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Freight is the rail profit center not people. HSR is not a business model but a political one.

I haven’t seen any real studies accurately estimating ridership between LA >SF. ie. who would be traveling and how many trips, frequency. We already can get a pretty reasonable number based on airline trips/day.

Plus, what do you think airlines will do if the rail magically becomes competition? Lower prices, to keep passengers. I haven’t seen this discussed in the rail argument.

Next, HSR in SD would have some serious engineering challenges through hills in the current proposed inland route. Not gonna happen.

San Diego can’t even get its act together for a train direct to the airport or even the fairgrounds.

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+1 NSR

If they can’t work out a check then this may be futile, but set up a separate bank account just for wire transfers only. Keep min amount in only to keep open. This way there is no access to your main $$ accounts. Treat it as a holding account and transfer funds out asap.

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Use metal posts into concrete, then rebuild your wood. They will not rot out like wood.

They are called: steel fence post, H channel or hat post.

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[quote=XBoxBoy] but the houses with great views that are fixers in our area all have serious foundation issues.[/quote]

Exactly. What do the neighbors know. I’d be surprised if this issue was isolated to this particular lot. If it was, then recompacting would probably be the ticket. But many others suggest a larger geologic component.

Thinking the owner knows more than they are telling you. Not good for you. Without finding out the underlying cause, even a low ball offer would be too high. Chat up a geologist.

This kind of thing is what geologist live for 😉 People know what is going on at that site. Otherwise it would have sold by now.

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Any core drills for soil samples by owner or insurance company?

I see this as two step approach. Cost of house and foundation work. House is irrespective of the foundation.

I would hire geologist to walk the site and review soil reports and grading plans from surrounding lots. Probably $1k to get you a ballpark idea of the potential $ exposure for foundation work.

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I’m very interested in the radiant floor. Not very common on the west coast but I think it has great potential, especially with high ceiling homes or just taking the chill out of a workshop.

Since the tubing is embedded in the concrete they create ‘zones’ with specific runs. I wonder if they build in any redundancy using side by side backup tubes? Also, do you need a thicker slab due to the tubing potentially creating weak points or thinner slab cross section.

Do your architect create the working plans? I’m looking for a draftsman for such.

Thanks and good luck.

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Congrats Scaredy. Really. Proud father. Seems like yesterday when your offspring started college!!

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It’s the cool factor. These things are either great design or eclectic funky.

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I’d plop a tiny house on a empty lot and list it. Then call the media. Lot’s of free publicity and end up selling the lot higher without the house.

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All current plans will change if/when they get married 😉

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Surprised CEO still has his job. I was hoping it came out how they selected the dude simply as his bag was the first one when they opened the baggage door. Silly me thinking they actually enforced bag=passenger and no bag travels alone.

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Oh, and after giving warning to evac target.

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This is the real story. 59 cruise missiles traveled how far and made it to their targets without any resistance. Radar, ‘iron dome’, etc. Doesn’t make Russia look very on it. Hmm. Indeed sticky now. Russia is in a pickle. Let’s see how many more tests N. Korea does now. My bet is Trump will be tested again soon. Unfortunate.

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Price fixing is the ‘invoice’ price.

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Buy now. Just a few years away from kid in college and needing $ as ‘everyone’ is going to Cancun for spring break 😉 Hard to justify that as a 529 expense!

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