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  1. Hormiguero_IHB

    I'm not even a Victorian house nut but...

    Really? Mass, NY and Conn have lower income taxes than Washington and Texas? Is the produce better than California, too?
  2. Hormiguero_IHB

    Are we on target with Irvine Renter's forecast?

    the recent CA cities dqnews shows $578K, so yes. it seems to have fared better than 90% of other CA cities with equivalent population levels.
  3. Hormiguero_IHB

    I'm not even a Victorian house nut but...

    unfortunately, new england has new england property taxes and new england weather.
  4. Hormiguero_IHB

    Gold

    <a href="http://www.tulving.com/goldbull.html">no</a> <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SWC#chart1:symbol=swc;range=5d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined">the miner equivalent (also check PAL)</a>
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    The CA cities October #s are here

    <a href="http://www.dqnews.com/Charts/Monthly-Charts/CA-City-Charts/ZIPCAR.aspx">California Unter Alles</a> <a href="http://www.dqnews.com/Charts/Monthly-Charts/LA-Times-Charts/ZIPLAT.aspx">And here's the LA Times breakdown</a> check out the volume in lancaster and palmdale, and the...
  6. Hormiguero_IHB

    junk bonds

    JNK is more or less the same concept as the many ETFs that mimic mutual funds. It is not a fund-of-funds (which is hopefully a concept that gets trimmed back as the hedge funds who helped develop them as a means to suck out yet higher management costs get shut down). <a...
  7. Hormiguero_IHB

    Officially a 'depression'

    Maybe not, but the entitlements created by the 6 AM 'donut bill' - crowning achievement of the GOP congress 5 years ago or so - is far worse than most imagine. So it the future cost of caring for all of the post-PTSD soldiers coming home in droves.
  8. Hormiguero_IHB

    junk bonds

    Do a search in the yahoo finance window for 'high yield' if you're curious about this one. I bought early (as I always do) into JNK, which allows for intraday trading, as opposed to the big Janus and Vanguard funds. In any case, it is certainly interesting that folks are snapping up...
  9. Hormiguero_IHB

    Officially a 'depression'

    I think we can go ahead and use that term without fear of seeming excessively dramatic. I remember, a decade or so ago, looking at the commodity price charts in the mural inside Coit Tower. I never thought we would see it in our day of funny money - at least our xerox money would...
  10. Hormiguero_IHB

    New DQnews october #s

    <a href="http://www.nwrealestate.com/nwrpub/common/mktg.html">Washington State also checks in with October #s</a> For some reasons condos are actually positive y-o-y in King County... perhaps the old cliche about "first to fall" isn't always true.
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    New DQnews october #s

    <a href="http://www.dqnews.com/News/California/Southern-CA/RRSCA081118.aspx">300K on the nose, with sales up 2/3 y-o-y </a> Just think, one more San Berdu REO and we would be at 299,999.99! Or something like that...
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    Gold

    Millions of words have been said and written on this one - personally, I just try to remind folks that Federal Reserve Notes are not money. Perhaps the most interesting recent contribution to the discussion came from <a...
  13. Hormiguero_IHB

    What's going into escrow - Irvine and maybe some Tustin too

    It looks like almost nothing is under $310 sq/ft with the average more like $340.
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    Fires

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    Fires

    There are two kinds of responses to any disaster. The first generally involves condolences, prayer and sympathy. All of which are appropriate and noble, especially when the disaster is of an unexpected and random nature. The second, sometimes called "schadenfreude", involves...
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    Fires

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    Fires

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    Fires

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    Fires

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