So, I get an occasional email blast on redfin because I have an account there, and my old house, which I sold like 5 and a half years ago, is back on the market. It's a weird feeling looking at your former place of residence, and it's especially strange because they've done a ton of renovations, but also still kept a bunch of the renovations I did, so there's this mix of the recognizable and the new. It's like they finished the job I was doing, but in a somewhat different way than I would have done. I suspect they must have put at least a hundred grand into it, if not more. Of course they're selling it for SEVERAL hundred grand more than they paid me. Looks nice, though!
MD is booming as well too. Recent tax increases in the Baltimore area have helped make a run on housing in adjacent counties. Houses in my area are getting bombarded with offers as soon as they hit the market. I'm glad I bought back in 2016.
And, of course, the area around DC is always strong.
There's also an element of people looking for more space now that they're all confined to quarters together. I'm genuinely surprised that there's a vacant lot a couple of streets over - the old house was knocked down but nobody has started on a new one yet.
Yeah, I wish I had bought in 2016, that was the sweet spot for still buying an affordable home in San Diego. I’m just going to wait it out while I save more money and pay down debt. My rent is super cheap so I can afford to have some patience.
We had put in grass and sprinklers in our small front yard (maybe 15x15) and the backyard. We drove by a couple of years after we sold and moved and they had put concrete in the front yard and put in a wrought iron fence around the front yard. Why take out the grass? I haven't looked at what the inside now looks like.
About 5 years later I think it was sold by the bank for at least 150K below what they paid for it. If I remember they paid about 75K over asking. And I think there was one other offer that was 5K more than their offer.
I take it back. It looks like it was sold for about 200K below what we sold it for 6 years after we sold it. We sold it for 475K, it was sold for 280K, and is now estimated to be 800K. I know when we sold it it was move-in ready and in good condition. The wiring and plumbing was all updated. Buying the house for 280 in 2010 was an amazing deal. Assuming the house wasn't in poor condition by then.
They're not the only ones who sold at a loss. The WaPo has a local section every Thursday that includes real estate transactions. Last week I saw Marvin Bush (one of George's brothers) bought a condo for $1.5 million. I knew he was trying to sell a unit in the same building so looked up the records. Earlier this year he sold the first condo for $3.2 million. $600,00 less than he paid years ago.
I think it was the bank taking the house over if I remember. Although we did sell at just about the right time, I don't think it would've gone down that low.
Camelids (eg, camels, alpacas, llamas) do not have top incisors, which makes them look like they have an underbite. They use their upper lips to shear off food against their lower incisors. But they have 4 (alpaca, llama) and 6 (camel) upper canines, so they can deliver some nasty bites. Thank you for subscribing to Zoonews.
cartoon themed kids undies was how it started....I just made the terrible terrible choice to google it. They now have all manner of cartoon and movie character styles for adults as well as children. I'm sure if I looked deeper there will be the 'sexy time' versions also.
in other also: I just used a double dose of hand sanitizer, and still feel dirty.
Cal has lost 8 in a row, the first being a resounding home loss to historical doormat San Jose State. Joe Kapp has been canned but is riding out the rest of the season. Cal has to play #16 Gator-Bowl bound 'furd. Cal is using its third QB on the season, while the Weenies have John Paye, Brad Muster, Toi Cook, Ed McCaffrey, and Thomas Henley on offense.
I believe Mike Ford scored on an end around to seal the Cal victory. I recall the telecast (was in high school at the time) and Joe Kapp was carried off the field on the shoulders of the Cal players.
I was in the band. This was the 'win one for the zipper' game. Joe came out to the tunnel just before pre-game to talk to us, and thank us for supporting him and the team through the tough times.
I thought for a second the creator was a Cal grad. A Cal grad, Jay Ward, created Peabody and Sherman, Dudley Do Right, the characters Boris and Natasha, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc. contemporary with Underdog.
From Wiki re: Rocky and Bullwinkle: The idea for the series came from Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, who previously collaborated on Crusader Rabbit, based upon the original property The Frostbite Falls Revue.[17] This original show never got beyond the proposal stage. It featured a group of forest animals running a television station. The group included Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky), Oski Bear, Canadian Moose (Bullwinkle), Sylvester Fox, Blackstone Crow, and Floral Fauna. The show in this form was created by Alex Anderson.[18] Bullwinkle's name came from the name of a car dealership in Berkeley, California, called Bullwinkel Motors. Anderson changed the order of the last two letters of the name and gave the name to his moose.[19]
Melvin is starting Luzardo in game 1 even though he a leftie and the Sox' lineup is composed almost entirely of right-handed power hitters. In fact, they are 14-0 against lefties. Bassitt (rightie) tomorrow and Manaea on Thursday, another leftie.
I thought the A's would come back but only managed a tepid rally in the 8th. Pinder lined out and that was it for their chances. In the ninth they looked stressed out while the Sox were smiling and laughing and having fun playing the game.
Yeah and I’m having a harder time wrapping my head around that both the Big Ten and MWC are going to start play before us. I do not understand why we couldn’t start in October.
Same. I've seen that college football has been on tv, but I haven't really watched because I can't find myself caring much about what's going on outside the Pac-12.
