I’ve only been there once and I was 14 or so, but it seems that LA gets a real bum rap. I mean i’ve met people who have loved it, but they always move out saying they cant afford to live there. I have had people literally refer to it as a hell on Earth. [...]
Why does everyone hate LA? (Los Angeles: appointed, how much, movies) – City-Data Forum
January 19, 2012 By
Report Shows That Angelenos All Want to Flee For Riverside
January 13, 2012 By
Trulia released its Metro Movers Report today, showing which metro areas people are looking to move between and the number one search in all of the US is Angelenos looking for property in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. Gasp! Pearl clutch! via Report Shows That Angelenos All Want to Flee For Riverside – Facts & Figures – Curbed [...]
Press This 404 errors caused by move to Hostgator
December 11, 2011 By
No disrespect to HostGator – I love them! But after moving my hosting to HostGator my “Press This” bookmarklet JavaScript no longer worked. Here is the very easy fix. The problem: Some hosts have lame mod_security rules that block unencoded urls, making Press This unusable. Source: http://forums.hostgator.com/apache-upgrade-broke-feature-wordpress-t40603.html The fix: Replace: u=’+e(l.href)+’ With: u=’+e(l.href.replace(/\//g,’\\/’))+’ Source: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/press-this-results-in-404?replies=22#post-1008326 #16940 (Prevent [...]
Housing and the economy: Rising from the ruins
November 7, 2011 By
The economic landscape is unquestionably littered with the wreckage of the crash. Home prices languish near post-bubble lows, over 30% below peak. The plunge in prices has left nearly a quarter of all mortgage borrowers owing more than the value of their homes; nearly 10m are seriously delinquent on their loans or in [...]
How To Tell If Your Rent Is Going Up
November 5, 2011 By
The nation is currently seeing some of the highest occupancy rates since 2002, according to the National Renters Association. Fewer available tenements coupled with swarms of tenants flocking to fill them up means the ball is back in the landlord’s court and they’re shooting for the three-pointer. Some regions of the U.S. have already seen [...]
Kern County bucks the trend for CA property values
September 7, 2011 By
Property values are increasing in Kern County at a faster clip than most of the state, despite the rest of the Central Valley experiencing the bulk of the declines. via Kern Co. bucks the trend for Calif. property values | Local & Regional News | Bakersfield Now – News, Weather and Sports.
Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend…?
August 18, 2011 By
The Federal Reserve is quietly continuing with one of the many outrageous bank-bailout programs it initiated during the financial crisis–the one in which it pays big banks interest on their “excess reserves.” What are “excess reserves”? Money that the banks have but aren’t lending out–money that banks are just keeping on deposit at the Fed. [...]
Activist Post: What QE3 Will Look Like
August 13, 2011 By
We are about to witness one of the greatest orchestrated events in human history; a monumental slight of hand that will restore economic prosperity, keep the masses happy and, most importantly, maintain the parasitic elites in power. via Activist Post: What QE3 Will Look Like.
FHA Refinance of Borrowers in Negative Equity Positions
August 13, 2011 By
FHA Refinance of Borrowers in Negative Equity Positions On March 26, 2010, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced enhancements to the existing Making Home Affordable Program (MHA) and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) refinance program that will give a greater number of responsible borrowers an opportunity [...]
Bank of America agrees to write down California mortgage principal
August 4, 2011 By
Bank of America has begun writing down principal on the mortgages of some troubled borrowers in California through a state program intended to help people facing foreclosure. The bank has signed on to the principal reduction component of the Keep Your Home California program, which uses federal funds reserved for the 2008 rescue of the [...]