I find RDs posts interesting and certainly illuminating as to the areas he is looking to buy since I once upon a time was interested in some of the same areas.
But, and this is a big but, how can anyone spend so much time and effort looking at houses and all the research that goes into it, not to mention the travel time being from the Bay area, and so forth and yet not end up with anything. Clearly, according to RD he has the financial resources to pull the trigger on anything he looked at, and can afford to wait even if there is some near term devaluation due to the housing market, so I just don’t get it. If I were RD, I’d consider a shrink to find out. His wife IMO is understandably frustrated.
I am sorry life is too short and to try to get the best deal seems to be really missing the point. I would have gotten tired or bored with the hunt along time ago, life has a defined time limit, and spending a large chunk of my life house hunting seems like a huge waste, kinda like going to the mall frequently and just window shopping.
I know, to each their own and RD has a discipline thing going, but I thought the goal was to buy a house, not to search seemingly forever for a house.
