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No law against an apartment swap for a week (no monetary compensation) or renting out part of one’s own apartment for under a month, if one is staying there.

Also, I can’t speak to AirBnB/VRBO, but there are plenty of short-term situations on Craigslist (search sublets for “week”, “weekly”, or the name of a month, as in “March” 9-15). Technically illegal, but unless one is an idiot about it and rents to a bunch of annoying party kids or an axe murderer, no one will say anything about it.

Examples…
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/sub/4360039045.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/sub/4360228727.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/sub/4360170772.html

See also…
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/williamsburg-bursting-airbnb-rentals-article-1.1614996

The good thing about NYC is that if it doesn’t annoy anyone, it’s generally tolerated with the exception of occasional well-publicized crackdowns that go away after a while. Witness every new mayor since Lindsay trying to fine jaywalkers, and the campaigns mercifully going away after a few weeks of unpleasantness.

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I did autocross. I truly don’t didn’t seriously care about it — I just preferred to daily-drive the Miata. It was fun on the street and on the parkways north of NYC where I had to go a day or two out of the week for work.

It even did fine in snow with four winter tires, a hard top, and a ski rack, though people looked at me like I was insane. I wasn’t; I’m just not your typical wuss who feels that need an SUV barge just to cope with normal traffic.

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Yecch. I’d sooner take a turbo-4 than a gorilla V8.

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Last woman’s car was the 1956 Dodge Lancer LaFemme… And hey, they’re classics now!

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Hey, what’s wrong with owning a Miata? The pre-2006 cars were one of the best light sports cars ever built, bulletproof engines, and highly modifiable.

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There are always “soft” admission criteria used like admissions essays. I don’t see why economic background can’t be one of them. Performance should always be considered in context.

But setting hard racial quotas as a matter of policy is abhorrent to me.

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There are always “soft” admission criteria used like admissions essays. I don’t see why economic background can’t be one of them. But setting hard racial quotas as a matter of policy is abhorrent to me.

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To some extent, yes. I do think that educational environment should be taken into account when considering performance on things like standardized tests.

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Cutting a kid a bit of slack due to educational opportunities (un)available in her high school is one thing. But giving a Black kid from a poor background an advantage over an Asian kid from the same background is quite another in my book.

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If you’re semi-retired and an empty-nester, can’t you just pick up a condo in the $100k-$200k range? Or a fixer-upper bungalow in a poorer area, since schools are irrelevant.

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Do you need the $50k for anything else — are you planning to buy property for say 6% return? (Doable today, easily.) If not, then pay it off.

Also remember that if you have any paid-off property, 15 year money is available at sub-4% rates, so a “refi” is possible.

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Have to say, that goes for most Americans, Asian or not, in general. Compare the periodic street protests in Paris, essentially shutting down the city, to the relatively tame Occupy strikes….

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Would a White South African immigrant be considered “African American” for the purposes of these surveys? Would a Black person from metropolitan France who was applying from abroad qualify?

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Not to mention the government has already displayed that they will allow overall market manipulation to prevent a foreclosure inventory glut that will crash or severely depreciate housing markets.

Pointing you to East Coast markets that are getting glutted with foreclosures and shorts again after a hiatus. IMHO, same thing may occur in CA — combination of rise in interest rates and new foreclosures coming online after banks “learning” to foreclose/going through proper motions under the CA Homeowners’ Bill of Rights. The government will only act on the national market. Individual markets are easily subject to 10-20% fluctuations, and CA is ripe for it after the run up of the last year. Not a crash, but a 10-20% correction. As happened once already ca. 2010-11, after the homeowners’ credit and the foreclosure moratorium expired.

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Signed, not sure how much my signature carries as a non-resident, though.

As with anything — may the best candidate win. Quotas are a disgusting and wrong idea. I might support some leeway based on economic background, but that’s about it.

Good thing about CA law is that even if SCA-5 passes both houses and isn’t vetoed by Moonbat Brown, it still needs to pass a popular referendum.

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