I love all of college football so my saturdays are 9am to 8pm with games. A lot less variety this year so far, but I couldn't go on with college football didn't exist.
We'll see. I wonder how many positive tests will need to result before games or the season are cancelled. Houston has yet to play a game. Their first 3 games have been cancelled and I think they have a bye week this weekend.
Titans just had players and staff test positive so they and the Vikings are closing their facility. Don't see how they can play this coming weekend.
Notre Dame is having a huge outbreak right now. I guess Touchdown Jesus is no much for GOP stupidity in Indiana. ND has a bye this week so they won’t have to postpone a second game in a row. They next play FSU on October 10th. FSU has been devastated by bad football and poor recruiting, which like Covid, has no none immediate cure.
So, I get an occasional email blast on redfin because I have an account there, and my old house, which I sold like 5 and a half years ago, is back on the market. It's a weird feeling looking at your former place of residence, and it's especially strange because they've done a ton of renovations, but also still kept a bunch of the renovations I did, so there's this mix of the recognizable and the new. It's like they finished the job I was doing, but in a somewhat different way than I would have done. I suspect they must have put at least a hundred grand into it, if not more. Of course they're selling it for SEVERAL hundred grand more than they paid me. Looks nice, though!
This housing market is ridiculous right now. I thought Covid would cool the market here in San Diego but it has done the exact opposite.
MD is booming as well too. Recent tax increases in the Baltimore area have helped make a run on housing in adjacent counties. Houses in my area are getting bombarded with offers as soon as they hit the market. I'm glad I bought back in 2016.
And, of course, the area around DC is always strong.
There's also an element of people looking for more space now that they're all confined to quarters together. I'm genuinely surprised that there's a vacant lot a couple of streets over - the old house was knocked down but nobody has started on a new one yet.
Both the virus and the urban renewal fires have underscored the folly of packing maximum number of people in as close as possible.
I think an intervening variable there might be “America!”
Yeah, I wish I had bought in 2016, that was the sweet spot for still buying an affordable home in San Diego. I’m just going to wait it out while I save more money and pay down debt. My rent is super cheap so I can afford to have some patience.
Santa Barbara is ridiculously hot as well.
This reminds me that I need to pay the property tax
$750?
If only
Paying any taxes is for losers. Just claim it is part of your business or you took a massive loss by building a $1 million dollar pool.
and the hairstylist on retainer.
I think even the most trusting of auditors would smell a rat if I tried to deduct for hairstyle services
I look at my old house (which I sold in 2010, divorce) on Zillow and it is worth 2,5x what I paid for it in 2000.
The house I'm talking about (which I sold in 2015... prior to divorce), is listed for literally 2.4x what I paid for it in 2009.
We had put in grass and sprinklers in our small front yard (maybe 15x15) and the backyard. We drove by a couple of years after we sold and moved and they had put concrete in the front yard and put in a wrought iron fence around the front yard. Why take out the grass? I haven't looked at what the inside now looks like.
About 5 years later I think it was sold by the bank for at least 150K below what they paid for it. If I remember they paid about 75K over asking. And I think there was one other offer that was 5K more than their offer.
I take it back. It looks like it was sold for about 200K below what we sold it for 6 years after we sold it. We sold it for 475K, it was sold for 280K, and is now estimated to be 800K. I know when we sold it it was move-in ready and in good condition. The wiring and plumbing was all updated. Buying the house for 280 in 2010 was an amazing deal. Assuming the house wasn't in poor condition by then.
They're not the only ones who sold at a loss. The WaPo has a local section every Thursday that includes real estate transactions. Last week I saw Marvin Bush (one of George's brothers) bought a condo for $1.5 million. I knew he was trying to sell a unit in the same building so looked up the records. Earlier this year he sold the first condo for $3.2 million. $600,00 less than he paid years ago.
I think it was the bank taking the house over if I remember. Although we did sell at just about the right time, I don't think it would've gone down that low.
That’s the fiscal success we’ve come to expect from that family
ohhhh....better get some aloe for that burn.
Elsewhere in college
13 too-early Heisman contenders...
https://www.si.com/college/2020/09/28/heisman-trophy-contenders-trevor-lawrence
Underbite
Camelids (eg, camels, alpacas, llamas) do not have top incisors, which makes them look like they have an underbite. They use their upper lips to shear off food against their lower incisors. But they have 4 (alpaca, llama) and 6 (camel) upper canines, so they can deliver some nasty bites. Thank you for subscribing to Zoonews.
https://rlv.zcache.com/alpaca_smile_teeth_poster-ra362952a4b3a41e9830e4d04e929a344_bm51r_8byvr_216.jpg
Underoos
I've heard of Underoos, but I don't think I've ever seen or worn them.
cartoon themed kids undies was how it started....I just made the terrible terrible choice to google it. They now have all manner of cartoon and movie character styles for adults as well as children. I'm sure if I looked deeper there will be the 'sexy time' versions also.
in other also: I just used a double dose of hand sanitizer, and still feel dirty.
also you're now a pedo
too bad the current administration might be going soon, now that he's qualified
I hope you used private browser mode. And a VPN.
fortunately I didn't look past the title page. It just had clearly adults in them and section headers Men, Women, Kids...
