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barnaby33ParticipantI know I shouldn’t but I can’t resist.
We became rich as a whole because we did exactly what China is doing today.
You’ve said a lot of dumb things so thankfully you didn’t break your pattern.
America got rich by being absolutely nothing like China. It was a resource rich land who’s native had neither the guns, the organization, nor the germ resistance to fight us. We came here took there land and built a society on it. We fought wars with the failing powers of their day and only enfranchised groups when we figured we had to, but we slowly did. We controlled the flow of the Spice, I mean oil and have kept an iron grip on that for over a century. We are the largest food exporter the world has ever seen. China is NONE of these things.
Brian you and lots of others on this blog should be ever-so-thankful that Rich is a tolerant man.
I’m not even sure who’s winning the trade war, or if we are really having one yet. It’s better for us to have one now than in 20 years when China will be that much stronger, or have dissolved in a paroxysm of civil war due to all the problems it has that we never had to deal with. China is like a spoiled child feeling it’s strength. It knows no rules and has a hell of a victim/inferiority complex. It also steals everything under the sun. The US can’t compete in a system like that. Better to get it over with now.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantNIMBY’s know what a fat tail is, something SPDRun seems not to.
barnaby33ParticipantIs adding onto your solar to have extra capacity for a car, not an option? That or something like a powerwall to charge during the day so you can charge the car at night? Cost is probably not the good reason to go electric if it is your only reason. There is at least one major improvement coming down the pike in ICE engines that will push efficiency up to around 50-55 mpg for smaller cars.
Josh
barnaby33ParticipantHaggling over 1k seems pointless. You’ve already decided to sell it. It’s not like an extra 1k will help you feel better about breaking even. Being a landlord on another continent sucks, I watch my wife do it.
Sell the pig, walk away.
JoshJuly 18, 2018 at 5:31 AM in reply to: San Diego homeowners, tell the Mayor and your councilman to oppose the vacation rental law #810412barnaby33ParticipantSadly birth tourism isn’t illegal. I’ve had more than a dozen requests for it myself.
JoshJuly 17, 2018 at 7:06 AM in reply to: San Diego homeowners, tell the Mayor and your councilman to oppose the vacation rental law #810403barnaby33ParticipantBrian you’ve said one thing that is true, times change. However it is absolutely a fundamental democratic right for citizens to try to resist that change, avoid being the targets of its externalities or in some cases advocate for even more rapid change. It all comes down to who’s ox is being gored.
Renting rooms in ones home had always been an accepted practice. Generally people who are tied to a place, even month to month, are more respectful. Your property rights do not extend to visibly lowering your neighbors standard of living.
My experience in these matters is not anecdotal.
JoshJuly 14, 2018 at 11:38 AM in reply to: San Diego homeowners, tell the Mayor and your councilman to oppose the vacation rental law #810395barnaby33ParticipantBeing anti STR doesn’t make one anti-progress. Cancer is growth, just not the kind anyone wants. Why is it a property rights issue? It is the STR crowd that has attempted to re-define (using a technology platform) use of space and neighborhoods. They haven’t done so for any high and mighty moral reasons, they’ve done it to make money.
I have always been either ambivalent or against whole home rentals because if you aren’t there then stuff happens and your neighbors get to bare the brunt of it. That’s just another form of privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
JoshJuly 11, 2018 at 8:06 AM in reply to: CA Landlords. What do you plan to do if the rent control initiative passes in November? #810367barnaby33ParticipantWhat does, “fairly extensive tenant screening,” mean? I would love to learn about techniques.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI secretly suspect if there were a channel or font of good tenants, it would quickly become the advertising portal of the millennium.
You might consider going the short term rental route. However since you are in a different time zone that would take a very trusting relationship with whomever you had doing the hosting. You could potentially make significantly more money.
Josh
June 19, 2018 at 9:30 AM in reply to: Why someone can have tax assessment far less than sold price #810275barnaby33ParticipantFLU, are you referring to an 1031 exchange?
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantEven worse is that war is domestic politics and wealth re-distribution that conservatives can wrap in a flag and serve to themselves and constituents in a palatable form. The state dept has presence in only a few states and is almost invisible in most of them. Every state has a few if not many military bases and young Jhonny gets to serve at one of them!
JoshMay 24, 2018 at 4:53 PM in reply to: Rural Urban Divide, Millennial Lifestyles & City of the Future #810111barnaby33ParticipantIf we are talking trails, the Bayshore bike way is pretty spectacular in central SD. It’s not 100% bike path but over half is and no major highways required. I often ride from Mission Valley to Border Field State park as well.
I just did my first century from Irvine Amtrak to the border 7 weeks ago.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI don’t see any units for sale. Where did these last 2 comments come from?
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI feel the same. Anecdotal as it may be, I’ve gotten little to no raise in the last few years. I’m not averse to jumping, I’ve been where I’m at for a decade. However I don’t see anything better. I’m not looking terribly hard.
Josh
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