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[quote=yuhtey]flu, you’re main issue is that you are equating CV to a porcshe GT4[/quote]

Your issue is you can’t accept the fact that pricing in Carmel valley for a good home is pretty close to a gt4. Anyway, have fun renting.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]The problem is most things just aren’t worth the money. It makes us kind of sad. But they’re not worth it. Crap shacks generally aren’t worth it.

Very few things are worth it:

1. A nice walk. Totally worth it.

2. A good bed. Absolutely worth it.

3. A great bowel movement. Worth it.

4. Exercise. Worth it.

5. An 3lectric toothbrush and floss. Worth the money.

6. My ping-pong table. Very worth it.

7. Nice glass to drink whiskey from. Worth it.

8. One of out 5 cats. Worth it.

9. Mmmm. Costco membership. Worth it I guess.

I can’t think of much else that provides good value.[/quote]

1-4 I agree with. 5-9 I’d rather have a GT4. That’s worth every penny.

Finally, I’m off fasting and off of this stupid machine. Time to go out and run my 3 miles I’ve put off these past 2 days…Stupid medical exam….

Later guys. Nice hanging out here for the past two days.

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[quote=Hatfield]My tenants pay by paper check. For the last couple years I’ve been using MCFU’s mobile banking app to electronically deposit the rent check. Take a photo of the front and back of the check, and bam, done in under a minute.

I think having tenants do electronic deposit might look attractive if the rental unit was in a different city. Of if you had a whole bunch of rental units, though I suppose you’d still need to go through every month and figure out who’s paid and who hasn’t.[/quote]

My tenant uses bill pay and I get rent checks sent to my po box. And like Hatfield I use a mobile app to take a picture of it as a deposit.

The caveat is some banks limit how much the check can be for a deposit. So make sure your bank doesn’t cap the deposit below what your rent check is.

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[quote=utcsox]I think you need to have a suit up Japanese rice rocket in place of Toyota Camry. And make the points of a Japanese rice rocket is a better value because of price per performance and “characters” due to the customization.

What are the analogies for the lizards and walls????[/quote]

Wall analogy:
The reason why a toyota camry is better than a GT4 is because the GT4 has 6 cylinders and the toyota camry has 4. A car that has too many cylinders is fundamentally worse, because a well constructed car will have an engine that uses the fewest amount of cylinders to make it go from point A to point B.

Lizard analogy:
A Porsche GT4 won’t be driven as much because it’s it’s parked in a far flung area….It will be crawling with lizards because it’s not a daliy driver.

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And there is nothing wrong with a camry or accord. I have a POS miata that costs less than all of your high end camry and accords.

But none of you folks with camry and accords were cross shopping a camry/accord with a porsche. Some people apparently are trying to.

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[quote=yuhtey]AN – can i ask you do you walk into a car dealer and offer the MSRP for a car? if not, then you are surely a snob! or better yet, you can’t afford it![/quote]

Here’s a perfect analogy for your current predicament.

You made decent money. Probably not filthy rich, but pretty good. Probably better than most of the peers you know. So you walk into a Porsche dealership and think you have $80k to spend on a car, and that the Porsche GT4 has an MSRP of $80k and $72k invoice, and that you should be able to haggle with the dealership to get a price around $74k, because that would be fair price you would pay and for the dealer to make a profit.

But then, you go into the dealer, and you see that not only is the GT4 priced at MSRP, it’s priced $25k above asking, and not a single salesman will entertain your offer and not even give you a time or day.

You wonder why? You think that with the MSRP at $80k and the $25k markup, that would put the car into a $105k territory, which is the same price as say a 2017 911s, which in your mind is better car. But for whatever the reason, the dealership is just going to hold onto the GT4 waiting for some buying to pay $25k above MSRP or close to that.

You get pissed off and go home, and post on a car blog, “can someone recommend for $80k, a car that equivalent to a Porsche GT4″….

Some people tell you that first of all you wont be able to get a GT4 at $80k, that the current market price is $105k… You say that’s shitty, that for that price, that car is shit, and for the same price you can get a 911s. Then people suggest, well then why don’t you spend the money and get a 911s. Then you say, well, I don’t want to spend that much for a car. Give me something comparable…

Then someone tells you for $80k, you can buy an Corvette z06. You say, that’s a piece of shit. I won’t be caught dead in an american car. Ok, then someone says, how about an M3…Then you say, the maintenance costs on that piece of shit is too much. Then you have a few people that tell you you really should just buy a toyota camry because there’s no difference between a camry or porsche. You scoff and say, that’s insulting…Toyota camry is for peasants and ghetto people. Other people chuckle because while there’s nothing wrong with a Toyota camry, that advice came from people who aren’t really into cars and only make recommendations just for the sake of making recommendations.

And then someone suggests, well if you really want the GT4, the prevailing price is $25k over MSRP. Because it’s a limited production car where there is a short supply, there’s plenty of demand for it, and even if the dealer is asking well above MSRP, people are buying them…With cash….And if you really really want the GT4, that’s the price you’ll need to pay to get it. And if you are already willing to spend $80k for a car, what’s an additional $25k if you really can afford the GT4 and if you really want it. The person goes on to explain..You can wait and rent/lease a normal Caymen R that is pretty close to a GT4, and you can even buy a Caymen R for less than MSRP…And it’s pretty close to a GT4…But then you insist, that the Cayman R is not good enough, and that you should be able to buy the GT4 at MRSP close to what you would pay for a fully loaded Caymen R and that any other brand of car is just shit. You feel you are entitled not to pay MSRP for the GT-4 even though current market conditions dictate that’s not realistic. The person then suggests can wait to see if Porsche releases more inventory of the GT4 to see if that helps, but you might be waiting a long time, if they ever do. And even so, demand for the GT4 will still outstrip supply for the GT4, so you might not get your discount and now be stuck paying for the extra lease waiting…

Then you go ask if ISIS members drive Mercedes, because if they do, you’re going to cross the C63 AMG off the list.

