[Doofrat]

A buddy of mine has an ocean front condo at the Del Mar Beach Club. One of the ironic things about these places is that a lot of them are owned by out-of-towners who live in Arizona and such. The parking lot is completely empty in the winter, but packed in the summer. From what I’ve seen, the ocean front condos seem to be mostly owned by 1. Retirees 2. Out of town owners. 3. Friends of mine that have rich parents.
As you go away from the ocean front towards the street, they become more local.
I don’t know what this means for prices in the future though, but I don’t see evidence of a lot of the EZ credit fueled flipping going on on the bluff, those condos have always been very expensive, but the prices don’t seem to have gone up at the same rate as say a house in Mira Mesa.
That’s just my take on it.

[Doofrat]

Hey SD Realtor, I forgive you too!

Maybe I can get the sellers to meet me half way between the sale price and the listed price : )

[Doofrat]

Hey SD Realtor, I forgive you too!

Maybe I can get the sellers to meet me half way between the sale price and the listed price : )

[Doofrat]

Hey SD Realtor, I forgive you too!

Maybe I can get the sellers to meet me half way between the sale price and the listed price : )

[Doofrat]

Hey SD Realtor, I forgive you too!

Maybe I can get the sellers to meet me half way between the sale price and the listed price : )

[Doofrat]

Hey SD Realtor, I forgive you too!

Maybe I can get the sellers to meet me half way between the sale price and the listed price : )

[Doofrat]

Thank you all for the tons of great advice! I drive my cars into the ground (189,000 on my Civic, and now 140,000 on my present Xterra), so buying new is important to me because I don’t want to inherit a used car that has been beaten up in the first 20,000 miles of it’s life and carries both physical and psychological damage 🙂

I would like to wait to buy a car, but I’ve had to fix multiple problems in the last two months that has caused me to lose faith in the car’s reliability (especially since I take the Xterra off-road).

I can tell that the Xterra’s have not been selling well because they cost so much less than when they came out (back when you could fill the tank with Andrew Jackson and not Ulysses S. Grant) so I should have a lot of negotiating room. I’ll check out what I can get in Los Angeles and in San Diego, and use the Cars Direct prices as a starting point.

I’ll be trading in my old Xterra and then paying cash for the new one. I’d really rather not go the private selling route if I can help it (unless anybody here wants a 2000 Xterra with 140,000 miles that runs great and has never been taken off-road!), but I’m afraid that a dealer will just try to make up the lower price on the new car by lowering the trade-in value. Any advice on how to deal with the trade-in and when to tell them you’re going to write a check for the car?

You’ve all given me a lot to think about and some great ideas! Thank You!

[Doofrat]

Thank you all for the tons of great advice! I drive my cars into the ground (189,000 on my Civic, and now 140,000 on my present Xterra), so buying new is important to me because I don’t want to inherit a used car that has been beaten up in the first 20,000 miles of it’s life and carries both physical and psychological damage 🙂

I would like to wait to buy a car, but I’ve had to fix multiple problems in the last two months that has caused me to lose faith in the car’s reliability (especially since I take the Xterra off-road).

I can tell that the Xterra’s have not been selling well because they cost so much less than when they came out (back when you could fill the tank with Andrew Jackson and not Ulysses S. Grant) so I should have a lot of negotiating room. I’ll check out what I can get in Los Angeles and in San Diego, and use the Cars Direct prices as a starting point.

I’ll be trading in my old Xterra and then paying cash for the new one. I’d really rather not go the private selling route if I can help it (unless anybody here wants a 2000 Xterra with 140,000 miles that runs great and has never been taken off-road!), but I’m afraid that a dealer will just try to make up the lower price on the new car by lowering the trade-in value. Any advice on how to deal with the trade-in and when to tell them you’re going to write a check for the car?

You’ve all given me a lot to think about and some great ideas! Thank You!

[Doofrat]

Thank you all for the tons of great advice! I drive my cars into the ground (189,000 on my Civic, and now 140,000 on my present Xterra), so buying new is important to me because I don’t want to inherit a used car that has been beaten up in the first 20,000 miles of it’s life and carries both physical and psychological damage 🙂

I would like to wait to buy a car, but I’ve had to fix multiple problems in the last two months that has caused me to lose faith in the car’s reliability (especially since I take the Xterra off-road).

