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Participant[quote=SD Squatter]Yet another strange transaction in 92124:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Diego/11292-Promesa-Dr-92124/home/4990628
Jun 06, 2012 Listed (Active) $609,000 -- SANDICOR #120028842
Feb 29, 2012 Sold (Public Records) $423,000 -5.1%/yr
Aug 29, 2011 Sold (Public Records) $403,750 --
This home was foreclosed and bank-owned.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=11292+Promesa+Dr+San+Diego,+CA+92124+&hl=en&ll=32.825618,-117.080815&spn=0.000579,0.000488&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.157795,63.984375&t=h&hnear=11292+Promesa+Dr,+San+Diego,+California+92124&z=21Now for the issues in the property. The portion that sticks out into the backyard is an addition onto a patio (enclosed patio conversion?). These houses were normally a ‘square’ footprint. I hope it was done right.. with the footing being properly built instead of straight onto patio slab. The garage looks like it is also an addition and it looks like it was not done correctly per the roofline. The roofline should look like the garage roofline on the neighbor to the north. Having that flat valley intersection can cause water and debris to pool and you start getting water damage. You can see where the neighbor to the south had a similar garage addition and they ended up adding a pitch to the valley. This house does not have such a pitch added (unless real recently during the flipper rehab).
Ok guys.. This is a little OT to the thread.. but looking around the neighborhood on Google.. I saw this. What the heck is it? Looks like there is some underground tunneling going on around there. Anybody heard anything? The square hole is large enough to drop a truck down it.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=32.835619,-117.073113&ll=32.835611,-117.073075&spn=0.002241,0.001953&num=1&t=h&z=19If you don’t see anything there.. just zoom in one step… or move the map a bit.
Another one here.. same story with ‘zooming’..
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=32.829802,-117.069098&num=1&t=h&z=19
And here..
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=32.840004,-117.0795&num=1&t=h&z=19Participant[quote=irondoc]If you look closer at that linked image, you’ll see that one small piece of wall was left in place – classic for a “rebuild renovation”. Must have lost their financing?[/quote].. and a door frame. What is strange is that looking at the view on Zillow (Bing) seems to show that they had dug out the garage pad. In the later Google image, the garage pad looks complete. Considering that the dug out areas are going to be the new foundation edge, they probably cut the J-bolts in the old locations–which makes using the old foundation edges difficult (J-bolts need to hook under the top rebar in the foundation) It also looks like they cut down into the existing foundation for new load walls/posts? (Only thing I can think of for those cut out areas)
ParticipantYou might notice that It looks like they were widening the foundation.. see the dark cutout around the existing foundation. I wonder if the ‘Home Renters’ decided to do a complete replace of the house while still having a large mortgage, and are now trying to straw buy shortsale the property without a house on it to shed most of the existing mortgage cost.
It would be goofy to plow it under and then go to ‘sale’ after digging out the new ‘foundation’, unless you are trying to pull a scam.. If they are doing this, I hope they loose the property – bank forecloses. Does anyone know if this is a REO? What was DOM? Redfin says 218.. is that the real number?
May 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM in reply to: OT: UC school and asian american enrollments going down. #744436ParticipantAsian American enrollment at U.C. Berkeley from 2009 to 2010 dropped from 22 percent (a 314 student decline), Chinese student enrollment increased during the same time from 55 to 96. White enrollment dropped 29 percent.
Asian American dropped 22%, White dropped 29%.. We are all getting screwed.
The new policy, passed by the Board of Regents in 2009 and scheduled to go into effect later this year, ditches the requirement that all applicants take two SAT Subject Tests (formerly known at SAT II tests) and also reduce the number of students guaranteed admission to solely based on grades and test scores.
The purpose of this is not to harm Asians to the benefit of Whites.. the purpose is to allow the Regents to continue their policy of ‘quotas’ even after the legitimacy of quotas has been challenged. The two races that do well on those SAT II tests are Asian and White in that order. The groups that removing the tests benefits are Hispanic and Black. Ironically two racial groups that, when they go to college, generally do not major in hard sciences in the same percentages that Asian and White do.
ParticipantI think his wife may be able to draw on his pension…
Participant[quote=desmond]”As background, the football program at Penn State brings in yearly revenue of close to $75 million, with more than $50 million of that in profit.[/quote]I though Penn State was a University, or supposed to have been, a Center of education. I didn’t think it was supposed to be a sports franchise. I also wonder if the sports operating costs of 19.5M included facilities amortization costs.
