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Participant[quote=spdrun]And buying a company that has given the big FUCK YOU to US government standards makes my heart go pitty-pat.[/quote]
Seriously? Having grown up in Orange County in the 70s, I remember very well the eye-blistering smog. So thank God for the CARB, the EPA, and the Clean Air Act.
And by the way, it wasn’t just US standards. They also violated European standards.
ParticipantNot a real estate professional, so I don’t have a dog in this fight, but what a stupid article by a hack writer.
It’s entitled “11 Reasons Why *I* Never Want To Own A House Again” yet already by number three we’re at “Homes often tempt people borrow more than they can afford.”
A better article would have listed upsides along with downsides. Ok, so if you don’t buy, what are your alternatives? Do you get to stop paying rent if you stay in the same place for 30 years? One cannot overstate the security of living free-and clear at some point, which you can never do as a renter.
He mentions that home prices generally rise with inflation. But he fails to mention that rents do also, yet mortgage payments are fixed for the life of the loan.
Participant[quote=kev374]I usually take 3 weeks off a year, usually 2 weeks off around May to travel and a week during Thanksgiving to see family. Been doing this for the last 15 years and don’t really want to start doing something else :)[/quote]
In addition to everything that’s been stated above, you could simply make this a condition of your employment in your offer acceptance letter. You’re essentially making a counter-offer that says “I agree with everything in your offer letter, but I would like to able to take my vacation at these specific times.” If they can’t plan around your vacation schedule when they know it a year in advance, there’s probably a lot of other things they also can’t manage properly.
ParticipantCity of San Diego has zoning rules about protecting public views but not private ones. So if somebody’s trees were blocking the view from Kate Session Park, it’d probably be a different story.
ParticipantAnother vote for live and let live.
[quote=kcal09]Not true, when I bought the place the trees were much smaller and I paid for the view.[/quote]
That doesn’t constitute an agreement with the other homeowner. I’m sorry that you feel the world owes you things.
ParticipantHere’s a link to the documentary: https://vimeo.com/59749737
I’ve been biking the Mission Beach Boardwark for ~25 years and I’ve seen that guy for as long as I can remember. Never really talked to him, just hi-fived him as he passed by (as lots of folks do). I looooved the documentary. My favorite line was him saying that “I’m just trying to get to the end of my life without becoming an asshole again.” So finally after seeing it I stopped and talked with him for awhile. Super interesting dude. However, the conversation turned weird for me when he started talking about the Middle East and he had a rap about how some religions are inherently better and more righteous than others, and it was our duty to go get them before they got us. Take them all out! Bummed me out that Slomo was a warmonger. But you have to take the good with the bad, He seems like a complex guy, and interesting as hell. I did love what he had to say in the documentary.
ParticipantI’ve lived in OB for the past 25 years and own three houses here, and I’ve seen a few cycles of ups and downs.
Apple Tree Market was no great loss. The owner was an asshole, and half the stuff on their shelves was expired. Seriously, the worst supermarket in town. Good riddance. I would have loved for another market to come in, but CVS is better than an empty building, It will be interesting to see if/what the Apple Tree owner does in the new location. I don’t have high hopes.
The owner of the optometry shop on Newport keeps buying up commercial real estate and squeezing out tenants. Not sure how that’s all going to play out.
Those three town homes at the end of West Point Loma will hopefully be the last of their kind that get built in OB. I’m not a fan of the ones at the foot of Saratoga either.
Traffic in and out has always sucked in summertime. Catalina is your friend.
OB is one of the last old-school beach towns left in California, and its reputation and the airport are probably the only things keeping it that way.
ParticipantNo, my guy is on the inside. There’s all sorts of weird stuff going on and IOS is basically on lockdown.
ParticipantMy sources say something big is about to happen but it’s not clear what yet.
Participant[quote=Clifford]The house has been under renovation for a little more than a year./quote]
Pfft. Cry me a river, LOL. We have one three three doors up the street from us that has been under renovation for over EIGHT YEARS. It’s a major eyesore. It has framing and sheathing, and has been covered in Tyvek for about 6 years. The permits expired a couple years ago and a neighbor complained to code compliance. She recently got a new construction permit and has another 2 years to complete the project, which I doubt will ever happen. In the meantime the neighbors are stuck with this eyesore.
ParticipantYes, the passport card does not get you into the special lines. It’s just a convenient card you can carry in your wallet in lieu of carrying the regular passport. It is only good for land crossings into Mexico and Canada. If you fly you have to use the regular passport. If you sign up for a new passport, there’s an incremental fee you pay to get both the passport and the passport card. I went ahead and did it even though I don’t really care for going to Mexico anymore.
if you sign up for Global Entry, you get three things in one shot 1) a Global Entry Card which lets you bypass customs when reentering the US by air, and it 2) also gets you access to the SENTRI lane when coming from Mexico, and it gives you 3) a KTN so you can sign up for TSA PreCheck.
Just flew four times with TSA Pre Check and it’s like flying was in the old days – no backscatter, no removing belts or shoes, and laptops and liquids can stay in your luggage.
Participant… assuming it doesn’t result in massive civil unrest.
ParticipantIn San Diego trash is covered by property taxes, so we can take that off the table.
For anything that’s metered in common (water to an apartment complex, for example), it’s common for the landlord to average that over a year and factor it into the rent. I’ve never heard of a landlord doing penny-ante nickel and dime accounting of this stuff on a month-to-month basis. Same for dumpster service if the complex uses dumpsters instead of city bins.
I’ve only rented out SFRs, and in that case, they only utility bills are water/sewer, gas/electric, and television/cable, and all of these are in the tenant’s name. There is no reason why you would want to keep these in the landlord’s name and lots of reasons not to.
ParticipantThe Nolo Press landlord’s guide is worth every penny, and there’s an edition specifically for California. It describes in detail everything you need to know about how to properly and legally screen prospective tenants and it also includes rental agreements, applications, and a bunch of other useful forms. It’s 32 bucks wisely spent: http://www.amazon.com/California-Landlords-Lawbook-Rights-Responsibilities/dp/1413320864/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436511142&sr=8-1&keywords=nolo+california+landlord
For credit and background check, I use SimpleScreening.com
Spdrun, there is no reason to put the utilities in your name. Make the tenant put the utilities in their name. Why on earth would you want to do that accounting every month?
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