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never mind

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You get 90 days or the end of the current lease term, whichever is greater.

If I remember it correctly the right to complete the lease term applies while the foreclosing bank is holding the property. If the bank puts the property on the market and someone buys it the new owner does not need to honor the lease term, but you still get your 90 days.

I was an actor in the process three years ago. The tenant decided to stay the full 90 days. The previous owner had some appliances in the house (refrigerator/washer/drier and various small items), so the tenant had to deal with the previous owner. Also, no one really felt responsible to maintain the property (landscaping service was canceled by the previous owner). The flipside for the tenant was that no one asked about the rent, so they stayed 3 months while paying no rent.

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but sadly failed smog test yesterday.[/quote]

So you get $1K for it now, no?

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[quote=Blogstar]So what’s the best way to fail a smog check?[/quote]

Remove the gas cap.

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[quote=flu]oops!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/zynga-report-3q-net-loss-211524347.html%5B/quote%5D

While user numbers soared earlier this year, “Draw Something” quickly lost footing in the months following the acquisition

$180MM for a company with one popular title and 2 weeks away from bankruptcy might be a bit too much after all?

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Again, if it’s really a non-issue and is just a marketing thing, then why did Tim Cook came out, apologize, and tell his customers to use a different solution if they’re not happy? Why not just say, all of these Maps-gate is a non-issue and is just their competitor’s negative marketing against Apple?[/quote]

Marketing? You think Tim Cook genuinely cares about providing the best possible experience for the user regardless of the bottom line and he’s willing to suggest competing product in order to achieve that goal?

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Apple fans have been poking fun of Android the same way you are poking fun of Apple Maps. I find multi-billion dollar corporate entities to be silly object of affection.

Let me prove my non-fanboy credentials – Apple produces some really crappy software compared to competitors. The dev tools are years behind what MS makes – every release of Xcode introduces new simulator-related issues, like it’s by design. Apple iTunes causes brain freeze on Mac and Win version should be banned. OS X not having cut/paste for files is moronic. The entire app store feels like a happy accident – inability to transfer app ownership between corporate accounts almost four years later is frustrating.

But the maps-gate is mostly marketing, like the stupid verizon/at&t N-g coverage maps.

Here is the consumer report’s bottom line link:

Both the free Apple and Google navigation apps provide clear routing directions. Apple feels like a less-mature product. But as seen with the initial competing applications for the iPhone, we would expect updates to this new app over time–and Apple has promised as much. When getting down to the nitty gritty, Google provides a better overall package, but we feel that both provide a good solution for standard software. We expect the competition between the companies will benefit customers with ongoing improvements.

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Unfortunately, I don’t know what transpired during the negotiations. Obviously Apple started working on the mapping solution in 2010, if not sooner, by making a couple of acquisitions. I believe the data is coming from tom-tom (garmin does not own data). If I remember it correctly there are only three places where you can get data – tom-tom, nokia and google.

Releasing half-baked product is not that rare in consumer software. Google checkout is my favorite – 5 years later you still can’t dump order details.

Competition is good applies and I already told you why – Google is releasing vector maps ahead of schedule, adding earth functionality to maps and people with experience in mapping software and cartography in general are in high(er) demand.

I did not try the new maps app. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I do, but based on what I saw/red I agree with Woz who said it is a non-issue (i.e. there are serious issues with iOS 6 and dev tools/environment, maps-gate is not one of them).

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[quote=AN]hahahha: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=27809

[quote=Tim Cook]While we’re improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app.[/quote][/quote]

Right. So what’s the big deal wrt maps? It’s not like the built-in app is your only option. The old licensing term with Google expired, Google did not want to allow voice/turn-by-turn, Apple did not want to license maps without it and released what they had. If anything it’s a gain for everybody since Google is accelerating release schedule for vector maps and migrating some of the Google Earth technology to Google Maps. Competition is good. It leads to better products (like I care) and more importantly to more jobs and higher wages within the industry.

