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ERUS up 4% today… Thoughts? Dead cat bounce, or was prior decline an over-reaction?

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[quote=plm]Bought new house three years ago and I’ve noticed that I must have about 20 of these recessed cans.

Is the GU24 socket what is in the recessed cans? Don’t know what I have but I know its not a standard twist light bulb since it broke when I tried to twist it off.

Such a pain having to remove the cover to get to the light bulb. I like the recessed cans with the BR40 bulbs much better but I suppose those aren’t CFL.

If I do have the GU24, how is the light bulb supposed to be removed without breaking it?

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Actually, they might not be GU24… Worse off, they might be any one of these…

Those bulbs typically look something like

In that case, it’s not a twist.. It’s a pull…

Then you are at the mercy of the few stores that carry them, that can probably charge whatever they want.

I had a bathroom recess lighting that wasn’t e26 or GU24. It was one in the picture I included above… I didn’t actually figure it out. Too hard too find, too expensive.. That was enough for me to get the nice wire cutters out and cut the socket out, replacing it with an e26 socket. Apparently there was some voltage regulator that I also had to take out too….I just ended up using a CFL with an e26 socket….

I’m waiting for the one inside the bathroom ventilator + light to break too.
That will be fun..
Lol….FLU: making a green house, less green one recess lighting at a time….

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Ok. I’m surprised someone hasn’t brought this up yet… Got pictures?

Just kidding!!!!!

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I can think of a few scenarios..

1. Trust fund kids.

2. Small biz owner….one of my neighbors doesn’t look a day older than 25 both him and his girlfriend… They own a tattoo shop in PB, and they moved in maybe 4-5 years ago.. Nice guy… Even offered me a tattoo. Lol…

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[quote=ucodegen]I wonder if the GU24 versions of the CFLs are built ‘to fail’ for the purpose of profit. I am noticing several comments in other ‘blogs’ and ratings boards that these are failing fairly quickly. No such comments on the E26 CFLs, and mine have been lasting a while.

So we end up saving ‘CO2’, but putting mercury(a toxic heavy metal) into the environment (most people toss the CFLs into the trash instead of haz-waste disposal)[/quote]

You know it wouldn’t surprise me… See a lot of these lamps I acquired pretty inexpensively awhile back from the manufacturer interested in replacing traditional lamps.. Lots of incentives and rebates to get the old ones replaced. After most of the rebates/etc, there were almost free. Looking at some of the manufacturers of these lamps, it looks like they are more or less associated with some of the bulb companies…. I guess kinda like what some printer companies did….Sell the ink jet printers at a loss, knowing that they’ll make the profits in selling the overpriced ink cartridges that expired earlier than their actual usage life….

Aside from just the costs of GU24 versus E26 CFLs, it’s just the general availability of them.. You can walk into many many stores and get an E26 CFL. But finding a GU24, pretty much means Lowes or HD….

Heck, you can find E26 CFLs at Dollar Tree….

(Yes, Dollar Tree has some redeeming values…Along that line, I ain’t paying $3-$4 for a kid’s birthday card from Hallmark either, since it pretty much ends up in the trash can anyway… I’ll go for the 3 for $1 special at Dollar Tree)….

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[quote=AN]I switch all of my lights to CFL and all of them are E26 and not GU24. I had to buy a GU24 adapter because the light housing in front of my garage door is GU24. I have no energy comparison, but I do noticed some last less than advertised while others have last for 5 years and going. So, maybe it has to do with the housing itself that cause the early death. I got it over 5 years ago when SDG&E and Home Depot were doing some special deals on them and I got them for ~$1/bulb. I stocked up a lot and still have plenty. I can’t justify going to LED because they’re still way too expensive compare to my $1/bulb CFL.

Flu, wouldn’t it be cheaper to just get a E26 to G24 adapter for the ones that needs it? All of my recessed lights are E26. I got these and seem to be working fine so far: http://www.amazon.com/10-Pack-GU24-E26-Adapters-Screw-/dp/B00BHKZTEY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1395694846&sr=8-3&keywords=e26+to+gu24. Assuming your lights have space for the adapter.[/quote]

So for my house recess lighting, I actually went in and cut out the GU24 sockets and installed and wired new E26 bulb sockets each time a new CFL recess lighting goes out or starts to flicker… Unfortunately, I think I have a total of 24 recess lighting in my home, 10 in the kitchen alone…. So yeah, it’s kind of a problem, a slow and painful problem…That’s fine, problem solved, and contractor packs for the E26 sockets at HD are pretty cheap… Just time consuming to do all of them in one shot..

