Archive for June, 2007
Water Water Everywhere and not a drop to Drink ?
June 30th, 2007 categories: Buying San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate News, Selling San Diego Real Estate
California imports the majority of its water from a blend waters of the Colorado River and State Water Projects. In its raw imported state, it is full of contaminants. The contaminants of water from the State Water Project come mostly from pesticide and herbicides that are from agricultural runoff, wildlife and wastewater.
The Colorado River supplies are the most vulnerable to contamination from recreation and urban runoff, storm water and from the urbanization of the watershed. Several forces impact the Colorado River as it runs through the towns of farmland, mining sites and industrial use land.
Municipalities, which use various sources of blends of this water must be ever diligent to be able to treat the blend that is occurring at any particular point in time. The contaminants from inorganic and organic chemicals,microbials (viruses and bacteria),radioactive particles from radioactive contaminants,industrial wastewater, including petroleum byproducts and human wastewater all require different and specialized formulations for treatment.
The California Department of Health Services prescribes regulation,which limits the amount of certain contaminants that can remain in the water through some of the though some of the contaminants are known carcinogens. They must be reduced to levels that are not harmful.
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Real Estate Symposium in San Diego was a Real Hit !
June 29th, 2007 categories: Investing in San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate News
I spent 8 hours yesterday attending a fantastic Symposium in San Diego presented by Stewart Title. The day was loaded with wonderful speakers and presentations about Short Sales, Marketing,Smart Exchange for the investor client, New marketing tools, Web2, and a Lively featured speaker for Joe Stump’s By Referral Only organization on upcoming 3 day Training the Main Event Burbank CA. in September.
I believe there was in excess of 100 San Diego Realtors in attendance with breakfast and a lunch provided. It was an exciting morning with great presentations. I haven’t attended one of these Symposiums before but I can tell you without reservation that the information presented was awesome.
Speaker after speaker ,the information presented was excellent and the one next one up was going to be discussing Web 2. Reese Harris of ListingCard.net the presenter for Web 2.0 then asked the question if anyone knew what the difference is between the new Web 2.0 vrs Web 1.0. No one said anything and I sure wasn’t going to say anything, I am sitting in the front row and just wanted to see what was to come next.
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Internet Tax Moratorium Expires this year!
June 27th, 2007 categories: San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate News
Unless the U.S. Congress takes action, the moratorium on the taxing the Internet will expire in November 2007.
It seems that many senators may want to permit the future taxation of the Internet with a bill currently being drafted in the Us Senate. They are counter proposing only a temporary moratorium on the Internet instead of a permanent tax moratorium.
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander and Delaware Senator Thomas Carper wrote the bill before Congress for a Temporary Moratorium. Twice before in 2001 and again in 2004, similar bills have been passed with expiration dates, instead of a permanent Moratorium.
Senators Wyden of of Oregon and McCain of Arizona on the Senate side of Congress with Eshoo and Goodlatte on the House side have already introduced legislation to make the moratorium permanent. Their Bill is titled the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007. This bill would ensure that the first step has been taken to ensure that Internet access is not subject to discriminatory taxes, limiting the choices of consumers, crippling innovation and undermining this countries global competitiveness,
The Federal Communications Commission indicates that 60 % of all new high-speed lines for Internet access are from wireless, which demonstrated amazing growth of that particular technological development in connectivity. In the high speed rankings, globally, the US is ranked 15th out of the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developing nations.
The wireless consumers want to protect against even more taxes. Currently the wireless consumers are paying 14% of their monthly bills in taxes,fees and surcharges. A recent survey by the consumer advocacy group, MyWirless.org indicated that 71 % of the consuming public support laws that would prohibit, Federal,State or local taxing authorities from taxing the Internet.
Congress should be acting NOW to protect wireless and Internet access for all consumers against discriminatory taxes. Congress should be taking action NOW to assure all Americans that the Internet should always be tax free .
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Loan Terms and Cost are Baffling Borrowers !
June 25th, 2007 categories: Buying San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate News
Kenneth Harvey, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post wrote a great article on this conundrum of current borrowers with mortgage delinquencies and looming foreclosures. Kenneth’s article deserves a closer examination. He uses in his research a study recently completed by federal researchers. They examined the 819 recent prime and sub prime mortgage customers and came up with some surprising findings. The FTC found that using the current “Truth-in-Lending” and “Good Faith Estimate” disclosures that are required by RESPA ( Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act):
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Record Numbers Of Relocation Employees Have Serious Reservations
June 25th, 2007 categories: Buying San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Real Estate, San Diego Relocation, Selling San Diego Real Estate
Employees that are candidates for Relocating to other locations for employment are balking in greater numbers. Why, because the cost of living in the some of the major cities has been sky rocketing over the years, especially housing. Even with the declines in the market of housing prices, they are still out of reach for many of the transferees. Another reason is the hesitation to uproot the family and leave their comfort zone, their families and friends.
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