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I just looked up one of the Flip This House stories I had read previously.

An example of what goes on: one of the flippers on FTH, Sam Leccima, staged entire flips and, in at least one case, staged the sale of the house (the “buyers” who appeared on TV never bought the house and turned out to be Sam’s buddies).

In addition, he didn’t even own many of the homes he pretended to flip!

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/report-former-flip-this-house-star-sam-leccima-accused-of-fraud-5286.php

Sam’s statement when confronted with the above?

“Ask anybody who works in television how a reality show is made and you’ll find that ours was a very typical approach”

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[quote=fredo4]Good idea asianautica, except I don’t think most HOAs take kindly to that type of thing. Any tract areas w/out HOAs?[/quote]

If you look close, you can find’em. The only one I know of off the top of my head is Santa Fe Hills in San Marcos, but I’m sure there are others…how new does the house have to be?

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[quote=fredo4]Good idea asianautica, except I don’t think most HOAs take kindly to that type of thing. Any tract areas w/out HOAs?[/quote]

If you look close, you can find’em. The only one I know of off the top of my head is Santa Fe Hills in San Marcos, but I’m sure there are others…how new does the house have to be?

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[quote=fredo4]Good idea asianautica, except I don’t think most HOAs take kindly to that type of thing. Any tract areas w/out HOAs?[/quote]

If you look close, you can find’em. The only one I know of off the top of my head is Santa Fe Hills in San Marcos, but I’m sure there are others…how new does the house have to be?

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[quote=fredo4]Good idea asianautica, except I don’t think most HOAs take kindly to that type of thing. Any tract areas w/out HOAs?[/quote]

If you look close, you can find’em. The only one I know of off the top of my head is Santa Fe Hills in San Marcos, but I’m sure there are others…how new does the house have to be?

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[quote=fredo4]Good idea asianautica, except I don’t think most HOAs take kindly to that type of thing. Any tract areas w/out HOAs?[/quote]

If you look close, you can find’em. The only one I know of off the top of my head is Santa Fe Hills in San Marcos, but I’m sure there are others…how new does the house have to be?

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Oceanside is a big city – over 100,000 people. It has good areas and bad areas like any big city.

If it were closer to my employer, I could be perfectly happy living there. As it is, it would be too long of a commute so, though we did look there, we never really seriously considered living there.

I have several friends who live there in very nice homes…they seem perfectly content.

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Oceanside is a big city – over 100,000 people. It has good areas and bad areas like any big city.

If it were closer to my employer, I could be perfectly happy living there. As it is, it would be too long of a commute so, though we did look there, we never really seriously considered living there.

I have several friends who live there in very nice homes…they seem perfectly content.

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Oceanside is a big city – over 100,000 people. It has good areas and bad areas like any big city.

If it were closer to my employer, I could be perfectly happy living there. As it is, it would be too long of a commute so, though we did look there, we never really seriously considered living there.

I have several friends who live there in very nice homes…they seem perfectly content.

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Oceanside is a big city – over 100,000 people. It has good areas and bad areas like any big city.

If it were closer to my employer, I could be perfectly happy living there. As it is, it would be too long of a commute so, though we did look there, we never really seriously considered living there.

I have several friends who live there in very nice homes…they seem perfectly content.

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Oceanside is a big city – over 100,000 people. It has good areas and bad areas like any big city.

If it were closer to my employer, I could be perfectly happy living there. As it is, it would be too long of a commute so, though we did look there, we never really seriously considered living there.

I have several friends who live there in very nice homes…they seem perfectly content.

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[quote=sdgrrl]It is only because conservatism has lost its true way, that I have turned away. Once conservatism changed from meaning small government to mean conservative morals…that’s when I realized the party I used to support had changed.
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[quote=jficquette]
The Repubican Party started in a noble fashion and continued as a noble party until it got taken over by the religous nuts about 10 years ago.

Goldwater warned against the religous right and said that if they ever take over the Republican Party then you can kiss politics goodbye.
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Wow, I agree with both sdgrrl *and* john…am I in a parallel universe?