Either way, I am commenting more on the retirement package and the salary increases (%). Also commenting that effectively, the sports ‘franchise’ was actually in charge of the University, not the University head.
I do think that ‘JoePa’ is being made a scapegoat on the child abuse issue. He did report the child abuse incidents when it occurred, to both his superior and University Police. People claimed that he should have reported it to the State Police. NEWSFLASH: The Police at State Universities ARE State Police. The Police on Campus at UCSD are California STATE Police as opposed to San Diego Police. Pennsylvania State Police dropped the ball (to re-use a coined phrase).
NOTE: SDSU police are also California State Police. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University_Police_Department
ParticipantSalary in 2007 = $512,664.. in 2006 = $490,638. Just factoring in 2007 salary and 6.25% contrib flatlined for 60 years, does not add up to $13Mil.
http://news.yahoo.com/paternos-penn-state-pension-top-13-million-012704813–nfl.html
Looks like the $13.4mill is on top of $5.5mil from employment contract and $3mil career bonus due at retirement… Total $21.9mil.
Just dug this up..
http://deadspin.com/5857629/joe-paternos-annual-compensation-is-200000-higher-than-the-psu-presidents-and-other-grotesqueries
From 2007@512,664 to 2009@1,022,794 ummmm…..Kept digging:
http://deadspin.com/5857531/how-penn-state-sucks-up-taxpayer-money-and-hides-its-ugly-behavior-from-taxpayersParticipant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Uco: Or purchase a good quality cross-cut shredder, which eliminates said problem entirely.[/quote] Actually it doesn’t. That is why the burn order on mil docs. True Mil type cross cuts, cut to a strip width of 1.5mm, length of about 10mm (roughly 1/16 x 1/2). Most good quality cross cuts that you can get w/out sacrificing an arm and a leg are significantly larger. The Aurora I have is a 5/32 x 1 1/4 cross-cut, which is better than most 8 years ago – I was comparing cut sizes when I bought it. I can reconstruct docs from this shredder in somewhat reasonable time, if I limit the selection of shredded paper that I am working with. If I start mixing irrelevant, similar type paper – it becomes a real chore. I have also found that many shredder manufacturers understate the size of pieces the shredder makes(smaller is better). I measured mine before I bought it.
To Salesman:
Oh, thats a sales brochure you are handing me.. let me see..
over to shredder.. RRRRRRRR.. opening basket and looking in.
To Salesman:No, I need smaller pieces. Do you have another brochure?
On the other hand, strip cut is completely worthless.
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]I agree with your “better safe than sorry” approach, too. Too many shitbirds out there and having a good plan in place will save a lot of heartache.
“Just cuz you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you!”[/quote] Or maybe just cautious and having an understanding of what can happen.. and why.
Participant[quote=no_such_reality]Same way I know the postal carrier isn’t stealing my stuff….Any of the numerous banks didn’t steal my stuff.[/quote]
I have actually had these happen..A postal carrier did steal stuff checks I sent, tried to bleach out the ‘to’ without changing the amount so it would be harder for me to detect. I used archival permanent ink when writing the check, so he was SOL. This guy was eventually busted.
I have had a bank ‘misplace’ a deposit of over $2000. It was my burden of proof that I did do the deposit. I had kept all of my transaction receipts, which surprised the bank.. and helped them track it.. the money had been, a-hem, deposited into the wrong account. Kind of hard to do since it was done @ the bank’s ATM which records the account that the deposit is to.
A brokerage had ‘mis-placed’ a large block of stock I owned. They ‘mis-placed’ it in the process of merging two different systems (on broker bought out another). This stock had a very large short position where the shorts were ‘trapped’. I had gone round-and-round with the support and gotten no-where.. same BS, no action. I ended up tracking down and calling their Corporate Legal Department. Gave them succinct accurate info. They had it resolved in about 24 hours. (I suspect that someone, a broker, had ‘moved’ the stock out of my account to cover their ass while the systems were being merged.).
These problems do happen, and I have found that being prepared helps as well as finding that a good old ounce of prevention is better than one pound of cure.. A lot of those ‘credit protection’ companies are almost worthless and clearing identity theft is quite painful.
