[sunny88]

[quote=peterb]”Dollar cost averaging” is Wall Street speak for “Take these suckers for a long ride”. If you know something is getting cheaper, why buy it now??????? The trick is to buy things that are increasing in value, not decreading!! Sometimes I really questions the US educational system.[/quote]

The problem is that you don’t know where the bottom is.

[sunny88]

[quote=peterb]”Dollar cost averaging” is Wall Street speak for “Take these suckers for a long ride”. If you know something is getting cheaper, why buy it now??????? The trick is to buy things that are increasing in value, not decreading!! Sometimes I really questions the US educational system.[/quote]

The problem is that you don’t know where the bottom is.

[sunny88]

[quote=peterb]”Dollar cost averaging” is Wall Street speak for “Take these suckers for a long ride”. If you know something is getting cheaper, why buy it now??????? The trick is to buy things that are increasing in value, not decreading!! Sometimes I really questions the US educational system.[/quote]

The problem is that you don’t know where the bottom is.

[sunny88]

$982k for 1,300 sft!!! That’s still insane!!!

[sunny88]

$982k for 1,300 sft!!! That’s still insane!!!

[sunny88]

$982k for 1,300 sft!!! That’s still insane!!!

[sunny88]

$982k for 1,300 sft!!! That’s still insane!!!

[sunny88]

$982k for 1,300 sft!!! That’s still insane!!!

[sunny88]

[quote=jficquette][quote=qwerty007]$500 a month! That’s crazy. You don’t need to heat a pool in California. I thought the idea was to cool down. I’d tell my family, take it or leave it.[/quote]

I had a 30000 gallon pool. I heated it once in the spring and then let it settle to the average temp which was about 75 degrees. 75 degrees is too cold to enjoy for adults but kids can handle it.

It cost me about $250 a month to run the pumps plus another $100 a month to have a guy come clean it.

My neighbor had a smaller pool but kept it heated to 85 degrees. His said it cost him about $600 a month to keep it heated. He was a retired MD and had figured it out using the horsepower of the pump motors and applying the electric rates to it. He also figured out how much gas it took to heat it. With in reason that is. I am sure it wasn’t exact.

I will never get another pool. Just too expensive and wasteful for me.

John
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I would estimate that having a pool costs at least around $300 a month which includes water, gas, and maintenace.

[sunny88]

[quote=jficquette][quote=qwerty007]$500 a month! That’s crazy. You don’t need to heat a pool in California. I thought the idea was to cool down. I’d tell my family, take it or leave it.[/quote]

I had a 30000 gallon pool. I heated it once in the spring and then let it settle to the average temp which was about 75 degrees. 75 degrees is too cold to enjoy for adults but kids can handle it.

It cost me about $250 a month to run the pumps plus another $100 a month to have a guy come clean it.

My neighbor had a smaller pool but kept it heated to 85 degrees. His said it cost him about $600 a month to keep it heated. He was a retired MD and had figured it out using the horsepower of the pump motors and applying the electric rates to it. He also figured out how much gas it took to heat it. With in reason that is. I am sure it wasn’t exact.

I will never get another pool. Just too expensive and wasteful for me.

John
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I would estimate that having a pool costs at least around $300 a month which includes water, gas, and maintenace.

[sunny88]

[quote=jficquette][quote=qwerty007]$500 a month! That’s crazy. You don’t need to heat a pool in California. I thought the idea was to cool down. I’d tell my family, take it or leave it.[/quote]

I had a 30000 gallon pool. I heated it once in the spring and then let it settle to the average temp which was about 75 degrees. 75 degrees is too cold to enjoy for adults but kids can handle it.

It cost me about $250 a month to run the pumps plus another $100 a month to have a guy come clean it.

My neighbor had a smaller pool but kept it heated to 85 degrees. His said it cost him about $600 a month to keep it heated. He was a retired MD and had figured it out using the horsepower of the pump motors and applying the electric rates to it. He also figured out how much gas it took to heat it. With in reason that is. I am sure it wasn’t exact.

I will never get another pool. Just too expensive and wasteful for me.

John
[/quote]

I would estimate that having a pool costs at least around $300 a month which includes water, gas, and maintenace.

[sunny88]

[quote=jficquette][quote=qwerty007]$500 a month! That’s crazy. You don’t need to heat a pool in California. I thought the idea was to cool down. I’d tell my family, take it or leave it.[/quote]

I had a 30000 gallon pool. I heated it once in the spring and then let it settle to the average temp which was about 75 degrees. 75 degrees is too cold to enjoy for adults but kids can handle it.

It cost me about $250 a month to run the pumps plus another $100 a month to have a guy come clean it.

My neighbor had a smaller pool but kept it heated to 85 degrees. His said it cost him about $600 a month to keep it heated. He was a retired MD and had figured it out using the horsepower of the pump motors and applying the electric rates to it. He also figured out how much gas it took to heat it. With in reason that is. I am sure it wasn’t exact.

I will never get another pool. Just too expensive and wasteful for me.

John
[/quote]

I would estimate that having a pool costs at least around $300 a month which includes water, gas, and maintenace.

[sunny88]

[quote=jficquette][quote=qwerty007]$500 a month! That’s crazy. You don’t need to heat a pool in California. I thought the idea was to cool down. I’d tell my family, take it or leave it.[/quote]

I had a 30000 gallon pool. I heated it once in the spring and then let it settle to the average temp which was about 75 degrees. 75 degrees is too cold to enjoy for adults but kids can handle it.

It cost me about $250 a month to run the pumps plus another $100 a month to have a guy come clean it.

My neighbor had a smaller pool but kept it heated to 85 degrees. His said it cost him about $600 a month to keep it heated. He was a retired MD and had figured it out using the horsepower of the pump motors and applying the electric rates to it. He also figured out how much gas it took to heat it. With in reason that is. I am sure it wasn’t exact.

I will never get another pool. Just too expensive and wasteful for me.

John
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I would estimate that having a pool costs at least around $300 a month which includes water, gas, and maintenace.

[sunny88]

[quote=FormerSanDiegan]Now is a great time to be dollar cost averaging into the market. Many stocks are at P/E ratios not seen since Peter Lynch’s hey-day.

However, I am definitely not amping up my stock allocation or going “all in” or even in large chunks. Too many things can still go wrong to do that.

I don’t know if the stock market will pick up in 2009, 2010 or 2011, but I am betting that 10 years from now it will be largely higher than today.
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I would be extremely careful with investing in stocks right now as a lot more bad news will be coming. Once people realize that the new administration will not be able to have a solution for a quick fix the stock market will take another dive. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dow goes down another 1,000 points before recovering.

[sunny88]

[quote=FormerSanDiegan]Now is a great time to be dollar cost averaging into the market. Many stocks are at P/E ratios not seen since Peter Lynch’s hey-day.

However, I am definitely not amping up my stock allocation or going “all in” or even in large chunks. Too many things can still go wrong to do that.

I don’t know if the stock market will pick up in 2009, 2010 or 2011, but I am betting that 10 years from now it will be largely higher than today.
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I would be extremely careful with investing in stocks right now as a lot more bad news will be coming. Once people realize that the new administration will not be able to have a solution for a quick fix the stock market will take another dive. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dow goes down another 1,000 points before recovering.

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