[quote=flu]Napa RE has come down, so I’m told….[/quote]
Yeah, flu, parts of Napa County became overbuilt in the nineties and early 2000’s. What probably happened there is that SF and SAC commuters bought into these tracts (some with NINA loans) and then discovered how arduous it was to wait in line on those two-laners to get to I-80 every workday.
Most of Napa County is not very practical to commute from. I DO like to visit it, flu, but am not interested in retiring in an endless tract. I would be looking for a custom property on the order of the San Rafael property featured here (“vintage” kitchen a bonus . . . lol).
My choice retirement counties are Mendocino, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco (flat only), Contra Costa, Sonoma and El Dorado, in that order.
Or who knows?? Maybe I’ll be able to eventually swing two “retirement” properties (both smaller and/or fixers) one in an urban/suburban county of choice and the other in El Dorado County (for the weekends, vacations and skiing) :=)
