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[quote=garysears]Not very scientific, but for Lakeside 92040 there are a total of 126 MLS listings, including land, condos, and SFR. 44 out of those 126 listings show a reduced price. Obviously some of the listings are newer and you wouldn’t expect everything to be reduced. But 35% reduced asking prices seems significant and mostly recent. I’m in escrow in the zipcode so I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on it.

I think land prices might be really starting to crumble. One bank threw in the towel in late April, lowering the price for 9 acres raw land from 190k to 50k. That seems significant to me. That listing is still current if anyone is interested.[/quote]

That sounds like a good deal. My problem is that I don’t trust California. They are going bankrupt and going to be taxing anything that they can. To get anything built on that land would probably be a living hell to go through with the city, county.

How is it zoned? probably best to grow strawberries on it if zoned for that.

Sorry for my bad attitude.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Not very scientific, but for Lakeside 92040 there are a total of 126 MLS listings, including land, condos, and SFR. 44 out of those 126 listings show a reduced price. Obviously some of the listings are newer and you wouldn’t expect everything to be reduced. But 35% reduced asking prices seems significant and mostly recent. I’m in escrow in the zipcode so I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on it.

I think land prices might be really starting to crumble. One bank threw in the towel in late April, lowering the price for 9 acres raw land from 190k to 50k. That seems significant to me. That listing is still current if anyone is interested.[/quote]

That sounds like a good deal. My problem is that I don’t trust California. They are going bankrupt and going to be taxing anything that they can. To get anything built on that land would probably be a living hell to go through with the city, county.

How is it zoned? probably best to grow strawberries on it if zoned for that.

Sorry for my bad attitude.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Not very scientific, but for Lakeside 92040 there are a total of 126 MLS listings, including land, condos, and SFR. 44 out of those 126 listings show a reduced price. Obviously some of the listings are newer and you wouldn’t expect everything to be reduced. But 35% reduced asking prices seems significant and mostly recent. I’m in escrow in the zipcode so I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on it.

I think land prices might be really starting to crumble. One bank threw in the towel in late April, lowering the price for 9 acres raw land from 190k to 50k. That seems significant to me. That listing is still current if anyone is interested.[/quote]

That sounds like a good deal. My problem is that I don’t trust California. They are going bankrupt and going to be taxing anything that they can. To get anything built on that land would probably be a living hell to go through with the city, county.

How is it zoned? probably best to grow strawberries on it if zoned for that.

Sorry for my bad attitude.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Not very scientific, but for Lakeside 92040 there are a total of 126 MLS listings, including land, condos, and SFR. 44 out of those 126 listings show a reduced price. Obviously some of the listings are newer and you wouldn’t expect everything to be reduced. But 35% reduced asking prices seems significant and mostly recent. I’m in escrow in the zipcode so I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on it.

I think land prices might be really starting to crumble. One bank threw in the towel in late April, lowering the price for 9 acres raw land from 190k to 50k. That seems significant to me. That listing is still current if anyone is interested.[/quote]

That sounds like a good deal. My problem is that I don’t trust California. They are going bankrupt and going to be taxing anything that they can. To get anything built on that land would probably be a living hell to go through with the city, county.

How is it zoned? probably best to grow strawberries on it if zoned for that.

Sorry for my bad attitude.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Not very scientific, but for Lakeside 92040 there are a total of 126 MLS listings, including land, condos, and SFR. 44 out of those 126 listings show a reduced price. Obviously some of the listings are newer and you wouldn’t expect everything to be reduced. But 35% reduced asking prices seems significant and mostly recent. I’m in escrow in the zipcode so I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on it.

I think land prices might be really starting to crumble. One bank threw in the towel in late April, lowering the price for 9 acres raw land from 190k to 50k. That seems significant to me. That listing is still current if anyone is interested.[/quote]

That sounds like a good deal. My problem is that I don’t trust California. They are going bankrupt and going to be taxing anything that they can. To get anything built on that land would probably be a living hell to go through with the city, county.

How is it zoned? probably best to grow strawberries on it if zoned for that.

