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It depends on the company. Size, revenue, business, and how corporate they are.

There’s a two tier employer market in OC. Listed and established firms and others. Listed pay more unless you’re in extremely early.

That said, how senior is senior?

More importantly what specific skills are you talking about? In demand skills command a premium for anything beyond marginally punching your way out of a plastic grocery store bag.

You may also have better chance phrasing it as a “total comp” package. Always talk total comp at that level..

Overall, $130K. Coming from current employment, solid skills and solid 7-8 yr experience and good track record is workable.

If their base pay is pinched, total comp gives them a way to make it work.

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People are going to have bad days. People are going to get stressed and make bad decisions.

The real problem isn’t the stressed guy overreacting, it’s the blue brotherhood that ignores it. There were multiple officers in the video…

Probably multiple officers at the other scenes too in his excuses…

Apparently none of them will police there own or pull a coworker aside to say you need to go decompress

That’s the real danger and problem.

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[quote=AN]Holy smokes, that 10% higher than last winter.[/quote]

Yea summer premium. May June tend to spike for rentals especially anything remotely beach or young trendy.

When comparing rent increases it is really critical to compare same months. A July rental price is for a rental that missed the endless summer dream push. Much like a October rental near schools missed the school push.

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[quote=spdrun]Honestly, I found LA traffic to be much worse inland than near the coast. If one was able to live and work within a few miles of the coast and LAX airport, they could be fairly comfortable.[/quote]

LOL

I used to work by LAX about the time of the RE crash. Lunch was restricted to walking distance or maybe two or three miles because it would take 20 minutes to drive that far. Same story at 5PM +/- 2 hours. Pretty much 20 minutes to go three miles any direction on surface streets

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I agree with Hobie. The issue can also be the management company supporting and counciling the board. There are really no requirements on them doing fair dealings unless the board enforces it which many don’t and frequently they’re lined with a pocket full of companies all giving essentially kick backs to be one of the three vendors submitting the deals.

So you have a management company providing three vendors all of which are enriching the management company representative. So you get to deal with three carefully selected vendors bassed on their relationship with the management company.

Don’t forget how petty the board members may become if you start threatening their little ego trip and cash cow.

And remember dealing with this kind of kick back petty corruption is for your benefit. 😉

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I’d bet on one of two scenarios

1 relative of board in window biz

2 board getting theirs and/or more for free near free

2 is more likely and sadly common.

Based on their initial response suggest you get your lawyer ready. Btw your first email indicated you want to fights. The board on baksheesh will consider you a threat. ( hey this is that little corruption that helps the little guy right?).

Is the bronze finish wore off your windows? Your out of community look compliance and must fix prepare for letter. Every other little snit can follow with a letter and subsequent fine too.

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I can choose not to deal with tip bigot wait staff.

I can choose not to deal with FIFA.

I cannot choose to not deal with the Government and their agents.

That’s a big difference.

It’s not holier than thou, it’s recognizing the propagation of the unlevel playing field.

And small scale corruption does nothing of the sort to temper over zealous regulations and fines and help the small, it bends them over the barrel. Over zealous regulations and fines are the tools of corruption to line their pockets.

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Corruption is not a form of bargaining.

And funny you rant about the Stadium deals because that is what corruption gets you. The many being bilked for the benefits of the few.

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Let it play out, the corruption runs deep and may lead to surprising places.

Besides your complaints about BP and Qatar are really just the aftermath of corruption. Corruption and money in politics is what keeps both from occuring.

And while the USA has plenty of money corrupting everything, it pales compared to the rest of the planet.

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Santa Barbara is the height of NIMByism and hypocrisy.

They aren’t giving up their oil, they aren’t giving up their American lifestyle, they just want to ship their trash to some one else’s yard.

People need to take a good hard look at the dirty grimy sh*t cities in China that make the solar equipment and do the electronics recycling. That’s the real current reality of “green” technology.

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[quote=AN][quote=FlyerInHi]Again, we will see how LA works or doesn’t.[/quote]Yep, we will see soon enough. It’ll be interesting to see if small biz stay in LA or move to surrounding cities. I heard Glendale have already trying to court the businesses with the sale of lower min. wage.[/quote]

Watch Seattle. Same $15/hr, but goes into effect in 2017, three years before LA. Seattle’s results will be in before LA even takes effect.

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Yes, militarized is a state of mind. I don’t want Andy Griffith either however I don’t want people that are signing up in response to videos that look like they’re made for the latest action shooter video game either.

We all remember the Newport Beach Police recruiting video from 2008?

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[quote]The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a civil jury verdict against two Los Angeles police detectives for concealing evidence that kept an innocent man in jail for 27 months awaiting trial.

The justices turned down an appeal Monday from the Los Angeles city attorney who contended that because the innocent man was freed before his trial, the police officers could not be sued for withholding evidence.[/quote]

LA Times Article today

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[quote]Second-degree murder is the killing of another person while acting with an extreme disregard for human life. In order to convict the defendant of second-degree murder, the State must prove:

(1) that the defendant caused the death of (name);

(2) that the defendant’s conduct created a very high risk to the life of (name); and

(3) that the defendant, conscious of such risk, acted with extreme disregard of the life-endangering consequences.[/quote]

Like the cops in the beating to death of Kelly Thomas, they won’t be convicted.

They’ll get away with it because they’ll claim they didn’t drive that rough, that they didn’t think it could kill him, that the driver didn’t know the others didn’t secure him in the vehicle blah blah blah.

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

It is simple, you should not die in police custody on the way to jail when you enter custody uninjured.

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Is close to list below list? 5% above list is basically noise with 10+ offers. If it closed above list then there even less between the offers like 2 or 3 %. There’s so many ways to cut that. Quick close, all cash, no Contingencies, even just knowing the buyer or the RE agents reducing their cut or buyer carrying closing costs.

IMHO on housing purchases when looking at deals you’ve lost if there isn’t 10% price difference then the intangibles that aren’t listed are the deciding factors

Selling is 5 – 6% on commission, repairs, termite tenting, escrow and other fees. The little 0.5-1% cuts plus the opportunity cost of a deal the falls apart

There is plenty of wiggle room for shaving a few percent with a motivated buyer on the costs. Even clauses like buyer pays buyers commission

And as svelte mentioned cash is king No finance contingencies and fast close is worth $ particularly for someone already bought or rebuying.

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