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Kool. I rented one of my units to a family from taiwan. Too bad they aren't all moving to california .....

I'm not an E-waver ...but if you follow its line of reasoning and develop your own interpretation of the basic ideas then things tend to work out..... funny huh ?

I think SAC area is really the only alternative left in california that might make sense for both housing costs and quality of life. Its the last refuge for business location in the state taht makes sense and might allow employee relocation. The problem of course is that if you are buying now in...

Hello from fellow californian............ by the way the SAC area is a great area to be based. Your comments sound like ones I made after I initially got into the consulting business. The bottom line is that any type of consulting focused business requires large investments in face time -...

Actually the job market is reasonably good. The problem is to live on the coast you basically need to be making 200K or more. The people that have been buying in california were either speculators from outside the state or the US, or californians beting on appreciation and taking risky loans to...

Actually it more like 60 per hour. Anything less than this and you are really living poorly. Companies are accelerating their leave of the state. Yes there are people moving to the coast from outside the US but the few people that do in no way make up for the problem. This rich foreigner...

I think hes way wrong. California prices have tripled or quintupled in the last 7 years for average to small SFH. The current prices are completely unsustainable with the currrent california job base. Unless somebody expects incomes to magically triple in the next two years then we will see...

Football ? ... or are you talking about something related to the markets: if so lets hear your analysis.

Well, the working folks at the bottom of the ladder get the most scrutiny: its always been this way. If you are just an engineer with a National Security clearance then just about anybody. for any arbitrary reason, can have your security clearance pulled, no questions asked. Think you have it...

Markets like Denver and other slow grow markets will probably be OK. They dont move much and have a relatively stable housing market = although denver has seen appreciation balloon as well, particularly in the areas in the foothills up I 70. The problem areas are places where over the last 7...

For what ?

Running other peoples money is a huge time sink - You can do OK using your own capital or with limited outside capital involvement. That said ... your business focus is interesting: pm me if you are looking for outside investors/partners.

I always enjoyed my business trips to atlanta but I would never move my family there precisely because of problems you mention. Even today, 40 years after the height of civil rights movement these problems are fairly severe in the atlanta area... off course you can insulate yourself in a...

A couple of points: With respect to Barrett's comments ..... Any company HQ'd in Silicon valley can not afford to locate its own people there .... to survive in the valley you need to be making a minimum of 200K. So, of course he is saying that only the highest payed managers will stay there...

Its even worse that this in some areas of the banking and settlement industry. Essentially, any type of problem will disqualify you, no matter how minor: you need a pefectly clean background for some of these positions. National Security sensitive positions are even more demanding since even...

Why on earth would anyone care about this ? The only logical reason that all of these postings are appearing on ET is because someone is starting these threads as marketing either directly or indirectly for the channel - an employee, an advertiser, a related marketer or publicist ?

Condo situation: agreed. They really only make sense in certain scenarios. I have not seen a single scenario in either the bay area or so. ca. that made sense since 1999-2000 and the these were rehabs with marginal profits. Location and area is important but, at least in So. Ca., my feeling...

Well, you landed somewhere: that is good. Most of the largest financial institutions in the Los Angeles region are customers of my firm in one way or another. Is you data quality business your only venture or do you have other interests/foci in the financial or tech sector ?

Well I think I answered my question with a simple google search ........

Wow. LP Carhartt and Co. Is this a blast from the past ? I seem to recall this firm from my days at the Merc. How did Larry move from trading Interest rates to IT / data consulting ?