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Here’s $195 per sq. ft. in Penasquitos. Is this a comp killer, or was something wrong with this place (like the house with cracked foundation that sold a month or two back)?

$195 per sq ft would put a 2000 sq ft house at $390K.

http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-076066409-13127_Calle_De_Los_Ninos_San_Diego_CA_92129

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Here’s $195 per sq. ft. in Penasquitos. Is this a comp killer, or was something wrong with this place (like the house with cracked foundation that sold a month or two back)?

$195 per sq ft would put a 2000 sq ft house at $390K.

http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-076066409-13127_Calle_De_Los_Ninos_San_Diego_CA_92129

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Here’s $195 per sq. ft. in Penasquitos. Is this a comp killer, or was something wrong with this place (like the house with cracked foundation that sold a month or two back)?

$195 per sq ft would put a 2000 sq ft house at $390K.

http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-076066409-13127_Calle_De_Los_Ninos_San_Diego_CA_92129

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I am almost a cash n carry kind of guy now. I carry absolutely no debt other than a mortgage. I pay cash for cars, vacations, furniture, electronics, everything….

….Without worriying about paying a debt and having enough $$ in the bank to pay off all debt, and have enough left over to be jobless if I needed to be and still maintain my lifestyle. …

…I am the kind of guy who has always strived to be the dumbest person in the room, the poorest in the neighborhood, and the lowest paid in my job. As you get smarter, more successful and richer, you have to try harder to surround yourself with people smarter, more successful, and richer than you.

I find the comments in your last paragraph interesting. I agree with most of your philosophy whole-heartedly, and certainly hope someday to be in a position similar to the one you have created for yourself, but I disagree on surrounding oneself with richer folks and being the poorest person in the neighborhood. Work-wise, I agree to a large extent, but it seems to me (and some recent studies seem to bear this out) that people determine their “success” based on their environment (neighbors). I want a decent, safe hard-working type neighborhood where most folks don’t drive hummers or bmw’s and spend 100K renovating their backyard, since the extra expense is a luxury. And humans have a way or setting a baseline to what they see around them.

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I am almost a cash n carry kind of guy now. I carry absolutely no debt other than a mortgage. I pay cash for cars, vacations, furniture, electronics, everything….

….Without worriying about paying a debt and having enough $$ in the bank to pay off all debt, and have enough left over to be jobless if I needed to be and still maintain my lifestyle. …

…I am the kind of guy who has always strived to be the dumbest person in the room, the poorest in the neighborhood, and the lowest paid in my job. As you get smarter, more successful and richer, you have to try harder to surround yourself with people smarter, more successful, and richer than you.

I find the comments in your last paragraph interesting. I agree with most of your philosophy whole-heartedly, and certainly hope someday to be in a position similar to the one you have created for yourself, but I disagree on surrounding oneself with richer folks and being the poorest person in the neighborhood. Work-wise, I agree to a large extent, but it seems to me (and some recent studies seem to bear this out) that people determine their “success” based on their environment (neighbors). I want a decent, safe hard-working type neighborhood where most folks don’t drive hummers or bmw’s and spend 100K renovating their backyard, since the extra expense is a luxury. And humans have a way or setting a baseline to what they see around them.

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I am almost a cash n carry kind of guy now. I carry absolutely no debt other than a mortgage. I pay cash for cars, vacations, furniture, electronics, everything….

….Without worriying about paying a debt and having enough $$ in the bank to pay off all debt, and have enough left over to be jobless if I needed to be and still maintain my lifestyle. …

…I am the kind of guy who has always strived to be the dumbest person in the room, the poorest in the neighborhood, and the lowest paid in my job. As you get smarter, more successful and richer, you have to try harder to surround yourself with people smarter, more successful, and richer than you.