I can tell that the Xterra’s have not been selling well because they cost so much less than when they came out (back when you could fill the tank with Andrew Jackson and not Ulysses S. Grant) so I should have a lot of negotiating room. I’ll check out what I can get in Los Angeles and in San Diego, and use the Cars Direct prices as a starting point.

I’ll be trading in my old Xterra and then paying cash for the new one. I’d really rather not go the private selling route if I can help it (unless anybody here wants a 2000 Xterra with 140,000 miles that runs great and has never been taken off-road!), but I’m afraid that a dealer will just try to make up the lower price on the new car by lowering the trade-in value. Any advice on how to deal with the trade-in and when to tell them you’re going to write a check for the car?

You’ve all given me a lot to think about and some great ideas! Thank You!

[Doofrat]

Thank you all for the tons of great advice! I drive my cars into the ground (189,000 on my Civic, and now 140,000 on my present Xterra), so buying new is important to me because I don’t want to inherit a used car that has been beaten up in the first 20,000 miles of it’s life and carries both physical and psychological damage 🙂

I would like to wait to buy a car, but I’ve had to fix multiple problems in the last two months that has caused me to lose faith in the car’s reliability (especially since I take the Xterra off-road).

I can tell that the Xterra’s have not been selling well because they cost so much less than when they came out (back when you could fill the tank with Andrew Jackson and not Ulysses S. Grant) so I should have a lot of negotiating room. I’ll check out what I can get in Los Angeles and in San Diego, and use the Cars Direct prices as a starting point.

I’ll be trading in my old Xterra and then paying cash for the new one. I’d really rather not go the private selling route if I can help it (unless anybody here wants a 2000 Xterra with 140,000 miles that runs great and has never been taken off-road!), but I’m afraid that a dealer will just try to make up the lower price on the new car by lowering the trade-in value. Any advice on how to deal with the trade-in and when to tell them you’re going to write a check for the car?

You’ve all given me a lot to think about and some great ideas! Thank You!

[Doofrat]

Thank you all for the tons of great advice! I drive my cars into the ground (189,000 on my Civic, and now 140,000 on my present Xterra), so buying new is important to me because I don’t want to inherit a used car that has been beaten up in the first 20,000 miles of it’s life and carries both physical and psychological damage 🙂

I would like to wait to buy a car, but I’ve had to fix multiple problems in the last two months that has caused me to lose faith in the car’s reliability (especially since I take the Xterra off-road).

I can tell that the Xterra’s have not been selling well because they cost so much less than when they came out (back when you could fill the tank with Andrew Jackson and not Ulysses S. Grant) so I should have a lot of negotiating room. I’ll check out what I can get in Los Angeles and in San Diego, and use the Cars Direct prices as a starting point.

I’ll be trading in my old Xterra and then paying cash for the new one. I’d really rather not go the private selling route if I can help it (unless anybody here wants a 2000 Xterra with 140,000 miles that runs great and has never been taken off-road!), but I’m afraid that a dealer will just try to make up the lower price on the new car by lowering the trade-in value. Any advice on how to deal with the trade-in and when to tell them you’re going to write a check for the car?

You’ve all given me a lot to think about and some great ideas! Thank You!

[Doofrat]

1. Use just over half of it to buy an ounce of gold.
2. Use 1/4 of it to buy a shotgun, ammo, some provisions, and a dog
3. Use the last 1/4 to buy into an S&P index fund

All bases covered.

[Doofrat]

1. Use just over half of it to buy an ounce of gold.
2. Use 1/4 of it to buy a shotgun, ammo, some provisions, and a dog
3. Use the last 1/4 to buy into an S&P index fund

All bases covered.

[Doofrat]

1. Use just over half of it to buy an ounce of gold.
2. Use 1/4 of it to buy a shotgun, ammo, some provisions, and a dog
3. Use the last 1/4 to buy into an S&P index fund

All bases covered.

[Doofrat]

1. Use just over half of it to buy an ounce of gold.
2. Use 1/4 of it to buy a shotgun, ammo, some provisions, and a dog
3. Use the last 1/4 to buy into an S&P index fund

All bases covered.

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