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This isn't a pre-recorded history factoid, but I think some there some master planned communities/cities in Orange County that were planned or incorporated and eventually failed and disappeared. Saw'r it on the KOCE.

means you should start here: www.google.com

So are you going to crawl back to IAC and accept the fact that you won't get the special treatment you deserve.

dude, bro, dude, brah, live on the peninsula if you are looking to hang with the younger crowd, guarantee you could find and walk into a party thurs, friday, sat nght. Trade off is, no parking or access on July4th or labor day, people peeing or yaking in your yard, and random people walking in...

"It's not complicated, one person is moving out, another person is moving in, sign XXX. Excuse me??? Who's working for who?", sounds pretty condescending to me. I'm a little annoyed because there seems to be more of this sense of entitlement and customer is always right attitude now a days that...

anteatersci, sounds like you're a uci a student. Think about it, a pretentious uci student with 3 other roommates trying to play hardball with a leasing agent? To top it off, add an arrogant sense of entitlement, and you sound like the exact renter profile any intelligent landlord would...

I spruce up my home with Thomas Kinkade prints myself. Sales person told me they would go up in value and increase my chances of getting into heaven.

Speculative money will come from soverign funds

I don't think any of Irvine's communities reflect true new-urbanist theory, rather they seem to fit the "new-suburbanist" mold. See Joel Kotikin's article on new-suburbanism.

"Very few affluent communities display elements that is opposite of feng shui." -I've heard of a few developers hiring feng shui consultants but this by far not the norm and I think very rare, do you think concepts of feng shui just make logical sense from a planning and appeal asthetic...

Well, I think someone important wants them deluded, I think the board and investors (myself included) think that's the CEO's primary objective, to generate a positive image about the company. I hate to admit this, but if i were on a cnference call, and the CEO the first nay sayer on the market...

"A tax deferred is a tax denied..." well, my eloquent response is an asset appreciated is not money in the bank untill it's sold, the tax is paid and is in a checking account.......(your's sounds better) acpme, I hear ya now, I guess sarcasm and humor don't translate well over forums, thnx...

I'm not a tax guy by any means, but aren't tax rate on dividends significantly lower than capital gains tax realized on stock appreciation. "there's almost no justifiable reason if they really believed what they are saying about their share price" well, since you are perusing this site, I...

IMO, companies shouldn't buy back their shares as their equity should be spent on growing their business, not to curry favor with the wall street analysts. in fact, I often worry when a company repurchases shares as it leaves me thinking that they have lost the motivation at the top to invest...

"by then there's a chance we'll be recovering from the recession (maybe?)" also a chance we'll be in a depression?

I think the irvine company is a great organization and we should show our support and gratitude by purchasing homes in their community at their current prices. (that should get things back on track)

I always associated the bluth company with William Lyon. The General looks just like george bluth to me. To bad Arrested Development is off the air, I'd like to see how the bluths would endure the current housing market.

It's true if you consider $25K in legal fees and a 50/50 chance in determining the actual identity not difficult.

irvine_grad, i believe your name for number 7 is incorrect, isn't it called parkwatts now?

skek, right, so your presumption that, if TIC wanted to, it could shut this site down, is wrong. they could not shut down the site because they can't afford the PR fallout, not to mention they know the futility of their actions as there exist hundreds of similar blogs and another blog, started...