This is a convo better suited for this thread and not the stock picking thread...

Quote from: eyephone on Today at 01:42:47 PM

It looks like the yield curve briefly inverts with the 2 year treasuries which topped the 10 year rate.

#notLookingGood

you seem to be following what's going on around the world, so you should know that the european economy is in the tank and asia is seeing a lot of unrest.  which means the united states is still by far the safest place to put your money, thus with everyone taking their money to buy 10 year treasuries the price will go down.  calls for recession in the us are just the latest outrage that the media can play to get more clicks and eyeballs.

,,,,and 25 countries have 0 or negative interest rates right now. That tells you the world about the health of our economy vs the rest of the world.

The zero or negative interest rate regime continues

25 countries have zero or negative interest rates including Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.

https://thistimeitisdifferent.com/all-time-low-interest-rates-july-2019

Here's an update.  From what I was told today, my "mandatory" solar is because of the CCR (California Code Regulations) title 24 for 2016, which took effect on Jan 1, 2017.  The requirement was for new constructions to be 30% more efficient and KB decided to use solar to meet this efficiency "requirement".  Although, the only major requirements I could find for 2016 CCR title 24 is the requirement for high efficiency lighting such as LED bulbs.  The 2019 CCR title 24 is where the law makes it a requirement to have solar on all new constructions for Jan 1, 2020.  Regardless, the sales office did send me a Solar Addendum that did say solar was "mandatory" and we could either lease or buy.

Mety brings up a good question of why not lease instead and I'll have to do some research into that.  We don't plan on moving until the kids graduate high school which with a newborn is at least another 20yrs so maybe buying is the right choice for us.  I really wish we could have had the option to pick the solar ourselves like how we decided not to use any of their flooring options, but do planning on ripping everything out before we move in and installing our own flooring.

Perhaps I don't understand the 2016 updates but I thought it only requires homes to be solar ready.
https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/2015publications/CEC-400-2015-032/chapters/chapter_7-Solar_Ready.pdf

We had similar issue when looking at homes. Many realtors and builders list and act like a detached condo is a single family.

Some lenders give the same rates for both SFR and Detached condos in Orange County. For example we were quoted the same exact rate from Provident Funding for a single family and a detached condo resale. Both were around the same price. Other places quoted anywhere from 1/8 to 3/8 difference.

I did some historical lookups on the ones that were posted on Page 1 of this thread... many didn't move that much... but I think those were supposed to be short term picks.

My picks are like Irvine houses... hold them for a long time and they will yield good returns.

The worst performer was DIS... which is surprising but I expect it to go up in the next few years.