1) Rent
2) have never owned (29 yrs old)
3) N/A
4) Kinda just figured since I make good coin and still can’t touch anything that things were out of whack, then stumbled upon Pigginton last fall.
5) Most likely to move out of San Diego in about a year.
6) N/A
7) Yes, have been priced out. Would like to pay about 300k for a nice 3 bed/2 bath home either here in SD or somewhere else on the west coast.

1)Rent
2)Never Owned
3)N/A
4)Billboard on balboa ave saying “Stress-less mortgages, call Troy!” The guy was a used car salesman hocking mortagages. I knew something had to be wrong.
5)I would buy in several of my former neighborhoods
6)N/A
7)I am the poster child for priced out. Lived in SD most of my life, graduated from CSUSM in 98. By the time I saved 10k prices were out of control. I could buy now, but no thanks. 1999/2000 per square foot prices and I would buy. San Diego is my home, but if my choices are Escondido, El Cajon/Santee, or South Bay I would just as soon leave.

Josh

1) Own (LA)
2) Sold personal residence in July 2005 for self-directed job move (tech company). RE cycle was a factor, but not primary.
3) Sold at the Peak. Sold personal residence in SD in July 2005 for 820K (purchased in 2000 for 280K + 150K improvements). Purchased first SD house in 1996. Feel lucky, not smart.
4) I wrongly thought we were near a bubble peak in 2003, based on previous cycle. Found Piggington this Spring 06.
5) No, still own a second house (rental) there.
6) Yes, Considered also selling rental.
7) N/A

1) Renting
2) Sold Fall 2001
3) Sold way before the peak, but still pocketed substantial profit
4) Through friends and independent analysis I realized that prices were starting to be overvalued (by historical measures)in 2001.
5) Not sure where I want to buy back into, probably not my former neighborhoods.

Long time lurker, first time poster.
1)I rent, after making the move from SD to LA
2)I sold in February due to a job change, but had been eyeing the market cautiously for some time
3)Could have made more if I had sold in Aug or Sept of 2005
4)After reading lots on the topic, I concluded there was a bubble in April or May. A friend of mine warned me about a bubble several years ago, and a former co-worker sold in 2003 to bubble sit. A little early, but doing well now.
5)No, not going to move back to SD. Wages are much lower than LA and contrary to popular opinion, not everyone wants to live in San Diego. It’s a nice thing for San Diegans to say and even believe, but as a local (born there in 1975), I have no intention to move back.

1) OWN
2) N/A, but I did sell my place in Cary,NC in 2004 after renting that out for 5 years, it was an impulse buy out of college.
3) N/A
4) news, independent analysis, Piggingtons. Combo of all of the above.
5) N/A
6) No
7) N/A

1) Own in suburb. Purchased a long time ago.
2) Own. Bubble but lifestyle decision to own.
3) Still own. Hate packing. Everything in the house is just the way I like it.
4) Independent analysis
5) Stay in San Diego but want to move to Central San Diego (downtown, mission hills, hillcrest, point loma, bay park…). Hate impersonal suburban life.