[quote author="green_cactus" date=1250659238][quote author="Anonymous" date=1250658234][quote author="MojoJD" date=1250656394][quote author="Astute Observer" date=1250650968][quote author="MojoJD" date=1250648770]...
edit: while we're on the subject, anyone else find it funny to see <em>new </em>$55,000+ cars in the parking lot owned by residents? Talk about some bad financial priorities. (6/7 series bmw, escalades, range rover, E550, etc)</blockquote>
If I can't afford to lease a 2.5 million dollar house, what's wrong with something in a smaller scale like paying for a monthly lease on a nice E series?</blockquote>
I'm going to assume you didn't mean to say "<strong>lease a 2.5 million dollar house.</strong>" That's a freebie from me to you. You're welcome.
Your rationale blows my mind. You seriously cannot recognize the <strong>HUGE </strong>product difference between a $1850-2000/month stack-style apartment and a 2.5 million dollar home!? I think you're exaggerating the number disparity here... a bit.
Hate to break it to you, but there are condo <em>and </em>detached products in Woodbury (the same neighborhood we are talking about here) for around $500-600K that offer much more home than you get in even the biggest apartment that IAC Woodbury offers. I would submit to you that the lease (are you kidding me?) on an E550 with mediocre options, after tax, will run you just over $900/mo actual payment... and that's after about $6K down. The ~$44K you pay out over the life of the lease, non tax deductible, would have taken you a LONG way to a down payment on your own home. (which doesn't have to be 2.5 million)
But sure, why not, its fun to be perceived as wealthy by other people. That's important too. /s/ Its that "live for right now and tomorrow will work itself out" mentality - let me know how it works out for you 10 years from now.
Either way, I'd like to see the retirement and emergency savings numbers for these individuals.</blockquote>
Despite the growing socalism ... the US is still a free country. As long as they spend their own money (and not yours) - they should feel free to spend it however they like.
A prime example of that sort of ridiculous attitude was back when certain people were complaining about the causes the Gates Foundation chose to support - and said it wasn't fair that such a huge sum of money was spent on Gates' choice of charitable causes instead of their own personal pet chartitable pet causes ... even though it was Gates money to begin with.
Also, getting back on topic, I rather like how Quail Meadows prevents parking issues. They just conduct garage inspections at random times, with only a little advance notice. That makes it a lot harder for people to store stuff in their garage most of the year and just move it out before say a yearly inspection they know is coming 4 months beforehand, then move it all back. No parking problems since they started doing that.</blockquote>
It's rather ironic how you take a jab at the perceived loss of freedom in the USA (due to what you call socalism - or is that a word for living in southern California?) yet your preferred solution is an authoritarian search of what a person does within their own garage.</blockquote>
Uh, it's not "their own garage" it's "the IAC's own garage". That's why it's called renting. The tenant decided to rent it after reading the lease agreement that forbids storage in their garage from preventing them from parking a vehicle in there. If they can park the vehicle, they can still store stuff alongside.
It's more that the true owner of the garage (the IAC) can do what they want with the garage and maintain what they want (ie. IAC wants ample parking available for residents & visitors).
