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These people know the plans.  If they knew where the 2014 collection TIC plans were currently held, they would go into secret ops mod to find them.  If you give them a plan name they may be able to tell you what the neighboring plans are, bordering on savant talent.

They may try to get their genius dorky violin playing 9 year old (aka your future kid boss) to remote view the Irvine new building plans.

@rkp:

I take it you’re not a house hunter.

When spending that much money, what plan or model is often just as important as location and price because it can help you determine what floorplan it is.

And the fields for builder, tract and plan are very much used (at least in Irvine MLS listings). They are important to many MLS searchers as square footage, bed/bath count and pictures are not enough.

That’s like shopping for a computer without looking at the specs.

What kind of rationalization is it to say if the founding fathers didn’t let renters vote then, then renters should not vote now?

With that logic, then modern day voters should be like they were in 1660.  Oh, wait a minute, then all the voters would be pretty much the Tea Party Demographic (rich white males).  As Arsineo Hall would say .... that’s a thing that makes you go hmm ....

The voting lists of the 1660s use the term “freeman,” anyone not a servant, and “freeholder,” anyone owning property, almost interchangeably. Excluded from voting were women, Indians, blacks, ex-convicts, and usually servants. Often in many communities Quakers, Jews and Catholics were excluded
(http://www.historiography101.blogspot.com/2003_10_12_archive.html)

That was a typo. I have updated the post. Thanks.

The trouble with your suggestion is simple this: who gets to decide who is ill-informed?  Because more people disagreed with you than agreed with you in the last election you maintain they were FEELING while you were actually thinking?  The implications you are making are distasteful to say the least.

I keep hearing about all the damage Obama has done, yet it seems to me my taxes are lower than ever and most of the things that went wrong horribly went wrong before the election.  Sure, you can argue that continuing the bailouts that Bush II started was wrong, but I can’t imagine that McCain would have done any differently given the enormous pressure he would have been under by the financial interests (where, of course, the real power is).

Let me ask you this.  What should have Obama done that he didn’t do?

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if they made the following election rules changes:
1. No TV or radio ads allowed
2. All ads have to be either written on the Internet, or 5 pages or less and included in a pamphlet distributed to all voters.

That way, the amount of money you had to spend on a campaign would be irrelevant, because the cost of campaigning would be cheap.  The only way you could win would be to have the best written arguments.  There would be no reason to have to take millions and millions of dollars from special interest groups to run for office.

I suspect that the quality of candidates in office would increase substantially.

Anyone who votes is just stroking themselves anyway.  If you think that your vote actually makes one bit of difference then you are a moron.

We definitely don’t need to cram more ignorant selfish voters into voting booths.  The idea that all the peasants get a vote is a cute idea, but we all know deep down that it is meaningless.

Don’t want renters to vote?  Doesn’t bother me!  I could not care less.  Let the property owners call the shots - it’s not as though the results can get any worse than what we presently have.

They might as well suggest that only college grads from accredited institutions (none of those Devry crapo degrees) can vote.

Stupid…..

Jealousy.  I agree with PR on this one - next time, don’t forget to join the party.

Why did you leave out the part when it was at $418,500 in January 2009 when the world was coming to an end?

When will we get back to that?  It’s still the bottom.

Didn’t you get the ppsf memo?  These homes are selling less, not more than jan 2009 LOL.

Those deep discounts and 1999 roll backs can certainly be found elsewhere.
You can get more for more your money buying in lower “quality” areas.
In Irvine, you have multiple offers, bidding wars, all cash buyers and FCBs to contend with.

Where is the 1999 pricing? We need it for the children!

Why do the children need 1999 pricing?

I thought they just needed those good Irvine schools that have gotten so much better since 1999!

Fundamentals are strong!

When they refinance the first mortgage, they consolidate all the loans that came before it. The same is generally true of HELOCs. When figuring out the total property debt, I always look for the final first mortgage plus the last HELOC or second mortgage.

They are not as classy as you are, Irvine HO.  It’s probably one of the sacrifices that they made so that the children could go to a good school even though it means having to prepare food in a kitchen that is subpar on the Yuppie scale.

So, Roger, anyone who doesn’t agree with you “isn’t in their right mind”?  Good debating technique.  Actually I think you were being satirical.  Good show.

Carl