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    Still severe drought.

    $27 billion approved by voters in the last 20 years and nothing done about storage. Noah wasn't waiting for the rain to build the arc.
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    Still severe drought.

    Nice improvement in California..... All that red that was there is where the crops are grown. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
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    Real Estate Advice Column

    Alot of houses don't pay mello in Irvine now. You'll always have people who look at "value" and they will be more likely to buy somewhere with no mello and the lowest price per sq foot. When things go back up, value lags in gains.
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    Real Estate Advice Column

    I tried to tell him/her the negatives of those three story units and he/she promptly told me they love them and want to buy one. As for mello.......... you can't have everything in Irvine. That's why when u buy elsewhere and get all the boxes checked except for being in Irvine, you will always...
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    Real Estate Advice Column

    Have you tried the Lennar homes in the Great Park? Lennar has been lowering prices and they have a 4 br 3 story on redfin for slightly over a million. Includes "everything" so you won't be paying a lot for upgrades...
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    Planning our next vacation

    You know your kids can WORK there in the summer when they are older, right? The pay is terrible but you get room and board (taken out of your pay) and your time off you spend in the park (they gave us a non published book of back trails which of course is probably all on line now). One of my...
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    Planning our next vacation

    I can't make it this summer but my number one place is Yellowstone. It's an amazing national park. Haven't been there since I worked there while on a summer break from college. Unfortunately majorly overcrowded now so you need reservations super early for the Lodges.
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    Irvine Great Park Property Tax Question

    To follow up, you're buying in Irvine because u feel it's the best area in the center of the county, right? Of course that will keep values higher than other areas, assuming nothing changes (schools, crime, etc). It will also appreciate the best as those looking to buy will want the better...
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    Irvine Great Park Property Tax Question

    It's not always like that. A house is somewhere to live, number one. But if you plan on reselling it, then it's an investment too and you have to think how u will compete with other resales. Irvine is nearly built out so it will be resale vs resale. If there is anything that u r using to get a...
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    Newer Irvine listings with crazy WTF asking prices from equity sellers

    $2.5 Million. So prices haven't gone down in Irvine, LOL!
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    Stock picks

    If disney gets to 79-80, I think I'll sell some puts. It would be a 8 year low. Tesla has broken the neckline of a multi year chart. Going MUCH lower imo.
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    How high will mortgage rates climb in the next 36 months?

    I closed on a house on November 2nd 1981 (pretty much peak interest rates and 41 years ago tomorrow). Prices maybe came down A LITTLE but who knows because houses didn't really sell a whole lot. Lots of whining and complaining at that time that sellers weren't putting houses on the market any...
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    Paypal considered deducting $2500 from customer bank accounts for misinformation

    When paypal was just starting out, maybe 20+ years ago, I considered them an evil company and I think they may have made it to most hated or mistrusted company at that time (since then they turned themselves around to be one of the most trusted). They would lock people's accounts with lots of...
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    Paypal considered deducting $2500 from customer bank accounts for misinformation

    Some but the company gets lots of recurring donations (like if you donated to your church on a weekly/monthly basis type thing). Real problem for them. They are small and now they have to contact every donor who had a cancelled donation to see if they still wish to donate and if it continues...
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    Hidden Canyon - Selling Strategy or Selling Mistake?

    If the euro falls more (say to 80% parity) and if prices drop further, you could see a pretty sweet deal....... like when chinese were buying here with the favorable yuan/dollar.
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    Paypal considered deducting $2500 from customer bank accounts for misinformation

    Hubby just told me finance called him and 60 transactions for his nonprofit were cancelled today........ all from paypal. They are calling the donors and each one is reissuing with direct credit card payments but so far they have all said they cancelled their paypal accounts. And they are a...
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    Hidden Canyon - Selling Strategy or Selling Mistake?

    One of my European cousins bought a house in Italy years ago to retire in because the cost of living is so much less in Italy. LOTS of really super poor people there so you have to watch where u buy.
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    Paypal considered deducting $2500 from customer bank accounts for misinformation

    Puts are going to pay off bigly on this one. Won't be surprised if it just goes down like FB did.
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    Oil

    What is unplanned maintenance? They had to fix half the grids all at one time because they are old and no oil company will build a new one? So Newsom is on the sly again for ya all that make more than a million bucks......... time to pay your fair share is coming...
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