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[quote author="ipoplaya" date=1208933646][quote author="Nude" date=1208933183][quote author="CalGal" date=1208933023]<blockquote>save that money and get a HUGE jump ahead.... I guess i?m just too practical. </blockquote>
I agree. That's exactly what we did and we were able to buy a house a lot earlier than all of our friends. I wouldn't change a thing.</blockquote>
Same here, but we bought the house, then saved for the wedding/honeymoon. Suddenly our budget became more realistic.</blockquote>


My wife (then girlfriend) threatened not to sign loan docs on our home purchase unless we were engaged. I popped the question a few weeks before escrow closing! One mortgage was way cheaper than two rents back then so we spent a bundle on the wedding. Kept it small but very nice...</blockquote>


Ipop,



Can?t believe you fell for that trick.

What the hell?

You were a DJ that rocked a mullet and drove a mini-truck

Shame on you.



Please tell me you didn?t fall for the ?"saving herself for marriage? ploy.

You did, didn?t you.

Should?ve ply?d her with more Zima dude.

If all else fails, break thru any resistance by rollin out the heavy artillery, the ?Long Island Ice Tea.?
 
[quote author="ipoplaya" date=1208933646][quote author="Nude" date=1208933183][quote author="CalGal" date=1208933023]<blockquote>save that money and get a HUGE jump ahead.... I guess i?m just too practical. </blockquote>
I agree. That's exactly what we did and we were able to buy a house a lot earlier than all of our friends. I wouldn't change a thing.</blockquote>
Same here, but we bought the house, then saved for the wedding/honeymoon. Suddenly our budget became more realistic.</blockquote>


My wife (then girlfriend) threatened not to sign loan docs on our home purchase unless we were engaged. I popped the question a few weeks before escrow closing! One mortgage was way cheaper than two rents back then so we spent a bundle on the wedding. Kept it small but very nice...</blockquote>


I always knew I liked Mrs. Ipop... I just never knew how much until you rolled in with that tidy tidbit.
 
<blockquote>

If all else fails, break thru any resistance by rollin out the heavy artillery, the ?Long Island Ice Tea.?</blockquote>


now we're talking
 
[quote author="tenmagnet" date=1208934687]

Should?ve ply?d her with more Zima dude.

If all else fails, break thru any resistance by rollin out the heavy artillery, the ?Long Island Ice Tea.?</blockquote>
They still make Zima?
 
[quote author="IrvineRealtor" date=1208936028][quote author="ipoplaya" date=1208933646][quote author="Nude" date=1208933183][quote author="CalGal" date=1208933023]<blockquote>save that money and get a HUGE jump ahead.... I guess i?m just too practical. </blockquote>
I agree. That's exactly what we did and we were able to buy a house a lot earlier than all of our friends. I wouldn't change a thing.</blockquote>
Same here, but we bought the house, then saved for the wedding/honeymoon. Suddenly our budget became more realistic.</blockquote>


My wife (then girlfriend) threatened not to sign loan docs on our home purchase unless we were engaged. I popped the question a few weeks before escrow closing! One mortgage was way cheaper than two rents back then so we spent a bundle on the wedding. Kept it small but very nice...</blockquote>


I always knew I liked Mrs. Ipop... I just never knew how much until you rolled in with that tidy tidbit.</blockquote>


Had to do what I had to do ten-man. I wanted the house bad, as prices had been sky-rocketing each and every phase release, so it was in my best financial interest to produce a ring pronto. I knew the house would be a good investment and didn't want to be "priced out".



The ring purchase was quite an ordeal. This is a bit of a story, but I'm in a loquacious mood this evening so stick with me... I rolled into downtown LA one afternoon to try and find a "deal" on a ring. Was wandering around some building in the jewelry district, lost, and happened to see a sign with a name I recogized, Tacori. I walk in and its obviously not a jewelry store. Some dude is having his lunch delivered and paying the delivery guy. I turn to slip back out the door and he says "Can I help you?". I'm like, "Uh, I thought you were a jewelry store, I'm looking for a Tacori ring, you know where I can find them around here?". He says "Well, we don't sell them here. This is the Tacori headquarters". No idea who the guy is so I press on with my fact-finding mission and say "Well could you at least give me list of the retailers you sell through?"



He asks me to come back to his office to talk so I follow. He's eating his lunch and starts drillin' me with questions about what I was looking for, etc. and then drops the bomb that he is Paul Tacorian, owner/founder of the company. This was before the company got big time doing rings for The Bachelor... I chat him up some more about his business and he evenutally offers up to do a ring for me. Rifles around in his desk in between bites and pulls out a tray with perhaps $500K to $1M of cold hard diamond bling and we start picking some stones for the ring. A little part of me is thinking I need to pop him in the face, grab the stones, and run like hell... Calls the lead designer in and we sketch it out. He's getting fired up a little because it's a vintage look he hasn't quite done before. Then, we negotiate price, come to a figure of $10K, and he says "I'll need that today, in cash please. We're leaving for vacation this afternoon and it would be good to have some pocket money". Friggin' vacation pocket money for him is like 20% of my annual take home at the time.



