Thanks JWM….Portillos is awesome. I tried to explain the elements of a good hot dog to my admin assistant and I think she almost got sick! Love Portillos. Had no idea they were in Cali.
Talk about exotic loans. Crazy. I have 2 staff members who are non-stop begging for promotions. Both purchased houses in 2005. My guess is the are feeling the pinch from the “interest only” loan concept. I really feel for them. They are smart guys and both have new kids at home, but as their new manager, I hate hearing the instant “promote me now” mentality. They could have purchased less house with a standard loan and lived a “normal” lifestyle.
I have only been in Cali for 6 months. Love the weather, but can’t even come close to how people are raised out here. Its like its ok to “act rich” run up the debt, live way, way beyond your means, just because some other idiot is doing it.
First woman I met out here seemed great. Friendly, smart, funny, and LA hot. After the 3rd date, she mentioned that she had a little debt. Coming from the mid-west, I thought, “ok, she must mean like $500 or $600 on a credit card”. I was off by a factor of 100!! No joke. She had close to $90,000 in debt from a bad divorce and really bad “keeping up with the LA/OC crowd mentality”. Needless to say, I moved on. She owns a townhome in Newport. I’m sure we will see her place foreclose sometime this year. She was way desperate already.
