[quote=svelte]Rent here in San Marcos is $1700/mo for a two bedroom 1000 sf apartment, plus or minus $100. And supply is pretty limited.

I know, I’ve been assisting a friend of the family.

They ended up scraping together a 20% down payment and buying a 2 bedroom condo with a 2 car garage. Their payment is less that rent would have been.

There are so many submarkets in San Diego it is very hard to make a general statement about the entire county that means anything at all.[/quote]I’m pretty sure you can make a general statement if you preface it with except for undesirable areas. Then you can point to areas like Carmel Valley and say I was right, and areas like San Marcos and Mira Mesa as either undesirable or borderline undesirable.