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TIC is a very diversified organization, while heavily RE dependent, they cater to all things real estate, from hotels, golf courses, commercial, apt rentals, etc. I remember having a meeting there when they had to cut-off and switch over from the Four Seasons Newport Beach to the Irvine Co's...

How do the prices and food selection compare to WF and TJ's? I head a segment on NPR when they first opened up a few weeks ago with a grand opening that was less than "grand". Not that it wasn't good, just they put almost no marketing or effort to celebrate the event.

I'd worry more about the credit card interest rates than the rate reset on her ARM mortgage. All it takes is two missed (or less than minimum) credit card payments (on just one credit card) and presto, 29% interest rates resets across ALL credit cards on $95,000 of debt. Can you imagine...

Not Irvine, but pretty close in Costa Mesa there's Sushi Shibucho, near Triangle Square. Small hole in the wall, but very good sushi. My parents know the owners who also used to have a restaurant in Little Tokyo. Also in Costa Mesa is Ango-Tei in front of Mitsuwa. For Irvine, there's also...

Unfortunately there's a huge gap between step 1 and step 2. More like stop building = stop selling = no revenue = no cash flow = no more credit = foreclosure on the business, There's a kind of irony here that I like! But Step 2 isn't likely to happen for awhile since all the...

Troop, I know what you mean, where's the beef (BK)? I miss his angle of insight into the market.

They didn't ask me about the builder incentives of price protection for 5 years and mello roos. I'd like to see the fine print on how they calculate those price protections. Maybe they know they'll be BK in less than 5 years, so it's a guarantee that'll never see the light of day... If...

At least he didn't realtardese the description and add "open floorplan" or "bright and airy, brings the outdoors, indoor!". Awgee, that's a lovely home with severely weathered CDX plywood as the exterior wall with the mailbox screwed right into the front wall near what's suppose to be the...

The tax rate is based on your purchase price. If it went down then you pay the lower amount. If you have your tax payment impounded then they may use the prior tax rate as the estimate. However, in the end, you'll get a refund if they over withheld on taxes. Keep in mind that although...

Hilarious! And we wonder if realtors deserve their 6% commissions. At least Realtor Steven White on the lakewood house was nice enough to spare us the details/pictures of the interior

I got a call to participate in a survey, which I typically say no to, but this was for real estate survey. They asked if I'm familiar with the Irvine Ranch Do I live on the Ranch Do I live in a home I own, I rent, or an apartment Do I intend to buy in the next 6 months, year, 2...

LM, Damn, I thought I read somewhere that 80+% of borrowers of option ARM mortgages only make the minimum payments.

On today's IHB Post, there's the monthly ARM reset bar chart from Credit Suisse, where we see most Option ARMS resetting in 2010-2011. I don't what percentage of Option ARMS are negative amortization, but a good number of those Neg Am loans would likely reset 2 years ahead of schedule on their...

Most homes are wired for cable, which works to some degree. You need to have the satellite feed into your cable access panel, then it'll feed out to the rooms with receivers. The problem with satellite is that you cannot simply insert a splitter to get another line. Coax cables have to either...

CK, I completely agree. I see the facades and OC lifestyle while at work in Irvine, but when I'm at home in my neighborhood it's a different story. I see kids, families, minivans and lots of people shopping at Target. Most are not flaunting their materialism left and right. I see...

Which Rat Shack antenna did you buy? Is it an ugly squarish one that looks like it has a bunch of bow-ties on it?

Almon, The antenna has the right connection, a coaxial one. The only way to demodulate the ATSC HD signal is to use an HD tuner. So unless your TV has one built-in or you have your own ATSC stand-alone tuner (Like a samsung T-160) then you won't be able to pickup and decode the HD OTA (Over...

IC, We switched from Cox Digital to DirecTV. Our rates haven't changed much at all over the past three years. You can either buy the equipment or rent them from DTV. We have two of the older DirecTV High Def Tivo's, unfortunately DTV has moved from MPG-2 to MPG-4 codecs which our Tivo...

Ah Brodard, love their shrimp paste spring rolls. Just had some last week, prices went up a little $7 a plate (4 rolls). I hate describing how to get there (not the fancy one) as it's behind the vietnamese mall and right next the 99cent store's REAR parking lot. They also have a sister...

acpme, Maybe my vernacular is wrong, but a typical driveway is around 20' and the house is built 20' back from the property line.