Like I said everyone is different. The best suggestion I can give is not to buy a house like that in Summer when the kids are out of school and you cant get a realistic idea of what you are looking at. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book.
5year, I’ll try to get back on that another day. I’m buried with closings all over the place and then off to the OC Fair to see the Black Eyed Peas tonite.