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    motor court garbage

    Then I drove by a detached home development in Woodbury that had the garages in the back along an alley, that was next to the motorcourt development, and that was much more attractive and convenient from a garbage can perspective, since the trash trucks can go into the alley, pick up the trash...
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    motor court garbage

    I don't know if this has been discussed before on TI, but going past a motor court development in Woodbury today, I noticed for the first time, all the garbage cans in front of the end units facing the street.  That seems doubly irksome, first for the owners of the inner units that have to wheel...
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    Resale homes vs new construction

    Did you also look at 24 Grape Arbor listed for $879k?  It looks like a similar size home in the same neighborhood with nice interior pics, except it backs to a neighbor and not open space (and doesn't have that nice golf-related street name haha).  Just curious why this home has been sitting for...
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    Resale homes vs new construction

    As I remember, Northwood II had maybe about 10 homes available for sale roughly in the middle of 2010, now there is only only 1 SFR available.  Have other neighborhoods in Irvine had a similar reduction in inventory like this or is this unique to Northwood II and any particular reason why? 
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    First time home buyers - Lessons learnt

    Cox was great when we moved from irvine rental to irvine home, they set up cable, internet and home service in the two hour window without a hitch.  I was thinking about getting directTV and separate phone and internet service but in the end the "all in one" convenience of Cox doing the whole...
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    Skyline Towers Santa Ana

    A few years back in the middle of the bubble, several high rise condo towers were proposed for the Costa Mesa area next to the Segerstrom concert hall and a couple of blocks away from South Coast Plaza and the commercial area along Bristol...this proximity to a real urban area would make a lot...
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    Countertops

    I still like the idea of natural stone for the kitchen countertop but I think the shiny granite look might be getting old...if I ever buy our next and final house, I like the look of limestone...it has a matte finish and if you seal it there is no problem with stains, and it has a nice natural...
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    Paint colors

    We've been burned by color swatches...one time we picked what looked like a nice peach color for the bathroom, put it up on the walls and found it looked just like hot pink. What worked for us in the last house was we went through the models, and the sales guy was nice enough to give us the...
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    T. Woods is no longer one of my favorite athletes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttZSjajdRd8&feature=PlayList&p=F3289F371DC4DFA4&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16 This is Wanda Syke's take on Tiger...it's funny but seriously, when people have sex (unless it's nonconsensual in which case they should be jailed), why should it be other...
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    Vote on the Smite Feature

    Smiting is too negative...contrarian opinions are likely to get smited which might drive away insightful contrarian opinions...think of how many smites BK's "racist" commentaries would have gotten?
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    The death of an internet forum

    What I liked about the "old" IHB were the new unexpected insights from insightful people and the unexpected humor and the unexpected troll-sensing and troll-elimination...I like the less rules mostly anything goes...I think what happened to the old IHB was the powers to be decided to take...
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    Larry is at it again

    Actually the recent blog posts on IHB about using IHBrokers almost sound like they were half-written by Chevy in conventional NAR-approved marketing speak, not IrvineRenter's historical honesty.
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    Is Larry a hypocrite?

    I sort of see Chevy as a homewrecker who came to Larry with a let's make a quick buck idea. Now Larry's Escalade with the IHB license plate holder has hit a tree and the IHB family's getting divorced into two websites ha ha. IHB was the only website I checked every day, I got hooked on Larry's...
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