tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post4236854420975398819..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: Saturday Mish MashYour Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-16824296539090521722008-02-19T16:26:00.000-08:002008-02-19T16:26:00.000-08:00Find a dealer selling a new Ferrari for 160k and I...Find a dealer selling a new Ferrari for 160k and I'll buy two!<BR/><BR/>The F430 coupe *base* model is 180k IF you can find one. Dealers usually stock the 200k & up model. <BR/><BR/>The rest of the models are 250k and up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-17397099821819131202008-02-19T01:40:00.000-08:002008-02-19T01:40:00.000-08:00Lady at AMEX, do you want to lose your job ?? some...Lady at AMEX, do you want to lose your job ?? someone on here could call them up and complain about you giving advice on this site.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-9504553484780063102008-02-18T16:47:00.000-08:002008-02-18T16:47:00.000-08:00No Amex Lover, I have a the AMEX Platinum co-brand...No Amex Lover, I have a the AMEX Platinum co-branded with Costco, pay the balance every month (the grace period is 20 days) so no finance charges and no annual fee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-74298921997253633682008-02-18T16:41:00.000-08:002008-02-18T16:41:00.000-08:00LOL! Now "Average Joe" is "the lady at american ex...LOL! Now "Average Joe" is "the lady at american express"??<BR/><BR/>It depends on what AMEX card you have. They still offer the *old* cards with an annual fee that have to be paid off. Mostly used by businesses. Most consumers have one of the newer AMEX cards (starting with the AMEX Optima in 1987) which allow carry a balance and in many cases have no annual fee. AMEX needed to compete with Visa/Mastercard/Discover so they started offering cards with similar terms to those.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-26159643485143319522008-02-18T15:14:00.000-08:002008-02-18T15:14:00.000-08:00Our card holders HAVE to pay off the balance every...Our card holders HAVE to pay off the balance every month,that's what having an AMEX is all about!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-62949824067271302182008-02-18T14:49:00.000-08:002008-02-18T14:49:00.000-08:00NO!! Don't listen to that other guy, I'm the real ...NO!! Don't listen to that other guy, I'm the real Average Joe!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-54569024395315950392008-02-18T14:48:00.000-08:002008-02-18T14:48:00.000-08:00Oh Average Joe. You're so cute.But you must not ha...Oh Average Joe. You're so cute.<BR/><BR/>But you must not have an AmEx. <BR/><BR/>I put about 15-20k on my card every month and pay it off every month. <BR/><BR/>I don't get any finance charges for doing that, but I do build up some nice frequent flyer miles that upgrade all my plane tix to first class.<BR/><BR/>Does anyone get charged 2% for their AmEx when they pay it off each month?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-36398840921250270972008-02-18T14:38:00.000-08:002008-02-18T14:38:00.000-08:00Polly why would you put 160k on an AMEX card ???? ...Polly why would you put 160k on an AMEX card ???? do you know what the interest on that would be ??? even if you paid it off in a month you would still have to pay around 2%, here we go again.....<BR/>go hire an accountant and he will explain it to you.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-51024063055646032822008-02-18T14:33:00.000-08:002008-02-18T14:33:00.000-08:00Hey Average JoeFebruary 18, 2008 11:10 AMWhy are y...Hey Average Joe<BR/><BR/>February 18, 2008 11:10 AM<BR/><BR/>Why are you impersonating me ???????? get a life<BR/><BR/>DICK !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-67906097045751712782008-02-18T12:35:00.000-08:002008-02-18T12:35:00.000-08:00anon 7:59- The house you posted is only 2 houses d...anon 7:59- The house you posted is only 2 houses down from the one Mama posted, at 219 S. Mapleton Drive. I'm pretty sure this is one of John Berci's projects, as well as the home behind it on Beverly Glen, which is for sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-37565096425577938052008-02-18T11:10:00.000-08:002008-02-18T11:10:00.000-08:00polly, I already apologized in another thread. I s...polly, I already apologized in another thread. I suffer from male PMS and was in pain. I really make $700/mo, live in my brother's attic in Cleavland, drive a classic yellow Yugo and work as a shoe salesman. My friend did try to buy a car but it was $160 down on a 1982 Ford Expo. They approved his credit at first then changed their mind when they found out his job reference was his mom. So he had to take the car back. It was a good thing because he really couldn't afford the $20/m payments for 7 years. I have to pretend to be an inportant person in a big city because otherwise my life has no meaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-9377934796945955842008-02-18T10:23:00.000-08:002008-02-18T10:23:00.000-08:00Average Joe,you are so stupid,if a person has a LE...Average Joe,you are so stupid,if a person has a LEGAL 160K left over to buy a car they would NEVER pay cash they put it on an Amex card and get 160 thousand miles on an airline.What planet are you living on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-80392669590354600152008-02-18T07:59:00.000-08:002008-02-18T07:59:00.000-08:00Interesting about the alleged Affleck purchase of ...Interesting about the alleged Affleck purchase of the Mapleton