With emphasis on the fact that taste is subjective…
Yeah I’m gonna have to agree that that east county house is awful on a whole new level of awfulness. Not bagging on the area, mind you, which I wouldn’t live in personally, just the house. Ignoring the fixable yet really scary paneling, molding, carpet, cabinets, siding, windows, roof, etc., the bad layout makes it a teardown in my view. I would personally throw the switch to blow up that fireplace, but I’d MUCH sooner pay $400k for virtually anything else – a townhome closer to the coast, a tiny house in Bay Park, a golf course pool house in Temecula, anything.