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I don’t offer because what I consider homes to be worth and where the general market is, is too far apart. It would waste my time, the sellers time, and our agents time.

Also, should one accept my offer in the current market, I’d be instantly concerned that I don’t know something that they know about the property.

As for insulting offers, well, yes, you are insulting them to point. If the home is at or near market and the seller isn’t distressed needing a quick sale, an offer that is 30% below FMV, is an insult that says “I think you’re stupid and lazy”. IMHO. A home listed at 10% below FMV will move.

Of course, FMV has absolutely nothing to do with what 90% of the homes on MLS have for an asking price. FMV is the price that the homes that have sold are going for given their condition, location and tangibles.

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The LA Times had a great article on the iPhone lines

And of course the expose of who is really waiting. Err, I mean brown nosing with a phone. Or worse, assigned like a lackey to go get a phone.

In the words of one line waiter: “I feel kind of lame,” he said. “I hate the iPhone right now.”

Maybe it’s the beginning of the end and people will slowly realize “hip” and “cool” aren’t mass produced. Nor is it buyable.

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The LA Times had a great article on the iPhone lines

And of course the expose of who is really waiting. Err, I mean brown nosing with a phone. Or worse, assigned like a lackey to go get a phone.

In the words of one line waiter: “I feel kind of lame,” he said. “I hate the iPhone right now.”

Maybe it’s the beginning of the end and people will slowly realize “hip” and “cool” aren’t mass produced. Nor is it buyable.

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Doogie camp sounds good. Can I go?

Seriously, up in OC, we have several doggie spas for pampering your pooch while you’re on vacation. Places like “The Boneadventure” in Costa Mesa. http://www.theboneadventure.com/

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Doogie camp sounds good. Can I go?

Seriously, up in OC, we have several doggie spas for pampering your pooch while you’re on vacation. Places like “The Boneadventure” in Costa Mesa. http://www.theboneadventure.com/

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Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.

Self-selection plays a big role in the very successful schools. Good teachers self-select to teach there. Good parents self-select to get their kids there.

Failure to remove problem students, mainlining differentially enabled students, IDLPs, massive ESL issues, promotion for social development, there’s many issues.

The goals start out lofty, bringing all equally to the high bar set by successful schools, the results have been often abyssmal creating a lowest common denominator for all in the school.

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Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.

Self-selection plays a big role in the very successful schools. Good teachers self-select to teach there. Good parents self-select to get their kids there.

Failure to remove problem students, mainlining differentially enabled students, IDLPs, massive ESL issues, promotion for social development, there’s many issues.

The goals start out lofty, bringing all equally to the high bar set by successful schools, the results have been often abyssmal creating a lowest common denominator for all in the school.

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What about the firemen, the roads, etc.? Do you think everything should be privitized?

No, some things are too much of a public consumption item (economists call it a public good) to effectively privatize.

Firemen, police, are examples, they also give a good indication of the kinds of problems we will have with a massive health care union if it governmentized. The pension and compensation issues and their effects on State taxes and budget will affect the housing market.

Eventually, universal health care will become necessary just to get out from under the health care commitments of the civil service employees.

My concerns are really pretty simple on the process. Unfortunately, anything touching our government currently becomes a political football and IMHO, gets corrupted by special interests whether those interests are the big unions, big corporations or extreme fringe of the two major parties.

The example of the doctor being rewarded for getting people to quit smoking is great, however in our system, how come I have a gut feeling that’ll get turned into incentive pay for getting girls to sign “vows of chastity” to prevent unwed pregnancy?

Like others, I fight a bit with my weight and chlosterol levels. My doctor works with me. It is work. Unfortunately, IMHO, too many Americans want an easy solution, eating better, excersizing, keeping track, takes work. Walking through Target and picking up the magic “Alli” is easy, and judging by the decimated shelves, many are going with that ‘solution’.

Watch the superbowl, what do you see? Ads for Beer, Soda, Chips, and ED pills. Are we really dumb enough that we cannot connect the dots from lack of moderation in Beer, Soda, & Chips to the need for the last product?

Have we avoided the hard conversations in the schools long enough that the schools have outsourced their lunch menu printing program to McDonalds, which is willing to do it because of the advertising space and captured youth impressions?

There are many weaknesses in our currently system and many point directly back to the end consumer’s behavior. Unfortunately, our society is mass consumption oriented, people over-use services when the cost to them is low.

To make it worse, we’ve burdened our system will a mass of uninsured and illegals going to the most expensive point of service becuase they cannot be denied.

My original concern isn’t about universal healthcare, it was about a very narrow and one sided view experience has taught me to expect from MM. My past experience has also lead to my first post about the decision necessary in any universal program.

