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ParticipantNorway?
Tax everybody and have over $6/gallon gas price even though you are oil rich.ParticipantYou are correct in that the property tax rate is higher but the $ amount of tax is lower than in San Diego.
Travis county has about 2% tax rate but 2% on 200K is less than 1% on 700K.
In your rental prop case, if you don’t mind me asking, did the rent increases track the increase in prop taxes? Or were they uncorrelated?
Thanks[quote=joec]I think it would be a bad idea to be an out of state landlord in those areas…My parents have rental prop in TX and with land being what it is in TX, they actually can’t sell and would have a loss…even though they have considered selling now.
Without Prop 13 like in CA, taxes keep going up so trying to be cash flow positive is a lot harder I think in TX.
As you prob know, prop tax in general is also much much higher in TX so any prop gains you have will be gone.
As for NV, I think there’s too much land there too…
Personally, I’d stick to smaller places in CA and try to cash flow…maybe pick places a bit off like Merced (weakest UC there) or maybe gentrification areas or put enough cash down that your monthly’s manageable/cash flowing.[/quote]
ParticipantWhat a bunch of dysfunctional lives you people live to dedicate a thread to a single person. You don’t have families or siblings to pick fights with like other ‘normal’ people?
Why is it so hard just to ignore their posts or put them on an ignore list?
We have another poster with a juvenile attempt to parody bearishgirl posts on unrelated threads. It does not take an IT expert to know who that shithead is and how much obsessed he is with bearishgirl. What next? Another OT on an OT asking that poster to leave?
Unless some of you know each other personally, what is this deal with honesty? You expect anonymous folks to be honest? Do you expect landlords and realtors to be honest too?
Oh well! I had nothing better to do saturday morning in this great weather day other than reading a OT here. Add me to the dysfunctional list.
But whatever you do do not follow spdrun recommendation on getting a room.
Participant[quote=spdrun]It’s not rocket science if you have half a brain for business.[/quote]
Thanks! Would a tenth of a brain do?
I find it interesting you recommend the exact opposite of what most books/internet articles say with respect to hiring a property manager.
Participant[quote=harvey][quote=zk]That ruse, as I’ve said on this forum before, is one of the most brilliant strokes of propaganda in the history of American propaganda.[/quote]
Absolutely.
Ironically it was information technology that enabled the ignorance. It started with cable television in the 1980s. With effectively unlimited TV channels piped into every home in America, big media could customize channels to particular viewpoints. Viewers only watched the news channels that reported what they wanted to hear. Journalists no longer had to be balanced to reach a broad audience.
And then the internet took it many steps further.
Fox News, Limbaugh and the rest saw this opportunity and capitalized on it, big time.
Brilliant and sinister.[/quote]
As was predicted by Bradbury.
Technology is awesome. It makes normal shitheads into super shitheads.Participant[quote=zk]Let’s assume for a second that the story the officer is telling is the truth. You have to figure that’s the best case scenario for the officer. But if his story is true:
First of all, to think that the toy was a gun is ridiculous. I can see thinking a toy gun is a gun, but a toy car? Jesus.
And, B: If you really think the therapist is in trouble, you’re going to shoot at the guy you think is the bad guy sitting there while the guy you’re trying to “save” is in your line of fire?
Number 3, I read that he shot him with a rifle. You can’t hit a 3-foot by 2-foot target with a rifle from 30 yards away? In 3 tries? You should never miss that target with that gun from that distance. You should be able to hit his left hand or his right thigh or whatever part you want from that distance with that gun.
D: And this is number 1, really: His reading of the whole situation was outrageously bad.
It’s possible that he’s telling the truth. But if he is, he’s an extremely incompetent officer and should not be in that line of work.[/quote]
And a really bad shot even by cop standards. How do they even manage to hire these people?
Participant[quote=spdrun]Sure, but none of this requires Scroggle, Crapple, Amazon, or M$ to act as intermediaries. Just a few sensors, a hub/brain box, and a few motor controllers.
If there was a common standard for connecting to devices in the home, I shouldn’t need to use an intermediary to fire up the jacuzzi either, just connect to my home’s router (ideally with an outward-facing static ipv6 addy) and be able to see my Jacuzzi’s mobile web interface directly.[/quote]
Why don’t you just go buy those instead of dissing honest, ‘do-no-evil’ nice corporates like crapple, amazon etc.?
