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This is the classic problem of paying up front for services to be provided later. It reminds me of Wimpy in the Popeye cartoons – “I’ll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.”

The problem is that if the home warranty company breaches (after you or seller pays them) you have to pay for arbitrators or litigation to get what you bargained for. Which will always cost more than just doing it yourself. I generally won’t pay for a warranty (or insurance) unless it is so cheap it doesn’t really matter or it would be worth litigating if the warranty or insurance policy were breached. Otherwise, there is little motivation for the company that has already collected the money to pay for your repairs.

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Whatever you ask, it should be less than it would cost for someone to contest it. Unless you’re planning on having a website active at the oldmanstrong address.

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For business reasons, I’m curious as to how this ever got resolved on your end. I looked at the case and it appeared that Microsoft wanted a temporary restraining order against no-ip, but that would have been hard on no-ips customers so Microsoft was forced to “babysit” them until the TRO could be resolved. It does look like no-ip knowingly hosted loads of sites that distributed a bunch of malware. On the other hand, this is not my tech area.

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[quote=caznable55][quote=CA renter][quote=sdduuuude][quote=Rich Toscano][quote=ocrenter]
this is zillow and redfin and ziprealty for the Facebook and tweeter crowd.
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I don’t really see it that way (I’m not part of that crowd)… to me the appeal is really that the search is a lot more powerful than redfin and the others. To a nerd like me who likes to be able to search across lots of data and parameters to dial in on things, that’s pretty cool. [/quote]

No matter how good the searches are, it is totally inadequate for me if I’m unable to view it on a full-size desktop monitor.[/quote]

Agree with this.[/quote]

From my understanding, a desktop version is in the works, but the first priority is mobile since that’s were all the growth is at. I work at an auto dealer and am in charge of our online marketing and the other week, our factory marketing consultant showed me how traffic to our desktop website has been continually dropping over the last few years (precipitously in the last 2) but visits to our mobile site have exploded. With that being the case, we ended up allocating a lot more resources to our mobile website. If I were to guess, that’s why they’re doing the iphone app first.[/quote]

This piece of information would be more persuasive if you included your sales trends.

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I’m with njtosd, not crazy about unified login.[/quote]

With good reason:

http://www.itworld.com/unified-communications/358834/dont-let-facebooks-single-sign-expose-your-awkward-moments

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[quote=sdduuuude][quote=fypio]Re: typo

You’re probably referring to the lack of “find” in the tag line. We had a lot of internal debate about leaving it out as we aspire to be a lot more than just a real estate search app.

Have you tried the app out? We’d love to get your feedback on it.

(your comment made us chuckle – thanks!)[/quote]

“The smart and fun way to your own house”
just … I don’t get it.[/quote]

Kind of like “do you know the way to San Jose?” But it also sounds like a method of owning a home. Plus I think the “find” word is good because the f in fypio is for find.

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[quote=spdrun]Interesting question: if you’re on grid, but have a totally isolated solar/battery system, will you still need to pay the power company parasites an extra surcharge?

Solution, BTW, is to have a state takeover of the private power companies without compensation. Just let then bankrupt, expropriate them, and be done with it.[/quote]

While your at it why don’t we just nationalize everything?

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Hmm. Is there a reason that I can’t just create a user name and password like I do for other apps?

FWIW – Since you seem open to suggestions, I will offer these as well. In my business I deal with a lot of trademarks, and I think about them a lot. In looking at yours, a few things come to mind. I like the name fypio. On the other hand, I can’t tell if it’s an optical illusion, but the O seems flat is some places. Also, people generally prefer graphics that are forward leaning, so if you are going to use the heart I might tilt it to the right rather than the left. Finally, doesn’t Redfin allow users to put a heart icon next to the properties that they like? Might look copy cat-ish.

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I am not a big fan of Facebook – can anyone explain why it’s set up for a Facebook login?

