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[quote=sdrealtor]What browser should I use? Old habits die hard.

Mouse and keyboard are wireless. Those cables are attached to a 4 outlet USB port (camera, iPod, card reader for MLS card and video chat camera).[/quote]
Try Google Chrome, but don’t fret too much about it. IE isn’t all that bad if it serve your needs well. It doesn’t for me, that’s why I’m using Chrome. I used to use Firefox. None of the browsers are perfect though. IE still load up the fastest and use the least memory. Firefox loads up slow and use a lot of memory. Chrome loads up faster, but also use a lot of memory, relative to IE.

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[quote=ocrenter]so we do have a very good explanation of why the API rose.

once again, API changed only due to demographic change (in this case removal of transfer students).[/quote]
I totally agree, API has a lot more to do with demographic than how well a school educate the kids. I personally think, as long as the school is ranked 8+ (in HS), it should have enough students in AP level classes to keep the classes full and all the AP classes to be available. It’s only when you drop to the lower API schools, where you might not have enough AP level students to keep all AP classes full. Which would have a higher chance of AP class being canceled due to low interest.

Based on my own experiences and seeing my cousins who just graduated HS this year, students taking AP classes tend to hang out with each other. So, even if you go to a school with API score of a 1, you’ll see the valedictorians and AP students hang out with each others. So, I’d only use API score to gauge the availability of AP classes and the amount of students that are capable of taking those AP classes. I wouldn’t read too much more into it.

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[quote=ocrenter]at issue is the liability.

unlicensed worker is akin to getting a friend to climb up ladders in your house to paint, he falls and you have to pay his medical bills.

licensed worker is working on the house at their own risk.[/quote]
I understand about liability. But we’re talking about painting here. What’s the likelihood of injury? I’ve paint my house twice over already and the only injury i got was paint damaging my clothes. A license is only need for jobs >$500. Since this job is $150, it’s under the state’s minimum requirement for a license. But anyways, if one’s that uneasy about hiring a non-licensed contractor, there are licensed one on craiglist who can get very close to the unlicensed ones.

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[quote=ocrenter]but you live in MM… drywall? not getting it…[/quote]
I might not have interior walls, but we do have exterior walls. Since it’s MM, we don’t get those cool expensive wood as frame, so we need drywall to cover them up. Now, if it’s exotic wood, I might forgo drywall all together and have exposed beam and studs everywhere.

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API only tell you what the demographic of the student body is. One shouldn’t read too much into it to determine how well your kid(s) will perform. That’s up to your kid(s), you, and their teachers.

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[quote=flu][quote=AN]Licensed doesn’t mean you’ll get good quality. I had good and bad experience with licensed contractors.[/quote]

Yeah, but there’s less likely to be a criminal.[/quote]
Are you sure criminals can’t get license? I got drywall work done (one by an unlicensed contractor and is licensed) and the work was done much better by the unlicensed contractor. A license can’t replace common sense and in person interview.

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Licensed doesn’t mean you’ll get good quality. I had good and bad experience with licensed contractors.

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[quote=svtechie]I’m a real person, nobody’s alter ego. My question was in earnest. I’m not getting a lot of on-point responses here but the banter is amusing. 🙂 Oh well. You get what you pay for.[/quote]
In that case, then all the area you mentioned are fine. Besides plumbing, what other short cuts are you thinking about? Repiping your house is probably cheaper than reflooring your house. So, I’m not sure why you’d be worrying about that. Old houses have old electrical system and new appliances have higher demand and some older electrical system might not be able to handle the new load. In term of structure, they’re all wood, so, unless you’re talking about high end custom homes in RSF where they’re showcasing the wood species with the exposed beams, I don’t see how it matter. They’re all being hidden by the drywalls anyways.

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[quote=UCGal]So is svtechie an alter-ego of one of the regular posters?

Usually piggs are nicer…

I’ve been laughing at a lot of this thread… but if svtechie is a real person… perhaps we should be nicer.[/quote]
I can’t speak for other people but I don’t think svtechie is an alter-ego of a regular poster here. However, the question, IMHO is pointless, because I assume everyone will say the area they bought in, the construction quality is good. Why else would they buy it? No one would intentionally buy a house that have crappy construction quality. So, everyone would say, my area have good construction. Then you have some people who will pipe up and say, no, your area is crappy. Then you know where the thread will go to at that point…

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[quote=flu][quote=bearishgurl][quote=flu]…I think me and my capital investor will have to simply go door to door, especially to homes not for sale, to see for ourselves. maybe the microfilms in the basement of the county assessor’s office will provide the clues I need.

Did you know in exchange for the access to the microfilms all I need to do is help remove the county assessor’s acoustic ceilings?[/quote]

Uhhh, flu, I think you may have the wrong address. Besides taking your “bulk-order” of plat maps, the “assessor’s office” cannot help you and your “investor friend” with determining value or construction quality of properties or tracts.

Because of “Prop 13,” CA county assessors are not set up that way. In addition, their “basement” (with its stored bankers boxes and microfiche was built in 1937 (before the advent of “accoustical ceiling”). Instead, from its “basement” you will see (and hear) (color-coordinated) hot water pipes from above :=]

http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/cob/cacs/index.html

Why don’t you take your own “self-guided” tour? Informational kiosks are set up in the middle of the first floor next to and across from the brass elevators and staffed by volunteer “retired” humans who KNOW the ropes :)[/quote]

I didn’t write that you know :)[/quote]
You all look the same.

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[quote=The-Shoveler]But just because,

SD is way over rated.

I hear they have better quality homes in Phoenix and Austin is all the rage these days, maybe try those areas.[/quote]
SD is way overrated. It’s really a $hit hole with nothing but vast seas of TRACT homes.

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[quote=ocrenter]is it true that homes in MM have no walls? I heard the kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, living and dining rooms are all completely open to each other.

what about the beachside community of Santee. would it be an attractive place to purchase a rental given its close proximity to LJ?[/quote]
Walls are overrated. Who needs them.

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