A couple of things this site needs …

[JWM in SD]

Yes, it’s our first…

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc

Rich Moving?

Renting or buying – just curious

[sdrealtor]

That’s a joke? Isn’t it?

[Ex-SD]

He’s buying a McMansion in Santee.

[SD Realtor]

I know of a perfect one in Black Horse!

SD Realtor

[Coronita]

JWM:

Wow, another December baby. So many folks I know are having one in december. Congrats. Definitely, the one of the best things in life, I ahve to say..It will take your breath away. (as well as some sleep early on 🙂 ) 

 

[zk]

JWM (and any other prospective parents),

I highly recommend the book “On Becoming Baby Wise” to all new parents. It will make months 2-10 easier to a truly amazing degree.

The book talks about the routine of sleeping, eating, and being awake. My wife and I didn’t get the book ’til our daughter was 10 weeks old, but within a matter of days our baby went from sleeping 3 hours at a time to sleeping 6-7 hours at night. And it got better from there. I was extremely grateful to the person who recommended this book to me, and everybody to whom I’ve recommended it has felt the same way. If you get the book before the big day (and oh, what a day it is!) and follow its instruction, you’ll be very glad you did.

Congratulations and good luck.

[stansd]

Man are we off topic now…look at this site before you read anything with the title baby wise by Gary Ezzo.

http://www.ezzo.info/

I won’t bore you with all the details, but there is some history between Ezzo and members of my family.

The guy is a crackpot narcissist who has lied about his credentials, and been excommunicated from a couple churches.

You can keep your baby quiet by locking it in a closet as well…that doesn’t make it right….no, my daughter doesn’t sleep 6-7 hours at night, and I sure would like it if she did…that said, we are doing what’s best for her, and not for us.

I’m not in any way suggesting that anyone who has followed baby wise is a bad parent. I am suggesting that some of it’s method’s are poorly thought through, sometimes at odds with medical science, and sometimes outright dangerous.

Stan

[CDMA ENG]

CDMA ENG…

Temecula guy… Great SNL reference. Walkin’s “I need more cow bell”

I wonder if this guy was a flunkie at SDSU trying to get Rich to do his homework?

Take care peeps,

C.E.

[zk]

JWM,

If you go to amazon and read the reviews of the book, you’ll see the reasons why the people who don’t like the book don’t like it. And you’ll see the counterpoints. Two main reasons people don’t like the book: 1)They misinterpret the main point of the book, which is that your child should eat when he wakes up and not right before he sleeps. Those who misinterpret it think that the author is trying to tell you to put your baby on a strict schedule, which he’s not. 2)They tire of the author and his propoganda and his presentation. And they think he’s sort of a nut. I must say I agree with that. He does seem to be sort of a nut, and you can, in fact, skip the propoganda that fills the whole book except the chapter that deals with the guidelines for the order in which your child should eat, sleep and be awake.

You’re obviously a sharp fellow, JWM, so I’m sure you can make up your own mind on this. A few data points for you: it worked great for us (our daugher is 6 now) and for everyone to whom I’ve recommended it (about 5-6 couples, whose babies now range in age from 1-5).

[what_a_disasta]

note to self: I’ve been frantically trying to put a webcrawler together that agregates all bankowned properties from different websites, but like so many others here, I have a regular day job too, with possibly the exception of Rustico, which has the means to contract everything out to everyone else 🙂

Have you thought about yahoo pipes? http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

It’s a DIY aggregator that has quite a nifty visual interface for compiling your data sets. It’s free too.

[waiting hawk]

Sounds like someone bought at the top.

[kev374]

this is a fantastic site and the contributions are always very valuable. A lot of the “data” is available all over the net, start with housingtracker.net. As for predictions, they are just that…predictions based on sound logical inferences. Only god can say for certain what, when and how things can going to happen, so I don’t see your point.

Lastly, I think calling it a bubble implies a burst. I see no burst here. A burst would take some sudden event that reduced prices over the term of weeks, not months. See the internet bubble for an example. If your house goes down 20% over 2-3 years, it’s shouldn’t come as a surprise, and you will have had plenty of opportunity to get out.

A bubble means the asset price is not supported by any sound fundamentals but rather by speculation. And that is VERY true in the case of Real Estate.

As for sudden events, the serious tightening of lending has caused utter turmoil in the industry. Do you even follow the news? And the timeline for prices to come down varies depending on the asset, Real Estate prices don’t come down like stocks due to the logistics involved… a foreclosure goes through NOD, NOT etc. taking at least 90+ days to materialize. People don’t give up on houses that easily because they can live in them and try to delay the inevitable (i.e. getting kicked out of their house), unlike stocks once they’re down that’s it.

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