Sorry for my bad attitude.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=Waiting to feel the magic]I’m not super familiar with this industry. I did work for NASA for a few years in the 80’s. A couple of places to try:

– Morton Thiocol (of the Space Shuttle O-Ring fame). They are located outside of Salt Lake City, a few miles from the middle of no where.

– Boeing. In Seattle. They do both commerical and military aviation. In this particular company I’d say do your research. There are a lot of people there who wanted to design airplanes who are actually responsible for very minute, specialized, parts of the aircraft and never do anything else. The engineers are also union.

– Aerojet. In Sacramento, CA. They’re really a chemical company, but they designed the rocket fuels for many missiles.

– Lockheed. Don’t know where they’re located, particularly the division that does aircraft. I think they’re the lead company on the Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing is assisting. There was a great Nova (the PBS program) on the competition between Boeing and Lockheed for the design of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Defense jobs can be very cyclical depending on the contracts, gov’t spending, etc. OTHO, they probably won’t be outsourcing them to China anytime soon. In general, it’s really a bad time to be an engineer.

Hope that helps.[/quote]

It does help. As a matter of fact the cyclical nature of the industry and the rapid advances it is seeing is another reason I suggested the Air Force.

I was thinking he could go into the Air Force or Navy, spend 10 years, make contacts and then move into industry if he wanted.

Thanks,

John

[jficquette]

[quote=Waiting to feel the magic]I’m not super familiar with this industry. I did work for NASA for a few years in the 80’s. A couple of places to try:

– Morton Thiocol (of the Space Shuttle O-Ring fame). They are located outside of Salt Lake City, a few miles from the middle of no where.

– Boeing. In Seattle. They do both commerical and military aviation. In this particular company I’d say do your research. There are a lot of people there who wanted to design airplanes who are actually responsible for very minute, specialized, parts of the aircraft and never do anything else. The engineers are also union.

– Aerojet. In Sacramento, CA. They’re really a chemical company, but they designed the rocket fuels for many missiles.

– Lockheed. Don’t know where they’re located, particularly the division that does aircraft. I think they’re the lead company on the Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing is assisting. There was a great Nova (the PBS program) on the competition between Boeing and Lockheed for the design of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Defense jobs can be very cyclical depending on the contracts, gov’t spending, etc. OTHO, they probably won’t be outsourcing them to China anytime soon. In general, it’s really a bad time to be an engineer.

Hope that helps.[/quote]

It does help. As a matter of fact the cyclical nature of the industry and the rapid advances it is seeing is another reason I suggested the Air Force.

I was thinking he could go into the Air Force or Navy, spend 10 years, make contacts and then move into industry if he wanted.

Thanks,

John

[jficquette]

[quote=Waiting to feel the magic]I’m not super familiar with this industry. I did work for NASA for a few years in the 80’s. A couple of places to try:

– Morton Thiocol (of the Space Shuttle O-Ring fame). They are located outside of Salt Lake City, a few miles from the middle of no where.

– Boeing. In Seattle. They do both commerical and military aviation. In this particular company I’d say do your research. There are a lot of people there who wanted to design airplanes who are actually responsible for very minute, specialized, parts of the aircraft and never do anything else. The engineers are also union.

– Aerojet. In Sacramento, CA. They’re really a chemical company, but they designed the rocket fuels for many missiles.

– Lockheed. Don’t know where they’re located, particularly the division that does aircraft. I think they’re the lead company on the Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing is assisting. There was a great Nova (the PBS program) on the competition between Boeing and Lockheed for the design of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Defense jobs can be very cyclical depending on the contracts, gov’t spending, etc. OTHO, they probably won’t be outsourcing them to China anytime soon. In general, it’s really a bad time to be an engineer.

Hope that helps.[/quote]

It does help. As a matter of fact the cyclical nature of the industry and the rapid advances it is seeing is another reason I suggested the Air Force.

I was thinking he could go into the Air Force or Navy, spend 10 years, make contacts and then move into industry if he wanted.

