[temeculaguy]

Actually I understand Scardey’s feeling. I know which house he bought, I’m familiar with the street and it is definately the kind of place you can fall in love with. Personally I’m allergic to yard work, so I chose a tract home, it suits my needs but there’s definately nothing romantic about my relationship with my house. I like it, I like working on it, but in the end it’s a box to sleep in. Scardey’s place on the other hand is akin to a bed and breakfast, a lush and green estate tucked away in a botanical garden setting. I know it’s not that old, but it looks like it was built in another century. He wasn’t being his normal goofball self when he started that thread about hosting weddings, it’s that pretty and that serene. The location is ultra prime for our region, but that’s all I can say about in order preserve his privacy. Living there must feel like your on vacation. I think I’m spending my next vacation there, he’s gonna come home from work and have to shoo me away from my poolside cigar chair. He’s humble, but he stole that place and of all the people that I know of who have scored deals this downturn, he takes the gold medal, sometimes obsessions pay off.

[temeculaguy]

Actually I understand Scardey’s feeling. I know which house he bought, I’m familiar with the street and it is definately the kind of place you can fall in love with. Personally I’m allergic to yard work, so I chose a tract home, it suits my needs but there’s definately nothing romantic about my relationship with my house. I like it, I like working on it, but in the end it’s a box to sleep in. Scardey’s place on the other hand is akin to a bed and breakfast, a lush and green estate tucked away in a botanical garden setting. I know it’s not that old, but it looks like it was built in another century. He wasn’t being his normal goofball self when he started that thread about hosting weddings, it’s that pretty and that serene. The location is ultra prime for our region, but that’s all I can say about in order preserve his privacy. Living there must feel like your on vacation. I think I’m spending my next vacation there, he’s gonna come home from work and have to shoo me away from my poolside cigar chair. He’s humble, but he stole that place and of all the people that I know of who have scored deals this downturn, he takes the gold medal, sometimes obsessions pay off.

[temeculaguy]

Actually I understand Scardey’s feeling. I know which house he bought, I’m familiar with the street and it is definately the kind of place you can fall in love with. Personally I’m allergic to yard work, so I chose a tract home, it suits my needs but there’s definately nothing romantic about my relationship with my house. I like it, I like working on it, but in the end it’s a box to sleep in. Scardey’s place on the other hand is akin to a bed and breakfast, a lush and green estate tucked away in a botanical garden setting. I know it’s not that old, but it looks like it was built in another century. He wasn’t being his normal goofball self when he started that thread about hosting weddings, it’s that pretty and that serene. The location is ultra prime for our region, but that’s all I can say about in order preserve his privacy. Living there must feel like your on vacation. I think I’m spending my next vacation there, he’s gonna come home from work and have to shoo me away from my poolside cigar chair. He’s humble, but he stole that place and of all the people that I know of who have scored deals this downturn, he takes the gold medal, sometimes obsessions pay off.

[temeculaguy]

Actually I understand Scardey’s feeling. I know which house he bought, I’m familiar with the street and it is definately the kind of place you can fall in love with. Personally I’m allergic to yard work, so I chose a tract home, it suits my needs but there’s definately nothing romantic about my relationship with my house. I like it, I like working on it, but in the end it’s a box to sleep in. Scardey’s place on the other hand is akin to a bed and breakfast, a lush and green estate tucked away in a botanical garden setting. I know it’s not that old, but it looks like it was built in another century. He wasn’t being his normal goofball self when he started that thread about hosting weddings, it’s that pretty and that serene. The location is ultra prime for our region, but that’s all I can say about in order preserve his privacy. Living there must feel like your on vacation. I think I’m spending my next vacation there, he’s gonna come home from work and have to shoo me away from my poolside cigar chair. He’s humble, but he stole that place and of all the people that I know of who have scored deals this downturn, he takes the gold medal, sometimes obsessions pay off.

[temeculaguy]

Do you mean the process of evaluating the prospects and even when you choose the perfect one for you, there are still lingering doubts. Then after you choose, once the die is cast, you still peek at the other, especially those that appear which were not available when you made your choice.

I see your point but I’m going to disagree, it’s just buying a house, it’s just a big decision, nothing more. You see, I come from a set of experiences where buying houses has a positive pavlovian feel. The process was a positive one, so I’m not afraid of it. Marriage on the other hand evokes a far different set of emotions, most of them negative. Buying a house has always (and likely always will) been a positive for my balance sheet over the long haul, marriage has had the opposite effect.