I find the comments in your last paragraph interesting. I agree with most of your philosophy whole-heartedly, and certainly hope someday to be in a position similar to the one you have created for yourself, but I disagree on surrounding oneself with richer folks and being the poorest person in the neighborhood. Work-wise, I agree to a large extent, but it seems to me (and some recent studies seem to bear this out) that people determine their “success” based on their environment (neighbors). I want a decent, safe hard-working type neighborhood where most folks don’t drive hummers or bmw’s and spend 100K renovating their backyard, since the extra expense is a luxury. And humans have a way or setting a baseline to what they see around them.

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I am almost a cash n carry kind of guy now. I carry absolutely no debt other than a mortgage. I pay cash for cars, vacations, furniture, electronics, everything….

….Without worriying about paying a debt and having enough $$ in the bank to pay off all debt, and have enough left over to be jobless if I needed to be and still maintain my lifestyle. …

…I am the kind of guy who has always strived to be the dumbest person in the room, the poorest in the neighborhood, and the lowest paid in my job. As you get smarter, more successful and richer, you have to try harder to surround yourself with people smarter, more successful, and richer than you.

I find the comments in your last paragraph interesting. I agree with most of your philosophy whole-heartedly, and certainly hope someday to be in a position similar to the one you have created for yourself, but I disagree on surrounding oneself with richer folks and being the poorest person in the neighborhood. Work-wise, I agree to a large extent, but it seems to me (and some recent studies seem to bear this out) that people determine their “success” based on their environment (neighbors). I want a decent, safe hard-working type neighborhood where most folks don’t drive hummers or bmw’s and spend 100K renovating their backyard, since the extra expense is a luxury. And humans have a way or setting a baseline to what they see around them.

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I am almost a cash n carry kind of guy now. I carry absolutely no debt other than a mortgage. I pay cash for cars, vacations, furniture, electronics, everything….

….Without worriying about paying a debt and having enough $$ in the bank to pay off all debt, and have enough left over to be jobless if I needed to be and still maintain my lifestyle. …

…I am the kind of guy who has always strived to be the dumbest person in the room, the poorest in the neighborhood, and the lowest paid in my job. As you get smarter, more successful and richer, you have to try harder to surround yourself with people smarter, more successful, and richer than you.

I find the comments in your last paragraph interesting. I agree with most of your philosophy whole-heartedly, and certainly hope someday to be in a position similar to the one you have created for yourself, but I disagree on surrounding oneself with richer folks and being the poorest person in the neighborhood. Work-wise, I agree to a large extent, but it seems to me (and some recent studies seem to bear this out) that people determine their “success” based on their environment (neighbors). I want a decent, safe hard-working type neighborhood where most folks don’t drive hummers or bmw’s and spend 100K renovating their backyard, since the extra expense is a luxury. And humans have a way or setting a baseline to what they see around them.

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In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

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In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

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In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

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In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

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In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

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I a little curious about what all the things you consider HOA relevant, Marion. I agree with you on several (greasy stains, I suppose, trash bags on the side of the house, presuming they are visible from the street, etc.) But what do HOA fees have to do with regular trash in the recyclables, and her son talking to the trash collector? How does that behavior impact anyone around her at all? Also, complaining about a totaled car being in the drive-way for “several days” seems a bit unkind. It’s not as if it was there for months. And foster kids? Do HOAs regulated foster care?

The neighbor sounds a little low-brow, and there are certainly annoyances (loud music late at night is pretty irritating), but I don’t see how some of this is HOA related. Perhaps you just need a pricey enough place to keep out the riff-raff.

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I a little curious about what all the things you consider HOA relevant, Marion. I agree with you on several (greasy stains, I suppose, trash bags on the side of the house, presuming they are visible from the street, etc.) But what do HOA fees have to do with regular trash in the recyclables, and her son talking to the trash collector? How does that behavior impact anyone around her at all? Also, complaining about a totaled car being in the drive-way for “several days” seems a bit unkind. It’s not as if it was there for months. And foster kids? Do HOAs regulated foster care?

The neighbor sounds a little low-brow, and there are certainly annoyances (loud music late at night is pretty irritating), but I don’t see how some of this is HOA related. Perhaps you just need a pricey enough place to keep out the riff-raff.

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