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This is a very reasonable overview of Plasmas vs LCD's. <a href="http://apcmag.com/hdtv">http://apcmag.com/hdtv</a> Keep an eye out on "deal sites" like fatwallet.com, slickdeals.net, spoofee.com. Their forums always have the most up to date deals on computer/electronics...

ism: I hope you don't take it personally. My parents are the same way (I'm Chinese). They hold no malice towards any neighbors-it's just that they like their privacy. It's also partially because of their anxiety with the English language.

Interesting. Is this the beginning of a "dead cat bounce"?

more fallout. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJ192SL0ROwY&refer=home">bloomberg </a>via pmarca.blogspot.com <em>Sentinel Management Group Inc., the Illinois-based cash-management firm that oversees $1.6 billion, froze client withdrawals after saying that...

<em> If Don Bren wants to fill Irvine with </em><em>Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Channel bag carrying and status chasing Asians, he's welcome to. But for me, the comparison of the $1.7M homes in JB and Laguna said it all. </em>Eval: Maybe I missed an earlier thread on the subject or am not...

Interesting little quote I got from Marc Andreessen's blog: <p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSHKG13669020070812?rpc=401&">Reuters</a>, via <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/">Paul Kedrosky</a>:</p> <p>Yi Xianrong, a banking and finance expert at the Chinese...

Wow. I think i learned more about the money system in awgee's post than in basic econ. I've never heard of fiat currency and am now reading about it on wikipedia. :) This thread has been quite informative, I must say. Thanks to all the contributors! From all the posts, it seems like...

I seem to remember a senior living complex on Harvard right before it hits Culver (close to UCI and the Albertsons plaza). Have you tried that community?

<a href="http://realestate.msn.com/buying/Article_bankrate.aspx?cp-documentid=4946646">http://realestate.msn.com/buying/Article_bankrate.aspx?cp-documentid=4946646</a> interesting quote: <em>You have a 1-in-3 chance of losing your house to foreclosure if you got an adjustable-rate...

(From crucialant's article) “California is a wonderful place to live, but housing is sky-high,” Mr. Sperling said. “What pushed them to the bottom was the high housing cost — and you don’t get great weather, no college towns, there’s not much else to offset it.” This is probably the...

It seems like everyone is thinking the very same thing: short homebuilders/real estate stocks. If many people short, doesn't that artificially pull the price up and cause the volatility that we're seeing? Seems like it's going to be very risky until the market sentiment on the home sector is...

Good riddance. BMS: I too am hoping the NAR will turn away from their perma-bull atitude but I don't think that it will happen. The NAR has a vested interest in propping prices up as much as they can-even to the detriment of normal homeowners.

Random thought: Have you guys noticed how many garage sale signs there are lately? Is that simply because of yearly spring cleaning or does it have something to do with the housing downturn?

I hear that the weakest link in the water quality chain is the piping between the plant and your house. Most water testing is done at the source (the plant) but due to old/dirty piping, the quality of water at the home can be worse.

Seems like it would be an interesting product for <strong>those that know what they're doing</strong>. Considering the sheer number of FB's out there, this won't be a good thing when unleashed on the public...

This is my OPINION, of course, but I agree with IrvineRenter that we will continue to see a spike in rent until people get shaken out of the dreamworld of continual appreciation or even sustained price. Once people move from "wait and see mode" to understanding that they must choose between 1)...

<em> Nothing has burst; prices continue to appreciate - although more modestly than in recent years.</em> I guess you could say <0% appreciation is definitely modest.

Fla House passes property tax reform <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8OJ8IKO0.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8OJ8IKO0.htm</a> <em>The Republican-controlled Florida House voted largely along party lines Wednesday for a measure that would swap...

What is in that 20% RE job number? Does that number only include "pure" RE jobs like underwriters and loan officers or does it include support like IT, Finance, etc? I had a couple friends in the same position but they were non-RE people working in a RE company so they were able to find jobs...

<em>Anyone who can tell me what an "<strong><em>Italianesque-themed tree</em></strong>" is gets a free Godfather box set.</em> It's a tree from Italiana. Duh. I've never actually seen Godfather so this might be interesting