[quote=UCGal]BG –
Once again you assume that because it doesn’t fit your personal wishes/lifestyle/demographic – it’s invalid.
Yes – you’re a baby boomer looking towards retirement. Yes – you do a lot of work downtown. Yes – you’ve only got one child left at home – soon to fly the nest. So for you – southbay is a good fit for your needs. That doesn’t make it the ideal spot for others, with different needs.
Not everyone buying houses is a baby boomer nearing retirement. In fact, I would assume that many home buyers are folks with minor age children, or planning on having children in the future. Most baby boomers have already purchased their primary home… although some might be looking for retirement homes to downsize to.
BG – you need to remember there are job centers outside of downtown. Sorrento Valley/sorrento mesa is a huge employment center. Probably more folks working there than downtown. (Based on traffic I’m pretty certain this is true.) Carlsbad has quite a few businesses/industries. The I-15 corridor from Scripps Ranch up through Rancho Bernardo has a number of large employers. Folks who work in these areas would not be well served by having a commute to the southbay.
True – the legal stuff is downtown because of the courthouse and jails – and that’s the field you’re in. But there are other industries in San Diego county – so living close to downtown might not do anything for your commute if you work in Carlsbad.
Please try to remember that not all home buyers have the same needs/wants that you do. I get frustrated by the way you attack folks who have different views.[/quote]
Uhh, except that you yourself have minor children and chose not to buy within a CFD, UCGal. You’re one of many thousands of parents who chose not to voluntarily pay this tax. As KPBS keeps telling us, “Mello Roos is the tax you choose.” In fact, you have stated here repeatedly that you are sending your kids to those dreaded (gasp!) SD City Schools. That’s all I’ve been saying here. There are many, many areas for housing choices in SD County but the main posters here (defending the “corrupt” mgmt of their own CFD’s?) make it sound to the public as if one has minor children that they are “forced” to pay MR to “get good schools.” It would have been more accurate for them to state that they were “forced” to pay MR to “get new schools.” We all know that the age of a school has nothing to do with the quality of education offered within it.
UCGal, I don’t know where you are seeing anywhere on this forum that I have been trying to “sell” south county. There are newer-developed areas in South County which have the exact same problems as those in North County! I actually tell people to stay away from them!
I know exactly where all the job centers are. I was HERE when they were all but a twinkle in a developer’s eye and began with just one cul-de-sac, remember?
The whole jist of my posts on this thread were that every buyer has a different list of requirements for their next home. It was just the opposite of my own wants and needs (fwiw, I don’t need a 1/2 AC+ lot and only have one vehicle to park). A mcmansion located six feet from the next one in a high-priced subdivision encumbered with high MR and high HOA dues is NOT a one-size-fits-all solution for every buyer, not even for every buyer in the $1M+ range.
ER, correct me if I’m wrong, but I understood you to state here that you were SURE that EVERY prospective buyer in SD County in the $1M+ range would fall head over heels for your house when they became aware that you prepaid your MR and would be glad to compensate you in your sales price for your prepayment. And no matter where their target shopping area was located, they could be “drawn” and “led” by their agent/broker to your listing because of this fact.
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I DO believe ER can get reimbursed for his MR prepayment NOW upon sale but I think if he has been getting unsolicited offers for over $300K more than he paid for the property (1.5 yrs ago?), then those offers have much more to do with his extensive (interior and exterior?) rehab of it and the fact that the market has gone up since he bought it than the fact that he prepaid his MR. In other words, he may have gotten some of the same offers if he DIDN’T prepay his MR strictly due to demand for SantaLuz and the dearth of current decent listings behind his gate.
Oh, and btw, folks, there are several threads on this forum detailing the travails of homeowners lamenting their continuous reptile encroachment in that “outer-lizardia” (spdrun’s words, however fitting) bastion here in SD County known as Stonebridge.
I have a suggestion. Maybe that nice local power station y’all have out there can serve double-duty as a reptile eradicator. Just gather all your reptiles up from your neighbors one by one in plastic trash cans, drop them at the base of the station, crack open a cold one and sit and watch them fry while they crawl up the pipes!
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That’s your “free” solution, that is, until a whole new crop of them hatch and the cycle repeats, lol.
