Thanks for the advice everyone, I am going to keep tabs on both the for sale and the for rent and I’ll let you know what happens. SD, I appreciate you weighing in but waiting hawk and oc make a good point, if right after christmas the rent/purchase line gets crossed, I may throw some extreme lowballs while making a plan for a month to month rental. mgubnyc, I am not worried what it will look like, the area I’m looking at has been around about 15 years and was one of the few places in the valley that survived the early nineties with regards to appearance and demographics, this isn’t my first rodeo and i am closing in on two decades in the area, so I’m good. The northern outskirts, like french valley, that will likely go downhill fast in the downturn.
Cbad, thank you for the compliment but pity or wonder is not required, the current single status is a choice and I’m pretty happy with that choice right now. In fact my house hunting is somewhat dominated with the plan to keep it that way. When I see a 5 or 6 bedroom house, I don’t see extra rooms, I see potential problems. I need a house that is big enough for me but not big enough that the next girfriend will want to move in, since I mostly date women my age and they usually have kids, that six bedroom is a brady bunch waiting to happen, I need a welcome mat that says “no camping, violators will be prosecuted.”