For things like floor lamps, I could put on a new socket, but I would need to take apart the floor lamps, which I don’t really feel like doing…So adapters, it is… The problem with the adapters is that it adds about 3/4″ height to the light socket…Which for small lamps (not floor lamps) won’t leave enough room for a lot of the CFL bulbs which are already slightly larger….

I think a lot of these newer lights switched to GU24 simply because they thought they could charge consumers more for the special lightbulbs (that or it hasn’t caught on yet)…

BTW: in CA, 100w or more incandescent bulbs are banned in CA (started Jan 1st). If you have 100w bulbs or higher, those are going to be relics soon.

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So, for folks that have a primary home and also with the financial means and desire to stack up on more rental property(ies) with cash purchase(s)….

What’s to prevent someone with equity in their primary home from taking out a cash out refinance, and use the proceeds to buy a rental property, and getting their mortgage interest deduction from the “other” way on their rental property income, instead of their primary home?

Seems like all it’s doing for people with the means…is to shift the mortgage interest deduction from Schedule A (primary home) to Schedule E (rental property expense)..And adding some extra work/complication for folks to ensure that loans on the primary property is traceable to the properties that were purchased with the loan proceeds…

In any case, the amount deducted from your net income is more or less the same whether it’s done on Schedule A or Schedule E, provided you don’t have a net loss on your rental properties (for which you would have to carryover and not be able to offset other income unless you are a real estate professional)….

Doesn’t seem like it’s a very effective way to make richer people with the financial means to pay more taxes, if that’s the intent. The only once it seems to hurt are people who only have a primary home who are cash poor with no plan or financial means of acquiring rental properties.

But I guess it does illustrate what a cluster f our tax code is, and why rich(er) people have much more variables to play with….

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Done…

5 pack converters

$8 with prime shipping

My money says it’s Made in China. Oh well…

Switching my lamps and lights back to an e26 socket. And I’ll buy LED’s or CFL’s with those bases instead….

GU24 bulbs are such a ripoff

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Or maybe some people figure out that with a 2.5 to 3% fixed rate loan ….

1) payments still end up being below rent even before tax benefits

And

2)instead or paying off a house early, younger people slightly more financially savvy can do better than 2.5% -3% by taking the nice low interest loan and investing whst otherwise would have been sunk into paying off a primary to generate higher return income elsewhere. Like maybe 34% last year in the stock market or 6-8% cash on cash in rentals or something else.

Afterall, its not like your primary is generating any income. I believe some folks call it being house rich but cash poor…

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[quote=moneymaker]Last time I checked EDCO would not accept long tube fluorescent bulbs at any of their locations. here’s a GU24 bulb http://www.amazon.com/Feit-A19-800-GU24-LED/dp/B009NCEA98 , a little pricey but said to last a long time.Home Depot has them as well, but for $10 more.[/quote]

Hmmm. I think I have a few LEDs lying around.. Maybe I’ll just hook a few together to an existing GU24 broken base from a CFL instead… What could go wrong, right? 🙁

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[quote=spdrun]Recently went Android … Most important app: SuperSU — all good apps follow from it 🙂

What else? K-9 Mail vs the stock mail applet. PA Tone to test audio/speaker systems. Flashlight. Link2SD. GV Phone, so I can use Google Voice from an account that’s not linked to the OS. Let’s Print Droid — allows printing to non-kloudkrap PCL5 and Postscript printers. WiFi Tracker. JoeVLC. uTorrent. JuiceSSH.[/quote]

Super SU or SuperUser won’t work correctly post android 4.3 unless you have a custom version and/or hacked the kernel…(or a rewriten version of SuperUser like the one I borrowed and updated and replace a few binaries on the /system partition via recovery image.

Starting with 4.3 (and also on Kitkat), Android locked out setuid so “su” won’t work correctly except for things that runs in the system process or adb shell…

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If it were only true for the rental properties here in SD.

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I think I want to buy BP too… almost 5% dividend yield.

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I’m out completely of VLO (52 weak high) and VLP (yes, I did get my K-1 tax bill for 2013… grrrrr)…

I’m in a little on ERUS.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]I now commute from Las Vegas because of tax reasons, I wanted to invest in property and when Vegas crashed, I had my opportunity. It’s my bonafide residence but it doesn’t feel like “home.” I’d rather be in HI, but alas one must make sacrifices.

I read some about Chile but never visited. There is a growing tech industry serving Latin America. Chile seems to have a good future ahead. Great climate.[/quote]

Hi Brian, good to see you again… Legally dodging taxes I see 🙂

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