sdrealtor-
Thanks for the post..I was hoping that you would chime in. I think that we became piggs around the same time!! I would love to sit and pick your brain about the area. We moved here from Shadowridge and love it (we live close to Mission Estancia in the cheapest rental I could find here) I have tried to talk to people around town to get a feel of different developments but most people say they are all great. I have heard comments that OPE is a snobbish school and that LC Valley are stepford wives. Although, that could be from people that are just bitter or it could be the truth. My husband and I are very joe regulars that don’t feel the need to keep up with the Jones’. We are jeans/shorts, t-shirt/tank and flip-flop type of family that spends most weekend at the beach. But we also like the feel of the newer developments. I am afraid that we will buy in a neighborhood and I will have nothing in common with my neighbors.
We have been looking at the MLS for so long that I am not even sure that we know exactly what we want. We started just wanting a 3/2 sfr and then it went to 4/3sfr, now I would love a 5/4sfr (office, gym, craftroom/kids office) As prices have been dropping my taste has risen. I am starting to think that I won’t mind overpaying by 10% if that means that I can get the house that I love. We are so young and are planning to live in the house until our children graduate from college and then move to our beachfront house (hopefully) that it seems silly to live in our hotel-like house for 75k. We don’t have pictures up and we haven’t unloaded most of our boxes because I don’t want to do it again.
I don’t feel the need to buy at the absolute bottom. We sold in 2006 and feel that if we bought today we are still loads of money ahead. So how does one decide what prices fundamentaly should be? Do you take 2003 prices and add 8% a year?
We went to a couple of open house this weekend in La Costa Valley for the first time and I was a little disappointed with the floor plans. I did not want to start looking at houses before for fear that it would make me want to buy. Do you know how we could get information about the different develpments and floor plans of each? We have of course absolute things that we need. My husband works from home or will when we move, so we need a room that is pretty secluded from the play areas in the house (a master retreat would work great or another room upstairs), I would like the kids rooms to be jack-n-jill or at least have their own bath in their rooms and the kitchen and family room need to be open. We basically want what everyone wants, which is going to be a problem.
Do you have a separate email that I could email you more personal questions that I don’t want the world to know about?
