Tim Lorenz

I'm sorry but I just have to get this off of my chest in what I call Tim's rant. What kind of a nation are we becoming? I grew up in a free nation that we respected each other's freedoms. Now, we have people who want us to live the way they think is good for us. STAY OUT OF MY FREEDOMS!!!!!

I told you I got up this morning and can't quite figure out why and how we got here thus Tim's rant. Yes, as I grew up I road a bicycle without a helmet, we could travel in the back of a pickup truck, we helped our neighbor without the State or Fed. help.

Now, besides all of the above there are movements to tax us calling it something else, like the pocket mouse removal on land here in California. When you pay the fee on so you can build no one traps the mouse no one does anything we just pay the state. How about the lotto in California.

We were told that if we had a lotto we would not have to worry about school buildings needing repair anymore. The money would go to education. Not true, oops I would get in trouble the money does go to education. DOES IT? The department of education has a budget so any money that flows into there department that is more than the amount to run education is pushed out to the general fund. No money actually goes to education and we still have schools that are in worse repair than before the lotto. Net result we are worse off.

Who is running the State of California? Have we lost our minds? We turned off water to grow food in the great central valley of California and that was to help a 3 inch fish. No proof that the water pumps was causing the demise of the fish. We want to help them from going extinct. Since the shut off they are still decreasing in number and people and food aren't that important. How does that add up? They are running the water into the ocean and not to the land causing a dust bowl.

So, the Metropolitan Water District will cough up $350,000 to a San Diego project over a 25 years period and desalinate water. Sounds good right. No we can't do that either critics don't like that it is a private company and want the government that is broke to fund the project and build it. Environmentalists worry about the impact of highly salty brine and what will come of it. So they want alternatives. So for the nation at large you will not be getting the produce from California.

We must be the most distracted people in the world and don't know or care about how our freedoms are being taken away everyday. We are trying to take on too much as government who cannot tell the truth. We need to actually take action and use our laws against those who made them and lied to us. If they have misused funds and gotten kickbacks while convincing us that the sky will fall if we are not being cared for by them we need to take action. If not vote out everyone.

We look at California and we are broke and today there is discussion that TVs take too much energy so they have set standards that reduce the power that a TV can use by about 50 percent. Not based on science or manufacturing standards or what is possible but what they believe it should be. That standard is only until 2012 then they want it to be a 3rd of what it now takes. Leave my enjoyment of TV alone.

Where does this stop? Then we are going to be told by the feds which cars we can buy and what kind of health care we can purchase. Since the government cannot tell the truth and or run a business well, why are we doing this.

Well sorry but that is Tim's rant of the day.

Here is the update on the Mission Viejo you will not get the dog park at the Oso Viejo location but a dog park will be built. Monday the Mission Viejo City Council voted to take the funds that were allocated for a dog park at Oso Viejo and move the funds ($250,000) to a new location to be determined. Trish Kelley wanted to change her vote.

The city staff was assigned to look at other locations. The dog park proponents and the residents are coming to a peaceful resolution. So the update on Mission Viejo dog park is that we start over.

Home prices in Orange County get better and better. Dricen by the continued upward climb in the entry level or lower prce homes Orange County gets better. MDA Data Quick reported that the sales price increased but the actural number of sales went down.

The median price of a home here in Orange County is now $436,500 up 3.9 percent from a year ago and up a over 18 percent since January. The increase of home median price has been going on for the last 8 of 9 months. That is great news and of some significance and it shows that the market is getting better.

It was 2.75 years ago that the market changed and the market began to drop in value and in time on the market. We shiftd into a buyers market although it months for most to accept the change. It was 33 straight months of falling home prices. Our previous down turn was 61/2 years long (April of 1989 to March of 1996) and we are a lot shorter than that occurance. Prices have dropped from October 2005 to January of 2009 42.6 percent in Orange County. Now that is a huge price drop. Now they get better every day.

It has turned around.

Mission Viejo Area Market Report

This weeks market report for Mission Viejo and surrounding areas shows that Orange County Median Prices for the resale homes were up 3.6 percent, for new homes it is up 4.4 percent and for resale condos up 8.8 percent. The sales volume is up for resale homes 10.4 percent and up 10.2 percent on condos and down 6.9 percent for new homes.

• Mission Viejo Zip Code 92691 sales prices are down 10.0 percent and the sales volume is up 21.3 percent.
• Mission Viejo Zip Code 92692 sales prices are up 5.4 percent and the sales volume is up 29.6 percent.
• Aliso Viejo sales prices are down 10.6 percent and the sales volume is down 4.6 percent.
• Laguna Niguel sales prices are down 16.7 percent and the sales volume is up 47.8 percent.
• Rancho Santa Margarita sales prices are down 22.4 percent and the sales volume is down 2.4 percent.
• San Clemente Zip Code 92672 sales prices are up 3.8 percent and the sales volume is up 116.7 percent.
• San Clemente Zip Code 92673 sales prices are down 12.3 percent and the sales volume is up 2.2 percent

Mission Viejo Mitsubishi dealer opened last week as our newest car dealership. The Mitsubishi Dealer opened its Mission Viejo location at the 28730 Marguerite Parkway where the Saub dealership was. The new dealership's hours are Monday through Friday 9 AM to 8 PM Saturday will be 9 AM to 7 PM and Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Mission Viejo Mitsubishi dealer and wish them the best on their business.