PS: A secret to shredding personal/sensitive info, is to shred some stuff that is not important too.. and mix it all together. If anyone is crazy enough to try to piece together shredded stuff.. shredding useless paper and junkmail(w/o personal info) ends up frustrating dumpster divers who might spend a lot of effort and reassemble something completely worthless to them.
ParticipantI use an old Aurora AS1512X that I bought nearly 8 years ago (one of the few of the more reasonably priced crosscuts at the time that would also do CDs/DVDs and credit cards as well as 15sheets at a time). One thing to remember is that they do need periodic cleaning and oiling, depending upon how much shredding you do. Only weakness that I found was weight (cutting head is very heavy) and the wheels on the base are mounted weakly (broke two of the mountings – don’t roll it on carpet, only hard floor). Power rating on this one is about 400Watts +/-. – unfortunately it is no longer available. The one from the same maker that looks the closest on specs is AU1217XB.
NOTE: I know that it says it will take paperclips and staples, but I avoid feeding it these so as to keep it healthy. Paperclips can bend and get caught in the followers that strip the cut paper off of the blades. These followers are not as sturdy as the blades on almost all shredders.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Svelte: Reminds me of my days in the Army. We’d use a confetti shredder for all of our Classified and Secret docs and then the confetti went into a burn bag.
You can talk lots of shit about the gubment, but at least they’re thorough…[/quote]Defense companies are required to use the same techniques.. The shredder or should I say particlizer would make pieces of around 3/32 by 3/32 out of the paper.
One thing that surprised me though, was handling of DVDs.. which was the same as CDs — using an embosser on both sides. The problem is that a DVD’s recording layer is in the center of two plastic disks.. The embosser would not get into the recording layer.. so it was possible to carefully refinish the surface and get at the data of a DVD after embossing. A CD’s recording layer is just under the lacquer on one side – so the embosser is able to cut into it. I usually ended up embossing DVDs to make the base security weenies happy.. and then breaking the DVD up by hand to make myself happy – good stress reliever too.
ParticipantYou notice how this comes out around May period in the cycle? Watch the media to see how stock is manipulated. So all of this ‘newly discovered’ info was found recently? Or his someone now herding all of the cattle in the other direction?
PS: note how common stock holders votes are not binding, even though they are effectively the owners of the company.
Participant[quote=enron_by_the_sea][quote=harvey]The Mercury News article is a bit confusing on the K-12 numbers:
[/quote]I agree it is confusing. You can go to the source (gov.’s proposal) linked there
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/120484452/Gov-Jerry-Browns-May-Revise-of-California-Budget-2012-12%5B/quote%5D
Please don’t feed docstoc.com. They take other people’s docs and then ‘rehost’ them, wanting your Email addr for marketing, other other refs for the same. They really don’t contribute anything, and they don’t compensate the creators of works they rehost. Actual source of info is at:
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdfNote on docstoc:
http://download.cnet.com/Docstoc/3000-2064_4-10844330.htmlParticipant[quote=flu]Sorry… I defer to you… I’m still under warranty so I haven’t had a need to take it apart yet… The ridiculous gimmick is that you can set the thing to sports+ mode (or something like that) and it “simulates” a road feel… Not really….Disconnected from reality imho… Well not my car, my dad’s… And he likes it so that’s all that matters…[/quote] Actually it doesn’t “simulate” road feel. My understanding is that it reduces the ‘assist’. When you reduce assist, more road feel/vibration gets back up through the steering.
Going back to the “Saginaw” steering, one of the things that hot-rodders would do to get steering feel back into old GM steering boxes, would be to take apart the steering box and swap torque rods withing the Saginaw steering box, increasing the strength of the torque rod. This would cause you to still have power steering, but the power steering effort would be increased.. you could no longer spin the steering wheel around with one finger while the car was not moving. The benefit was much better road feel and driving precision. It would cure the vague on center feel that GM vehicles had.
Note that the swap on the Saginaw box required dismantling the box to change the feel.. and it was a ‘permanent’ change. BMW is trying to make it such that the feel can be adjusted on the fly (when driving)… their implementation though, still needs work. Maserati also tried something like this on their Khamsin. (ironically, the steering system was designed by Citroën – see DIRAVI)
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