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[quote=ltsdd]Nothing to think about. Run in the opposite direction as fast as you can. The troubles this guy will bring will claim the rest of what little hair you have left.[/quote]

While I tend to agree with the above, open a discussion wit him if he’s really going to live there or merely run a rent arbitrage between short and long term rates. Say you’re willing to allow the later if you are believe his business plan is sound.

Then have him show you the numbers. Modify the lease, if you want to allow, increase the security deposit and right terms that makes him responsible for excess damage caused.

It’s an interesting model for young singles, rent a nice two bedroom in a hipster area, and over half or more of the rent by having ‘guests’ two or more weekends a month.

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[quote=treehugger]Here I am nearly 4 years later…..we bought the house, but did not termite tent when we bought.

Now I am about to replace the last section of wood fence (which is the shared fence with the neighbors and is termite ridden) and getting ready to termite treat the house and I searched this site to see if any advice and find my old posting!

Anybody tented recently? any recommendations?[/quote]

Most termite guys actually sub contract out the tenting. Call a few and ask if they do their pen tenting or who they tent contract. I suspect National out of San Diego will come up repeatedly.

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I suspect there’s some provision that makes the debtor responsible for the cost of collection. Obviously the business isn’t paying for seven armed marshals tongonout an arrest at the true cost of service for $ 1500 loan.

That or the loans were sold off with Marshall collection services included.

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Good sized fixer in Hayward hills. Do you mean this one?
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Hayward/25072-2nd-St-94541/home/1050457

805 square feet, 2 bed /1 bath on 5000 sf lot fixer.

i call bunk on your boomers did. They didn’t. My father did, but he was prettybmuchbthe guy the entire extended family called when sh*tnbroke in the house and most of the other families we knew worked the same way, they didn’t fix it, of it they did they bubble gummed it and called a family/friend that knew better.

Boomers consumed. Most of the dilapidated housing out there was driven there by boomers.

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=FlyerInHi]whatever, BG.

Remember people have to live somewhere. If they are no affordable places in LA, they will be forced to move to Riverside or San Bernardino.

You are part of the reason houses are expensive because you oppose any new dwellings. you keep on saying people can live in existing houses… How so if the houses are already occupied?

Yeah, I want to live in Brentwood and I don’t want anything new built once I’m in. Easy to say if you don’t care where people will live. Your QOL is great, if you have money and a job nearby… but everyone else has to commute from San Bernardino.[/quote]The above issues are where you and I differ in opinion. You yourself have posted here numerous times that FTBs should buy an “imperfect” place and DIY (as much as possible) to create “sweat equity.” The truth is that there is plenty of unoccupied (or sellers willing to sell and move) existing housing to choose from in nearly ALL CA coastal counties. The reality is that the millenials don’t want them. If they decide to purchase, they want it as new as possible (preferably brand new construction). Nearly . Every . Single . City in the SGV (22 cities in all) has one or more fixer uppers available at any given time (incl condos). Or SS/fixer SFR listings which might be able to be had for a $300-$400K price … yes, even today!

For example, millenials are commuting from BF Egypt (that includes Stockton, folks) because they want to. They consciously CHOSE this lifestyle while turning down closer-in housing choices.

I saw a good-sized 1950’s cosmetic fixer situated on a generous lot in the Hayward Hills asking the high $300’s a couple of weeks ago. Distance to the SM Bridge was 5-7 minutes, including stoplights. I’m sure it’s gone now. I suspect a handy boomer or professional flipper/boomer picked it up in an all-cash sale … NOT a millenial who so desperately needs to live close to work for a reasonable price! From what I could tell, its only major defect was a utility line easement which touched the ground and was shared by an adjoining parcel.

Oakland abounds with fixer-uppers and there are some GREAT parts of town, people.

Oh, and your Brentwood fixer upper on a 1/2 AC lot was in the mid-high $300’s in the early-mid nineties. Where were you, brian? Were you able to buy real property back then, and if so, did you qualify for a ~$350K purchase? You had that window of opportunity to purchase your “dream” and let it pass (so did I) :=0[/quote]

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11 offers in a few weeks seems a bit out of whack. Seems undiscerning but could just be motivated. Still, in those two areas there only 500 places for sale sub million ranging from mobile homes to fourplex.

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=treehugger]Spoke with another buddy who is trying to buy in Chula Vista or La Mesa area, he has put in 11 offers in the last few weeks.

I am so glad I am not looking to buy a house right now![/quote]It sounds to me like your “buddy” has been lowballing. After 11 offers, it seems to me that he should have had at least 4 counter offers and possibly 1-2 acceptances by now.

Either that, or his mortgage qualifcations aren’t the best.

There is a LOT of inventory in Chula Vista currently for sale (if you count the newish areas with MR/HOA). Perhaps he doesn’t want a property with MR/HOA? If so, then yes, current (SFR) inventory in CV will be limited for him, just like LM (which doesn’t have MR).[/quote]

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Shave it and move on.

