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Participant[quote=treehugger]
Anybody tented recently? any recommendations?[/quote]We tented in January. Biggest suggestion I have is to tent, and not do the orange oil or localized treatments. As mentioned above most companies subcontract out the tenting.
I got estimates from a number of companies. D&S was the cheapest, but we ended up going with Fairway Termite http://www.fairwaypestcontrol.com because they were not much more and came recommended by our realtor. (We figured if there were issues we could complain to our realtor who would side with us.) In the end they were very good and we actually had a small issue that they immediately addressed so I’d say their customer service was very good.
Participant[quote=LeavingSD] It does seem inefficient for me to put in a kitchen, carpeting, and paint that I like but they may not. It seems far more efficient to simply credit a buyer for such things or to have a real estate professional advise me regarding what is the most efficient way to address them.[/quote]
I’ll stay out of most of this discussion which seems to go way behind what you are asking and just point out you already understand the issue and know your answer. Find a broker, have them come look at the property and ask their advice. Probably going to be much more reliable than advice you get sight unseen here on this board.
Personally I would interview 4-5 brokers that work in your area. Call them up, tell them you are looking to list the property, ask them to come out see the place and chat with you about 1) what you can get for the place, 2) what kind of repairs are needed, 3) how they would market the property, etc. Then pick from the broker you think is best and get on with your life. Good luck!
XBoxBoy
February 11, 2016 at 6:54 AM in reply to: Looks like another down day coming for the markets #794213ParticipantBeatings will continue until morale improves.
Participant[quote=livinincali]
[W]ould you want to be forced to chose between the hard right and hard left of which neither really represents your core values because they ended up being the top 2.[/quote]Ummmm…. And that is different from the current two party system how? Just sayin’…
Participant[quote=mike92104]I’d like to push the limits of eminent domain laws and just take over the team. Personally if the city doesn’t own the team, I don’t care if they leave. The numbers don’t work out anyway.[/quote]
Great solution!
Participant[quote=spdrun]Does anyone other than the mayor have to approve this crap?[/quote]
Not positive on the details but I believe it depends on what gets proposed. If the funding for a new stadium includes tax increases to pay for it then it has to go to a vote. If there are no new taxes, (ie they take money from other city services) I think they (mayor & city council) can do it without a vote. I believe the last proposal from Faulconer to build a stadium next to the current Qualcomm stadium didn’t raise taxes so didn’t need a vote. But Spanos wants a different location and a better stadium.
[quote=spdrun]So let the Chargers go to L.A., good riddance. It can barely be called a “sport” anyway.
Bringing it to the voters (who might not want to spend a lot of tax money to keep a stupid sport in their town) is the right thing to do.
[/quote]If it’s brought to a vote it’s unclear if it would pass or not, but my suspicion is that it will be put on a primary ballot with poor turnout. The rabid fans will show up, while the general populace will ignore the whole thing. The end result will be a huge handout, and Spanos and supports saying, “well you voted for it.”
Safer yet for the pro stadium crowd is to take money from city budget. Then when the populace gets upset about lack of basic services they can put a measure on the ballot asking to raise taxes to pay for stuff like police, firefighters, schools, roads, etc. That way Spanos gets his stadium and we get higher taxes.
Unfortunately too few people seem to understand the basic math of this. Spanos (even as rich as he is) can’t afford to build a couple billion dollar stadium without taxpayer dollars. And the only place taxpayer dollars come from is taxes. So despite all the hocus pocus and handwaving about how the stadium will be good for the economy it comes down to taxing the general populace and giving the money to a multi-millionaire.
ParticipantTo some degree I agree. Life in San Diego is pretty nice. But a friend of mine who lives outside of Washington DC on a couple acres sent me a video of him and his hound playing in 30″ of snow today. I’m deeply jealous. To be bundled up, off for a romp in the snow with a big hound… now that’s the life for me.
ParticipantWe’ve had a couple threads about inventory lately, but from early Dec. till around late Feb. inventory can be very erratic so I don’t think you should read too much into it.
