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What if it was the HOA. You belong to an HOA it comes out that you said some particularly nasty things about a gay neighbor. Does the HOA have the rights to fine you. Force you to sell your house if 75% of the members vote you out.

If you signed a contract to that effect or bought a place with a deed covenant of that type, the answer might be “yes.” In the sense that it’s legal, not that it’s necessarily right or moral.

If you buy a place with an HOA, you need to read AND UNDERSTAND the by-laws very well before signing in the dotted line.

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This isn’t the government, though. The team is subject to NBA regulations if it wants to do business with the NBA (play against other teams in the league). I suspect that he signed some sort of morals clause when he bought the team and kept it part of the league. Can I refuse to do business with a client whom I dislike personally? For sure.

As far as pushing the price up or down, maybe the intent was just to have it up for sale. Or maybe the thing got far bigger than the people running the circus intended. Who knows?

I wonder if he could theoretically pull the team from the NBA and start a competing league. Does he really own the team, or did he just buy rights to manage it and profit from TV coverage?

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In fact, this whole Sterling issue reminds me of a modern day salem witchcraft trial.

Wasn’t his girlfriend black?

OK, I can understand that he could be racist with a Black girlfriend. Maybe he was going blind in his old age and didn’t notice.

But he also bought into a heavily Black business. Coaches, players, etc. Doesn’t make sense for a true racist to have done that.

I lived next to a couple that would fight and call each other all sorts of horrible ethnic names … pertaining to their own ethnicities. People say horrible things in anger, and it doesn’t necessarily speak to their true political views.

Not sure if he wasn’t doing his best to goad her and vice versa. They both seem like pretty vile people, a perfect match, maybe.

My other thought is: what if this is a setup to devalue the team and get it sold. He might be known for rants in private. Get him set up with someone who’s close enough to push him into ranting, tape it, then “leak” it.

She gets a small commission if the right person buys the team…

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The $170k unit looks decent, probably will need a new A/C and common charges are a bit high (should be closer to $200 or $250). Note that it hasn’t actually sold and has gone back on market, 50 days since first listing. Maybe it will eventually sell for $150k or $160k.

Not to different from what I bought, but mine is in a less “nice” area.

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It bodes very well, depending on what you’re intending to do 😉

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Can he sell it to an equally unpleasant character (or someone virtually guaranteed to mismanage it) for a slightly lower price just to screw with the NBA?

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I have to wonder … he was essentially stripped of his team AND fined $2.5 million. What could the NBA actually do to him if he said “go screw yourselves with a pointy object — I ain’t paying no fine.”?

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^^^

California is one of the few states that requires all parties to a conversation to consent to recording. What he did was probably moderately illegal (though the law may differ on audio surveillance on one’s own property, even during a public event, who knows?)

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In this regard I think CA is kind of like NY.
People and companies in general don’t migrate domestically anymore into CA or NY.

They start here (emigrate here).

And that’s what makes those states actually worth living in — foreigners are often more interesting than uptight, white-bread Americans. One reason why I love NYC is that 40% of its residents were NOT born here.

This being said, as far as domestic human (not corporate) migration, CA is fairly balanced right now. And I personally know quite a few people who have moved Northeast to CA in the past 5 years.

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I thought if your balance-to-limit ratio stays the same (i.e. you open another card w/o annual fee with same limit) then your credit won’t be affected. Closing an account IN ITSELF isn’t a reason for damage to credit.

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Race to the bottom. Hope some other product defects are unearthed and they get hammered.

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Anything that can be automated WILL be automated regardless.

Not as long as it’s cheaper to pay people to do it.

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Also there is a growing push to raise lower wage levels,

Exactly. So they’ll automate the low-enders’ jobs away instead of paying higher wages, or hire fewer and rely more on automation. Don’t have to pay ’em if they’re on unemployment.

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I understand your irritation, but driving a car with 30-year-old hubcaps on NYC roads, I probably wouldn’t have notice a few more scratches. This being said, I tend to stay away from any chain oil/tire/service places (including CostCow), opting to have my car worked on by independent mechanics when needed. Much more consistency than the chains that hire any h/s dropout.

I’ll make a slight exception for STS Tire in NJ, which always seemed to do a good job for family (and myself, when I used them).

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