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We’ve got two countries/areas/groups of humans firing rockets – Rockets! – at each other for a month in the middle east and the press is like “and in other news, it’s hot and sunny with a chance of shrapnel in the middle east”.

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Splitting into six is pretty ridiculous.

If we’re gonna get silly like that, I suggest we name the new states Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, and Cindy.

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[quote=joec]Heh, I guess I should just stop complaining and just pay the cost for using my central A/C more. I’ve seen some months, my electric/gas bill can actually get as low as $60-$70 per month. The key is staying out of the tier 3 level since there’s a huge jump in prices there).

On heavier A/C use, I see $175-$200 per month and I felt that was too high already. I can’t even imagine 500 or $1000.

This whole idea of mine is to try to get my portable A/C so I can get energy costs down to more like $100/month or so for hot days.

This is for a 3000+ sqft place in 4S.[/quote]

Your best bet is going to be solar panels. 🙂

We haven’t hit $500 yet, I said that $1K was “more than” double. As an example, my house (about the same distance from ocean as yours) had these bills last year ($/kwh)

$114/615
$87/510
$78/480
$83/496
$145/720
$235/1033
$267/1139
$264/1117
$410/1410
$133/621
$91/503
$116/585

We are doing the research on solar right now – a lot of good posts on this forum about that as a matter of fact. Once we get far enough along I’ll probably start asking some q’s to fill the gaps in my knowledge.

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Speaking of electric bills.

We have been comparing electric bills with friends in Poway (2400 sf) and Escondido (3000 sf). Our San Marcos house is 3000 sf.

All homes are roughly within 10 years age of each other. We have our A/C on 365 days / 24 hrs (wife’s instruction). They don’t.

Poway and Esco bills are more than double ours, approaching $1K/mo during summer.

They both have pools (Esco one is an extremely huge pool) and we don’t.

I’ve read that a pool increases elec use by 50%, appears to be true. Plus being further inland appears to have an effect also.

Back to original topic: we recently considered a portable A/C for a room we have over garage. It gets beat by the sun every afternoon and gets hot. Since we already have central A/C, we found the best solution to be adding a second register in that room. We did that recently and the room stays very comfortable now. Cost us $500 to have it installed (very hard to do in our attic) and love the results.

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My turn in the barrel apparently.

Homeowner in SD County for well over 20 years and think I have my first termites – drywood termites on the patio.

I will call the companies recommended in this post, but if others have recommendations please speak up.

It looks pretty localized so I’m hoping no tenting is involved.

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I’m now leaning away from the ultra sly theory…I’ve been looking at the 2012 Democratic Platform and it contains the following sentence on page 6:

“And to make this country a destination for global talent and ingenuity, we won’t deport deserving young people who are Americans in every way but on paper…”

So Obama was just following through on a campaign promise. Not coming up with a new concept to trap Republicans into making asses of themselves before the midterms.

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As far as being a nation of immigrants, to an extent that’s true but I would guess that most in the US are not immigrants.
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Well unless you’re American Indian and if you went back enough generations even then…[/quote]

wrong, wrong, wrong…

Definition of immigrant:

a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

Sorry, I along with most American’s were born in America.

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Oh geez. Let me be more clear for you.

Your ANCESTORS were very likely immigrants who were allowed in. But now that you’re here, let’s keep everyone else out, shall we?

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[quote=Trojan4Life]I am familiar with the “fee simple” terminology in Hawaii RE regarding condo purchases, but I stumble across a listing here in SD that was my first experience seeing a “ground lease” expiration disclosure in the listing. Do any of you have any experience in this area and does the lease generally get renewed. The property is steeply discounted, however it is risky if no renewal occurs. Leave is set to expire in 2027.

Thanks, been away a while, nice to be back on the board.[/quote]
You are talking about the high rise in oceanside correct?

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Werdna appears to be talking about commercial projects also, not just government funded projects.

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I don’t want to intrude on your group, just wanted to offer answers to your questions if you wanted.

Thank you,
Kathy[/quote]

(a) I don’t believe you are KR
(b) Regardless, CA Renter invited you tell your side of the story. So far, you haven’t.

I can’t imagine what you could possibly say to make your actions seem even a slight bit better.

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[quote=Blogstar]I got kicked off a jury panel for saying I wouldn’t respect laws against possession and use in Marijuana cases . That was about 25 years ago. If more and more people will do that …we have the power.[/quote]

+1

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IKEA is a Swedish puzzle manufacturer.

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[quote=paramount]Fact:

In 2009 (based on data collected in 2010), ~60 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children.[/quote]

Can you give us a link to that study please?

I’ll wait.

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Mine is at least 8 years old and still has the same shape as near as I can tell.

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I’ve had this for years and love it.

http://www.ecdonline.net/series2500.html

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