Houses are not as absolute, if I go and stay at a hotel in Hawaii for a week, sleep in another bed, my house doesn’t get mad. If I buy a vacation home or a rental on the side, I wont upset my main house. Most importantly, my house wont choose another owner while I am at work, it won’t decide that someone else is better at mowing the lawn or painting the fences and lock me out.

The process itself is one sided, it is just a matter of choosing, marriage is not just a matter of choosing. Sure you can view both online, but houses don’t have to choose you back. Take it from a guy who has dabbled in internet dating, usually the pictures of the house on Redfin are recetn and accurate representations of what you will find if you schedule a tour, the taxes, liens, the year it was built and the square footage are usually pretty accurate. Online dating, not so much.

[temeculaguy]

Do you mean the process of evaluating the prospects and even when you choose the perfect one for you, there are still lingering doubts. Then after you choose, once the die is cast, you still peek at the other, especially those that appear which were not available when you made your choice.

I see your point but I’m going to disagree, it’s just buying a house, it’s just a big decision, nothing more. You see, I come from a set of experiences where buying houses has a positive pavlovian feel. The process was a positive one, so I’m not afraid of it. Marriage on the other hand evokes a far different set of emotions, most of them negative. Buying a house has always (and likely always will) been a positive for my balance sheet over the long haul, marriage has had the opposite effect.

Houses are not as absolute, if I go and stay at a hotel in Hawaii for a week, sleep in another bed, my house doesn’t get mad. If I buy a vacation home or a rental on the side, I wont upset my main house. Most importantly, my house wont choose another owner while I am at work, it won’t decide that someone else is better at mowing the lawn or painting the fences and lock me out.

The process itself is one sided, it is just a matter of choosing, marriage is not just a matter of choosing. Sure you can view both online, but houses don’t have to choose you back. Take it from a guy who has dabbled in internet dating, usually the pictures of the house on Redfin are recetn and accurate representations of what you will find if you schedule a tour, the taxes, liens, the year it was built and the square footage are usually pretty accurate. Online dating, not so much.

[temeculaguy]

Do you mean the process of evaluating the prospects and even when you choose the perfect one for you, there are still lingering doubts. Then after you choose, once the die is cast, you still peek at the other, especially those that appear which were not available when you made your choice.

I see your point but I’m going to disagree, it’s just buying a house, it’s just a big decision, nothing more. You see, I come from a set of experiences where buying houses has a positive pavlovian feel. The process was a positive one, so I’m not afraid of it. Marriage on the other hand evokes a far different set of emotions, most of them negative. Buying a house has always (and likely always will) been a positive for my balance sheet over the long haul, marriage has had the opposite effect.

Houses are not as absolute, if I go and stay at a hotel in Hawaii for a week, sleep in another bed, my house doesn’t get mad. If I buy a vacation home or a rental on the side, I wont upset my main house. Most importantly, my house wont choose another owner while I am at work, it won’t decide that someone else is better at mowing the lawn or painting the fences and lock me out.

The process itself is one sided, it is just a matter of choosing, marriage is not just a matter of choosing. Sure you can view both online, but houses don’t have to choose you back. Take it from a guy who has dabbled in internet dating, usually the pictures of the house on Redfin are recetn and accurate representations of what you will find if you schedule a tour, the taxes, liens, the year it was built and the square footage are usually pretty accurate. Online dating, not so much.

[temeculaguy]

Do you mean the process of evaluating the prospects and even when you choose the perfect one for you, there are still lingering doubts. Then after you choose, once the die is cast, you still peek at the other, especially those that appear which were not available when you made your choice.

I see your point but I’m going to disagree, it’s just buying a house, it’s just a big decision, nothing more. You see, I come from a set of experiences where buying houses has a positive pavlovian feel. The process was a positive one, so I’m not afraid of it. Marriage on the other hand evokes a far different set of emotions, most of them negative. Buying a house has always (and likely always will) been a positive for my balance sheet over the long haul, marriage has had the opposite effect.

Houses are not as absolute, if I go and stay at a hotel in Hawaii for a week, sleep in another bed, my house doesn’t get mad. If I buy a vacation home or a rental on the side, I wont upset my main house. Most importantly, my house wont choose another owner while I am at work, it won’t decide that someone else is better at mowing the lawn or painting the fences and lock me out.

The process itself is one sided, it is just a matter of choosing, marriage is not just a matter of choosing. Sure you can view both online, but houses don’t have to choose you back. Take it from a guy who has dabbled in internet dating, usually the pictures of the house on Redfin are recetn and accurate representations of what you will find if you schedule a tour, the taxes, liens, the year it was built and the square footage are usually pretty accurate. Online dating, not so much.

