[poorgradstudent]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=poorgradstudent]
Neat freaks are nice to visit but extremely difficult to live with. I think for a marriage it’s good to have similar preferred degrees of messiness.

There’s a fairly wide range of what I’d call “normal”.[/quote]

Do you mean nice to visit because their houses are fresh and clean? Or that you only want to visit a short time?

I think I’m difficult to live with.[/quote]

Because their houses are fresh and clean! Although we’re the kind of people that run around hiding the mess we normally live in whenever we have people coming over. Sure, there’s two rooms that have closed doors and are off-limits, but at least the kitchen and living rooms look good!

[poorgradstudent]

I tend to view Hoarding as more of a symptom than a disease. It’s often a sign of depression. There’s also degrees, where some people hoard things that at least have some objective value to outsiders while others truly hoard junk.

Neat freaks are nice to visit but extremely difficult to live with. I think for a marriage it’s good to have similar preferred degrees of messiness.

There’s a fairly wide range of what I’d call “normal”.

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=flu]I have a prediction folks.

You know the two big new apartment complexes being built in Carmel Valley right over Vista Sorrento Parkway?

I think they are going to be hurting for tenants…bigtime…

I’d give maybe 2 years before they decide to convert them to owner occupied attached homes….

http://www.apartmentguide.com/apartments/California/San-Diego/Ocean-Air/100020971/

$2400-2800/month for a 1bedroom.. Lol… Good luck with that one… That’s almost the same amount of my 15 year mortgage on a SFH in CarmelV.[/quote]

Well, having looked at many, many apartments in my time, I can say the advertised price and what people actually pay always have a gap. There’s a common marketing trick where they will say it’s 2400 a month, but we can let you have it for 2200… what a steal!

I’ve also noticed new buildings often price fairly aggressively until they fill up. They then raise the rent progressively once they don’t have dozens of empty units to fill up.

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=AN]Ideally, I agree with you. However, you have to think of those pictures as marketing materials. Why show something when it doesn’t put your listing in the best light? It can also be just laziness. They might think, oh, the room has no upgrade but it’s in livable condition, so why bother showing pictures of it. The pictures are there to pull you, the buyer, into the house and go see it. So, you’d only want to show the best picture of the house.[/quote]

I suppose. I know there have been plenty of threads making fun of terrible listing pictures here, but I do think it’s mostly laziness and ineptitude rather than an intentional strategy. The old “six cameraphone pictures snapped of a half-clean house” is still fairly common.

[poorgradstudent]

Nice pick. Time to sell?

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=FlyerInHi]It would be a great deal for California. Californians would have more representation in Congress.[/quote]
Specifically the Senate. Probably wouldn’t change the House representation *too* much.

It would basically hand the Democrats permanent control of the Senate, which is why it will never actually happen. It would also add more D than R electoral votes, but that’s a bit more marginal; an extra +6 blue EV is about the effect of New Hampshire.

[poorgradstudent]

My god, you poor, poor people, paying taxes on your $250k profit on home sales.

Where’s my tiny violin?

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=dumbrenter]
Interesting…while you are at liberty to change your political preferences based on personal experiences, has it ever occurred to you that the simplest solution is not to speed?
They could post a whole posse of SDPD and it would mean nothing to you since you are not speeding.
I live by a school in carmel valley and navigating stop signs near the school is a pain with obnoxious drivers who would rather kill me & my kid than actually stop at the stop sign. Can you direct some of that SDPD to my ‘hood? I keep asking for more…and if they get more money out of these idiots, even better.[/quote]
I would LOVE it if they would GTFO off my work street and go police a school area. I literally cross the street in question hundreds of times a year to go between buildings and have never, ever felt unsafe. Sorry, 40 mph on a wide, straight street in good weather is safe, regardless of what the posted limit says.

[poorgradstudent]

Man, being poor sounds awesome.

I’m gonna quit my job and go be poor! Who is with me?

[poorgradstudent]

I’m curious if the “since 2005” is a cherry picked data point or part of a larger trend.

Usually WSJ leans between moderate and slightly conservative. I think the article in question does a good job of explaining the “why” of the out migration; basically high housing costs. I am disappointed it didn’t follow-up on the high earner in-migration data point.

[poorgradstudent]

I don’t agree with him on many issues, but I respect him for actually talking during his old-timey filibuster. Clever move to draw attention to his political position.

[poorgradstudent]

Seriously though, this sequester fight is truly stupid. If there’s one thing markets hate, it’s uncertainty. There’s clear evidence these constant battles are already dragging down the recovery.

Jack up taxes and slash spending, but set them to kick in in 2016 or whatever. Boom, problem solved.

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=no_such_reality]I prefer pictures.

[/quote]
I strong!

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=flu]
AN, I figured out the discrepancy on the condo… Redfin has a separate filter for condo and one for townhome. Unfortunately it looks like some sellers classify things as townhomes when they really are condos… Checking townhome and condo, produces a lot more attached units… A whopping 5 attached homes in MM… Lol….[/quote]
Landlords trying to rent properties do this too, calling a condo a townhome. It’s frustrating when you’re trying to search as a renter.

[poorgradstudent]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jan/16/local-voice-gun-control/

Sounds like Davis, Issa, Hunter, and Vargas are all pretty locked into their respective positions. Scott Peters is a wild card; I haven’t found anything he’s said on record about the issue.

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