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What about the firemen, the roads, etc.? Do you think everything should be privitized?

No, some things are too much of a public consumption item (economists call it a public good) to effectively privatize.

Firemen, police, are examples, they also give a good indication of the kinds of problems we will have with a massive health care union if it governmentized. The pension and compensation issues and their effects on State taxes and budget will affect the housing market.

Eventually, universal health care will become necessary just to get out from under the health care commitments of the civil service employees.

My concerns are really pretty simple on the process. Unfortunately, anything touching our government currently becomes a political football and IMHO, gets corrupted by special interests whether those interests are the big unions, big corporations or extreme fringe of the two major parties.

The example of the doctor being rewarded for getting people to quit smoking is great, however in our system, how come I have a gut feeling that’ll get turned into incentive pay for getting girls to sign “vows of chastity” to prevent unwed pregnancy?

Like others, I fight a bit with my weight and chlosterol levels. My doctor works with me. It is work. Unfortunately, IMHO, too many Americans want an easy solution, eating better, excersizing, keeping track, takes work. Walking through Target and picking up the magic “Alli” is easy, and judging by the decimated shelves, many are going with that ‘solution’.

Watch the superbowl, what do you see? Ads for Beer, Soda, Chips, and ED pills. Are we really dumb enough that we cannot connect the dots from lack of moderation in Beer, Soda, & Chips to the need for the last product?

Have we avoided the hard conversations in the schools long enough that the schools have outsourced their lunch menu printing program to McDonalds, which is willing to do it because of the advertising space and captured youth impressions?

There are many weaknesses in our currently system and many point directly back to the end consumer’s behavior. Unfortunately, our society is mass consumption oriented, people over-use services when the cost to them is low.

To make it worse, we’ve burdened our system will a mass of uninsured and illegals going to the most expensive point of service becuase they cannot be denied.

My original concern isn’t about universal healthcare, it was about a very narrow and one sided view experience has taught me to expect from MM. My past experience has also lead to my first post about the decision necessary in any universal program.

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Get the government footing the entire bill and the whole system will change to be cost-effective, guaranteed.

ROFL. One look at the public schools, prisons, transportation system and DMV should releave you of that viewpoint.

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Get the government footing the entire bill and the whole system will change to be cost-effective, guaranteed.

ROFL. One look at the public schools, prisons, transportation system and DMV should releave you of that viewpoint.

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“Roger & Me”
“Bowling for Columbine”
and
“Fahrenheit 9/11”

I’ve also seen Gore “An Inconvenient Truth” and dare say, when Crichton wrote “State of Fear” I know which fear machine he’s talking about.

I’ve also seen “Supersize Me” quite good. And “Cadillac Desert” both book and PBS DVD. IMHO, they should be mandatory reading for anyone living in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.

As another pointed out, the bulk of the stuff running on PBS under the brand names “Nova” or “Nature” blow Gore away. Take a look at “Saved by the Sun” from Nova. It’s a look at global solar power options, through individual cases. Or take a look at PBS’ covering of the history of credit cards “Secret History of the Credit Card”.

PBS does better documentation without the conspiracy overtones, IMHO.

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“Roger & Me”
“Bowling for Columbine”
and
“Fahrenheit 9/11”

I’ve also seen Gore “An Inconvenient Truth” and dare say, when Crichton wrote “State of Fear” I know which fear machine he’s talking about.

I’ve also seen “Supersize Me” quite good. And “Cadillac Desert” both book and PBS DVD. IMHO, they should be mandatory reading for anyone living in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.

As another pointed out, the bulk of the stuff running on PBS under the brand names “Nova” or “Nature” blow Gore away. Take a look at “Saved by the Sun” from Nova. It’s a look at global solar power options, through individual cases. Or take a look at PBS’ covering of the history of credit cards “Secret History of the Credit Card”.

PBS does better documentation without the conspiracy overtones, IMHO.

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This is an issue that can benefit all Americans so don’t be a tool and buy into the “left wing” “right wing” propaganda.

It’s not a left-right thing. It’s a fictional thing.

That’s what you need to realize about MM, his work is fiction. It may be factual sources, but it woven together out of context with the exception implied as the norm to create a work of propaganda to further his political view.

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This is an issue that can benefit all Americans so don’t be a tool and buy into the “left wing” “right wing” propaganda.

It’s not a left-right thing. It’s a fictional thing.

That’s what you need to realize about MM, his work is fiction. It may be factual sources, but it woven together out of context with the exception implied as the norm to create a work of propaganda to further his political view.

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