They need to intermediate on the data to help people save energy because the people are too freaking lazy to shut the lights off or set the thermostat before running off to their low-wage jobs in the morning. They would rather slave away for longer hours and oursource that job to msft or aapl to shut the lights off for them
Participant[quote=spdrun]Spyware, plain and simple. Unless it talks to a device directly via NAT/VPN or ipv6, of course. Goes for Apple, M$, and Google equally.[/quote]
Spyware, schmyware… it is all about music. Folks would give away their names, relationships and location on social/dating sites for free… you don’t need to mine that from echo
Participant[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=livinincali]
Somebody can’t create an import export company that buys drugs for fractions of the price in India and then opens a pharmacy here.
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Thank god. As much as people like to take their lives into their own hands buying drugs in Mexico, the simple fact is many countries don’t have the same rigorous chain of custody requirements for drug products the US has. For something in a pressed pill format (i.e. viagara) this is less of an issue than for things like IV drugs that have requirements for storage.Even for pills chain of custody is important to ensure you’re getting what you think you’re getting. Bear in mind that something like half of imported olive oil is fake. If your “olive oil” is actually a cheaper oil… no big deal, right? But if your medicine isn’t what it’s supposed to be? That’s a huge issue.[/quote]
Ha! you trust your life with corrupt as hell FDA but not drugs from Mexico?
Are you sure there are stringent requirements or even if they are ‘rigorous’ here compared to other countries?Do you have proof by any measure of how safe drugs are here compared to EU or even Mexico?
It is exactly this liberal daddy-knows-better attitude or our FDA looks out for our bests interests that piss the voters off.
FDA works for their pharma customers, not you the american.ParticipantWhat is “house proud”? Is it opposite of “house poor”?
Participant[quote=moneymaker]I agree sdsurfer. I’m proud that I have greater than 50% equity after only 7 years, I’m proud I can pay my taxes this year without resorting to putting it on a credit card. I am also glad that all my cars are in running condition with no bad tires on them. Walked the dogs this morning and was somewhat shocked at finding 2 nice cars in the neighborhood with flat/old tires.[/quote]
People put taxes on credit cards? is that even allowed?
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]I am not saying you’er wrong I am just trying to figure out what the trigger would be (for next recession).
Low Oil prices? (I think this is more just the Saudis dumping oil than anything else).
Consumers? (I was out shopping yesterday and the carts were five deep at all the check-out stands and all the stands were open) (out to eat same thing, standing room only).
I am just not seeing the trigger this time.[/quote]
This is what I really don’t get from the claims from ‘experts’ on tv:
Oil Prices are high : bad for economy and consumers. Hence markets are tanking
Oil Prices are low : bad for economy and consumers. Hence markets are tankingSo which one is it? Is there a certain sweet spot where oil prices are good for the economy?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=dumbrenter][quote=FlyerInHi][quote=The-Shoveler]The age of abundance.[/quote]
I agree. But that works only is if we find a way of spreading the abundance. No matter how cheap the goods are, people who have no jobs and no income cannot buy them.
More leisure jobs and spending would be a win-win.[/quote]I have a slightly negative or less optimistic view on that.
More productivity or abundance means the more dilution of individual labor hence the less per-unit value an individual worker will have for the top 1% which in turn means the 1% will have means to exert more control.
For example, look at what ERP did to finance teams in companies.[/quote]You’re assuming the social system won’t change.
In America, there be will change because angry white men with guns and no jobs will demand change. That will give new meaning to spreading the wealth.[/quote]This could be one of the consequences.
But is there a historical example for this? I’m thinking tea party is NOT what you had in mind as an example!Participant[quote=livinincali][quote=dumbrenter]
I will stick my neck out for this prediction: Nobody will be able to stop the coming wave of massive increase in production. The consequences of that are the ones which are hard to predict.[/quote]You do realize that a massive increase in production will require a massive increase in energy production. Tell me where we’re building a massive increase in low cost energy production for this country? Where’s the thorium nuclear research. Where’s the permits for the nuclear power plants. I guess we better hope for a miracle in the fusion nuclear space because solar and wind probably aren’t going to be enough. Efficiency improvements can only go so far and even they can be rather expensive to implement.[/quote]
A decent net metering scheme plus some improvements in storage technology (energy, that is) plus a breakthru or two in fuel cell or bacterial methods of energy generation might get us there. …ok, I’ll stop here before I go too far into the dreamland!
Agreed that energy efficiency can only go so far, but increase in productivity need not be linearly related to consumption of energy. I give you the examples of TSMC or even INTC for that matter.
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