Thanks,

John

[jficquette]

[quote=Waiting to feel the magic]I’m not super familiar with this industry. I did work for NASA for a few years in the 80’s. A couple of places to try:

– Morton Thiocol (of the Space Shuttle O-Ring fame). They are located outside of Salt Lake City, a few miles from the middle of no where.

– Boeing. In Seattle. They do both commerical and military aviation. In this particular company I’d say do your research. There are a lot of people there who wanted to design airplanes who are actually responsible for very minute, specialized, parts of the aircraft and never do anything else. The engineers are also union.

– Aerojet. In Sacramento, CA. They’re really a chemical company, but they designed the rocket fuels for many missiles.

– Lockheed. Don’t know where they’re located, particularly the division that does aircraft. I think they’re the lead company on the Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing is assisting. There was a great Nova (the PBS program) on the competition between Boeing and Lockheed for the design of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Defense jobs can be very cyclical depending on the contracts, gov’t spending, etc. OTHO, they probably won’t be outsourcing them to China anytime soon. In general, it’s really a bad time to be an engineer.

Hope that helps.[/quote]

It does help. As a matter of fact the cyclical nature of the industry and the rapid advances it is seeing is another reason I suggested the Air Force.

I was thinking he could go into the Air Force or Navy, spend 10 years, make contacts and then move into industry if he wanted.

Thanks,

John

[jficquette]

[quote=Waiting to feel the magic]I’m not super familiar with this industry. I did work for NASA for a few years in the 80’s. A couple of places to try:

– Morton Thiocol (of the Space Shuttle O-Ring fame). They are located outside of Salt Lake City, a few miles from the middle of no where.

– Boeing. In Seattle. They do both commerical and military aviation. In this particular company I’d say do your research. There are a lot of people there who wanted to design airplanes who are actually responsible for very minute, specialized, parts of the aircraft and never do anything else. The engineers are also union.

– Aerojet. In Sacramento, CA. They’re really a chemical company, but they designed the rocket fuels for many missiles.

– Lockheed. Don’t know where they’re located, particularly the division that does aircraft. I think they’re the lead company on the Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing is assisting. There was a great Nova (the PBS program) on the competition between Boeing and Lockheed for the design of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Defense jobs can be very cyclical depending on the contracts, gov’t spending, etc. OTHO, they probably won’t be outsourcing them to China anytime soon. In general, it’s really a bad time to be an engineer.

Hope that helps.[/quote]

It does help. As a matter of fact the cyclical nature of the industry and the rapid advances it is seeing is another reason I suggested the Air Force.

I was thinking he could go into the Air Force or Navy, spend 10 years, make contacts and then move into industry if he wanted.

Thanks,

John

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Based on his background and interest, maybe he could also consider Aerospace Medicine if he wants to pursue a little more education.

http://www.asma.org/aboutasma/careers.php%5B/quote%5D

Great Idea.

Thanks,

John

PS If anyone has a contact he could call let me know!

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Based on his background and interest, maybe he could also consider Aerospace Medicine if he wants to pursue a little more education.

http://www.asma.org/aboutasma/careers.php%5B/quote%5D

Great Idea.

Thanks,

John

PS If anyone has a contact he could call let me know!

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Based on his background and interest, maybe he could also consider Aerospace Medicine if he wants to pursue a little more education.

http://www.asma.org/aboutasma/careers.php%5B/quote%5D

Great Idea.

Thanks,

John

PS If anyone has a contact he could call let me know!

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Based on his background and interest, maybe he could also consider Aerospace Medicine if he wants to pursue a little more education.

http://www.asma.org/aboutasma/careers.php%5B/quote%5D

Great Idea.

Thanks,

John

PS If anyone has a contact he could call let me know!

[jficquette]

[quote=garysears]Based on his background and interest, maybe he could also consider Aerospace Medicine if he wants to pursue a little more education.

http://www.asma.org/aboutasma/careers.php%5B/quote%5D

Great Idea.

Thanks,

John

PS If anyone has a contact he could call let me know!

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