Response to ‘hatchet job’ I have been traveling around southern Mexico the last few weeks and the first thing friends handed me when I returned was a column by Nicole Murray Ramirez in the March edition of the LGBT Weekly. I would like an opportunity to respond to the hatchet job done on my character…
One of the biggest advantages of owning a condo or townhome is that typically the exterior structure, landscaping and grounds of the property are maintained for you. As a condo owner, you will pay a monthly homeowners association (HOA) fee, which usually will pay for the gardening, water, basic insurance on the property and exterior…
When the time comes to sell your home or investment property, there are many things you will want to take into consideration. By being proactive and preparing for the sale, you will know what to expect and will typically have a better experience. It is not possible to cover every aspect of what may occur…
It is still a great time to buy a home in San Diego. Prices are still down and mortgage interest rates are low. Although it is still a buyer’s market, the number of home sales has risen. This is due to having a large number of buyers in the San Diego market, which includes investors…
San Diego’s biggest real estate transaction of the year closed March 24 when Bethesda, MD-based HOST Hotels closed escrow on the Manchester Grand Hyatt. HOST paid $570 million in cash and other considerations to the hotel’s developer Doug Manchester, ending the embattled Republican big-wig’s saga to sell the property. Manchester, under the veil of his…
Democratic Club’s response In (a recent) issue of San DiegoLGBT Weekly (March 17, 2011, Issue 18), columnist Nicole Murray Ramirez accused the San Diego Democratic Club of attacking announced mayoral candidate Bonnie Dumanis unfairly. Further, while calling my comments sexist and intimating that I had simply accused her of endorsing a Republican, Nicole failed to…
I love the Freedom of Speech, one of our dearest freedoms granted to us by the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. Of course, you would expect me to write that. I am a journalist. As a reader – as a U.S. citizen – you should love the Freedom of Speech, too. Yet certain…
As I write this week’s column on Sunday morning, local pro football news is focused on the player lockout and the potential loss of the upcoming season. No one’s yet talking about the word on the street from a confidential San Diego Chargers source that the Spanos family has already inked a deal to move…
They say bad things come in threes. Last week, devastation swept over much of Japan, Libya descended into civil war and the Middle East seemed poised to resume its traditional role as the world’s biggest unlearned history lesson. While mankind hasn’t fully mastered the science of reliable earthquake prediction, we have a pretty good handle…
As I mentioned here several weeks back, a handful of successful lawsuits against mortgage conglomerate MERS are being won across the country. Well, that trickle is now a stream. Watch out for the deluge. What is MERS? Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems is a 50-employee company founded just 16 years ago in Reston, VA. Today, MERS…
