I am with you on this one, what I want in my future house for the price has changed. Call me crazy but if I’m going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, I want to like my house.
We’ve been saving pretty aggressively for the last 3 years in hopes of coming up with a humungous down payment. Our goal is to wait at least 2 more years on the sidelines & by then have at least 25 % down payment available. If it looks like we won’t instantly loose 20-30k the day we buy it, we might jump in and buy in 2 years. If inventory is still too high, I’m staying on the sidelines.

Tell me if you think this is do-able. A stand alone house in Mira Mesa, Rancho Pena.. (sp?), Rancho Bernardo, Poway (somewhere in this area) about summer of 2010 for under say 375k? Don’t need a McMansion, just something nice.