thanks to everyone for taking the time to contribute.
to answer questions.
1. planning to buy in Belmont, San Carlos, and possibly only North Redwood City. I bike to work and don’t want to live too far. I know that East Bay will double my purchasing power but this is not an option. We accept that Peninsula will give less house for money but we like living close to work.
2. Price range is $800K-1000K. Fixer upper is undesirable as we are nitwits when it comes to that. As mentioned above, no HMB or pacifica – hate driving/traffic. We can wait since we are not bound by school year requirements (no kids) but we don’t want to wait only to find out that prices have gone up 20%.
agreed that the vast open lands will NEVER be developed. NIMBY is strong here, esp among the Woodside super weathy folks.
Any open house we went to was swamped with middle aged folks with children in tow. This makes me think buying frenzy is about to begin.
Better to wait but then local news about all these wealthy Facebook employees makes me want to bite the bullet and buy.[/quote]
How about Foster City… It’s much nicer imho….
Might have to reduce the home size though, because prices have shot through the roof…
Your price range, you would live comfortably in Sunnyvale, but it’s probably too far down south for you.
And yes, bite the bullet and buy. 3/2 townhome in foster city use to be around $330k when I was looking back in 1998… I walked over a $10k spat I had with the seller… Big mistake. Huge!
