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I don't know, I'd rather leave emptying neighborhoods and buildings in place, they could end up like historic ghost towns (like Bodie CA) or get re-purposed in some new way like SacFarm's post above...I personally wouldn't advocate tearing things down unless a structure becomes dangerous like...

Is it sold only in Mexican supermarkets or available in Ralphs/Vons/Albertsons? Is it actually sour cream? How did you use it, as a dip for chips or something else?

now that's a man cave!

This is a blog that describes the fall of Detroit over the past few years. <a href="http://www.detroitblog.org/">http://www.detroitblog.org/</a> very interesting. Detroit seems like the city in the movie I Am Legend except without the zombies. It would definitely be a unique city...

Pacific Ranch Market in Orange at the corner of Chapman and Newport is a great local market, good cantaloupes, temecula oranges, meats and deli.

How could that home have possibly sold for $1.46 M in 1989? That seems like a mistake in price...that looks like maybe a $460K home in 1989.

Looks nice, we also had zero groutline travertine in our last house, although we had travertine throughout the first level in my last house and while it looked nice I think I'll have natural stone only in the kitchen area and bathroom areas too like what you did. Too cold and too hard to the...

My grandparent's home that they bought in the 40's or 50's was 4141 which sounds like die easy die easy. It's probably very unlikely there is or ever will be a 4141 address in Irvine ha ha. My wife is a big fan of lucky sounding numbers especially phone numbers. It doesn't have to be all 8s...

I was in Dallas for a few days last week and stopped by some new home developments in Frisco and Lewisville. Most of the two story floorplans have master bedrooms on the first level, while in California most two story floorplans have the master on the second level. Have you noticed that in...

We tried Benji's in Santa Ana today for lunch, great food and low prices. Brisket was very good. They have a happy hour from 3pm to 7pm in the Bamboo Lodge part of the deli, $4 for 1/2 sandwich plus macaroni salad.

the guards had been turning people away from the open houses in shady starting about a month ago.

This is an funny/snarky blog http://amuse-biatch.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html on the current 6th season of Top Chef on Bravo. I saw the first season, skipped the next four and am hooked on the 6th season.

I already had equity exposure (S&P and Nasdaq ETFs) that would benefit from capital gains if the markets moved up; junk and preferred ETFs were good diversification opportunities in the 2nd quarter of the year for steady monthly income.