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  1. Rocker_IHB

    Irvine - Subprime Ghost Town - CNN

    <p>Who could have thought this headline exactly one year ago when all you could read was "subprime is contained"? The exact date when things broke apart for Irvine is 02/07/07 when in early in the morning HSBC reported in the UK that they have "increased" its provisions for losses in US...
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    More Housing Bubble Humor

    <p> Will the tables turn in this recession? A day laborer, clearly hispanic, hiring on the spot exec staff, clearly of the white collar variety: CFO,CPAs, senior mortage consultants, and all of them jump on his pickup trunk. Ha Ha Ha...HA HA HA</p> <p> </p> <p><embed...
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    Gas Prices

    <p>In the last 3 months, have you people seen less traffic in the major OC freeways in non-peak hours ? Lately my driving has been faster and smoother, I also feel more room between the car in front of me and in the back. To me this is the reflection of the economy and obviously...
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    IAC Renters. Check the prices before you renew your Lease.

    Yup, you are not the first one that says this, somebody else made the same observation here before, he speculated that probably there was a "limit" in the number of available units shown in their website for unknown reasons.
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    Gas Prices

    <p> Gas prices around The OC, it's frequently updated:</p> <p><a href="http://www.orangecountygasprices.com/">http://www.orangecountygasprices.com/</a> </p>
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    Eliot Spitzer

    <p>Ok, I'll be first: <strong>When is she going to be: the next Playboy centerfold? </strong><strong>or have her own porn movie? or ______ ? </strong>Yup, we're pigs. </p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://www.members.shaw.ca/info.iifs/hamm.gif" /></p>
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    Orange County Private Rentals and You - A lesson in caution!

    <p>Ok, Thanks. How things change, I'm sure that he never imagined what's happening right now, he was 100% sure that after he bought the house, "home prices will keep increasing in single digits only, 2 digits increases are gone" (looking down to me, as if you couldn't buy before, in the...
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    Orange County Private Rentals and You - A lesson in caution!

    <p>How can I check the financial health of my landlord, or better said my floplord?</p> <p> By now his town home that I'm renting has comps. at the same price level that when he bought it in early 05, I moved in months later, I know that the property is cash flow negative after mortgage...
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    Eliot Spitzer

    that's why I always wear a big mustache and pay cash
  10. Rocker_IHB

    How much does the Irvine Company hate this site?

    Yes, something like Tor will do the same as my ultra-complicated anonymizer. reason, once that you connect through an internet provider that it doesn't know anything about you, you're not their customer, you don't have an account with them, you can hide there, for example, when you go to...
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    How much does the Irvine Company hate this site?

    <p>skek,</p> <p>If I'm a blogger and want to remain anonymous, so I go to a Panera bread and I use their free WiFi service, or any other free WiFi hotspot for that matter, whenever I want to post something, or send email or even browse web pages, How can you trace me? Assuming that...
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    Transportation to LAX airport from OC area

    <p>After all renting a car is not that a good idea, because you still have to return it several blocks away from LAX and then take their bus, that's like 20-30 minutes, and probably you'll need to stop and put gas, the medicine is worst than the disease.</p> <p>Now, if you want to return a car...
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    What's going into escrow - Irvine and maybe some Tustin too

    <p>ipop, I expect the job losses today's report to shake up realtors and sellers from their 2005 bubble dream, and <strong>start reducing prices fast, prices are still too high</strong> in the areas that you are monitoring, in all the listings if they bought before or around 2002 they...
  14. Rocker_IHB

    Thornburg Mortgage Meltdown

    <p>What he said all the time and what really happened were things totally different not even close to what really happened: a bailout of a group of banks vs. selling common shares, the banks left ABK to its own devices.</p>
  15. Rocker_IHB

    1,500+ OC Teachers Might Lose Jobs

    What my daughter's teacher puts on her web page is no "essential" stuff like books, only minor stuff that helps her to do a better job, if they are planning to do a field trip, like low sugar fruit juices, water bottles, consumbles stuff, etc.
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    1,500+ OC Teachers Might Lose Jobs

    My daughter's teacher has a web page where she has a "wish list" with items that she'd like to have for her class: paper towels, rims of paper, etc. and as soon as we parents see one item we go a buy it and give it to her, I think is brilliant idea. I'm willing to give money if there's a...
  17. Rocker_IHB

    Too Fat!

    <p>Subscribe to this website, it's Free! : <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com">http://www.sparkpeople.com</a> They suggest you a diet based on your weight goal, you can use the Nutrition Tracker and the Fitness Tracker to track, if you want, what you eat and what you exercise. As...
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    Headlines...

    <p> Yikes! -50% today because of margin calls and they are deleveraging their positions through a probably fire sale. As a Warren Buffet said today, expect deleveraging waves to hit the markets, ha ha, some hedge funds managers are not sleeping at all. He said last week was...
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    Headlines...

    Aren't we witnessing historic times, huh? The week that just ended was historic, kind of perfect-stormy historic, because many things aligned in a bad way: oil $100+, EUR vs USD 1 = 1.50+, inflation awaiting for you in your next grocery shopping and, last but not least, house prices...
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    YouTube (and other) Time Wasters

    Jimmy Kimmel "I'm F*cking Ben Affleck!" The shocking thing is all the cameos of movie and music celebrities, Jimmy goes overboard. though, Sarah's video is better. <object width="325" height="250"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/youtube" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"...
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