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We have had good luck with La Jolla Termite and Pest Control . . http://www.lajollatermite.com

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The Affordable Care Act (regardless of whether you are a fan or not) was between 900 and 1000 pages long and was definitely rushed through Congress. (FWIW – I am an independent voter – and I have mixed feelings about the ACA and most other political issues.) I have heard through one very reliable source that it was barely proofread before being put to a vote. There is no way that the Act itself could be internally consistent. The usual bandaid for poorly written laws is a set of gap filler regulations (which don’t get voted on – but do get litigated to death). My understanding is that the regs for the ACA are over 20,000 pages long. Could anyone really know what the rules are? Do we have a law on the books that is not understood, in its totality, by even one person?
Personally, I don’t want the courts figuring out what the legislators were too busy to do. They are supposed to be referees – not rule makers.

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[quote=krowe] ….. If it won’t benefit me or society, I am struggling to understand if it’s simply retribution or some other reason that you believe I deserve jail.[/quote]

Retribution is one of the legal bases for the criminal justice system. Those who harm the fabric of society should pay a price. There are probably quite a few potential home buyers out there that now have the added worry of criminal retribution from people like you. Deterrence is also important – if someone else heard of what you did (if you are indeed krowe) and found that you had been given a slap on the wrist they might be encouraged to do the same. Society does benefit – predictable consequences for actions (good or bad) reinforce civilized society. You could have chosen to address your mental instability (which doesn’t just go away) but instead allowed it to worsen and cause significant harm to others. Next time you feel your mental moorings getting stretched, your memory of time in jail will encourage you to deal with the problem before someone else gets hurt.

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=CA renter]
BTW, I wonder if people would be less sympathetic if it were a man who did all of these things.[/quote]

I think the reaction would be worse if she were a Black women on welfare, with 5 kids, living in Skyline. She would have been put away for a long time already.

edit: actually that was a stupid comment because a person on welfare would not be bidding on a house in Carmel Valley.[/quote]

You may be right, although it’s hard to tease out the effect of quality of counsel when dealing with comparisons between people of different economic circumstances.

This was such a crazy (and extended) response. I can see being very disappointed in the short term – and although I wouldn’t agree with it, it wouldn’t surprise me for someone like Kathy Rowe to act spitefully for a few days after losing the house. The thing is, she was able to keep up a pretty significant level of anger (somewhat obsessively) for what appears to be weeks after the victim closed on the home. For this reason, I would say this is something of a one-off, and as such it’s hard to compare how others (men, black women) would have been treated.

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A health care power of attorney that prohibits the use of antibiotics or other life extending drugs once dementia has set in would take care of a lot. Most elderly people live beyond what they would choose because doctors are required to do their best to extend life of a patient with dementia absent a health care directive. For example, if I hit a certain level of dementia (can’t remember my kids names, my own birthday etc.) I no longer want anything other than painkillers. For many people, that would mean discontinuing high blood pressure medication, cholesterol lowering meds, but it would also mean not treating pneumonia and/or UTIs, which are very common in the elderly.
FWIW – Long term care insurance doesn’t kick in for 3-4 months after certain triggering events. In the case of things like strokes and heart attacks, the patient is either dead or significantly recovered before that period is up. Plus, unless they have a lot of help, an elderly disabled person would find it very difficult to supply all of the information necessary to prove that they qualify for their benefits. All that being said, my mom is in a skilled nursing facility and her LTC policy plus SS pays almost all of her expenses. I know she would not like to live the way she is living – but her “living will” or whatever it’s called was sort of vague. So she will “live” for a while without really living.

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FWIW – We spent 4 yrs in northern NJ (Morris Co.) after having lived here for ten years. Our whole family was unhappy and we returned to San Diego in 2011. On paper, NJ should have been perfect – husband had a great job, house was probably the nicest I’ll ever own (2 acre lot, huge house, towering oaks, foxes, deer – very idyllic). School and downtown quaint shopping district were walkable. Nonetheless we couldn’t wait to get out – we were miserable. I would attribute it to the culture – not sure how exactly to describe it. We now live in a house on a tiny lot and the shopping area is barely walkable but definitely not quaint. We are much happier. So – I can sympathize with the husband of NYMom. I can definitely see his point of view without there being an underlying problem motivating the move. Everyone should stop jumping to conclusions.

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