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Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]Hilarious. 20 percent sounds awesome. Especially since I got a lot of pleasure from the 80 percent.[/quote]
Yes, I know it’s so funny, and a good deal too!
ParticipantI asked my kids the question today ” what do adult children owe their parents if anything?” “what do your mom and I owe grammy and pop pop?”
7 year old, “Love them and take us( grandchildren) to visit them.”
10 year old, “Start helping them after they are about 50, especially if they are disabled or sick.”
11 year old, “About 20% of whatever they gave you over the years.” I tried to get it up to 33% but he wasn’t having it. 20 % is a pretty good deal though.
ParticipantIf I were one of the lucky young people who bought a “starter home” at the bottom with a good down and good prices and maybe refinanced to an excellent rate…I would probably be considering renting that out and buying another house to live in.
Participant[quote=Jazzman]There is a noodle bar just up the road from me. It is so popular, a line forms outside at 5pm every day. It must be good because everybody else thinks so. I went once and …well, obviously ordered the wrong thing, so went again and wouldn’t you know, it must have been the chef’s night off. So I went a final time to satisfy my curiosity. The moral of the story: Either I don’t like noodles and never knew it, or everyone else likes noodles but have never tasted them. How much does this explain our behavior?[/quote]
Trophy noodles?
Trophy wives?
Trophy houses?Participant[quote=CA renter]Great post, Russ.[/quote]
Thanks!ParticipantI built my kids a really nice tree fort. More like a small cabin in a tree. They owe me to start using the thing soon,and too always remember it fondly. If they don’t they can just forget any help going to college.
ParticipantThere’s probably always going to be that one kid or that phase where the adult child needs to blow off the family…when mine do that I want them to do it with a clean conscience like I hope mine will be at the time.
ParticipantMy wife and I usually do very little to celebrate our birthdays or mother’s day and father’s day. But of course the mother of one’s children is as vip as anyone on mothers day. How could it be any other way?
Kids don’t owe us anything, maybe help us get buried or cremated if anything..it wouldn’t hurt to ask for any help with that in advance just in case they have something better to do the week you kick the bucket.
Participant[quote=Jazzman][quote=FormerSanDiegan]I think it’s pointless to argue whether a place in Hawaii plus France better, worse, or equivalent to a place in Santa Barbara. Or whether the view in the western US is soulless. These can’t be proven. There’s no data that can be brought that can decide.
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Agreed. You can’t make comparisons and shouldn’t try. You can however espouse the virtues or otherwise of a place and say what makes you happier, which I guess is what it is all about in the end.[/quote]Even silier though to define one place as more “soulful” than another.
Participant[quote=Butleroftwo]15 min. if you go 80 mph. Google has it calculated at 47 mph and 26 min. to the Cove.[/quote]
26 minutes to la Jolla cove is still great, not so much for the cove/beaches only, but it makes it a fairly convenient place to live factoring most possible needs and wants for SD county living, Going north from the 52 is a disaster freeway wise even surface streets sucks , mega concrete,asphalt, stucco and tinted glass box disaster. I just hate going up there unless I am buying something from FLU off of craigslist. Living in that world would be a very high negative on the list of tradeoffs for that same SD county life somewhere else at equal or even less to much less price.
ParticipantNice irony, the “takers” are after your money so innocent parties rent goes up on that basis. A chain of takers.
Mom and pops should do things differently.Raising rent as a “mom and pop” is different, more personal, wether we like it or not. I have been paid every single cent of rent due and have had my places taken decent to great care of. I have always returned most or all of the deposit money. This is true even though I have had to kick a few people out.
No evictions or loss or rent or damage. “Kids ” see raising rent as punishment. I treat tenants as if I understand that paying rent hurts. Not raising rents, acting like fair minded “mom and pops” is directly related to why problem children were not disaster children and always paid what was due. It takes two to tangle.
I give notice or give the tenant option to give notice upon any response to an issue is unsuitable in anyway. I may have taken some vacancies that way faster than some people would….so far it’s worked.
ParticipantO.K one of my new religions has hit a snag.” Deep Ecology” is a fundamental value of pantheism …couldn’t it just be mild conservationist views or something like that? I don’t want a G-d that wants to destroy the earth, but I don’t want to worry if grilling organic beets is unfair to micro biotic life forms that live on them….probably can’t even wash the beets or break the soil to plant the seed in the first place without killing millions.
Sex is good with pantheist so no more guilt about the normal stuff but just hate yourself for being alive in the first place.
Participant[quote=CA renter]Good to hear you had an honest attorney working for you, Russ. Good luck on this![/quote]
Thanks, The one good person attorney that I had consulted with gave me the referrals to the others ,so it seem the “birds of a feather” rule applies.ParticipantThanks, Svelte, that’s very kind of you.
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