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    Negotiating with Irvine Company on Terminating Commericial Lease

    Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, she is personally guaranteeing the lease. This was mandated by IC when the lease was signed (for obvious reasons). This is a retail location and she is no longer interested in even running the business (so lower lease extension is not an option). I guess...
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    Negotiating with Irvine Company on Terminating Commericial Lease

    Wanted to check if anyone had experience terminating a commercial lease with the Irvine Company. My friend has about 9 months left on her lease, but her business is failing and she is losing more money leaving the business open than just shutting the doors (and paying rent for the remainder of...
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    Oak Creek

    my coworker bought a 1bdrm condo in oak creek for $160k so $200k definitely wasn't the cheapest condo...
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    Square Footage Difference between Assessor and Builder

    i have the original drawings for my condo so i can figure out the definite sq ft. on my place. do you know what areas are included in sq. ft. calculations?
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    Automatic Adjusted Property Tax Observations

    that's exactly right. they also mentioned that they would pay some interest on difference.
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    Square Footage Difference between Assessor and Builder

    I just talked to the tax assessors office and asked about my property description since I have a value assessment appeal coming up. Anyways, the lady mentioned that my sq. footage is listed at 1612. This was a bit shocking to me since the builder listed this model as 1526. Does anyone know...
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    Automatic Adjusted Property Tax Observations

    well, i actually already submitted the appeal and have been given a hearing date of jan '09. i'm just a bit pissed that i have to go through all this hassle and my neighbors had their value automatically adjusted downward.
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    Automatic Adjusted Property Tax Observations

    According to OC Prop Tax board, my house value stayed the same this year (as opposed to standard 2% increase). I was curious about the same models around me and I noticed everyone had their value REDUCED!! Here's the kicker.. they were all reduced to a few k under my house value. I paid the...
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    Quail Hill Foreclosures

    Wow, I'd pay $850k for this place! Any guesses on what the final auction price will be?
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    reassessment

    i submitted mine the other day. 30k or so difference.. not too much, but free money for 1 hour of my time.
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    Overtaxed In Irvine? Property Tax adjustments

    i have a 2 bed + 1 office/den (room with no door or closet) w/ 3 full bath townhome in woodbury. what comps would i look for with this floorplan? there are very few floorplans so i was looking at 2/3 or 3/3 floorplans. i will obviously go with the lowest, but just wanted to make sure that the...
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    Juicy Woodbury Rollback: $400K @ $264/sq ft

    Please don't exaggerate the HOA numbers. I actually own the same model and the HOA is $105 for master and $160 for Lombard so total $265.
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    Please Recommend your House Cleaner!

    i just gave Nelson a call and setup an appointment for tomorrow. My current cleaners are very good, but unreliable. Let's see how Nelson turns out... thanks for the recommendation.
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    Calling a loft a bedroom?

    <p>So what is the actual definition of a bedroom? Does it need to have a door and a closet or is a door enough? I see many townhomes list "offices" as bedrooms and I just wonder what the legal issues of doing so are...</p>
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    Portola Springs - San Carlos

    <p>zovall: you're telling me. i was finally able to buy in the july release after attending every phase release since jan! it seems like it was just yesterday when there were waiting lists of 100+ people all fighting to purchase a home. what a difference 2 years makes.....</p> <p> </p>
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