I miss my Yoda ones...Post-Empire, circa ‘81...
Underdog
Voiced by Wally Cox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQQcniF2Bg
Nov 22, 1986.
Cal has lost 8 in a row, the first being a resounding home loss to historical doormat San Jose State. Joe Kapp has been canned but is riding out the rest of the season. Cal has to play #16 Gator-Bowl bound 'furd. Cal is using its third QB on the season, while the Weenies have John Paye, Brad Muster, Toi Cook, Ed McCaffrey, and Thomas Henley on offense.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/1986-BIG-GAME-20-years-later-upset-is-still-2483963.php
I believe Mike Ford scored on an end around to seal the Cal victory. I recall the telecast (was in high school at the time) and Joe Kapp was carried off the field on the shoulders of the Cal players.
This was also the game that Hardy Nickerson conducted the Cal Band. I was there.
I was in the band. This was the 'win one for the zipper' game. Joe came out to the tunnel just before pre-game to talk to us, and thank us for supporting him and the team through the tough times.
I thought for a second the creator was a Cal grad. A Cal grad, Jay Ward, created Peabody and Sherman, Dudley Do Right, the characters Boris and Natasha, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc. contemporary with Underdog.
From Wiki re: Rocky and Bullwinkle: The idea for the series came from Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, who previously collaborated on Crusader Rabbit, based upon the original property The Frostbite Falls Revue.[17] This original show never got beyond the proposal stage. It featured a group of forest animals running a television station. The group included Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky), Oski Bear, Canadian Moose (Bullwinkle), Sylvester Fox, Blackstone Crow, and Floral Fauna. The show in this form was created by Alex Anderson.[18] Bullwinkle's name came from the name of a car dealership in Berkeley, California, called Bullwinkel Motors. Anderson changed the order of the last two letters of the name and gave the name to his moose.[19]
Oski the Bear (second left)
He's baked, no?
https://images.boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/bolt/2019/11/cast_11302019_58205-768w.jpg
Like an apple pie.
How cool :)
one of the best cartoon theme songs ever
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder, fighting all who rob or plunder...UNDERDOG.
True that.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Wilbur Ross shutting down census next week in defiance of a Federal judge that reinstated a deadline of Halloween.
https://twitter.com/uscensusbureau/status/1310685274104569856
Ex chairman of Cyprus Bank, a known money laundering haven.
Here's a Tweet that I didn't expect
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1310772722142777344
She's more of a populist kind of grifter than a straight up partisan
I'm not sure what it's an indicator of but saw a glorious bald eagle on my run this morning.
A good omen.
PRO
A's take on White Sox, 12 PM Pacific on ESPN.
Melvin is starting Luzardo in game 1 even though he a leftie and the Sox' lineup is composed almost entirely of right-handed power hitters. In fact, they are 14-0 against lefties. Bassitt (rightie) tomorrow and Manaea on Thursday, another leftie.
Surprise, they pulled him after 3.1 innings.
Such absolute fucking stupidity.
...and of course they lose :(
Yeah, White Sox are the best team in the league by far against LHP. Makes no sense to start 2 lefties against them in a short series.
I thought the A's would come back but only managed a tepid rally in the 8th. Pinder lined out and that was it for their chances. In the ninth they looked stressed out while the Sox were smiling and laughing and having fun playing the game.
SPOILERS
They're on their way to being 15-0, based on the first few innings.
So far this looks like the usual A's postseason performance.
CAL
Go Bears!
Go Bears!
Whoo Hoo! Go Bears!
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that Cal is going to be playing football games in a little over a month.
Yeah and I’m having a harder time wrapping my head around that both the Big Ten and MWC are going to start play before us. I do not understand why we couldn’t start in October.
bc Larry Scott is a shitty commissioner
Same. I've seen that college football has been on tv, but I haven't really watched because I can't find myself caring much about what's going on outside the Pac-12.
I love all of college football so my saturdays are 9am to 8pm with games. A lot less variety this year so far, but I couldn't go on with college football didn't exist.
Same here. Although I did tune in to watch the 4th quarter of Oklahoma/KSU and the 4th quarter/OT of Texas/TTU. Those were entertaining games.
We'll see. I wonder how many positive tests will need to result before games or the season are cancelled. Houston has yet to play a game. Their first 3 games have been cancelled and I think they have a bye week this weekend.
Titans just had players and staff test positive so they and the Vikings are closing their facility. Don't see how they can play this coming weekend.
Notre Dame is having a huge outbreak right now. I guess Touchdown Jesus is no much for GOP stupidity in Indiana. ND has a bye this week so they won’t have to postpone a second game in a row. They next play FSU on October 10th. FSU has been devastated by bad football and poor recruiting, which like Covid, has no none immediate cure.
It's almost as if putting lots of people in close quarters with indifferent ventilation and precautions could lead to adverse outcomes.
Me too, but I know I'll watch.
Oh, of course I'm gonna watch.
Practice starts Oct. 7th, correct?