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Desert Inspiration in Palm Springs
Another sock puppet weighs in. LOL— March 27, 2013 8:17 a.m.
100% commission at Nordstrom
You LOST money working there? Really, you mean that you actually had to give them money in exchange for working there? WOW, I find that entirely hard to believe!!!— March 26, 2013 11:41 a.m.
SD average home prices top metro areas' yearly gain
Don Bauder, The Residential Real Estate Indicators report should be released later today. How about giving us a summary of that as report well.— March 26, 2013 8:51 a.m.
Desert Inspiration in Palm Springs
"If it's there, furnished, ready, BUT NOT open, I'd call that languishing." HUH??? From what part of construction is on track for the hotel to reopen in October do you get "there, furnished, ready, but not open"? As for being wrong for sharing the info if it isn't ready to open in October, well I think not so much. I am sharing what the mayor said in his speech. No right or wrong about it, it is what he said. Nothing more and nothing less. And if you want more info, then why don't you just to the RC website, get the number and call the pre-opening office for yourself.— March 25, 2013 5:06 p.m.
Desert Inspiration in Palm Springs
"Almighty Google"???!!! HAHAHAHA Why don't you just look at websites that actually LIST the names of the courses and count them for your self? BTW, my parents lived in La Quinta for almost 20 yrs after they retired and my wife and I have owned a place in Palm Springs for almost 10 yrs, so I can speak from actual personal knowledge that there are not "hundreds" of golf courses out there. I understand that the Reader's Travel section is reader submissions But while you may feel that it's appropriate for readers to cite errors and make corrections, I feel it would be appropriate that the readers making these submissions should at least have SOME idea of WTF they are talking about, and maybe, just maybe have actually been to the place they are writing a travel article about. But then again I tend to put a good measure of importance on details and accuracy, apparently unlike some others. BTW, here's another correction for this story. The Ritz Carlton is not languishing awaiting rebirth. According to what the mayor of Rancho Mirage said last week in his state of the city speech, construction is on track for the hotel to reopen in October as planned. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— March 24, 2013 11:13 p.m.
Desert Inspiration in Palm Springs
"Thanks for the accuracy checks! " Uh, Why is it the readers are the ones correcting the mistakes?? There are absolutely NOT 269 golf courses in the valley. Please site your one source. And then you might try looking at this. It is about the most comprehensive list I know of: http://www.golfcalifornia.com/destination/coachel…— March 24, 2013 7:52 p.m.
Desert Inspiration in Palm Springs
There are not 300 golf courses in PS. I think there are around 10 if you want to count a public 9 hole course.The 2 mentioned in the story are not in PS. PGA West is in La Quinta and the Nicklaus Course is one of 6 PGA West Courses.There are not 300 courses in all of the Coachella Valley. I think there are about 120 or so give or take, the valley does have the most courses of any region in Ca. A couple of other bones to pick with this story. Palm Springs has not been delighting folk since the turn of the century, they have been delighting folk since early in the 20th century. Even the PS link in the story is wrong as it's a link to Palm Desert. FYI Amy, Palm Springs and Palm Desert, yeah 2 different places. And Palm Springs is NOT an hour west of the Salton Sea. That would be more like Julian. PS is about an hour from the Salton Sea, provided you don't get stuck behind an onion truck, but is pretty much equally north and west, not west. And personally, I prefer Las Casualas or La Bella. All of this leads one to wonder Amy, have you actually BEEN to Palm Springs??— March 23, 2013 8:59 p.m.
San Diego home values, rents keep rising sharply
Don Bauder, The data you used in your article was for home prices, not home sales figures. And while the sales data does "take in all the tiny towns around the West", it also takes all of the major metro areas, like here in Los Angeles, for example. I haven't looked seen data for Jan/Feb, but according to a report done by the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU, in December, existing home sales in Phoenix metro fell by around 5%.. If you have metro area specific data on home sales, not home prices, please share it with us.— March 21, 2013 7:34 p.m.
Will Chargers leave for LA? Which newspaper d'ya read?
OK , but the question was what do you consider "over the long run", as in " One factor is how much MLB will profit over the long run with a team in LA." How about answering the actual question asked?— March 21, 2013 12:20 p.m.
San Diego home values, rents keep rising sharply
Home prices are up year over year. But how do they compare with home prices from the 2005-2007 time frame, before the bubble began to burst? I think adding that data to your story would be helpful in giving a comparative look at how far back things have come since the bottom. For example, on the sales side, existing home sales hit a 3 yr high last month, to an annual rate of 4.98 million units. A three year high sounds great, but taken in context, maybe not so much when you consider that 6 yrs ago, March 2007, the annual rate was 6.68 million. Or going back just a little further, to mid 2005, the annual home sales rate hit what I believe was then a record sales rate of 7.33 million homes. As I said, I think it would be useful if you also provided the comparative data that would let us see where things stand in relation to conditions before housing tanked. BTW existing home sales in the west region are without question the worst in the nation, having risen less than 2% year over year, which is far, far worse than any other reason. So while prices are up, there are comparatively fewer homes moving at those higher prices here in the west, so I don't know so much about things booming in the west. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— March 21, 2013 10:31 a.m.