I don’t live in Irvine but close, around 6-7 miles away. I don’t own a home, I rent. Investments I have some in my 401k, I have a large chunk of change in cash that I kept liquid to use as a 20% down payment to jump on a home in case one popped up but have not been able to find any inventory that I liked in my price range so that has been a huge waste as I kept it out of the market and missed all the huge gains but oh well, whatever.
So, at this stage it is either get back into stocks (which are at all time peaks) or get into real estate investment at a $700-800k price point which is nerve racking.