Chris Bates
Chris Bates
ahead best definitely looking schedule season start state teams tried week
We tried to play the best teams in the state every year, and to go down to the IP and compete, as young as we are, was definitely good. Now we've got a big week ahead of us this week. Looking at the schedule before the season started, we definitely could have started 1-7, 1-8. And to start 5-0, that's a big lift.
boring call hate market price sort terms though
Though I hate to call it that, you have sort of a boring market in terms of price changes.
complexes generally higher older
Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.
balls felt obviously strikes struck swung three took
I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in the first but after that we made that adjustment, where we swung at the strikes and took the balls, and obviously it made a big difference.
easy execute guys hang proud runner seem thrown tremendous types
Getting that runner on and having him thrown out, it would've been easy for them to hang their heads. I'm just proud of our guys. It was a tremendous effort. We've done those types of things all year. And our guys seem to execute when they are called upon.
bit favor people possibly putting stable stay trend
If it's a seesaw, it's a little bit tilted in favor of renters. If the occupancy trend continues, then people aren't going to be putting rents up. Rents would at least stay stable and possibly decline.
eight games gonna guaranteed lose takes talk time win
We talk all the time about how it takes eight games to win the state, but when you put things in perspective, you're really only guaranteed two more games. If you lose two, you're gonna be done.
money pay potential
The potential tenants don't have the money to pay more right now.
quarter wait
We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.
fact healthier increasing reflects
The fact that everything's increasing reflects the healthier economy.
behaving county increase lower rates rest seeing southern
It's not behaving like the rest of the Riverside County area. The rates of increase are lower than what we're seeing in the rest of Southern California.
area bay economy growth happening late showing steady unlike
The Bay Area is stabilizing as the economy is showing nice, steady growth -- unlike what was happening in the late 1990s.
four games good playing stay three tons twice
As long as you stay in the winners' bracket, you're in pretty good shape. You get tons of rest. We've been playing three or four games a week. When you get in the playoffs, as long as you stay in the winners' bracket, you're only playing twice a week.
across couple decrease percent quarters rate
It (the occupancy rate decline) was unusual. It was across the board. We had a 0.2 percent decrease a couple of quarters ago, but (statistically) that was zero. This (the 0.5 percent decline), I think, is statistically significant.