drastic move for this collector

im thinking of making a drastic move with my video game collection. im thinking of selling everything i have off. nothing to rare, i'd like to keep my gamecube and advance sp, leaving my sega/32x/cd, gamegear, gameboy color, nes, snes, saturn, atari and dreamcast for sale. along with at least 200 games for the lot. the thing is i really need some money to put a down payment on a house, like $5000, do you think there's someway i could get some sorda story circulating and raise the funds through ebay. this really is my plight at the moment. being a fulltime student/cook i can't save up and i'd like to get my own house, not rent. my girlfriend said she'd help me save but i dunno if that'd be a good move in the long run. i would miss all my stuff but i'd get over it. i was thinkin of writing oprah but i forgot that i hate her guts :-D

 

...Rofl :smt043

 

Will be sad to see the majority of someones collection sold, But if you do go ahead with it, LEt us know first so we can buy it off you!

 

it'll definately be one big auction, i dont think its worth that much but i dunno, just a thought, i dont have much for assets to sell for $$$ just my car and all my game stuff and i need my car for work/school

 

I admire your adherence to principles and good taste! :smt023

 

Don't take this wrong, but you really don't have a story worth circulating. You work hard and can't buy a home, sounds like a lot of people I know myself included. Good luck with your sale and do post here instead of eBay it'll be better in the long run.

 

yah, i do get sick of my parents saying how great she is for handing out gobs of money, good for her, she got a $600,000,000 contract recently, thats ludicrous. funk buddy, yah i did think twice about posting. its just that i can see many other means and my console collection is the one thing ive had for most of my life now. the xmas ruining dad guy got all over the place and what did he do? ruin xmas for his kids. i need a place to live, thats a better cause in my mind. im gonna compile a list sometime of everything i got, we'll see what its worth. i have most of my games on users.ign.com, dunno if you all can access it though. my account is joe_sodoff if you can find it its not up to date but thats most of the games i have and the systems they play on respectively.

 

You'd get much more if you split it up. I don't think a guy selling his games collection would get much media attention or any type of special message board attention--I see people on eBay doing it quite often.

Just a tip in terms of selling it--Genesis/32x/Sega CD/SNES (i.e. older systems) games do not do well in lots.

 

One problem is, you need to make around $15 an hour to by a house in "most" parts of the country. There are exceptions no doubt, but from what I've seen that's the minimum if you don't want to eat ramen and mac n' cheese everyday. :smt009

 

On top of that you need good credit to get 100% mortgage financing. If you do decide to get a house, make sure you make it your top priority with food the second priority and the other bills like water and light a third priority. Dont knock up you're girlfriend or else you'll ruin your life and hers as well no question about that for a VERY long time and she'll hate you for that.

If you're less than 30. Statistics show that many people under the age of 30 who buy a house end up having to sell it or rack up a huge mortage debt because they either failed in their first career and/or started a family. I recommend you just wait, that is of course if you want to have as little as debt as possible AND keep your collection.

I thought about selling all of my stuff and just keep my PSX, PS2, and PC and sell off the rest, which are: N64, Genesis/32x/JVCX'Eye, Saturn, and DC. I think I could make enough where I can make a nice down payment on a new $10,000 car but again, I will only sell this stuff if my life depended on it and it currently doesn't.

 

yah im at $11 an hour which sounds good to some, but crap i can't save much, some sorda emergency always come's up. im 23 but in this area you can get a decent house for under eighty grand. yah my friends that are married and have a kid on the way tell me that me and my girly are 'playin russian rullette' but i definately cant afford a kid now. wouldn't mind one sometime but not now. i have decent credit but i dunno. yah breaking everything up to sell would be pretty hard to keep track of, specailly when it comes to mailing it all out. i dunno, it was a thought which i think is passing now. drat, well in about 6 months i'll have about 3000 saved up, hopefully taxes will help out. and i would miss a lot of stuff, mostly snes. ps2, ehh, there's a few games i play still but i have about 25 i dont play at all. oh and ramen aint to bad, to much sodium though hehe

 

heh yeh.

 

Shit, $15 an hour? Try $250,000 a year out where I live. Even then good luck finding a house for less than $500,000. And those are the shitty houses. I make $14 an hour and can't even get my own apartment.

Of course, I forget that in most places in the country, one can acutally live a decent life on a medium paying job. I do live in a big expensive city and all.

Anyway, (on topic now) I say don't feel bad about selling off your collection. Thing is it's just stuff, and you can always buy it all back again, but this time you'll actually have a house to put it in. I'd trade my collection for my own house in a second. (I'd keep the SP though.)

You get to experience the thrill of the hunt all over again.

 

Yeah, it could be worse. $500,000 can buy you a very mediocre 3-bedroom house in Hawaii. Means the down payment has to be at least $50, if not $100.

 

:smt045 That'd actually be fun!

 

Real Estate market is bonkers down here right now (DC). Tiny 1-bedroom condos going for $300k easy...

There's no reason you should rush to buy a house. If you can't afford something, you shouldn't buy it.

Why would they say that you're "playing russian roulette"?

Anyway, just get an apartment, or RENT a house. I'm renting a house, it's awsome.

 

Housing stupidity

Yeah, real estate has become this explosive thing recently, most media coverage is saying BUY BUY and because if it you see people buying the double and TRIPLE priced houses in DROVES, what the hell is going on!?!
In Sacramento just four years ago you could get a fairly large (3 bed / 2 bath) well built house and some land for less than $250,000 and now you WILL NOT find a 3 bed / 2 bath for less than $550,000 and it's also worth mentioning that these houses are built on a postage stamp sized peice of land with some of the worst build quality you've ever seen!
For example my uncle has a house that's only two years old and the spackle-looking siding is cracked in ripples all across an entire exterior wall! There's hundreds of these rush built houses with HUGE foundation-settling problems. I don't know about anywhere else right now but I'd NEVER buy a house here right now, there's NO way I'd EVER pay more than a half-million dollars for a substandard house!
~Krelian

 

Texan heaven

Actually, (if you ask me) the place to live right now is Texas, the housing boom is just starting out so you can buy a mansion (compared to Sacramento anyway) sized house for less than $250,000!
http://realtor.houseandhome.msn.com...te=msn&source=a2msvh1t042&poe=realtor
Just search any house finder for Fort Worth Texas and you'll find these!
I could actually finance one (with my $17 /hr and 744 credit score) at a monthly payment of only $50 more than I pay for my apartment!
~Krelian

P.S.: I've actually been working on this for a few months and was gonna keep it a secret when I figured "WHY?", these guys are friends! =)

 

Real estate is crazy becasue, beleive it or not, real estate is floating the economy right now. It's a boom that is going to horribly collaspe very soon.

It's going to be bad. Out here in LA, everyone who owns a house sold it when the price went up (a house that you bought for $250k in 1995 is selling at $500-$700k for instance, depending on the area.) So a lot of people around here sold thier houses and rent now or are moving to places like Palmdale where the boom hasn't hit yet.

Thing is as soon as the bubble bursts and all those artificially inflated prices go down, all the people who bought those houses at the inflated price are going to be shit out of equity. Imagine if the house you paid $750k is currently only worth $300k. If you sell it, you take a $450k loss. Good luck trying to finace a mortgage in that instance.

As soon as the trend reverses, you're going to see a shitload of forclosures, bankruptcies, etc. All my friends who ran out and got real estate liscences are going to be selling hot dogs at the mall again. Just watch.

Good news for us that wait will be that houses will be reasonable again.