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Now Jen Campbell's going after Zapf's seat
Well Lorie Zapf has taken care of herself and at age 59, was able to attract a younger man, Eric Zapf who is 51.— September 3, 2017 6:41 p.m.
Councilwoman Zapf dodges financial hardship
I believe that neighborhood is called "Bay Ho Palisades"— September 2, 2017 6:33 p.m.
Now Jen Campbell's going after Zapf's seat
Jenn's going to have to get a $200 hair style, a professional glamour shot and then have the teeth photo-shopped stage white like Lorie Zapf did.— September 2, 2017 6:23 p.m.
Now Jen Campbell's going after Zapf's seat
But Golding enjoyed the spoils of her husbands crimes.— September 2, 2017 7:31 a.m.
Now Jen Campbell's going after Zapf's seat
She doesn't have to claim she knew nothing. She demonstrates she knows nothing everyday..— September 2, 2017 7:29 a.m.
Irene Valenti claims to be matchmaker for the rich
"Valenti claims that the matchmaking business has turned around. “I thank the Lord we are back on track and doing very well,” she insists." So is "the Lord" another angle to her con? Seeking all Christian women with money and no critical thinking skills? Making a public statement with "the Lord" is a code word for saying "think of me as a Christian" and (wink-wink) Christian women should find me trustworthy. For Christ's sake, Nancy Hoover could be a better shadchanit . Nancy has a knack for lassoing wealthy eligible men. Perhaps those match seekers should ask Ms. Match Queen why she is unmarried?. So no rich men for her, the center of the wealthy man universe?— August 30, 2017 9:45 p.m.
Southern California home prices barely above bubble peak
Visduh, nothing is wrong with Del Mar Heights. But I hated the ZIP Code because every bid on got on anything was higher than if I said I was in, say, Sierra Mesa. "Oh, you live in 92014? That'll be 50% more because we think you have the money." I live in Lemon Grove part time to help with my 92 year-old mother and the rest of my time in Coronado. Coronado is so fantastically more friendly and refreshing than Del Mar.— August 27, 2017 8:20 p.m.
Southern California home prices barely above bubble peak
In 2003, we purchased a real fixer-upper in Del Mar Heights (Del Mar ZIP Code, but in the city of San Diego) for $679,000. Put a lot of sweat equity and about $100,000 in improvements and sold the house in the summer of 2007 for exactly $1,000,000. After the crash I would look at Zillow and it went down to a “Z-Estimate” of $785,000 in March, 2011. Today the Z-Estimate is $1,130,000. So that would be a 13% increase. JustWondering has a good point because I think the current Z-Estimate is rather high. The craziest thing was when we sold it in 2007, it worked out to $709 a sq. ft. whereas when we bought it four years earlier it was $481,000 a sq. ft. I’m a believer that the cost per sq. ft. is a more important consideration when comparing values in a neighborhood and the average sq. ft. cost compared to other communities. Just like the cap-rate is the most significant metric for purchasing rental investments. The subject property is a 1400 sq. ft. single family home (rambler style, one-story) on a 7,300 sq. ft. lot. Oh it has a nice view of Carmel Valley, and a large pool, and one-mile to the beach...but 3BR 2BA 1400 sq. ft. for one million dollars or more?— August 27, 2017 4:34 p.m.
Fight for truck leads to court
Did the truck have those "Bull Balls" on its trailer hitch?— August 22, 2017 9:50 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
The editing has been atrocious for years. I began my subscription with a Groupon offer that gave me the L.A. Times for $20 a year – for Thursday through Sunday. They renewed it at $20.00 for several years. Then they wanted to bill me $179.00 a year and I decided that I could get enough news on the Internet. So I could not cancel the subscription! I called and cancelled it. It continued to arrive on my doorstep. Then for a few months they kept billing me and I kept telling them I cancelled. The paper kept coming. When I told them I was not going to pay for the charges after my first cancellation request, they told me if I did not pay, I would be put into collection. I finally got the paper stopped. Then a couple weeks later I get a call from an L.A. Times subscription representative and he asked me what it would take to make me an L.A. Times subscriber again. So I am like, “so what part of ‘cancel’ do you not understand?” Kemosabe. A Side Note: I have found to view the L.A. Times as an “industry organ,” in that is if I didn’t know better, I would think I was reading Advertising Age or Architectural Digest. It’s just newswire stuff and fluff. The entire newspaper industry is in peril. There is no way to turn any of the print properties around. They will consolidate, polarize fragment. Until the “news” is controlled by those “most tech savvy.” The human race is at a tipping point where they get their data, ideas, perceptions from media more than church (or temple, mosque, …). Our world community, via “leap-frog” technologies have created a global connectivity never known to mankind. The coming changes are going to come fast and unexpected. The print newspaper industry is dead. In 20 homes on my block I am the only person to receive a daily print newspaper. It arrives at 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m because of print logistics or just the don’t care anymore – and the outsourcing of delivery functions. “In the day,” my morning paper arrived at 4:30 a.m. Which was nice as I left for work at 5:00 a.m. to start at General Dynamics Space Systems at 5:30 a.m. Times sure have changed!— August 21, 2017 10:47 p.m.