Woohoo, 4sbuyer has sprinkler heads in his/her home. Hallelujah. Work on lowering that fire insurance baby, I’m fireproof!! Don’t matter if I built on scrubland in the desert, I’ve got sprinklers!
Oh for heaven’s sake, I don’t know why you are trolling but I’m amused enough to respond. Please note this comment from your initial link:
“Shelter in place doesn’t change the fact you’re building in a danger zone,”
Shelter in place gives you added protection if you can’t make it out in an evacuation, but how many of us are going to take the risk of staying pat when a firestorm is coming over the hill.
Stop being a shill. 4S Ranch isn’t some ardent arborial setting. It is a set of very closely situated detached (sometimes not) homes that aren’t very attractive that WAS a decent pricepoint for families that couldn’t afford the coast. The developments are entirely characterless. The initial attraction (and I’m Asian) for a lot of the FOB Asian families out there was that they want something “new”. I’ve never entirely understood this mentality, esp. regarding homes in this day and age, but “brand new” is good (when it just means the construction is cheap). When the development gets older, that demographic will not be willing to buy into 4S and all that Hong Kong seed money will be going elsewhere.
The area is dry and hot. I personally favored a smaller mesa view home in Claremont Mesa, but got overruled (the argument about location and view lost against newness).
It’s a pretty decent place for road biking and you have access to the mountain biking down in Rancho Penasquitos so I have fun in the area, but I don’t have pretenses about the pricing of my home.
