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CoronitaParticipant[quote=AN]Make my net worth great again. LoL[/quote]
Hey, you stole that from me. It’s patented.
CoronitaParticipantParty like it’s 1999
CoronitaParticipantThe Trump rally continues. All three indexes up over 1%
Are we market timing now? 🙂
CoronitaParticipant[quote=gzz]If I were 65 and living with just my wife, the idea of taking care of a 4700sf RSF house with acres of landscaping and long drives to go anywhere sounds pretty bad.
As for investment purposes, annual costs will be higher in RSF and it seems like the mid to high range there can take 6-12 months to sell, adding a major cost.
I love landscaping now, both doing some of it myself and supervising others. But I am in my 30’s and dealing with much smaller lots. 5 acres in my late 60’s sounds like a continuous chore. My grandmother has too much stress maintaining her 2500sf house on 1/4 acre despite family help, and I know she gets gauged on some maintenance tasks.[/quote]
If i were 65 and was in the financial position to contemplate which private golf club to belong to, the least think i would be worrying about is the affordability of a house in RSF or thinking about a RSF house as being an investment and trying to maximize my return on investment on it……If I was in the financial state at that level, I wouldn’t want to settle for anything less. Afterall, I would already be 65, and I might as well enjoy my life with what I want.
CoronitaParticipantIt’s almost March 2nd when AMD’s Ryzen officially debuts, and AMD Ryzen 1800x preorders from some etailers are already sold out….Overclocked $500 processor performing better than $1000+ Intel product… That’s gotta hurt…
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-1800x-selling-out,33734.html
The AMD Ryzen hype train can’t be stopped. Not long after the upcoming CPUs reached the top of Amazon’s best sellers list, the 1800X has apparently started to sell out at some retailers, including Amazon itself. But fear not–some retailers still have the 1800X and its siblings available for pre-order.
AMD opened pre-orders for the Ryzen lineup just a couple of days ago. Yet the 1800X is currently unavailable from Amazon, which doesn’t know when it will start to sell the product again, and Newegg says it’s out of stock. Both still have the 1700 and 1700X in stock, at least for now. That doesn’t help the Ryzen hopeful looking for the 1800X, though, so where are they supposed to spend their hard-earned cash on the high-end CPU?February 26, 2017 at 4:59 PM in reply to: OT: First real rains in years, time to check your ceilings and walls. #805764CoronitaParticipant[quote=no_such_reality]That might not be that bad. Granted the picture doesn’t show a lot, but you may actually have caught it still early.
Time to rip the rest of the dry wall off to the right to see how extensive it it. However from the photo, the middle 2×4 doesn’t appear to have them in it, or doesn’t have them extensively.
The one on the right, looks like a piece of wafer cookie with the frosting sucked out, but wall stud next to it doesn’t look heavily infested. So you may just have the single window framing board hosting.
How’s the top piece that frames the window. It looks covered by the flashing, or is it completely gone?[/quote]
Well, regarding the top horizontal piece framing the window…….Lol… (because there’s no point crying about it)
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Here’s what it looks like from the bottom….
Yeah, I think it’s done….[img_assist|nid=26242|title=window2|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=500]
The water leak appears to be from a tiny hole in the stucco on the other side, and since there is no longer any wood there, it just leaks right in. A little calking would fix that, but the bigger issue is the wood definitely needs to be replaced.
If it was just the vertical window support, I’d say that would be pretty easy to replace.
But with the horizontal window frame 2×4 definitely needs to be replaced too. On the right side (you can’t see it) there’s a 1″ gap between the horizontal frame and the vertical support 2×4. I’m not sure how I would go about replacing the horizontal frame. It seems like the frame was nailed downward before the window was installed. I’m not sure how I could simply replace that horizontal beam without taking out the window first.. .maybe slide a beam from below, and nail from above between the window sills??? It seems like the window is already attached on the other 3 sides to the rest of the frame, so maybe I can get away with just taking out the bottom frame beam and replacing it from the bottom. But again, I think it will require me to demolish some of the outside stucco. I think I’ll just get someone to do it.
Anyway, this sucks. I guess I’ll need to delay my miata purchase even further, lol….
First thing is first. I need to find a termite inspector to inspect and eradicate. I might have an infestation elsewhere. Judging by the way the wood looks, it’s been like this for some time. I doubt this happens in just a matter of months.February 26, 2017 at 3:11 PM in reply to: OT: First real rains in years, time to check your ceilings and walls. #805762CoronitaParticipantWell, I think I finally figured out why my window was leaking… Unfortunately, I wish it was a simple problem…… It isn’t…..
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CoronitaParticipantI have nothing to say, and I can’t judge. I’m working on a 5th car….. lol…
CoronitaParticipantI sent you a private message. You can check them on the left hand column, under “Messages”
CoronitaParticipantI stopped trying to outsmart the market. I just go with the flow.
CoronitaParticipantSimple. Ask me what I am doing. And do completely the opposite. Lol.
In all seriousness. My kids 529 college savings plan was one that over time did well, simply because I did not F with it. After the minimum amount to fund the account, I just do an automatic investment every month of a few hhundr d bucks.
My vanguard index funds did OK throughout the years until, again, I F’d with them before the elections. I’ve been trying to slowly reverse that damage.
CoronitaParticipantSo… I took some of that money that was going towards that Miata and put more of into the AMD stock lottery ticket. If I can get an additional $8000 from AMD over the next couple of weeks, I’ll pay MSRP for the Miata RF. And if if falls flat on its face and lose more than 20%, I’ll call off the purchase indefinitely.
AMD Ryzen processor looks really compelling and looks like it will give Intelsa good run for the money, at a fraction of the cost. The biggest risk is AMD fcking up delivering with supply chain issues, like it typically did in the past.
It’s all fun and game and until someone loses money. Lol.
CoronitaParticipant……So….
I stepped into the dealership ready to sign…Then saw the Red Miata RF on the floor at full MSRP….And then spend the next 1.5 hours thinking “if I see one of these on the road, I’,m not going to be happy with my decision…” But then my cheap-ass self says “well there’s a $8000 price difference between it and the one you are about to buy….” And then back and forth, back and forth, back and forth….Called sdrealtor for advice….Then back and forth, back and forth.. back and forth…..
1.5 hours later… I politely told the salesman, I’m really really sorry. If I hadn’t seen the RF on the floor, I was all pumped to get the normal Miata…. He understood and said, unfortunately right now there’s no discount off of the Miata RF…
So I guess I’m gonna wait for another year, for the 2017 end of clearance. I hope the Miata RF doesn’t sell well, for selfish reasons. It’s a pretty expensive $30k car, which opens the doors to a lot of other cars imho.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=La Jolla Renter]My chronic lead foot prevents me from the sports car temptation. Back when I had a fast car I would hit 100+ at least 3 to 4 times a week.
So I drive a $50k truck. About 7k miles per year.
The best part about driving a big truck is that you don’t have to tolerate drivers that speed up when you politely and timely turn on your blinker to change lanes. You just keep going.[/quote]
Lol….
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