[temeculaguy]

Do you mean the process of evaluating the prospects and even when you choose the perfect one for you, there are still lingering doubts. Then after you choose, once the die is cast, you still peek at the other, especially those that appear which were not available when you made your choice.

I see your point but I’m going to disagree, it’s just buying a house, it’s just a big decision, nothing more. You see, I come from a set of experiences where buying houses has a positive pavlovian feel. The process was a positive one, so I’m not afraid of it. Marriage on the other hand evokes a far different set of emotions, most of them negative. Buying a house has always (and likely always will) been a positive for my balance sheet over the long haul, marriage has had the opposite effect.

Houses are not as absolute, if I go and stay at a hotel in Hawaii for a week, sleep in another bed, my house doesn’t get mad. If I buy a vacation home or a rental on the side, I wont upset my main house. Most importantly, my house wont choose another owner while I am at work, it won’t decide that someone else is better at mowing the lawn or painting the fences and lock me out.

The process itself is one sided, it is just a matter of choosing, marriage is not just a matter of choosing. Sure you can view both online, but houses don’t have to choose you back. Take it from a guy who has dabbled in internet dating, usually the pictures of the house on Redfin are recetn and accurate representations of what you will find if you schedule a tour, the taxes, liens, the year it was built and the square footage are usually pretty accurate. Online dating, not so much.

[temeculaguy]

Cashiers checks still work just fine. The big thing to avoid is selling it to anyone who wants it shipped to them in another country. Or someone who is buying it, having it shipped and you never meet or see the person.

Local transactions require the buyer and seller to meet in person, for them to exchange driver’s license info, fill out a release of liability retained by the seller and the title, retained by the buyer. This really cuts down of fraud because if someone wanted to steal your car, it’s easier to just steal it in the night as opposed to sharing identities and letting you see their face.

Cashiers checks that large often require a thumbprint of the person cashing it and they have to go into a bank (either their own or the one it’s drawn on) and they are on video cashing it. Scammers like none of that. Scammers like western union, as soon as you hear the words “western union or wire” get suspicious.

I would never pay in actual cash for a private party car. If I get to the dmv and find out the title was a fake and they just sold me a rental car, what recourse to I have. But if I bought it at their home, saw the inside when we filled out the paperwork, copied down their drivers license number on the title and gave them a cashiers check so I will have their thumbrint and picture if they defraused me, I’m covered. As a seller, I dont expect people to be rolling with 10k in $20 bills, cashiers check is fine, if it ends up being a fake, I report my car stolen/embezzled and my insurance takes over, but one again it would have easier for them to just steal it, now I know what they look like, their phone number. Even dumb crooks know there are better ways to steal than that.

[temeculaguy]

Cashiers checks still work just fine. The big thing to avoid is selling it to anyone who wants it shipped to them in another country. Or someone who is buying it, having it shipped and you never meet or see the person.

Local transactions require the buyer and seller to meet in person, for them to exchange driver’s license info, fill out a release of liability retained by the seller and the title, retained by the buyer. This really cuts down of fraud because if someone wanted to steal your car, it’s easier to just steal it in the night as opposed to sharing identities and letting you see their face.

Cashiers checks that large often require a thumbprint of the person cashing it and they have to go into a bank (either their own or the one it’s drawn on) and they are on video cashing it. Scammers like none of that. Scammers like western union, as soon as you hear the words “western union or wire” get suspicious.

I would never pay in actual cash for a private party car. If I get to the dmv and find out the title was a fake and they just sold me a rental car, what recourse to I have. But if I bought it at their home, saw the inside when we filled out the paperwork, copied down their drivers license number on the title and gave them a cashiers check so I will have their thumbrint and picture if they defraused me, I’m covered. As a seller, I dont expect people to be rolling with 10k in $20 bills, cashiers check is fine, if it ends up being a fake, I report my car stolen/embezzled and my insurance takes over, but one again it would have easier for them to just steal it, now I know what they look like, their phone number. Even dumb crooks know there are better ways to steal than that.

[temeculaguy]

Cashiers checks still work just fine. The big thing to avoid is selling it to anyone who wants it shipped to them in another country. Or someone who is buying it, having it shipped and you never meet or see the person.

Local transactions require the buyer and seller to meet in person, for them to exchange driver’s license info, fill out a release of liability retained by the seller and the title, retained by the buyer. This really cuts down of fraud because if someone wanted to steal your car, it’s easier to just steal it in the night as opposed to sharing identities and letting you see their face.

Cashiers checks that large often require a thumbprint of the person cashing it and they have to go into a bank (either their own or the one it’s drawn on) and they are on video cashing it. Scammers like none of that. Scammers like western union, as soon as you hear the words “western union or wire” get suspicious.

