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CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]Ridiculous to suggest that you have to do everything yourself.
You can help by writing a check, or morally and politically supporting other people whose mission is to affect progress. Speaking up is also progress.[/quote]
So in other words, all talk, no action… Uh, ok….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]Actually I feel we need to help poor people get better education.
.[/quote]Great idea brian!!! So how many hours a week have you dedicated to this endeavor???
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CoronitaParticipantScardey.. The Apple Watch has your name written on it 🙂
CoronitaParticipant[quote=ctr70]I rent up in Seattle and rents have gone way, way up here, especially in the city of Seattle proper. My landlord raised my rent about 7% last year. I’ve been renting up here as I moved up here less than 2 years ago and still deciding if I want to buy & where I want to buy.
I own condo rental properties I bought in San Diego from 2009-2011 and vacancy rates are very low. I like to keep my rents a little below market so tenants feel they are getting a good deal and don’t bug you & stay for a long time to pay off your property for you. I have had zero vacancies and not one missed rent payment.
Also, as a reminder to make money investing, often you have to go against the crowds. I remember people right here on this forum arguing with me about buying condos in SD back from 2009-2011, thinking I was crazy. Bearishgirl telling me they would “depreciate” and that condos were bad investments. Those condos have all been AMAZING investments. I was buying 2 bed condos in good rental areas of SD for $130k-$150k like North Park, Rancho P., etc..(that now go for $300k+ and get $1,500/mo in rent). My mortgage payments on some of my condos aren’t much more then car payments. And back then in 2009 NOBODY WANTED THEM. Everyone was scared. Like Warren Buffet says, buy when others are fearful and sell when they are euphoric.
You have to be really careful who you listen to on these forums. There are a lot of big time long winded BS-ers that don’t know s**t. Try to get investing advice from someone who has a higher net worth than you. Not some flunkies on forums who may be flat broke yet handing out advice.[/quote]
I would love to own a condo in Seattle or Portland suburbs….My career, though, hasn’t found me a reason to go up there (yet)…
September 4, 2014 at 7:57 PM in reply to: OT: Today will be an interesting day for a new product showing…. #777826CoronitaParticipant[quote=flu]2200 isn’t going to happen for North America… Crash regulations,etc….
That said, I hope there is a coupe version. And as long as it’s highly tuneable…..I’d be happy with a near 200hp car stock with a 2300lb car, with room for aftermarket tuning……
So doing some planning… If I buy this car in 2015, I can drive it a few years, and it will be the perfect old car for my kid when my kid is old enough to drive…heh heh…[/quote]
Well so much for that idea.. I ran that idea across with my kid…..Kid says
“I’m a little concerned about the car being that small. You know in case a big truck runs over it…….But you can get it and keep it for yourself…”
Well, so much for that idea…
September 4, 2014 at 7:54 PM in reply to: OT: Today will be an interesting day for a new product showing…. #777825CoronitaParticipant2200 isn’t going to happen for North America… Crash regulations,etc….
That said, I hope there is a coupe version. And as long as it’s highly tuneable…..I’d be happy with a near 200hp car stock with a 2300lb car, with room for aftermarket tuning……
So doing some planning… If I buy this car in 2015, I can drive it a few years, and it will be the perfect old car for my kid when my kid is old enough to drive…heh heh…
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CoronitaParticipant[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=flu]Looks like the going price for a 1/1 condo in MM is around $1300/month now for something < 600 sqft west of Camino Ruiz. Interesting.. My tenants are month to month for some time... Meh.. I'm too lazy to raise rents...[/quote] Well just change the word lazy to "nice" and pat yourself on the back. Of course there is a cost to you to find new tenants and a risk if the property is vacant for a while or you end up with bad tenants.[/quote] Truthfully, and extra $50-100/month is not worth the time of getting my tenants pissed off and argue over something regularly and having them nit picking at every little thing... I do send them a notice that what the current rent prices are, with a gentle reminder about don't give me crap over small frivolous things, and I won't give you crap about how I haven't raised rent... Bay area rents, on the other hand, I had no choice...Because we were talking about and $600/month difference between what I was charging and what I should have been charging, and it was still a few hundred/month lower than the average rent prices... At first the tenant complained, but then I indicated that my price even after the adjustment is about Section 8 rent prices, and they aren't even close to being Section 8....Didn't hear another complaint thereafter.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=bewildering][quote=flu]Looks like the going price for a 1/1 condo in MM is around $1300/month now for something < 600 sqft west of Camino Ruiz. Interesting.. My tenants are month to month for some time... Meh.. I'm too lazy to raise rents...[/quote] $1300/month for a one bedroom in Mira Mesa? That seems an awful lot for a one person household in an area that is more for families than single people. To be a 1/3 of their take home pay they would need to be earning $70,000. I guess Sorrento Valley Tech people.[/quote] my tenants happen to be tech workers with about 2-3 years of experience so their around $90k give or take $10K..
September 3, 2014 at 10:51 PM in reply to: OT: Today will be an interesting day for a new product showing…. #777797CoronitaParticipant2200 lbs.. Looks like it’s a winner. I like it…. that puts it slightly above an NA…I doubt it will be 2200 in the US though…. The ND looks smaller than the NA….
CoronitaParticipantLooks like the going price for a 1/1 condo in MM is around $1300/month now for something < 600 sqft west of Camino Ruiz. Interesting.. My tenants are month to month for some time... Meh.. I'm too lazy to raise rents...
September 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM in reply to: OT: Today will be an interesting day for a new product showing…. #777777CoronitaParticipant[quote=moneymaker]Are they going aluminum? Like the F-150. Should find a way to quiet the ride before going for more horsepower. I do like our 2006 Grand Touring model, just have to turn the Bose up on the freeway to drown out the ambient noise.[/quote]
No idea.
August 30, 2014 at 11:25 AM in reply to: OT: The first Made in China car coming to North America….. #777744CoronitaParticipant[quote=ucodegen]
The Japanese and Korean cultures are different (not saying that Korean’s and Japanese get along, they generally don’t). Both Japanese and Koreans have a ‘honor’ aspect to work products. Their cultures also tend to be ‘conformist’. Very few if any attempts to create fake eggs and sell them as real, putting things in ramen that really don’t belong there, melamine in milk.. etc. – and if/when it occurs, it ends up being very embarrassing to them.
[/quote]Lol… You don’t work with any of the korean smartphone makers do you?
CoronitaParticipantI had to settle to live in the slums of Carmel Valley. I have a tiny front lawn, I have a very tiny backyard, and I have no air conditioning. I don’t have a nice driveway to park 4…sometimes 5 cars..And the stucco exterior is crumbling..I’m too lazy to water my lawn….Nor can I afford to… So green rattle can for me….And I have way too many walls on the inside…..
AN, on the other hand lives in a palace in MM.. He has the finer luxuries of life… Pool, A/C real yards…Solar electricty…And probably has much fewer walls than I do….
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