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[quote author="Trooper" date=1207914155][quote author="Daedalus" date=1207913928]With a single post and click of the mouse, I thus graduate to IAC Renter. Woohoo!</blockquote>I dunno...still says you're living with the 'rents...</blockquote>
Now that's comedy.
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1207914155]I dunno...still says you're living with the 'rents...</blockquote>


I have been deceived!!!



[quote author="zovall" date=1207870425]IAC Rental 150-249

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I guess I am mouthy. Verbose.



What's thread spamming?



I'd like to see a category between starter and McMansion.



Living with parents is a bit

much. How about fixer-upper? Zero lot line?

Townhouse?



And something at the very top.



White house, as someone posted a while ago. Buckingham Palace?

Chateau? Chateau with moat? Gated community?
 
[quote author="lawyerliz" date=1207959592]I guess I am mouthy. Verbose.



What's thread spamming?



I'd like to see a category between starter and McMansion.



Living with parents is a bit

much. How about fixer-upper? Zero lot line?

Townhouse?



And something at the very top.



White house, as someone posted a while ago. Buckingham Palace?

Chateau? Chateau with moat? Gated community?</blockquote>
Welcome back liz.
 
resort living for the active adults.



[quote author="Nude" date=1207961995][quote author="lawyerliz" date=1207959592]I guess I am mouthy. Verbose.



What's thread spamming?



I'd like to see a category between starter and McMansion.



Living with parents is a bit

much. How about fixer-upper? Zero lot line?

Townhouse?



And something at the very top.



White house, as someone posted a while ago. Buckingham Palace?

Chateau? Chateau with moat? Gated community?</blockquote>
Welcome back liz.</blockquote>
 
Or we can do the more "desirable" places to live in Irvine... but would "Shady Canyon" or "Turtle Ridge" be the top spot?
 
[quote author="acpme" date=1207975723]way too subjective methinks...</blockquote>


Isn't that half the fun? We'd get people in here discussing how A is better than B or B is better than A, etc. ;-)
 
Yeah, but your subdivisions wouldn't mean anything to me.



And actually, I had a lot of work last week. Thought I had a case

settled where we were quieting title on a tax deed. The tax deed

foreclosee had put some concrete blocks on the property and then

some fill, and then the genius put the fill around the blocks. These

things are really heavy. They aren't very expensive, but my client sez

he's afraid that in removing them the defendant will damage the

neighbor's wall. And leave a hole, which may cause the masonry

wall to tilt.



Anyway, this is South Florida, right? Home of the weird. The tax

deed foreclosee made a deal with a realtor(tard) that the realtor

would pay the taxes in exchange for a 20% interest in the property.



Oral. Which is verboten in real estate.



Anyway, the realtor paid '03, but not '01 or '02, or for that matter

'04 (or 5,6, and 7). So a tax deed was applied for and after vigourous

bidding, the previous owner wouild get roughly 5 times the 69,000

he paid for the vacant lot. But no, he thought it was worth 700

grand.



My client hires me to quiet title, and I honestly thought he was dead.

Who buys a big--2/3rds of an acre--lot, with no mtg, and then just

lets it go? So I do my due diligence, and I call the Seller. Who knows

the broker, not sure if it was the same guy who didn't pay the

taxes, who calls the prior owner.



By the way, the prior owner didn't get notice because his address wasn't

put on the deed.



Also, his name was mis-spelled on the deed, his last name is Gonzalez, first name

on the deed starts with an E, instead of an He. He never checked that

either. The atty who prepared the deed is now a magistrate, and all

his files are destroyed. (Actually, what seems to have happened is

he put them in storage and didn't pay the bill.) The only address was this

atty's, and he claimed he never got a tax bill. Somewhere in the middle

the address was changed to the atty's new office address, and nobody

knows who did that.



Turns out this is a hot topic, and the courts are becoming extremely

reluctant to let the tax sale buyer keep the property, no matter what.

Anyway, the judge, who is smart but flakey, feels sorry for the defendant,

and we are off to the litigation races. I work like the devil and produce

a pre-trial catalogue, which is a couple of inches thick, not including

all the case law. The atty for the broker and the former(?)owner are

not sending me theirs. Then the atty for the broker calls and sez

that the owner's atty has retired and gone to Panama, without

withdrawing or anything, abandoning his client,

and that's why we haven't got the paperwork!!



We settle, except for the verschugganer blocks and then (expletive of

your choice) around arguing about the blocks, for weeks. Finally,

the other sides lets go and we have a deal. Oh, well, I get to charge more

money than what the *())^$@$#$% blocks could possibly be worth.



But a lot of testosterone got to be spewed.



This has nothing to do with anything, but this is my litigation weird ante.

Anybody got weirder? Not divorce or criminal, but plain ole real estate.
 
um hmmmm



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Sorry for the highjacking.



I didn't abandon my client.



Alas, I am on a medication for which I am not supposed to drink.

And I like to drink.



Sigh.



How about Villa? New York Mansion. (Has 5500 sqare feet at minimum, and is at least 25

feet wide.)
 
WTF! From Sr. Member to living with parents, next to IAC rental? I HATE IAC RENTALS!!!

Sigh. I guess I'll just have to get used to the new format and start posting again...
 
[quote author="Nude" date=1207644625]Maybe we could add a metric that penalized for too many posts in too short a time, or rewarded lengthy posts that weren't just walls of text with no punctuation. I mean, if we are bothering with ranks on the internet then I don't want to be outranked by people with diarhea of the fingertips and a disdain for punctuation. :coolmad:</blockquote>


If I ever get my way, I'll have Zovall tweak the post-counting code to ignore consective posts by the same person. This will cut down on the post-inflation.



I can dream...



SCHB
 
[quote author="socalhousingbubble" date=1210216827][quote author="Nude" date=1207644625]Maybe we could add a metric that penalized for too many posts in too short a time, or rewarded lengthy posts that weren't just walls of text with no punctuation. I mean, if we are bothering with ranks on the internet then I don't want to be outranked by people with diarhea of the fingertips and a disdain for punctuation. :coolmad:</blockquote>


If I ever get my way, I'll have Zovall tweak the post-counting code to ignore consective posts by the same person. This will cut down on the post-inflation.



I can dream...



SCHB</blockquote>


On a technical note the ROI on such an enhancement would be negative. There are 2 ways of doing it that I can think of, and one would cause the performance of the forums to tank, and the other would take a longer-than-wanted development time to get right and would probably be really buggy for a while. When you look at the ratio of the number of consecutive posts by a person to total posts I'm fairly certain it would be more effort than it's worth.



Indeed...you can dream. :-)



But keep dreaming and posting ideas. It's still a decent suggestion even if it's difficult to implement.
 
[quote author="caycifish" date=1210224748]



On a technical note the ROI on such an enhancement would be negative. There are 2 ways of doing it that I can think of, and one would cause the performance of the forums to tank, and the other would take a longer-than-wanted development time to get right and would probably be really buggy for a while. When you look at the ratio of the number of consecutive posts by a person to total posts I'm fairly certain it would be more effort than it's worth.



Indeed...you can dream. :-)



But keep dreaming and posting ideas. It's still a decent suggestion even if it's difficult to implement.</blockquote>


Hmm...I wonder if a moderator's deleting of a post subtracts it from the person's count? (Or is it like the Ferris Bueller <strike>Corvette</strike> Ferrari on cinderblocks?) That could be some incentive for manual consolidation if I were so motivated. :coolsmirk:
 
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