house. Affleck was seen at a construction site supposedly in the same area looking over a house under construction that looks a lot like the one on S. Mapleton. Actually, he's been seen on that construction site several times in the past. Here's the link with pics of the house:<BR/><BR/>http://www.viply.de/?p=4948Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-55857981634096637532008-02-18T07:23:00.000-08:002008-02-18T07:23:00.000-08:00anon you said you worked for a high end dealership...anon you said you worked for a high end dealership for 9 years, what did you do get them coffee, wash their cars ? I know you were not the finance guy or a GM, so either you washed cars, got the staff coffee or sold cars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-3389808075482525352008-02-18T06:44:00.000-08:002008-02-18T06:44:00.000-08:00Joe/Ed, your reading comprehension fails you too? ...Joe/Ed, your reading comprehension fails you too? Must be hard to even make that 7k a year. I never said I was a car salesman (I wasn't), and I also wrote in the past tense "worked". Start hitching back to *Phoenix*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-17432269330486232962008-02-18T03:54:00.000-08:002008-02-18T03:54:00.000-08:00anonyour a car salesman ? thats a laugh, I would ...anon<BR/><BR/>your a car salesman ? thats a laugh, I would not go around advertising it. If you owned a dealership ? now that is a different story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-75831814304449893172008-02-17T16:50:00.000-08:002008-02-17T16:50:00.000-08:00Not to mention recording the conversation where on...Not to mention recording the conversation where one is asking the dealership to participate in tax evasion would be really dumb. Can you see that one going before a judge?<BR/><BR/>"Your honor, my client asked the dealership to help him defraud the US government and even though they said they would verbally, they didn't go through with breaking the law so now my client wants to sue them for damages. We have the audio tape of my client asking them to break the law, can we admit that as evidence?"<BR/><BR/>I imagine the judge would reply (after he was done laughing) "Meet Bubba, you'll be very happy as his butt buddy for the next 10 years"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-74615733340537525352008-02-17T09:22:00.001-08:002008-02-17T09:22:00.001-08:00Average Joe, that is the most stupid story you hav...Average Joe, that is the most stupid story you have told yet. <BR/><BR/>A) if your "friend" had a good year and had saved up 160k to pay cash for the car, wouldn't the income have already been reported? Investments, payroll income, etc. all are. All he would have had to do is show the income was already reported. <BR/><BR/>B) the only way the dealership could have possibly avoided reporting a cash transaction would have been to hold the cash in the premises and deposit in the bank in increments of less than 5k at a time. If they deposit more than 5k, they have to answer for where the money came from. I worked for a high end dealership in BH for 9 years and now this for fact. The dealer would be stupid to keep that cash laying around just to appease a client.<BR/><BR/>C) the simple fact that your "friend" would even ask them to do this would indicate a drug dealer or the like in which case he was asking them to launder money...also illegal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-45101727185564770132008-02-17T09:22:00.000-08:002008-02-17T09:22:00.000-08:00Average Joe, that is the most stupid story you hav...Average Joe, that is the most stupid story you have told yet. <BR/><BR/>A) if your "friend" had a good year and had saved up 160k to pay cash for the car, wouldn't the income have already been reported? Investments, payroll income, etc. all are. All he would have had to do is show the income was already reported. <BR/><BR/>B) the only way the dealership could have possibly avoided reporting a cash transaction would have been to hold the cash in the premises and deposit in the bank in increments of less than 5k at a time. If they deposit more than 5k, they have to answer for where the money came from. I worked for a high end dealership in BH for 9 years and now this for fact. The dealer would be stupid to keep that cash laying around just to appease a client.<BR/><BR/>C) the simple fact that your "friend" would even ask them to do this would indicate a drug dealer or the like in which case he was asking them to launder money...also illegal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27060853621189927192008-02-17T00:28:00.000-08:002008-02-17T00:28:00.000-08:00anon 11:13pm I know what you mean a friend of mine...anon 11:13pm <BR/><BR/>I know what you mean a friend of mine paid 160k cash for a ferrari at a dealership this year and got a letter from the IRS asking him how did he get the money (his business had a good year) and where the other 160k was that he was supposed to pay them.<BR/><BR/>He had to take the car back (He showed up there with a high priced attorney and he threatened to sue the dealership, they swore to him they would not report the cash transaction during the initial purchase which he had on tape.) and he will still have to pay the IRS 70k from the 160k that they know he had made come tax time.<BR/><BR/>Years ago, cash was king and you could pay cash for anything get a huge discount and no one would say anything , they would bury it in the books, but these days I found out from his experience that.....