This car has “Firestone Wide Oval” tires all over it.

The rest of your story makes the waived appraisal thing make sense. I’m 2 hours from NYC, so a lot of the properties around here that were for sale have been going to people escaping the city during COVID. We have friends who were in the market, and could afford where the market was before things went crazy but now…

We’ve been lucky so far. Neither mortgage we’ve had has been sold to a third party. I remember this happening to my parents a long time ago, and my dad was pissed. He refinanced with the local bank, but the ink wasn’t even dry on the paperwork and he was sent a letter saying to send his payments to some place in Iowa…

Geez. That has red flag for this whole thing to crash at some point, though those mountain towns near ski areas seem to hold their values, bubble or no bubble.

If you pay cash, an appraisal isn’t necessary.

Not always.

I’m in an extremely hot market, and this is the first I’ve heard of an appraisal being waived by a lender. Inspections are getting waived, but houses around here are being snapped up for cash, so a valuation for finance purposes is irrelevant.

Best use of a wind instrument since the guy with the Souzaphone was following the KKK march.

That 140% LTV is typically meant to cover the outstanding loan balance on the trade. Are they just going to approve it for a markup?

That would be wrong. Paying cash gives you the least leverage.

Real estate financing is different from new vehicle financing. A vehicle comes from a manufacturer with an MSRP, and lenders tend to not stray too far from that in terms of what they’re willing to finance. The price of an existing home is a far fuzzier thing, and part of home financing is an assessment of the property…

True, but until recently they had a somewhat responsive support department.

I can rationalize why people buy Nissans. But why Infiniti?

I couldn’t help but notice this morning that when you click on the “Need Help?” link in the footer of the site, instead of taking you to the technical support forums and FAQs, you get this:

No idea. I’m not even sure they think this is a problem. What I do know is that Kinja support used to be pretty responsive to issues, but that seems to have stopped.

Hours later when I finally found your comment and re-read your comment, I read it wrong the first time.

Yes. The closest analog to this car I could find as a 1970 Nova SS 396 on BaT that was a no sale at $37,250, but that was a restoration of questionable provenance. There is one actively for sale at $41,900, but again a higher mileage restoration. I can’t even guess what an all-original, 17k mile 70 SS 396 would go for.

You’re hanging on the second part while ignoring the first and third parts. On Verstappen’s in-car, you could see Hamilton’s front wing end plate, which is the FIA definition of being “significantly alongside” when determining who is entitled to a corner when Verstappen started to turn in. For a split second, he…

Watch the broadcast. Horner was talking up Masi minutes before Wolff was.