“I take issue with the idea that a 1000 sq ft house, 10 miles from the ocean and in a bad school district is going to sell for over a half a million dollars. ”

I agree that sounds like a bad deal and I would never buy something like that. As much as I like mission hills (which is about 3 miles from the ocean) I never could figure out Kensington. Once you get east of the I-15, I don’t really consider that coastal anymore.