Tag Archives: California

Cam Newton, Win Or Lose, Will Be Getting Sacked By California Income Taxes!

If he wins Super Bowl 50, the players share for Carolina Panthers starting quarterback Cam Newton will likely be over $100,000! On-the-other-hand if he is on the losing end, his players share will only be about half as much. But whatever the final score of the game ends-up being, suffice it to say that one of […]

Los Angeles Ultra High-End Homes…And You Thought New York City Was Expensive! (Video)

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Anyone looking to buy a home in New York City’s tonier neighborhoods knows that sticker shock is a definite possibility! Asking prices in Manhattan have been known to top the $100MM mark, driven in no small part by foreign buyers looking for a currency storehouse. But these apartments, if strictly for investment, can be left empty with little impact on […]

Video: Astounding $500 Million Price Tag For This Bel Air Home!

California real estate developer Nile Niami is spec building a home with a $500 million price tag that, when finished, will allow the lucky buyer to actually claim the title of ‘Prince of Bel Air’! Spec building, for those who may be unfamiliar with the term, entails building a home with no buyer in mind hoping […]

20 signs the western US drought is quite serious!

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“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner You wake up in the morning, turn on the faucet to brush your teeth or hop into the shower, and what happens? Of course the water flows because […]

The Top 10 Fastest and Bottom 10 Slowest-Moving U.S. Housing Markets!

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HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A CLOSING WHERE THE TITLE WASN’T CLEARED? WE HAVEN’T! ________________________________________________________________________ Now that Spring has finally sprung, the process of shopping for a new home or selling a current home can be the foremost item on the agenda of a great many Americans! The unfortunate fact is, however, that not all housing markets […]

Does your homeowners insurance exclude radiation contamination?

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For Americans the nuclear disaster that was set-off by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Fukushima, Japan in March 2011 was a tragic story not expected to significantly impact the United States! Since that time, however, anecdotal evidence suggests that the nuclear waste and radiation flowing from the core of the crippled reactors that has […]