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I fixed our wood fence myself. Asked the neighbors if they are ok with me crossing to their side when needed. They all said yes, one guy came out to help while I was working on his side and his wife brought doughnuts, one guy offered to split the cost of material (I said no since material alone on his side was $100) and the third guy did nothing, but they all like me better now.

Materials are cheap (try pine tree lumber, especially if you have a contractor friend with an account there). In my case the posts were fine and that helped with keeping the cost down.

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[quote=jstoesz]I think the solution is a step or two back…

The problem most people see is a lack of accountability with Teachers. We could extend this problem to say their is a lack of accountability with schools (districts, administrators, teachers, etc.)

The solution to this problem is school choice. If parents can choose where their kids go to school, their is no need to for all of these fancy statistical metrics. Some would be helpful in supplying families accurate knowledge of their schools, but not to the same level we have today.

If we open up school districts monopoly on kids, where they go to school, how they are taught, when they are taught etc. All of these problems will be self regulating.

Sure some parents wont give a crap where their kids go to school, but the schools they attend will naturally be bettered by all the new accountability infused into the education system.[/quote]

That’s easy – just move to the area served by the desired school or send your kid to a private school.

Accept that you are not paying for your kids’ education through your taxes. You are funding the public education system and since you have children you have the option of consuming the service. If you had no children you’d still have to pay the same taxes.

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[quote=sdseeker]I am not a finance guy so I could be off base but…
Maybe the bond holders are not taking as much risk as some think. Could the fact that current Mello Roos expiration can be significantly extended provide a fairly secure future revenue stream? I was told that my current Stonebridge MR CURRENTY expire FY 34 but can be extended to 2051 when new debt is issued. The payoff amount on the MR increases as new debt is incurred. I was also told PUSD is imminently issuing new debt. Do you think this bond issue is tied to Mello Roos?[/quote]

The bond does not affect CFD’s. The bond is supposed to pay for non-CFD schools to be brought to CFD schools level and it will (or is supposed to be) paid by non-CFD residents.

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That’s awesome. We shop at Costco and spend $200+/month on fruit, milk and eggs for 5 of us.[/quote]
We don’t buy fruit from Costco. I find that a lot of times, Costco fruits are more expensive. If you look at the circular for the various supermarkets, you see the fruits they have on sale are cheaper than Costco and not all sales items are cheap. We also find Zion market veggies and fruit, a lot of time are cheaper too. Though not always. You just have to keep a mental note on what price is good for certain product and wait to see when a supermarket have it on sale at that price and you buy it. We tend to only buy non perishable stuff and frozen stuff from Costco. Eggs are often not the cheapest at Costco either. Costco eggs comes out to about $1.1/dozen. A lot of times, you can find eggs on sale for $0.99/dozen somewhere else.[/quote]

We get organic milk/eggs at Costco, their price for that is not bad. We get feta cheese/pita bread/phyllo dough/pickled food and some fruit/veggies at North Park Produce in Poway, but that place is unreliable – oranges or bananas at 30c, but 3 out of 4 runs they’ll have only the rotten stuff left. Henry’s/Sprouts for some bulk/produce, but their prices are up. Costco is the most reliable, the engineered mushrooms are nice and big, blueberries, blackberries and grapes ripe and sushi fresh. The kids also get to dine out 🙂

Our food column is ~$500 and misc household (toiletries, chemicals…) another $300.

You are controlling your expenses much better than we do, congrats.

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[quote=AN] I just look at the detail expense over the last couple of months and my grocery have been around $200-250, restaurant have been $100-200, toiletries, I buy in bulk from Costco when they have coupons and stock up in my garage. I go to Costco once a month and I spend around $100-150 there for both toiletries and food. So, on average, my food + household goods range between $400-600. Over the past year, I never spend more than $1k in food + household goods, even the month where I have family coming to visit and I have to feed 10+ people.
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That’s awesome. We shop at Costco and spend $200+/month on fruit, milk and eggs for 5 of us.

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Just an observation – mortgage rates are where they were a month+ ago when yields on 10y treasuries were ~1.5% vs. today’s 1.8%.

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