Well after a brief burst this spring with more regular updates, it looks like we're back to irregular and late updates. This has forced the issue for me somewhat of whether I realistically will maintain this blog going forward. There are a number of changes I'd like to make to the blog as a whole, but unfortunately without ownership of it I can only post articles. In the spring I tried to contact HouseHuntVictoria several times about transferring ownership, but he is either not monitoring the email anymore or has moved on permanently.
So as Adam Carolla says, in the end you have to ask a question about any activity you're doing:
"Does it make you money or does it make you happy?"
(and if the answer is no, move the f**k on)
(and if the answer is no, move the f**k on)
This blog has never made me any money, but it has certainly been a rewarding experience in other ways over the years. It helped me tremendously with understanding the factors influencing the direction of the market, and has given me the information I needed to make a decision on whether to buy and when. However I feel I've reached a point where I've analyzed the market every which way I can think of with the public data that is available. All that would be left to do going forward is parrot Marko's and VREB's updates, while many new happiness or money generating activities compete for my time. So with that I'm unfortunately going to bow out formally from posting further articles. While I will miss the discussion here, I'm hoping that some of it will continue in other forums such as VibrantVictoria, where I will likely occasionally post updates on market trends as the fancy strikes.
I would like to thank the many commenters on this blog that have contributed information or stimulating debate. I would have quit years ago if it wasn't for the discussion here. Thanks especially to Marko for the inside track information and regular updates, Just Jack for the detailed analyses of submarkets and humour, our chief halibut and investment god dasmo, the always sensible DavidL, Koozdra for providing me all the regional data, as well as caveat emptor, patriotz, CS, totoro, Double Agent, Roger, and many many others. Most of all thanks to HHV for letting me post all this time. I've learned a huge amount from you all.
Here's a graph for the road.
Cheers,
Leo