And meanwhile, somewhere along the line some guy that has a Nissan comes along and says, considering you will only settle for a porsche, aren’t you’re just being an overly entitled person and are you sure you can afford drive a GT4? To which you snap back, well I doubt you can too. To which that person says, but I’m not the one trying to buy a GT4 in the current market conditions, you are.

Now substitute the GT4 for a house in Carmel Valley, substitute 911s for La Jolla, subsitute Corvette z06 for Mira Mesa, Carlsbad for the BMW M3, and substitute the Toyota Camry for El Cajon or Chula Vista…..The c63 AMG for a house near the islamic center. And that’s the predicament you are in.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]All this Asian talk got me thinking….
Where does this leave White folks? Asians and Jews outdo them academically and Latinos out do them labor wise. If you’re compensating hard work, the White folks are kinda up the creek in a competitive world.

Flu, you should buy near all the top universities because as the Asian population grows, they will fan out across the land for educational opportunities. I’m thinking an apartment building by the university of Michigan.[/quote]

Come on.. Any driven white person can compete just fine. There’s plenty of them. Last time I checked, the majority of the CEOs and entrepreneurs in this country are still caucasian. It’s all good. And when did we start splitting hairs and calling Jewish non-whites? I’m confused.

I’d like to get to the point in society that we get rid of this sort of “social injustice” because you are of race X or you have an unfair advantage because you are race Y, with maybe a few exceptions here and there in the extreme cases… Life isn’t fair. Deal with it.

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[quote=flu][quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic]Not sure …maybe get 2200 to 2500/mo?

The area is nice. I could save so much time in yard work.[/quote]

That area looks really nice. I have to say, I sometimes envy folks that have a career out in Temecula or close to it. Pay probably is roughly the same, At the same time, twice as much home, for half the price.

I missed my opportunity in passing a short sales in Temecula a few years back. Big mistake…. Huge![/quote]not that big of a mistake. My huge mistake was not buying SFR in MM when they were in the high $200s. Now, that’s what I call HUGE.[/quote]

Let’s not go down memory lane, otherwise we’ll keep one upping each other on huge mistakes…… :)[/quote]
My other huge mistake was passing up on a SFR in solana beach when it was in the $600s. Now they’re going for around $1m.[/quote]

stop it!!! my brain is hurting!!!!! (must resist reply…must resist reply)…[/quote]

Going into stealth/vulture mode right now. I don’t see home prices correcting in a worthwhile way in a near future. This will be a long waiting game for me. God, I’ll be so old by the time the next cycle happens. maybe 8 years later or so…Shit.. i need to start hanging around more younger people like you.

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[quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic]Not sure …maybe get 2200 to 2500/mo?

The area is nice. I could save so much time in yard work.[/quote]

That area looks really nice. I have to say, I sometimes envy folks that have a career out in Temecula or close to it. Pay probably is roughly the same, At the same time, twice as much home, for half the price.

I missed my opportunity in passing a short sales in Temecula a few years back. Big mistake…. Huge![/quote]not that big of a mistake. My huge mistake was not buying SFR in MM when they were in the high $200s. Now, that’s what I call HUGE.[/quote]

Let’s not go down memory lane, otherwise we’ll keep one upping each other on huge mistakes…… :)[/quote]
My other huge mistake was passing up on a SFR in solana beach when it was in the $600s. Now they’re going for around $1m.[/quote]

stop it!!! my brain is hurting!!!!! (must resist reply…must resist reply)…

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[quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic]Not sure …maybe get 2200 to 2500/mo?

The area is nice. I could save so much time in yard work.[/quote]

That area looks really nice. I have to say, I sometimes envy folks that have a career out in Temecula or close to it. Pay probably is roughly the same, At the same time, twice as much home, for half the price.

I missed my opportunity in passing a short sales in Temecula a few years back. Big mistake…. Huge![/quote]not that big of a mistake. My huge mistake was not buying SFR in MM when they were in the high $200s. Now, that’s what I call HUGE.[/quote]

Let’s not go down memory lane, otherwise we’ll keep one upping each other on huge mistakes……You win this round. 🙂

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If you think an islamic center is going to be harboring terrorists, then you should be buying right next to an islamic center. I mean, terrorists don’t usually go jihad in their own backyard. Just saying….Run, don’t walk….Property values near islamic centers are about to go up.

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[quote=yuhtey]the expectation is very simple – government ought to be thoroughly investigating the people who are affiliated with this particular faith for any and all linkages to radical movements oversees.[/quote]

Easy for you to say, when you are white. Why dont we lock up your wife the next time some asian does something bad…Heck, they all look the same.

Shit, I can’t believe I said that. I’m suppose to be a conservative… This world is going mad, i tell you….

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I swear, are we talking about San Diego anymore?

It’s sounding more like paranoia from Texas….

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[quote=scaredyclassic]Not sure …maybe get 2200 to 2500/mo?

The area is nice. I could save so much time in yard work.[/quote]

That area looks really nice. I have to say, I sometimes envy folks that have a career out in Temecula or close to it. Pay probably is roughly the same, At the same time, twice as much home, for half the price.

I missed my opportunity in passing a short sales in Temecula a few years back. Big mistake…. Huge!

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