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I gave one reporter a side story about my bicycle. It turns out that only a few blocks away is the San Jose State University bicycle store, and I had bought a bike from them. They called it the Mayor's Bike.

That wasn't a term I had heard of before, but it had all the stuff I wanted in a used bike so I bought it. I asked them , "why do you call it a Mayor's Bike"? Is that some new bike platform?

They said it was because Mayor Sam Lucardo had gone down to their store and donated/sold his bike to them, and they hadn't even finished cleaning it up and pricing it when I bought it.

I'm riding around on the Mayor's Bike.

1 posted on 01/27/2021 12:46:25 PM PST by Kevmo
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To: Kevmo

Stay safe.


2 posted on 01/27/2021 12:48:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Most of the rental properties I know about...I’m a landlord...are mortgaged. If I didn’t get paid for several months, the bank would take them from me. Banks get to evict. At least here, they do. Banks have WAY more sway with the courts and the sheriff’s than do us lowly landlords. There is no free lunch. Somebody has to pay. If it’s the landlord, I can tell you that rental will be off the market for about a year. When it is sold it will be at a fraction of its original value and it will be trashed. Will new people buy it and fix it up, knowing they will be in the negative for several years and that at any moment the government might decide that they can’t evict non paying renters?

The reason the economy was so bad under Obama was the GM debacle. That took over thirty trillion dollars, corporate and private, out of the market. No one will invest when the rules in place for centuries can be changed by an executive order. This is partly why Trump’s years were so good.


3 posted on 01/27/2021 12:58:21 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Everyone who asks for forbearance on their debts should have to submit to a substance abuse test.

5 posted on 01/27/2021 1:18:02 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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So, is this being classified as a ‘riot’ or ‘insurrection’? Is there ‘storming’ going on?


6 posted on 01/27/2021 1:18:08 PM PST by hanamizu
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I have been a landlord in the valley for 30 years.
Selecting tenants is the most important skill you can acquire when renting real estate, IMHO
Still make mistakes from time to time, but not often.
Better to have ‘no renter’ than a ‘bad renter’...


18 posted on 01/27/2021 3:32:08 PM PST by glasseye (It's okay to hate democrats...)
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This article quoted me.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11857277/protesters-block-san-jose-courthouse-in-demand-for-stronger-state-eviction-protections


21 posted on 01/27/2021 11:04:22 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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