Thanks for the quick responses and good ideas. The idea that coastal area prices won’t bottom until later is appealing; gives me more time to amass capital and I can definitly rent in a better area than I can afford to buy (right now I could afford Spring Valley but not where I want to be … inside or just outside “the 5” as youse guys say). Someone (rustico?) mentioned a thread about the advantages of renting… maybe I saw it .. dunno… I have been reading a lot of great stuff around here lately but unfortunately some of it has just become a blur. Where was that thread?

In the meantime if anyone else has thoughts on LS, PL and Loma Portal I would be glad to read them. Other areas of interest are just to the North and extend as far as Tourmaline Street. Pertinax/Pertinazzio

Beatus ille qui procul negotiis … paterna rura bobus exercet suis, solutus omni fenore….. Horace