If I go to http://www.sdlookup.com/Market-92106-Point_Loma and look at Inventory History I see that inventory dropped through the fall, bottoming around Jan 1 and is now starting to come back. This is the typical seasonal pattern. Expect houses that didn’t sell last year to come back on the market in the coming months as spring season returns.
Participant[quote=moneymaker]OK new Charger prediction, they will go to LA, realize in 20 years they made a mistake ,then come back to San Diego.[/quote]
Maybe, but I counter your prediction with basically the opposite.
The Chargers are unable to agree with Kroenke on terms to share a stadium and return to San Diego with their tail between their legs. Faulconer continues his embarassingly lack of negotiation skills and gives Spanos a brand new stadium paid overwhelmingly with tax payer dollars. After only a couple of years in the new stadium, which is often half empty due to incredibly high ticket prices, Spanos manages to move the Charges to Carson and leave San Diego with a new but unused stadium making the whole deal worse than the infamous ticket guarantee.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Wow, Donald Trump go Sarah Palin’s endorsement.[/quote]
Could it be that Sarah is hoping to be Donald’s VP?
Participant[quote=moneymaker] Anyway I’m back in and feeling wishy washy.[/quote]
How you feeling now? Are you still back in or did you get back out?
Today is a great example of why I don’t like to actively trade. This morning things looked ok. And then things just fell apart. Oh well…
Participant[quote=dumbrenter]
The productivity might increase in coming decades, but if the increase is from robots and computers, what does that do with the welfare spending? Because Robots don’t pay taxes. Do you think the tax tab will be picked up by the companies that use them?
Or do you expect we will go thru another cycle of adjustment as from farms to industries?[/quote]How this plays out is anyone’s guess. But personally I think that capitalism as an economic system doesn’t work in the future. (I know that sounds extreme, and in general I’m a believer that things are getting better, not a doomsayer so don’t take it as some pronouncement about the end is nigh.)
My suggestion is to think of it this way. Robots/computers filling many/most of the jobs means lots of low cost production. When you think of it that way, honestly it’s not a problem but a good thing. However, now the question comes as you point out, how do we distribute this production? My personal fear is that we (all us humans) go through a very difficult time politically as we transition from our current system of capitalism to some other system. How that plays out, how smoothly vs how chaotic that change is, what are the details of that new economic order? Beats me. But the world has changed in the past, and it will change again in the future.
One thing I would stress however is that pronouncements about how this coming wave of robots and computers plays out is largely a guessing game. And much of it will happen without people seeing it coming.
Which brings me back to what Bill Gross is doing. He’s making guesses about what the future holds based on taking the current trends/systems and extending them forward. Personally, I think there is way too much disruption in our futures for that to be a valid methodology. All I’ve done is found a likely disruptor and thrown it out so you can see how easily his guess goes awry. My guesses could just as easily go awry.
XBoxBoy
Participant[quote=dumbrenter]
Do you agree with what he says about the investing implications due to increasing elderly dependency ratio?[/quote]No. As a matter of fact I think the opposite is true. It’s my feeling that in the coming decades productivity will increase tremendously as more and more production is taken over by robots and computers. This will lead to deflation, not inflation as he’s predicting. (Arguably this is already happening?)
Worth mentioning, I do agree with his first two paragraphs in which he points out the sad state of our current govt to citizen relationship. When he says, “November 2016 will not change a thing – 8 years of Hillary or 8 years of a non-Hillary. Same difference. Central bankers, Superpacs, and K street lobbyists are in control.” I think he really hits the nail on the head.
ParticipantHere’s something I wouldn’t have expected. California is one of the states with the lowest rate of participation in Powerball.
California sells only 1.25 tickets per capita which is pretty far done on the list. Wonder why that is? Maybe MegaMillions is more popular here? Could it be that Californians just don’t think they will win? I don’t think of Californian’s as particluarly pessimistic, but maybe I’m wrong. Is there some reason that west coast states sell less? (California, Oregan and Washington are all well down the list)
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