-known Australian surf writer, Nick Carroll, used the acronym in a help column he wrote for the site, named, funnily enough, WTF. Swell.com morphed into Surfline.com, a surf forecasting site which it had acquired, and subsequently Surfline became one of the premiere surfsites on the internoddle-thingy. There was an interesting article on the culture of bodysurfing at the Surfline site in 2001, entitled "Body Art". http://www.surfline.com/mag/pulse/2001/june/06_14_bodysurfers.cfm Cheers Michael Zed Adelaide AUSTRALIA PS: Like the way you've implemented the Preview/Edit function, ta. Re: WTF

Been around for a while in surf lingo, and doubtless other vernacular useages. My first noting of it on the internet was in 2000, when a surf website was launched named Swell.com.

The internationally-known Australian surf writer, Nick Carroll, used the acronym in a help column he wrote for the site, named, funnily enough, WTF.

Swell.com morphed into Surfline.com, a surf forecasting site which it had acquired, and subsequently Surfline became one of the premiere surfsites on the internoddle-thingy.

There was an interesting article on the culture of bodysurfing at the Surfline site in 2001, entitled “Body Art”.

http://www.surfline.com/mag/pulse/2001/june/06_14_bodysurfers.cfm

Cheers

Michael Zed
Adelaide AUSTRALIA

PS: Like the way you’ve implemented the Preview/Edit function, ta.

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