I would never pay in actual cash for a private party car. If I get to the dmv and find out the title was a fake and they just sold me a rental car, what recourse to I have. But if I bought it at their home, saw the inside when we filled out the paperwork, copied down their drivers license number on the title and gave them a cashiers check so I will have their thumbrint and picture if they defraused me, I’m covered. As a seller, I dont expect people to be rolling with 10k in $20 bills, cashiers check is fine, if it ends up being a fake, I report my car stolen/embezzled and my insurance takes over, but one again it would have easier for them to just steal it, now I know what they look like, their phone number. Even dumb crooks know there are better ways to steal than that.

[temeculaguy]

Cashiers checks still work just fine. The big thing to avoid is selling it to anyone who wants it shipped to them in another country. Or someone who is buying it, having it shipped and you never meet or see the person.

Local transactions require the buyer and seller to meet in person, for them to exchange driver’s license info, fill out a release of liability retained by the seller and the title, retained by the buyer. This really cuts down of fraud because if someone wanted to steal your car, it’s easier to just steal it in the night as opposed to sharing identities and letting you see their face.

Cashiers checks that large often require a thumbprint of the person cashing it and they have to go into a bank (either their own or the one it’s drawn on) and they are on video cashing it. Scammers like none of that. Scammers like western union, as soon as you hear the words “western union or wire” get suspicious.

I would never pay in actual cash for a private party car. If I get to the dmv and find out the title was a fake and they just sold me a rental car, what recourse to I have. But if I bought it at their home, saw the inside when we filled out the paperwork, copied down their drivers license number on the title and gave them a cashiers check so I will have their thumbrint and picture if they defraused me, I’m covered. As a seller, I dont expect people to be rolling with 10k in $20 bills, cashiers check is fine, if it ends up being a fake, I report my car stolen/embezzled and my insurance takes over, but one again it would have easier for them to just steal it, now I know what they look like, their phone number. Even dumb crooks know there are better ways to steal than that.

[temeculaguy]

Cashiers checks still work just fine. The big thing to avoid is selling it to anyone who wants it shipped to them in another country. Or someone who is buying it, having it shipped and you never meet or see the person.

Local transactions require the buyer and seller to meet in person, for them to exchange driver’s license info, fill out a release of liability retained by the seller and the title, retained by the buyer. This really cuts down of fraud because if someone wanted to steal your car, it’s easier to just steal it in the night as opposed to sharing identities and letting you see their face.

Cashiers checks that large often require a thumbprint of the person cashing it and they have to go into a bank (either their own or the one it’s drawn on) and they are on video cashing it. Scammers like none of that. Scammers like western union, as soon as you hear the words “western union or wire” get suspicious.

I would never pay in actual cash for a private party car. If I get to the dmv and find out the title was a fake and they just sold me a rental car, what recourse to I have. But if I bought it at their home, saw the inside when we filled out the paperwork, copied down their drivers license number on the title and gave them a cashiers check so I will have their thumbrint and picture if they defraused me, I’m covered. As a seller, I dont expect people to be rolling with 10k in $20 bills, cashiers check is fine, if it ends up being a fake, I report my car stolen/embezzled and my insurance takes over, but one again it would have easier for them to just steal it, now I know what they look like, their phone number. Even dumb crooks know there are better ways to steal than that.

[temeculaguy]

[quote=threadkiller]San Diego appears to be safe but Temecula not so much, [/quote]

That made me do about thirty minutes of research, thankfully it turns out we’re fine up here. Temec isn’t actually on the San Andreas fault, it takes an eastward turn about 60 miles north and swings east of Palm Springs. The study that made the prediction of 90+% of a big one also predicted temecula’s risk is cut in half from earlier predictions (it’s on page 4, where it adresses the elsinore fault)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3027/fs2008-3027.pdf

“Quake probabilities for many parts of the State are similar to those in previous studies, but the new probabilities for the Elsinore and San Jacinto Faults in southern California are about half those previously determined.”

That quote essentiallys says that their new study is the same as their old study except you can cut the risk of the elsinore fault in half, everything else is the same. Temecula sits on the Elsinore Fault, as does mt palomar, valley center and Julian. None of the places on the elsinore fault have tall buildings, it’s all little towns, which fare better in quakes.

But now that I’ve done the research, I feel better. Now as far as the probabilities, looks like L.A. or S.F. according to the usgs prediction maps and unfortunately, those are the two that are the most densely populated, have the oldest infrastructure and are the most vital to the economy. Let’s hope the retrofit work helps out, because it will probably happen.

[Author]

Posts