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I have a basic Cordura (woven thick Nylon material) wallet that I bought abroad. The big advantage is that it’s designed for bills that are physically taller than USD bills, so US currency is less likely to fall out.

It’s also proven to be pretty indestructible — no noticable wear after three years.

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Why go to the police if they’re not helpful? If you have video of criminal activity, you could speak to someone at the DA’s office directly — the DA is the one who decides whether to press criminal charges, not the police.

If the DA refuses to help, one could always go to a local newspaper or the local cable channel. Bored local media sometimes jump on those sorts of things…

But I’d try some sort of segregated access agreement before playing hardball. After all, you still have to live next to those yobs, so may as well not make them hate you too much.

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Option 1: Offer them a legal agreement that the easements will not be improved for the next 10 years in exchange for them paying you 50% of the price you paid for the easements.

Or offer that any road built on the easements would be solely for the use of the residents of your parcel, and that UPS deliveries, tradesmen, etc, would be required to use the existing road. Agreement could stipulate a locked gate (installed at their expense), for example.

Assuming you’re dealing with people with a shred of rationality, anything is negotiable.

Option 2: Video, video, video. Use an app that uploads time stamped video directly to a cloud server. If you catch them brandishing a weapon on video, FILE A POLICE REPORT, or (if the police are unwilling to act) speak to someone at the prosecutor’s office directly and press charges.

Sounds like their harassment has moved into the realm of criminal activity — you might be able to skip the restraining order part and have them arrested. Once they’re arrested, you can ALSO get a restraining order, and the fact that they’ve already been arrested for harassing you will be great grounds for doing so.

If they’re hardened thugs, they may not care. If they’re just bullies who’ve been allowed to get away with their abuse for too long, a night in jail might change their outlook entirely.

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To put this in perspective, Russian holdings amount to 1.4% of total debt.

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I think you broked the markets today.

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Exactly. Ignore the crazy, go with the sane.

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But YMMV may still vary with individual stocks. Why not ignore the market and concentrate on good stocks?

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5 years ago the process took a good 6 months so just wondering how long its taking these days (I know there are many different scenarios which could play into whether its quicker or longer to process).

Seven months from offer to close last year for me. I also have several offers on shorts that have been sitting for months.

Despite new guidelines, I don’t think the process has become much faster.

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But given that the Stock Market has historically risen 8% per year or whatever, isn’t shorting the market a mug’s game?

On average, but it doesn’t mean you can’t make money off if it happens to go down over a given period.

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Congrats! Is this to live in, flip, or rental?

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^^^
Or you’re just buying a really crummy stock that will go bankrupt tomorrow. Buy what the lemmings are selling, but be comfortable with the business fundamentals (or at least with the quantity of lemmings willing to buy a dip).

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Ghetto is south-central LA. Maybe SESD. Parts of Oakland. WW II-era Warsaw and Lodz in another sense. Ghetto is an ethnically homogeneous often poor neighborhood, which is pretty much the diametrical opposite of what I’m describing.

If you think that the area of which you speak is “ghetto”, you’ve lived a pretty sheltered life. That is all.

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You close to that Building in NY on fire ?

It’s physically about 2 1/2 miles from where I live, but I’m a bit further away right now. They’re saying it was probably a gas explosion — gas company should install detectors in all entrances to multi-family buildings, connected to the dispatch board of the fire dept. Should be relatively easy to do, what with wireless communication being pretty ubiquitous nowadays.

Thankfully this happened on a weekday morning, so there weren’t more people in the building.

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I don’t think China will implode. Their growth rate may be cut in half, but they’ll still be doing well by Western standards.

China’s environmental laws and infrastructure need to catch up with its growth rate — any slowdown is basically a necessary breather for them to get their house in order.

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You can — you can either short an ETF or there are reverse ETFs that essentially do it for you. I personally don’t like the idea of shorting — the whole exposure to unlimited losses thing.

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