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Watching you tube videos of people shooting 4 gauge shotguns.  That is crazy.

A 10 Gauge?  That would be a hell of a kick.  My 16.5" barrel 12 Gauge kicks like a mule with slugs and OO buck.  I don't want to know the pain from a 10 gauge.  

USC's car is very nice.....  Can I borrow it.......for a long time?  :)

For now.  Who knows what the laws will be when/if the Govt. IOU's come due.

I am not planning on selling anytime soon but it would be good to know what we are all up against potentially in the future when/if we decide to sell.

Ok, so if you take the hypothetical situation you are married and you owned your first house (primary residence) and then sold it and made $499K profit.  You then bought your second home for $500K (new primary residence) and rolled in the profit from your first house ($499K) into the purchase of...

So what you are saying is that since you are selling a house with a $500K profit, you will pay the additional tax even if your 'regular' income is nothing or a 'regular' income, right?  On another tangent, so for people who paid all cash a few years ago (FCB) and had no mortgage, when they...

I have never heard of this.  Is this true? "Once you sell your home, any profits over the first $500,000 are already subject to a capital gains tax. And now those profits will have an additional 3.8% tax to fund Obamacare." http://www.my9nj.com/story/23967715/njs-rich-funding-obamacare

I bought my home four years ago to the month and had USC represent me.  It was a great experience and I still remember one of his best lines "If you change your mind about the home or transaction, let me know and I will pull the rip cord and we can move onto something else you want".  There was...

When I lived in Irvine and accidentally punched in my home invasion code on my home alarm (half asleep), the Irvine PD with two officers were at my house in less than 4 minutes.  It woke me up really fast when there was a knock at my door and I see two cops through the peep hole.  They were very...

That configuration exists in Gardena/Torrance in several neighborhoods.  It seemed to work out fine for the friends who rented in those units but it did give easy access to 'complain' about things that needed fixing and I bet it would be an uncomfortable situation if the tenant does not pay the...

I see her in Laguna Beach all the time.  I actually gave her money once.  Never again.....  Maybe I will let her know her son is a disgrace.

About 3.5 years ago we were move up buyers as well.  We were tossing around the idea of keeping and renting out our existing home (in Irvine and zoned for Uni High) or selling it and using all the equity to buy a much larger/nicer home and have a mortgage payment just a little more than what we...

I think prices are very dependent on specific area if not specific plan/house dependent.  We bought in late 2009 (Laguna Niguel) as well and regular sale houses have been selling in our neighborhood for around 15% more than I paid (of course there are a couple short sale/REO outliers).

I have a roman tub in the bathroom where the water inlet is leaking when turned on.  I had a plumber come out and cut a hole in the ceiling below and he could not get to the leak due to layers of subfloor in between.  He said we need to have an access hole cut into the tile work framing the...

+1 for Soylent.  I used him for a purchase and a few refi's and it has always been a pleasant experience!

I was at CES last year and saw the 55" LG  OLED TV's and wow, they blew away everything I have seen in 2D and 3D to date even though it is a passive 3D setup.  The colors were saturated, blacks were super inky and the 3D reproduction was impressive.  I am not a 3DTV fan and this TV actually made...

If that is all they are doing then it is steep unless there is some unique configuration/difficulty in your walls, etc. In my previous home when the guys were installing my home security system, one of the installers hit an electrical line in the wall and shorted out the circuit along with...

Those prices sound about right without knowing exactly the configuration, setup or performance expectations of your room.  You can get cables and wall mounts for much cheaper at places like www.monoprice.com .  Make sure you buy the 'in-wall' cables if you buy your own.  They have the proper...

One time I had an accepted offer for a short sale and when I took a second look at the property (did not get to inspections yet), I noticed a leak from where the concrete met the wall of the house which turned out to be a bad slab leak which actually bubbled up into the wall and black mold...