[Diego Mamani]

[quote=bearishgurl]I wouldn’t throw away thousands per month on rent[/quote] Actually, the recent experience has been of people throwing up to 100s of thousands of dollars on mortgage and lost equity.

[quote=bearishgurl]STAY AWAY from owners behind in their payments.[/quote]Good advice. What I did was to check with the county registrar/recorder office to make sure the property had no unusual liens or notices of default.

[Diego Mamani]

There are plenty of non-arm’s length transactions

[Diego Mamani]

For a moment I thought you were looking for a house with a view…

Check the MLS. I don’t live in SD anymore, but we found few or no listings when looking online. Call an agent and see what’s available in MLS.

Only ten houses for rent showed up on realtor.com:
http://www.realtor.com/homesforrent/Poway_CA/beds-2#/listingType-2/pg-1

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=CONCHO]Technology is going to have a big role to play in the education of commoners. Among the elites, it will be used very little, if at all. Elite children will be too busy learning to read and write in multiple languages, world history, advanced mathematics, etc… to spend time playing with iGizmos.

The introduction of technology to young commoners at earlier and earlier ages is very important, as it reduces their attention span, makes them easier to manipulate, etc… An added bonus is that well-connected businesses can benefit by selling technology into the captive education market.[/quote]
LOL! Love it!

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=ucodegen]There is a ‘current’ problem being noticed where many college undergrads who were ‘exposed’ to computers in the home while growing up, don’t have the ‘expected’ knowledge of them when they enter College. That is because ‘exposure’, ie watching videos, playing games.. is not the same as using a computer as a tool. This problem is exacerbated by the ‘MTV’ generation’s 15 second concentration duration.[/quote] My point exactly. What we really need are the basics: reading, writing, arithmetic, algebra, spelling. We are failing there… see how many allegedly educated adults spell “alot”, confuse “principal” with “principle,” can’t calculate a 15% tip, etc. Throwing money at fancy gadgets is not going to solve the more basic problem.

[Diego Mamani]

Really bad idea. And I don’t think they’ll last a couple of years: they’ll either break down after a few months, OR, kids will lose interest once the next high-tech thingy comes along and their mid 2012 obsolete iPads start looking like an old dinosaur.

I’ll tell you an anecdote from my years in grad school here in California. We had undergraduate students who had been exposed to computers and high technology literally since Kindergarten or earlier. However, the students struggled and had a really hard time learning to use Excel and the like.

On the other hand, we had foreign grad students that had only very limited exposure to computers in their college years (this was almost 20 years ago).

Funny thing is, the foreign grad students learned everything about computers very quickly, and had to patiently teach and tutor the American undergraduate students who struggled with software.

How come the group with NO computer experience in childhood and only very limited experience in college could learn so quickly (even after the language barrier), while the domestic kids who always had computers had a hard time?

The reason is that if you learn elementary and intermediate math very well, then you are well-equipped to learn about hardware and software. But if they teach you dumbed down math, then you’ll always struggle with computers, even if you had them since pre-school.

Flu knows about this… he told us before about how his foreign-born wife can do math in her head effortlessly, etc.

iPads for K-12 students? BIG, HUGE, waste of money.

[Diego Mamani]

I agree with SD Realtor. Also, look at the bright side, you’ll have less competition and may be able to get the house for a lower price than you normally would. (Because this silly policy will naturally repel many potential buyers)

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=hugo]This is for a house built in 1940, 3 beds upstairs with just one small 1940 vintage bathroom upstairs. No garage, parking in alley for one car.[/quote]Hugo, since you didn’t get the house, do you mind sharing the address? That way we can look up its sale history, map it, etc., to have a better idea of what we are talking about.

[Diego Mamani]

Banks don’t and can’t “sentence” anybody

[Diego Mamani]

I always used to carry a wallet, but when traveling to southern Europe or Latin America, I didn’t. I always thought that a wallet is a great convenience for pick pockets! Instead, I distribute cash and credit cards (the minimum necessary) in four different pockets, and I’m done with it, no wallet needed.

For the last couple of years, however, I no longer carry a wallet here at home and I don’t miss it at all! I carry my DL, a few credit/debit/ATM cards and occasionally a little cash ($0-$20) in my pants’ left rear pocket. On the right rear pocket I carry a (dumb) cell phone, a comb and a handkerchief (I’m old school).

I really, really, love being wallet-free!

[Diego Mamani]

For every saver sitting on 100s of thousands of dollars, there are dozens of indebted suckers paying interest left and right, or even defaulting on some of their many loans (credit cards, car loans, student loans, upside-down mortgages, etc.). Savers need a place to park their cash, and knowing that higher inflation is coming in the next 5-15 years, RE is an attractive option.

[Diego Mamani]

I get those all the time… Once a guy even cold called me (I guess my number is listed), but I refused to even acknowledge that I was Diego Mamani.

[Diego Mamani]

You could make it a condition of the sale that the tenants leave prior to closing of escrow. In that case, the bank may have to pay cash for keys. Otherwise, once escrow closes, you have no bargaining power, and you will be the one who has to pay cash for keys.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu]I was looking up the DOT manufacturing number, and it ends up the ones I got were made back in 2010… Great. So I contact tirerack, who basically told me that the tires were stored properly in their warehouse, rotated, correctly, and that all the other kumho tires they had of the exact same type were made roughly with the same date. They offered to give me a $40 credit total. I am a little annoyed, because tires have a shelf life, but then I already had them mounted and didn’t want to go through the hassle again…and realistically I go through tires in about 2 years anyway…[/quote]
Back in Nov ’06 I also bought Kumho tires from tirerack.com for my ’01 ‘Stang. But they were new tires, made earlier that same year. I’m glad you brought up the issue of tires’ age (in years). There’s agreement that tires can go bad just from the passing of time, even if miles are low. But no one knows how old is too old. Some people say 6 years, others say 10, still others say don’t worry if you keep your car garaged and your weather isn’t extreme. I don’t drive my Mustang much, so the Kumho tires only have 20K miles, but almost six years… I’ll probably change them by year end, just to be safe.

[Diego Mamani]

Sea World? That’s a circus-type private business. Granted, SW does have expertise, but shouldn’t we call scientists?

http://mbrd.ucsd.edu/

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