interest rates: The good old days??? - 10/21/06 03:09 AM
   
 
Most of you are probably younger than me.  You probably weren't in the real estate business in the 70's.  Heck, some of you weren't even born yet.  But I fondly remember the adventures of selling real estate in the late 70's.
Interest Rates:  The highest interest rate on a house I sold was 17 1/4!!   I remember the house and the buyers very clearly almost 30 years later.  The nice folks refinanced later at a much better rate of 14%.  Seriously.
Gas/Oil:   We'd have been happy to pay high prices for gas and oil.  Unfortunately there wasn't enough of it and gas lines were … (53 comments)