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[quote=EconProf]
As to the common assumption that cutting your prospective rental pool in half (approximately) by not allowing pets hurts one’s rent levels and bottom line–the opposite may be true. Some tenants actually want a pet-free environment. They may be tired of barking dogs and poop on the lawns and be seeking out my kind of apartment complex. Accordingly, my Craigslist ad actually says “Sorry, no pets allowed in these clean and quiet buildings.” Don’t know if I gain more prospects than I lose from such a policy.[/quote]

Barking dogs are one of many possible problems in a complex. In my experience, humans have been a bigger problem with upstairs “neighbors” stomping on the floor, constantly moving furniture, and dropping what sounded like bowling balls.

Even when I moved into a top floor unit the tenant downstairs liked to slam the heavy front door. My place would shake.

Is your building well enough built to mitigate the sound from assholes living nearby?

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[quote=desmond]If you went to “San Diego Stadium” and saw

Dave Winfield, Ozzie Smith, Nate Colbert, and Tony Gwynn play for the Padres. Oh yea, and “number 11 Enzoooe Heerrrrrrrrnannndezzz”[/quote]

Tony Gwynn never played in “San Diego Stadium” as a Padre. It was renamed for Jack Murphy before Gwynn made his MLB debut in 1982.

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[quote=G-money]You know you are from San Diego IF
you don’t say “the 5” , “the 805” ,
“The 163” etc….
That migrated down from LA.
As a native born San Diegan, It still grates on me to
Hear someone say that[/quote]

I first noticed that when I moved to LA in 1988 and yes it’s common here now too.

At least we (or the traffic reporters) haven’t named our freeways yet like:

Santa Monica Freeway
Hollywood Freeway
Golden State Freeway
San Bernardino Freeway
San Diego Freeway
Long Beach Freeway
Pasadena Freeway

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Restaurant good is taxed. Hot deli food is taxed.

At Subway the cold sandwiches are not taxed, but the hot ones are taxed.[/quote]

Does that mean when they toast your sandwich it suddenly becomes taxable?

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401k is fine. Concerned about the future though.

The stock market appears to be in a huge bubble, and hardly anybody is talking about it. Remind anyone of another bubble from the last decade?

I guess it’s different now.

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[quote=ltsdd]Here’s a data point. Rent for a studio in a SD community where I grew up is renting for $900+/month. That same studio rented for $75/month 34 years ago. Today’s minimum wage – $9/hour, 34 years ago $3.10/hour.

Let me know if you seriously believe that living standards has gone up for those earning minimum wages.[/quote]

That can’t be correct, unless the renters were in the home forever by 1980 and the rent didn’t come close to keeping up with the market.

I rented a studio that went for $360 in 1987 and was going for a bit under $800 in 2010.

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[quote=CA renter]

Under no circumstances is our labor market a free market. Business interests are constantly lobbying to relax labor, immigration, and other laws that would benefit workers. If we had a free labor market, all compensation for every position would be public knowledge, and labor would have as much say in politics (including tax and trade agreements) as corporations do. Only delusional people would ever think that our labor market is a free market. It’s one of the most manipulated markets in our country.[/quote]

It’s as free as there is. Minimum wage is a manipulation, and it can’t create jobs. It only encourages the opposite.

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[quote=CA renter][quote=EconProf][quote=The-Shoveler]

You’re also making the erroneous assumption that all added costs would be passed on to the consumer. Guess what? Profit margins are at all-time highs. There is no economic law that states that profit margins should always remain the same or grow over time. Time for workers to finally get a greater share of the profits that they’ve created in the first place.[/quote]

Yeah, like the workers have risked the capital to start a business. Workers are free agents who either agree or not to work for a certain amount in a free market.

If their skills demanded $13 an hour they would be getting it already.

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It mentions parents doing the kid’s homework. My sister went even further, taking an online college course for each of her two kids.

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[quote=flu]
But on your way to the shopping mall (say fashion valley), where you plan on spending money that day, do you bother to drop $1 with the guy/gal pan handling at the traffic light? If not, why not and what’s the difference?[/quote]

Because the panhandler might buy drugs with the $.

Duh.

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=JohnAlt91941]Anyone rejoicing over a paper profit is a dope.[/quote]

Good cash flow is something to rejoice over.[/quote]

Agree. Cash is king.

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Anyone rejoicing over a paper profit is a dope.

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[quote=paramount]

San Diego is a bad value, and as scaredy has mentioned San Diego and San Francisco are great if you’re rich or bought a long time ago. [/quote]

By buying a long time ago in San Diego do you mean 2011?

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[quote=CA renter]

Public agencies are also more likely to focus on diversity WRT gender, race, physical ability, etc.
[/quote]

Instead of focusing on getting the most quaified candidate?

So they have an agenda.

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[quote=CA renter]Paramount,

You should know that I agree with you about how some cops go well beyond reasonable force. Still, those are the “cream of the crop” as far as the candidate pool is concerned. [/quote]

How do you know they actually hire “the cream of the crop”? Just because they have an extensive screening process how does it follow that those doing the hiring have the brains to get it right? Who screened them?

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