It’s not the mello roos, it’s homes built from 2003-2007, it just coincides with when m/r was most prevalent in that area.
I didn’t say people avoid areas with minorities, just areas that are predominately one group when you are not a member of that group.
This is going to be boring for a lot of people but you cam along after my purchase, which was well doccumented in 2008 on the boards. I’ll try to summarize.
The house is too big for me, always will be, but I wanted the location and it happened to be already there. The lot is in the 7k sq ft range I think. It’s on a hill/cliff so there is about a hundred foot to my nearest neighbor behind and my ground is above their rooftop. The hill in between is hoa maintained, so their dogs don’t come up to my fence. My backyard extends 15 or so feet from the back of the house, I wanted it that way, low to no maintenance, room for a spa, bbq island, cigar area and that’s it. It also has wide side yards, maybe 15 feet and stepped up so nobody sees anyone’s windows, it’s tight but feels spacious. Yardwork is an hour a week, just what I wanted.
Paid 265k, orig owner bought new in 2006 for mid 600’s, put 100k into it and lost it but kinda gutted it and thrashed it so it took some money to make it livable, but did the work myself, not as bad as I thought.
The comparable communities in my view or the places I would live, Carlsbad, encinitas, most of the NCC (except oceanside), 4S, Poway, RB, Scripps, Carmel valley, Carmel Mtn, San elijo, I probably missed one but you get the drift. I also didn’t just move here, I moved here 20 years ago, from san diego but the reasons were the same. When i moved here from Cardiff, my house payment cost less than my apartment rent in cardiff and my commute was decreased. For even money, I’d still take temec vs the so.bay or east county, but that’s the funny thing, those places are still more expensive. But now that I’ve been doing this for so long, paying my mortgage on the many houses I’ve owned over the years and never paying more than a weeks pay for my entire housing costs for the month. I can’t go back, I like having extra money, I like not worrying.