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JIMHO, but McConnell signed express tickets to loserville for many republicans come this fall with his premature declaration that the President shouldn’t nominate and that they won’t take action.

If he follows through and Obama nominate any but the most activist of liberal justices too much energy will be driven into the dens and moderates which will go to the polls and spank anything with a R by their name.

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[quote=OwnerOfCalifornia]I was more appalled by the ridiculous growth/consume/waste message. It was so bad, seemed satirical.[/quote]

Doesn’t that pretty much sum up the entire Superbowl experience this year? The only bright spot, IMHO, was schmuck daddy finally bowed out of trying to create soft porn.

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[quote]Final Results for January 2016
Jan Dec Jan M-M Y-Y
2016 2015 2015 Change Change
Index of Consumer Sentiment 92.0 92.6 98.1 -0.6% -6.2%
Current Economic Conditions 106.4 108.1 109.3 -1.6% -2.7%
Index of Consumer Expectations 82.7 82.7 91.0 +0.0% -9.1%
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Tune in next week to see if it gets better

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Legalize all of it, tax the daylights out of it to fund the healthcare and mental health treatments to address and create massive prison term penalties for anyone selling trying to circumvent the taxes. Selling and paying the taxes is fine.

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[quote]Optimism about the economy by U.S. small-business owners slipped last month to a nearly two-year low as concerns about slowing growth led to projections for fewer sales, according to survey results released Tuesday
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The monthly optimism index from the National Federation of Independent Business declined by 1.3 points to 93.9.

The figure is well below the index’s 42-year average of 98[/quote]

coming to an election near you

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[quote=equalizer][quote=utcsox]Bump. Here is what Senator Marco Rubio did tonight. I still think he will win the nomination and the presidency.
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Host: Why are you in third place in your own state of FL?
Rubio: “Hillary is bad, Bernie should run in Sweden”.
Rhodes Scholar material.

Newscorp and friends have started an all out attack on Trump and are pushing Rubio spin. Tough to fight the MSM that Newscorp has become.

Trump needs to go back to
mid-August (2015) statement on his campaign website: “Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.” Did Zuckerberg scare Trump into denial of his statement??[/quote]

Sweden with a Southern California climate sounds pretty appealing.

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[quote=svelte]Let’s see.

Iowa didn’t pick the eventual Republican nominee in 2012:

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/states/iowa

Or in 2008:

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/IA.html

And did in 2004 only because Bush ran unopposed in the Republican party.

Not so sure Iowa’s results tell us much.[/quote]

Actually Iowa told Us tons. It effectively identified three candidates on the repub side with the rest not garnering 25% collectively and the highest 9%. It also showed Rubio strong in the population centers.

Rubio today looks much stronger for the eventual nomination, as does Trump. Carson could hang on for a VP spot, possibly a Rubio/Carson ticket. Fiorina got 2%, effectively putting a hole in ambitions and possibly cratering a VP slot.

On the Dem side Sanders was strong, both rurally and in the population center.

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[quote=livinincali][quote=spdrun]If the popular vote is grossly ignored, I hope we end up with riots in the streets and a revolution. I mean that in the most literal sense possible.[/quote]

We live under a constitutional republic. It was specifically designed this way so that majorities couldn’t repress minorities. There were checks and balances such that a small state like Road Island had an equal say about government activities as the larger states at lease in some branches of government. It’s always convenient to say majority rule goes right up until your on the wrong side of the majority. It’s good that we have these checks and balances. That said it would be next impossible for someone to massively win the popular vote and fail to get 50% of the electoral college.[/quote]

Won’t happen in a Nloomberg race, he won’t take any States and it’ll be like the 96 election were some states are won by someone with high 40s, but very unlikely someone doesn’t get the 270.

I also actually think Sanders versus Trump will really rally the democrats to a party line vote. Between fear of Trump and anger of losing Hillary over “right wing media smear”, they’ll turn out and vote in droves as long as they don’t stroke out.

I’m pretty thankful right now I live in California and my vote has little impact on the election. It often seems in our State if Charles Manson got on the ballot claiming to be a democrat, we’d elect him 55-45.

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[quote=spdrun]Hope they’re rehired and encounter some very angry cartel members.[/quote]

They’ve been back in the beat for the last three years.
[quote]
The women received $4.2 million in a legal settlement from the city of Los Angeles, along with money to buy a new truck. The officers were faulted by LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Commission, and received weeks of extensive retraining before returning to the field.

“The barrage of gunfire was tremendous, and troubling,” prosecutors wrote, but not criminal.

“The fear of Dorner was understandable and justified,” the memo said. “There is no evidence to suggest that the officers did not honestly believe that Dorner was in the vehicle, nor is there evidence to suggest that the officers did not honestly believe they were being fired upon.”[/quote]

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