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    Installing Solar

    Solar Panels done through the builder, the builder keeps the rebates because they order was placed with the builder and technically they own the home at the time of installation.  I walked by Arcadia homes in Stonegate and they seem to all have solar panels on them.  It looks like they have...
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    neighbor's sprinklers flooding my backyard

    How do you know it isn't one of the 48 other dialects of Chinese? and like No Quarter says I get water coming through the brick wall into my dirt lot.  But I figure where the water is coming through, I'm going to eventually have plants there so it's just free water for me.
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    Plus Irvine is doing income restrict living...that isn't going to be good.  Unless the all cash Asians with no reported income take all of the available housing.
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    Great Room + Kitchen flooring options?

    It is a Provenza French Oak, and it's not engineered.  This would  through outside contractors is avering $12 sq ft.  I think IPAC design center is around $15 to $16.  At least  when I was shopping for floors.  Like everything, prices could have inflated due to demand. You can put down any...
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    Great Room + Kitchen flooring options?

    flooring buckles under standing water...Venetian gave me one box of extra wood to do replacements if needed.  Like I said I'm not the type to let water just sit on my floor.  I will put in the extra effort to take care of my engineered wood floors in the kitchen for the aesthetics.  It's durable...
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    Saratoga Upgrades

    You don't own the land.  You're executing some like 100 year lease or something like that.  Too lazy to bust out the contract...but when your lease is up long after you have passed...TIC can technically swipe it from under you.
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    Haha...my point exactly. It's widely raved about for mediocre food.  They have good dishes...they have bad dishes...all in all it's nothing to write home about.  BUT the general public say it's the best.
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    Saratoga Upgrades

    They are pretty stingy with showing you what is "suppose" to be public data.  They have a giant book with all the exact measurements for all the properties.  The sales people are pretty bad at showing you.  I did get a look at it "before" I signed my sales agreement because i was trying to pick...
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    Highly overrated but it's pretty decent.  For those asking what's the big deal, in Taiwan, this place is the suppose the equivalent of Sam Woo of dumplings.  Basically well known and delivers a pretty decent quality meal.  The few times in Arcadia that I ate there, the dumplings were always just...
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    Saratoga Upgrades

    I thought woodbridge was the ghetto?
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    New home upgrades

    I bought one of the Sylvania led bulbs as a test.  It doesn't dim very well.  The lowest setting is bright as hell...and goes to OMG i'll blind your ass bright.
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    Just your daughter?  They'll rob you blind of everything.
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    Asian are the worst racists, even again't their own.  My Chinese friends can't stand people from certain parts of China...wait...sounds like what we got going on here. Talk to most people from an old school traditional Asian family.  You're not allowed to marry out of your own kind.  It's a...
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    Great Room + Kitchen flooring options?

    Having different floors in each room makes the room feel so much smaller.  When I had the default IPAC stuff installed downstairs, it made the "great room" feel not so great because everything was compartmentalized.  Once I put wood floors throughout the entire downstairs it just gives you that...
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    I always wondered how that luggage store in the Tustin Marketplace next to Sprouts stayed in business. 
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    Saratoga Upgrades

    I started the loan process 2.5 months before close and it was a nightmare to say the least.  Lessons learned about using the builders, IP in this case.  They were asking for documents even at the day of closing because they forgot they needed it.  I ended up closing 2 days late, but no penalties...
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    Great Room + Kitchen flooring options?

    if you get a real wood floor and it's glued down, the firmness will be the same as tile.  Let's just put helmets on your kids and be done with it.
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    This thread hijacking is awesome. We went from kid throwing > hating FCB > cultural food choices > bombing Iraq for oil comparison. 
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    Awful Experience at Colibri, Portola Springs

    If the US wasn't filled with tree huggers and the PETA people...we'd be killing animals inhumanely still. 
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    Great Room + Kitchen flooring options?

    oh...and one more thing, even though the tiles are textured they still get more slippery than wood floors (not to say wood doesn't get slippery) when wet.
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