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There's a full page ad in today's OC Register about the West Ocean auction set for August 24, with sample prices like 1/1 893 sf 534,000 orig 275,000 min bid 2/2 1040 sf 694,000 350,000 2/2 1397 sf 1,065,000 565,000 3/2 1651 sf 1,492,000 795,000 Wow...

Yes, you're right, she will have to eventually get her own credit card, hopefully by that time she will be responsible and subconsciously take the non-credit card slave path. Actually the way we introduced her to credit cards has worked out pretty well. If anyone is interested, what we did was...

going back to the bank for $535k means the bank put it on the market (say MLS) for $535k? so if I check on Realtor.com or redfin.com I should be able to find it?

"Unit 1301 in the 3131 Michelson building went back to the bank today for $535,500, and the NTS was just over $829k. That 35% discount on the note, not the purchase price, proves it wasn?t worth what the builder sold it for. " If the NTS was $829k, that means the total mortgage was $829k...

CM, That IS a pretty good long beach blog, thanks for the link.

Well, after reading the SIPC link above, I guess in a worse case scenario like what happened to ETRADE and their ill-advised subprime investments, customers of brokers could have legitimate worries like customers of Indymac. Hard to see that happening with Schwab, although anything's possible...

Why not put all your money into a brokerage like Schwab? You can buy hundreds of thousands or many millions of riskfree Treasuries or virtually riskfree municipal bonds or AAA bonds of diversified companies like GE or Berkshire Hathaway, or if you really like CDs, you can buy them in $100K...

what happens to the mortgages that people applied for at Indymac to buy a house that's in escrow? Say the buyers met the borrowing criteria and their Indymac mortgages are approved and escrow is supposed to close next week.

We are looking at Orchard Hills but the lower density homes up higher probably won't be built for another 6-8 years if the start of the higher density part around the high school is in 3-4 years, so that's a long time to wait. Laguna Crossing might start earlier in 2010 so we might start...

never mind I just saw the link from the top.

I couldn't find 44 blue heron on redfin, do you have a link to it?

For this price, wouldn't people rather buy in Shady Canyon or Newport Coast?

I love the olive trees in the new Orchard Hills shopping center and the new OH apartments, of all the olive trees I've seen I like the ones in the OH center and apartment the best. Does anyone know what kind of olive trees they are? For example, IAC's pic above is a different kind of larger...

correction, they are asking $700k for the smaller Plan 1x.

What do people think about the Portola Springs Paloma detached condo, Plan 1X (the single story 1700 sf detached 2br/2ba condo) and the other plans (all duplexes). I like both of the Plan 1s, the 1X and the bigger sf Plan 1 with the upstairs master suite (2200 sf 3br/3ba, not detached but a...

Budget places in the U.S. like Motel 6 and Best Western are plentiful but the equivalent of such places in places like say the Far East are almost non-existent because such places are likely to not pass muster with Western travelers. Also most "local" motels don't have Western toilets although...

hs teacher has always seemed pretty civil and friendly here and graphix has always been very factual and informational. I enjoy reading this board to learn more about the OC and enjoy reading posters with different views and perspectives and experience levels and hope this bit of antagonism (it...

We have been getting more visitors to the Commons shopping area and local eateries like the Sagebrush Cantina but I haven't noticed paparazzi even though there are celebrity sightings. I've seen Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey at the Marmalade Cafe (my kid started hyperventilating so I turned...