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I agree that 500K isn’t going to get you what you want in UC. Could be worth waiting the extra year or two it takes to save a larger down-payment, though.

To answer the original Q, I would take PQ over Carlsbad due to the traffic on I-5. I’m just not a fan of NC-coastal and I would assume you might get a little more space inland as well, though I haven’t actually shopped them.

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I agree that 500K isn’t going to get you what you want in UC. Could be worth waiting the extra year or two it takes to save a larger down-payment, though.

To answer the original Q, I would take PQ over Carlsbad due to the traffic on I-5. I’m just not a fan of NC-coastal and I would assume you might get a little more space inland as well, though I haven’t actually shopped them.

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I agree that 500K isn’t going to get you what you want in UC. Could be worth waiting the extra year or two it takes to save a larger down-payment, though.

To answer the original Q, I would take PQ over Carlsbad due to the traffic on I-5. I’m just not a fan of NC-coastal and I would assume you might get a little more space inland as well, though I haven’t actually shopped them.

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I agree that 500K isn’t going to get you what you want in UC. Could be worth waiting the extra year or two it takes to save a larger down-payment, though.

To answer the original Q, I would take PQ over Carlsbad due to the traffic on I-5. I’m just not a fan of NC-coastal and I would assume you might get a little more space inland as well, though I haven’t actually shopped them.

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I was just in Temecula for a kids’ soccer tournament. We ate at Lucile’s Smokehouse BBQ. I think you would be pleasantly surprised. They had the smoker right there in the restaurant with the smoke-times for each product on the wall. Saw them loading it up with about 20 slabs of ribs. Was excellent and had that exact smokey taste you described.

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I was just in Temecula for a kids’ soccer tournament. We ate at Lucile’s Smokehouse BBQ. I think you would be pleasantly surprised. They had the smoker right there in the restaurant with the smoke-times for each product on the wall. Saw them loading it up with about 20 slabs of ribs. Was excellent and had that exact smokey taste you described.

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I was just in Temecula for a kids’ soccer tournament. We ate at Lucile’s Smokehouse BBQ. I think you would be pleasantly surprised. They had the smoker right there in the restaurant with the smoke-times for each product on the wall. Saw them loading it up with about 20 slabs of ribs. Was excellent and had that exact smokey taste you described.

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I was just in Temecula for a kids’ soccer tournament. We ate at Lucile’s Smokehouse BBQ. I think you would be pleasantly surprised. They had the smoker right there in the restaurant with the smoke-times for each product on the wall. Saw them loading it up with about 20 slabs of ribs. Was excellent and had that exact smokey taste you described.

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I was just in Temecula for a kids’ soccer tournament. We ate at Lucile’s Smokehouse BBQ. I think you would be pleasantly surprised. They had the smoker right there in the restaurant with the smoke-times for each product on the wall. Saw them loading it up with about 20 slabs of ribs. Was excellent and had that exact smokey taste you described.

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[quote=sdrealtor]dudeFYI, per a UT article a week or two ago UE in my neighborhood is only around 5%. Dont know how accurate that is but according to the article it is a very bifurcated UE situation. Its 10+ in lower incoem areas and 5ish in NCC and Inland.[/quote]

Interesting number, but I don’t think it is useful or surprising. UE on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis is a self-fulfulling situation. Almost by definition, expensive neighborhoods will have lower unemployment that less-expensive neighborhoods.

In the long-term, the overall unemployment rate for the county seems the most sensible thing to use as a potential indicator.

Plus, we should probably look at the U6 unemployment numbers anyway.

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[quote=sdrealtor]dudeFYI, per a UT article a week or two ago UE in my neighborhood is only around 5%. Dont know how accurate that is but according to the article it is a very bifurcated UE situation. Its 10+ in lower incoem areas and 5ish in NCC and Inland.[/quote]

Interesting number, but I don’t think it is useful or surprising. UE on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis is a self-fulfulling situation. Almost by definition, expensive neighborhoods will have lower unemployment that less-expensive neighborhoods.

In the long-term, the overall unemployment rate for the county seems the most sensible thing to use as a potential indicator.

Plus, we should probably look at the U6 unemployment numbers anyway.

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[quote=sdrealtor]dudeFYI, per a UT article a week or two ago UE in my neighborhood is only around 5%. Dont know how accurate that is but according to the article it is a very bifurcated UE situation. Its 10+ in lower incoem areas and 5ish in NCC and Inland.[/quote]

Interesting number, but I don’t think it is useful or surprising. UE on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis is a self-fulfulling situation. Almost by definition, expensive neighborhoods will have lower unemployment that less-expensive neighborhoods.

In the long-term, the overall unemployment rate for the county seems the most sensible thing to use as a potential indicator.

Plus, we should probably look at the U6 unemployment numbers anyway.

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[quote=sdrealtor]dudeFYI, per a UT article a week or two ago UE in my neighborhood is only around 5%. Dont know how accurate that is but according to the article it is a very bifurcated UE situation. Its 10+ in lower incoem areas and 5ish in NCC and Inland.[/quote]

Interesting number, but I don’t think it is useful or surprising. UE on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis is a self-fulfulling situation. Almost by definition, expensive neighborhoods will have lower unemployment that less-expensive neighborhoods.

In the long-term, the overall unemployment rate for the county seems the most sensible thing to use as a potential indicator.

Plus, we should probably look at the U6 unemployment numbers anyway.

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[quote=sdrealtor]dudeFYI, per a UT article a week or two ago UE in my neighborhood is only around 5%. Dont know how accurate that is but according to the article it is a very bifurcated UE situation. Its 10+ in lower incoem areas and 5ish in NCC and Inland.[/quote]

Interesting number, but I don’t think it is useful or surprising. UE on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis is a self-fulfulling situation. Almost by definition, expensive neighborhoods will have lower unemployment that less-expensive neighborhoods.

In the long-term, the overall unemployment rate for the county seems the most sensible thing to use as a potential indicator.

Plus, we should probably look at the U6 unemployment numbers anyway.

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[quote=permabear]The problem is it was owned by a smoker and reeks. Don’t tell me “new carpet, new paint” – my parents bought an ex-smoker house and after gutting the entire thing: paint, flooring, vent and pipes, furnace, it STILL smells like smoke.[/quote]

The keys to this problem are 1) ammonia and 2) oil-based primer.

Our house was nasty when we bought it. The aluminum windows were YELLOW from smoke stains. I tried cleaners, bleach, solvents (laquer thinner, acetone, etc.). Nothing worked. Until I tried ammonia. It was like magic. Took that smoky film right off. Smoke-film on the walls will seep right through water-based primer, too.

Just have EVERYTHING wiped down w/ an ammonia solution and use a very expensive, very smelly oil-based primier and you are good-to-go. Of course, the carpets have to go also.

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