It’s stories like this that make me hope for the 50%+ crash that some on this board are predicting. There are more than a few of these greedy folks in San Diego that need to get their back ends handed to them. I’ll take pleasure in their suffering, just as I take pleasure in the house I saw last week in San Marcos that has been for sale 6 months, is discounted, and has a Mercedes in the driveway also for sale. The owner used to boast that her and her ‘Persian’ husband were investors and owned many properties. Her first question to neighbors was always, “So what did that house sell for?”

This is all part of the sorting out process, known as natural selection in the animal kingdom. I’m damn proud of my Midwest sensibilites and it’s cleaer and clearer to me every day that the majority of the folks out here need to learn about the law of the farm:

“As in farming, success in life comes from regular disciplined, daily effort. A farmer cannot expect to reap a bumper crop by being lazy for three months and then “cramming” to catch up. Similarly, the greatest successes in life are built slowly and deliberately through focused, consistent, high-quality efforts on a daily basis. Success comes not from finding an easy shortcut or by taking advantage of one’s fellow man, but from daily, disciplined, focused effort, directed tirelessly toward a desirable goal.”