If the Republicans would just return to sound financial policies (aka balanced budget), strong military policies and drop all their social issue stances (abortion, religion, gay rights) then I could potentially be a Republican instead of the Dem-leaning Independent that I currently am.

But that will never happen, as the Republicans fear losing their fanatical Christian base would mean they wouldn’t be able to muster enough votes to win anything.

Republican party, listen up: there are many more like me out there (I know, I run into them all the time) that could potentially replace the Christians you lose from your base. Please give it some serious consideration.

One more point: The percentage of the US that is Christian has been dropping for some time now (see the Pew studies)…it is probably a good time to re-evaluate the Republican’s current strategy.

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[quote=sdgrrl]It is only because conservatism has lost its true way, that I have turned away. Once conservatism changed from meaning small government to mean conservative morals…that’s when I realized the party I used to support had changed.
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[quote=jficquette]
The Repubican Party started in a noble fashion and continued as a noble party until it got taken over by the religous nuts about 10 years ago.

Goldwater warned against the religous right and said that if they ever take over the Republican Party then you can kiss politics goodbye.
[/quote]

Wow, I agree with both sdgrrl *and* john…am I in a parallel universe?

If the Republicans would just return to sound financial policies (aka balanced budget), strong military policies and drop all their social issue stances (abortion, religion, gay rights) then I could potentially be a Republican instead of the Dem-leaning Independent that I currently am.

But that will never happen, as the Republicans fear losing their fanatical Christian base would mean they wouldn’t be able to muster enough votes to win anything.

Republican party, listen up: there are many more like me out there (I know, I run into them all the time) that could potentially replace the Christians you lose from your base. Please give it some serious consideration.

One more point: The percentage of the US that is Christian has been dropping for some time now (see the Pew studies)…it is probably a good time to re-evaluate the Republican’s current strategy.

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[quote=sdgrrl]It is only because conservatism has lost its true way, that I have turned away. Once conservatism changed from meaning small government to mean conservative morals…that’s when I realized the party I used to support had changed.
[/quote]

[quote=jficquette]
The Repubican Party started in a noble fashion and continued as a noble party until it got taken over by the religous nuts about 10 years ago.

Goldwater warned against the religous right and said that if they ever take over the Republican Party then you can kiss politics goodbye.
[/quote]

Wow, I agree with both sdgrrl *and* john…am I in a parallel universe?

If the Republicans would just return to sound financial policies (aka balanced budget), strong military policies and drop all their social issue stances (abortion, religion, gay rights) then I could potentially be a Republican instead of the Dem-leaning Independent that I currently am.

But that will never happen, as the Republicans fear losing their fanatical Christian base would mean they wouldn’t be able to muster enough votes to win anything.

Republican party, listen up: there are many more like me out there (I know, I run into them all the time) that could potentially replace the Christians you lose from your base. Please give it some serious consideration.

One more point: The percentage of the US that is Christian has been dropping for some time now (see the Pew studies)…it is probably a good time to re-evaluate the Republican’s current strategy.

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[quote=sdgrrl]It is only because conservatism has lost its true way, that I have turned away. Once conservatism changed from meaning small government to mean conservative morals…that’s when I realized the party I used to support had changed.
[/quote]

[quote=jficquette]
The Repubican Party started in a noble fashion and continued as a noble party until it got taken over by the religous nuts about 10 years ago.

Goldwater warned against the religous right and said that if they ever take over the Republican Party then you can kiss politics goodbye.
[/quote]

Wow, I agree with both sdgrrl *and* john…am I in a parallel universe?

If the Republicans would just return to sound financial policies (aka balanced budget), strong military policies and drop all their social issue stances (abortion, religion, gay rights) then I could potentially be a Republican instead of the Dem-leaning Independent that I currently am.

But that will never happen, as the Republicans fear losing their fanatical Christian base would mean they wouldn’t be able to muster enough votes to win anything.

Republican party, listen up: there are many more like me out there (I know, I run into them all the time) that could potentially replace the Christians you lose from your base. Please give it some serious consideration.

One more point: The percentage of the US that is Christian has been dropping for some time now (see the Pew studies)…it is probably a good time to re-evaluate the Republican’s current strategy.

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