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[quote=JPJones]Relevant to heating the pool using “solar”, my grandfather, who grew up during the depression, had an interestingly cheap way to heat his pool. He bought a black garden hose and ran it from the pool pump around the back yard through areas exposed to direct sunlight, then back into the pool. He’d let it run at a trickle during the day and we never saw the pool go below 75 F, even during the winter.[/quote]

Same friend also suggested that the electricity to run the pool pump was a significant portion of his electricity needs. So, your plan isn’t a bad one because it saves heating costs, but not pumping costs.

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Only experience I have is an analysis done by a friend of mine, who is a world-class decision modeler.

He concluded that, because energy is priced in tiers, buying enough panels to completely remove you from the grid is not money well spent.

Spend enough to drop your usage down to the lowest tier and that’s enough.

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I don’t get the point of increasing taxes if we don’t cut spending. And CA is a bloated as a porky pig.

Thoughts?[/quote]

You don’t call the elimination of redevelopment districts and the billions of tax dollars they suck down a spending cut?[/quote]

If they are eliminating things from the budget for things that were over-budgeted the future, then it isn’t really a cut. To be a cut, you have to spend less next year than you did last year.

So, if you spent $100 last year, and next year to plan on spending $150, then you change your mind and only spend $120, you don’t get to call it a $30 cut. That is a $20 spending increase.

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From a legal perspective, why can’t you just call the renters your “roomates” ?

I don’t see the difference, really, between you living in the master bedroom or you living in the extra studio.

And you have an under-the-table, inside agreement that you will stick to the studio and they will stick to the main part of the house and share the yard. It could be awkward or convenient depending on the personalities, but they are just roomates.

Then, you can call it your primary residence but you rent a room to some people.

You’ll have to share mail, utilities, etc. just like roomates do.

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I looooooove my dropbox.

I’m sure there are competing products that do the same thing, but the thing it does is pretty nifty.

I would call it a mirroring or replication tool for files on multiple computers.

You have to do two things:
1) Set up an account at getdropbox.com
2) Load the dropbox application on one or more computers.

When you load the application, it makes a special folder for you. Anything you put in that folder gets copied up to the getdropbox.com cloud. Anytime you change anything in that folder, it updates your space the cloud to match.

Also, any time anything in your space in the cloud gets updated, the application replicates the changes in the special folder on your computer.

Do this with several computers and you always have a current copy of your work no matter what computer you use. It is fairly “invisible” It just works.

Also, you can grant permission to other dropbox users on a folder-by-folder basis. So, you can share selected things with selected people in near-real time.

My friends and I used it to design a robot. Every time one of us made a change to a file, we all saw the updates within a minute or so. This was coordinated across three people and each of us had two or three computers.

I also use it to pass documents to my accountant. I keep my books for my contracting work myself, which are basically a Quickbooks file. I just copy my Quickbooks file to our shared dropbox folder and he can see my entire financial picture.

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A great place if you telecommute. Looks like it will take you a week just to get to a freeway.

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Muni code takes care of most things I care about.

I can see how areas that don’t fall under the Muni code would need HOAs but I can live without them.

One more thing to like about Clairemont and UC.

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If you look at the redfin asking vs. selling prices for 92130 you’ll see that this could sell down in the low 900’s. That still seems high to me but the lot is very large and it’s on a canyon.

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Anything that says “Rum” on the bottle.

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You’d think for a $990K house, they could do a little better with the photos. I think they were taken with a polaroid and scanned, then touched up with that oh-so-special soft white frame.

http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Diego/3652-Windswept-Ter-92130/home/4459555

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$160K

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Holy crap. Good post brian.

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At the end of the day, he’s a “realtor”.[/quote]

You know, jameswenn, this comment is so far out of line, I can’t believe how stupid it is.

If you have a reasonable financial/economic argument, make one. If not, shut up.

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Typically, this is a lower inventory month than August. The Q is – what was inventory this month last year. That is more of an indicatory.

Also, look at months of inventory (i.e. inventory / monthly sales) for a better idea of market direction.

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[quote=poorgradstudent]The NFL clearly wants a team in LA, but LA doesn’t seem to care much, and seems quite unwilling to pay much to make that happen.[/quote]

Now that would be a good use of our tax money – paying the Chargers to go to LA.

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