I'm only armed with credit cards so I run halfway across downtown to Wells Fargo, withdraw $10K, stuff it in my underwear and socks, and then walk back past around 100 vagrants, homeless, etc. sweating bullets all the way thinking I'm going to get jumped, robbed, lose the money and opportunity to score a cool ring. Fortunately for Mrs. IPO I made it back in one piece and two weeks later I picked up a custom-designed Tacori original for a couple of grand less than I'd have paid for a retail model in a jewelry store. Sometimes it's great to be dumb, lost, and lucky...
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1208948267]Am I the only one thinking about that money coming out of ipop's tighty whitey's ??</blockquote>


Thankfully I was never a fan of boxers :)



Ya know, I just realized, I should have taken a damn cab...
 
OMG! Will someone buy house please! I don't know how much more of this Ipop/Ten lovefest I can take. I need some escrows damnit! Granted they, along with others, put a snarktastic smack down on IrvineHomeDebtor, but I need more posts from people other than them. For the most part their lovefest is funny, but now I have to see .jpgs of the tail Ten wishes he got in college 10+ years ago, I mean he had 8 years to get his BA, so you would think the .jpg would be real and not pulled from an A playa blog. Now, I have to hear about Ipop and his ring ordeal, which should have been posted in my useless/useful facts thread, and filed under useless. It was a good story though, even if he was a bit of a sissy walking around in an area of LA that isn't nearly as bad as he says. Come on Ipop, an A playa like yourself should have walked around that area with $50k falling out of your pockets, and still kept your head up. Blah... nevermind, you were probably sweating and shaking like crazy, which made you look like the scary one.



Oh screw it... I have to join in on the downhill spiral this thread has taken.



So... I go into the <a href="http://www.basin.com/">Soap Basin</a> at downtown Disney, and I see this soap...



http://www.basin.com/web-cart/files/images/d_571.jpg



I have a .jpg on my phone that I will upload later. But, now I can be a true housing bear, and wash away any bullishness with some good ol' bearish cleanliness. I can start my day with bearishness, and after the gym I can refresh my bearishness. I can also use it, when posters like IrvineHomeDebtor post, to wash away that nasty Kool-Aid stickiness. The sales clerk assured me that it will wash away any Kool-Aid nastiness, like this...



http://www.x-entertainment.com/kool-aid/reviews/man-o-mango-berry/1.jpg



I have been told Ten likes to mix this with Grey Goose every night for his pre-night out cocktails.



What I found interesting is that the soap is hand chopped from a brick of soap. So, I bought an entire brick for awgee. I figured he would want to start amassing his collection now, to store in his underground fallout shelter/vault along with his gold. I just hope he has room for it.
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1208948267]Am I the only one thinking about that money coming out of ipop's tighty whitey's ??</blockquote>


:ahhh: You were.... :sick:
 
[quote author="acpme" date=1208989047]whats more overvalued -- diamonds or housing??</blockquote>




Tacori was big a few years ago but now it?s mass-produced and sold on QVC.

I buy Tacori rings, earrings and tennis bracelets in ?bulk? Costco style from QVC.

Pass them out to chicks like candy on Halloween.

Along with the ?You?re so special to me? smile.

Anyway, none of them has ever called me on the fact that they?re made in China.
 
[quote author="acpme" date=1208989047]whats more overvalued -- diamonds or housing??</blockquote>
Based on the anecdotal evidence collected to date... housing. My wife couldn't tell you the color of our front door but she can gaze at the diamonds on her left finger for hours. When the sun comes out, rare in Seattle, you might as well forget about having a rational conversation with her because every little glint catches her eye and "oooh, sparkly" temporarily derails her train of thought.



Clearly, housing is over-valued.
 
[quote author="graphrix" date=1208967858]So... I go into the <a href="http://www.basin.com/">Soap Basin</a> at downtown Disney, and I see this soap...</blockquote>
You just <em>happened</em> to be visiting Disneyland, hmm?
 
[quote author="Nude" date=1208995857][quote author="graphrix" date=1208967858]So... I go into the <a href="http://www.basin.com/">Soap Basin</a> at downtown Disney, and I see this soap...</blockquote>
You just <em>happened</em> to be visiting Disneyland, hmm?</blockquote>




Hey Nude,



Go easy on him.

Graph hasn?t been the same since Target laid him off in ?06.

Nice to see he?s finally living his dream, and found his true calling ?playing? Peter Pan or Tinkerbell.

Disney is a big step up for him from his ?nutter? days at the ?Cockpit?, where he usually spends most of his nights.
 
<blockquote>My wife couldn?t tell you the color of our front door but she can gaze at the diamonds on her left finger for hours. When the sun comes out, rare in Seattle, you might as well forget about having a rational conversation with her because every little glint catches her eye and ?oooh, sparkly? temporarily derails her train of thought. </blockquote>


Alas this is true. What used to be cool was when I'd be driving and the sun would hit the diamonds just right and my car would turn into a disco. I'd rock out on the freeway with my own personal disco ball. :-)
 
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[quote author="caycifish" date=1209000881]<blockquote>My wife couldn?t tell you the color of our front door but she can gaze at the diamonds on her left finger for hours. When the sun comes out, rare in Seattle, you might as well forget about having a rational conversation with her because every little glint catches her eye and ?oooh, sparkly? temporarily derails her train of thought. </blockquote>


Alas this is true. What used to be cool was when I'd be driving and the sun would hit the diamonds just right and my car would turn into a disco. I'd rock out on the freeway with my own personal disco ball. :-)</blockquote>


What about those people who have good taste in beautiful cars but parked them on the driveways in front of their 3 car garage Caesar Palace McMansions.
 
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