<BR/><BR/>A it is a good idea to have an accountant<BR/><BR/>B the account will tell you that anything over a $9999.99 purchase paid in cash, check, credit card will be reported to the IRS and the IRS will expect you to have at least half to pay them come tax time and if you have a business you have to pay them every 3 months.<BR/><BR/>I guess is that the person who buys that place if they pay 4.5 MM cash they will have to pay another 3MM to the IRS for taxes ? at least that is what his accountant says, which is why I continue to rent it is cheaper in the long run, maybe I do not own it but at least I will not end up with the big headaches that come with it and worse loss of freedom, frozen bank accounts.<BR/><BR/>When I was thinking about buying I hired my friends account and he said to me "If you really want to know what you can afford, take what you make per year and divide that by 3 then divide that by 12" <BR/><BR/>"The rule of thumb is for every 100k it is a 1000 a month payment with insurance and taxes" so I guess if I buy I can only afford to live in a shack in the hood in LA with my present job.<BR/><BR/>If I stay in LA and want to buy a home and stay out of trouble these are my choices.<BR/><BR/>Take acting classes and maybe get lucky at being a star and make $$$$$$<BR/><BR/>Pay 200k go to a business school get an MBA and make $$$$$$<BR/><BR/>Pay 100k, Learn software and maybe become the next bill gates and make $$$$$<BR/><BR/>This is a joke....<BR/><BR/>I guess I will continue to still rent and not worry about the american dream of ownership and continue to live in the lap of luxury. <BR/><BR/>Then again if the market goes back to 1995 prices I will be the first one in line with the cash to buy and I will still have the other half to pay the IRS come tax time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-44396949579088825852008-02-16T23:13:00.000-08:002008-02-16T23:13:00.000-08:00What I meant to say is that if she cannot get any ...What I meant to say is that if she cannot get any of her celeb friends, moguls ect to buy her place for 3.8 to 4.2 she still may be able to sell it on the open market for 3.6 (I am being very generous here) and that is IF it does not crash !!!! ....... why the market has not crashed yet is way beyond me, I mean over 80 percent of us realtors are out of a job and yet homes are still being sold...... something does not add up.........<BR/><BR/>oh well....<BR/><BR/>btw a payment on a 4.5 MM place would be 40k a month with insurance, taxes and you would have to make at least 900k a year to prove to the IRS and other agencies that you could afford to make a 40k a month payment. I suspect who ever buys it will be paying cash.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-46958082048290795332008-02-16T23:02:00.000-08:002008-02-16T23:02:00.000-08:00why are there no pictures ? or at least a virtual ...why are there no pictures ? or at least a virtual tour, do they think the celebrity status is going to sell it ? some folks never learn and it is way overpriced, according to zillow.....it is worth 2.8 MM and my formula (where real estate prices would really be at without the failing of subprime/interest only loan products that are taking our nations banks to the cleaners, even the governor of NY is on the news getting worried) so my formula says to take off another 50% so it is worth 1.4 MM tops.<BR/><BR/>Even with a bank loan, the payment, taxes, insurance would still be around 15k a month and who can afford that these days ???<BR/><BR/>Then again the crash still has not happened so I am sure one of her celebrity, mogul, or some other rich friend will buy it for 3.8 MM maybe even 4.2 MM but the prices in LA have dropped 20 percent so if she holds out, she could sell it for 3.6 MM plus the 1 percent comission realtors are forced to get these days which will be 36k so I am sure when it sells it will be reported that it sold for a little under 3.6 MM.<BR/><BR/>My guess because I do not have access to themlspro anymore, my broker went out of business and we all got laid off, is that she bought it for 800k in 2001 maybe even less so she will still come out ahead if she sells it for 3.6, way ahead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-55055467037842015852008-02-16T21:25:00.000-08:002008-02-16T21:25:00.000-08:00Khandi Alexander has always struck me as divalicio...Khandi Alexander has always struck me as divalicious and a real bad ass. <BR/><BR/>I'm with LGB, she probably has some serious taste. And she probably got the house at a decent price so she'll make some money on the deal and if she's smart, which I think she is, she'll find herself a jewel box of a home in the flats of Beverly Hills or a stunner of a condo in Century City.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-54392707484313876402008-02-16T13:24:00.000-08:002008-02-16T13:24:00.000-08:00So_Chic,Thanks - did not want to say it myself for...So_Chic,<BR/><BR/>Thanks - did not want to say it myself for obvious reasons . . .<BR/><BR/>Always take the NY Times reviews with a grain of salt; after the plagiarism scandal the old cronies are back in charge.<BR/><BR/>How was the Broad collection?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-39724235233191598792008-02-16T12:15:00.000-08:002008-02-16T12:15:00.000-08:00thanks jason, i just made mad cash. now i can bail...thanks jason, <BR/><BR/>i just made mad cash. <BR/><BR/>now i can bail the Bisno's out<BR/><BR/><BR/>:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com