The industries in so cal are aerospace, the movie biz and education.  

The scene in the movie Casino where the guys are being bludgeoned with baseball bats come to mind when things go south.

The only difficulty I have is I'm single so keeping up with a 4,000 sq' house and property is hard.Sometimes I feel like I'm in the movie "The Money Pit".

Ever see the movie Animal House?

Originally posted by J Scott:Go ahead, call me McFly Actually you remind me a lot more of a tertiary character from that movie:"Did you just take that guy's wallet?

Whatever you have to do to protect your family long term.In some rough areas these people live like animals and the police don't care.They know most are renters and that if they go by there will be another few arrests the next day.In Atlanta it's this way in the city where they try to preserve the stable areas and the war zones look like something out of a movie set.

So, if I stop drinking Starbucks, going to movies, cable, and I consistently save my 10% a year on an average salary of $50k/yr.

If I were to map our all of the interconnections between customers and referrals in my service business over the past 10 years, it would look like one of those chaotic tactical FBI crime web boards from the movies where the lines crisscross too much to even track. 

This family took me under their wing, armpits, or whatever and they owned several very large apartment buildings, 25 movie theaters, commercial high-rise buildings and single-family homes.The richest people in the U.S. own multi-unit properties and commercial buildings.Send me more information about why Blackstone buys single family homes and send the math.

I actually ended up at the Grove later that night, to see the new James Bond movie.