Key Threads

#1

Can we put together a stick of key threads
Add and edit at will
here are some of my contributions

Who was buying all the property?
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1859

Dublin - not to be spared
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1862

Apartments
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1861

Construction job losses
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1860

Property Statistics
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23

Economy Snapshot
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1857

The importance of House Prices Going UP!!
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1869

Commuters
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1895

Demographics
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1970

Investor Demand
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2132

Interest Only Loans
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2281

Bankruptcy Laws
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2119

#2

Maybe we should also include important News articles? The thread could be a repository

**95,000 households are supported by rent supplement, which the Department of Social Protection says is about half of the total private rented market in Ireland.

In 2009 the Department paid over €500m in rent supplement.**
rte.ie/news/2010/0610/rent.html

10% of total residential mortgages in arrears for 90+ days
finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews … nter.shtml

There was a new scandal everyday around the time of the guarantee for months and each thing was worse than the next
and ive forgotten half of it. Linking them in here would ensure we NEVER FORGET :imp:

#3

hmmmm… I can’t picture it working. It’s kind of natural that threads wander off into cul-de-sacs and die. It’s inevitable. If the problem is that it’s difficult to retrieve information, could a different search function solve that problem?

What about encouraging ‘Subject Tags’ for important or specific posts?

#4

or an FAQs type sticky with links to relevant posts for key topics

#5

Stickied while we think about it.

The search function is pretty sophisticated if you go into the full search.

A thread of “key posts” might be the thing, where each post is a “key post on x topic”

That way the search function could be limited to searching the post subject and it would show up.

#6

Morgan Kelly Links thread
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=33265&hilit=dance+songs

300,000 Empty houses
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=27628
Aftershock Week
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=30395

UCD/DIT Report on Empties
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=28748
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=28024

16k empty apartments in Dublin 2009
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24059&p=284757

UK Telegraph - 350,000 Empties (2009)
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19364&p=217571

2008 - Construction says 35,000 empties
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15221&p=152462

2008 - 50,000 empties
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15058

2008 - Demographics
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6796

2007 - Empties - note 2pack second post
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2936

**
2pack empties threads**
2011 Census Edition
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37144
Der Spiegel Edition
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=38538
The Map edition
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33735&p=479364
The Independent (London) Edition
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=34271
“Ghest” Estate Edition
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33743
Emigration Edition
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33199
Empties Pt “37” with demolition poll
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29415
Empties - BBC 1 in 5 empty
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=30180
Empties - Polite Version/Construction as % of GDP
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9764&p=83212&hilit=It%27s+The+Empties+Stoopid#p83212

2packs Razor - 2007
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4512

#7

THE Key Thread
askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=31710

askaboutmoney.com and the thread is from the good old days of 2006 :slight_smile:
hat tip to Miju :slight_smile:

#8

That’s the cleaned up version for the movies here is the thread from October 31 2006.

web.archive.org/web/200610310046 … hp?t=31710

#9

Not on thepropertypin follow the links to boards.ie

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12780

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10075&p=88591&#p88591

#10

Posted originally on the infamous askaboutmoney.com thread where so many of us were banned:
2006 - Working couples spend 25% of income on mortgage payments
Read more: breakingnews.ie/world/cwqlid … z1PiNzF0ZE

#11

Pension Threads:

Defined Benefits in trouble
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=38946

Private Pension Levy
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37786

Argentina, Hungary - issue ultimatum & take pensions
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=34571

Ministers Pensions
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=33988

Wisconsin Pensions Crisis
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=36123

Pensioners Escape Cuts
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34828

Managing your own Pension
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=36380

Life Assurance & Pension Rip off
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=38962

Pensions Time Bomb
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=16015

1 Billion Bail out of Academic & Fas Pensions - why you never hear academics talking about the pensions problem
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=33527&p=436001

Irish Pensions want to invest in Irish bonds
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33511

#12

“Gold Plated” Pensions to attract staff to NAMA
viewtopic.php?f=50&t=32884&p=425829

"Salary levels in Nama and its sister agency the NTMA are “confidential”, finance minister Brian Lenihan told the Dail recently. "

Pensions - Super Massive Black Hole
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=32347

Bankruptcy Laws/Reform Threads merged:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2119

#13

Irish property crash will bankrupt the nation -> viewtopic.php?f=12&t=343&p=132103

Irish banks won’t attract bids – UK analysts -> viewtopic.php?f=19&t=12424

#14

Home Arrears/ Coming Second Banking Crisis
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=30766

#15

I like this idea. The way the site is set up works nicely for long term posters who have at least scanned at some point most of what’s on the site already and probably depend mainly on the latest posts page. But for new users and especially those who don’t intend to become active pinsters and are just looking for some general advice on property or opinions on a particular WIW.

I feel like I want to tell them to read National Debt, End game in Europe and Long Term Value of Irish property… So maybe even having a link for ‘thinking of buying and looking for advice - here are some topics you might find useful’ link?

#16

Duly noted.

#17

Sweet mother o’jiminy!!! You need to read this thread again BBJ!!!

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=28732

#18

quite right! fixed!

#19

2009 Bah!

#20

on improving the site;

You see a lot of +1s out there, but rarely more than one person doing it for a particular comment. Might be good if there was a +1 button, and displayed at each comment there was the number of times it has bee '+1’ed (and a link to see a list of who they were). This might help to give a sense of consensus as threads reach their natural conclusion.

There are a couple of people who’s comments i find worth reading. It’d be nice if there was some way of checking to see any new comments from those people when i log in.