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Paint it to be same color as the wall using metal paint. Or paint it to be decorative.

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I had an amp that was about 6″ deep at one point. But with IR extenders or RF remotes, you can bury an amp in a closet these days.

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Nope, your argument doesn’t hold water: consumer goods have become SMALLER since the 1970s. A TV used to be a foot or two deep. A computer was something that sat on a desk and couldn’t easily be moved. A typewriter was pretty big too. An iPod or smartphone with speakers is tiny as compared to a radio/cassette of the 1970s.

Vehicle space doesn’t play into it. You don’t need more vehicles than drivers, and one should be able to park two of them 🙂

And with the San Diego climate, the lot becomes an extension of the house 95% of the year. One can also put down a “temporary” storage shed if they’re into things like motorcycles and sailboats. Those are the toys that haven’t changed in size, but people had them in the 70s as well.

I’d have thought that you were smarter than to believe the “bigger is better, must renovate” HGTV propaganda.

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1300 sf is big assuming the number doesn’t include garage floor space. Average house size was under 1000 sf in the early 1970s. If you have another 9000 sf of outdoor space for hobbies, entertaining, and play, five people and a few mongrels living in 1300 sf is a non-issue.

With 1300 sf, you end up using 450 sf for four bedrooms (one master), 100 sf for kitchen, another 150 sf for 1.5 baths, 300 sf for living/dining, 100 sf for hallways, 200 sf for enclosed porch/family room. Perfectly adequate for everyone to have their own private space as long as you have modest expectations. But a 10×10′ bedroom seems positively huge to a child.

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Wrong kind of jobs — they’re temporary construction jobs, not permanent jobs that will actually bring more people to SD County and fill the housing.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]At under 1 percent interest for 5 y. It seemed reasonable to finance 100 percent of our cars.[/quote]

Only if you’re dead set on buying new. And having a financed car has other issues. With a house where you got a good deal, you can always put anything personal into storage and rent it out for a year, negating the mortgage payment if you want to spend a year outside the US. With a car, you’re tied down until you pay off the loan. Plus, you can’t go with liability-only for insurance, or make the car uninsured and non-op if you don’t plan to use it.

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If you lived in Portugal you could probably get away with a light motorcycle or scooter, and you really don’t need A/C near the coast. Many of the locals don’t have it either. Live like a local and enjoy it for what it is; don’t try to be an American.

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The funny thing is that many men actually WANT to marry less intelligent women. I knew a woman in the advertising business. Smart, funny, etc, but she always acted below her actual level. I asked her why, she said she was used to it since it made the men she interacted with feel less awkward.

It confused me why anyone would want to spend the rest of their life with someone whom they have to talk down to.

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[quote=rockingtime]Looks like the investors are fleeing away from the real estate market now.
Investors are not really into holding the real estate as rental but flipping after few months for profit.[/quote]

Do you mean that investors are no longer buying, or trying to dump what they bought?

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I make my disposable razors last longer.

I have thick beard hair that clogs most disposable razors and electric razors tend to be “lift and yank” to me.

Only way to shave is an old-school safety razor. Blades are $20 for a 100-pk or $6 for a 20-pk of a good Japanese brand. Bonus point is that it shaves closer and better than most modern stuff. It’s also environmentally better since you’re not throwing away a thick hunk of plastic.

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#1 – sellers don’t control the market. Buyers do.
#2 – sellers with 20% equity can actually go down 10-15% if they want to sell. Not everyone wants to be a landlord.

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Try MoCA, but if the coax run to the TV is part of the cable network, read the following thread. You don’t want to be sharing a network with the neighbors by accident. (Mostly a theoretical possibility, but still.)

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/moca-security-concerns.14490/

If MoCA doesn’t work out, you can always play with wifi extenders. They basically act as repeaters/amplifiers, and might get wifi to the TV.

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How fast does it need to be? Can you use a high-speed wifi extender (i.e. wifi to Ethernet)? Some routers can be set up to do this.

Is there any specific reason why you need Ethernet, i.e. speed or PoE for cameras?

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Pollard’s analysis isn’t scary. It’s the most cheerful thing I’ve heard today. Don’t look at it as people losing money; look at it as a potential for a big fire sale.

This being said, flippers aren’t losing money, at least not yet. I also don’t think that home prices will correct below their 2008 and 2012 lows even if we do have a correction.

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Fort Lee is an extension of NYC, mainly condoland. By contrast, you can buy something that needs a bit of elbow grease in Berkeley Heights (suburb of NYC, think San Marcos) for under $400k.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/6-Pine-Grove-Rd_Berkeley-Heights_NJ_07922_M62219-04618?row=3

Problem is that homes in those towns don’t change hands frequently, but when they do, they’re often not as expensive as you may think.

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