Home buyers on the sidelines check in!

[zk]

Neighborhoods Considering: Carmel Valley
Condo/House: House
Price Range: Either 1 at up to $1.2M or two or more less expensive ones, depending on what happens to the market and what the boss says.
Size Range: 2000-3000 sf
Currently (Rent/Own): Rent a lovely house at below-market rent in CV.
Shopping the Market?: Keeping a very close eye on the market, mostly just so we’re continuously aware of what’s happening. Not planning on buying for 2-5 years.

[Anonymous]

Please, cyphire, strongly consider Del Mar. My family and I, and the token La Jolla conservative enclave, are already here in Lower Hermosa.

Maybe I’ll put cloves of garlic and small wooden crosses up to stake off the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Please, cyphire, strongly consider Del Mar. My family and I, and the token La Jolla conservative enclave, are already here in Lower Hermosa.

Maybe I’ll put cloves of garlic and small wooden crosses up to stake off the neighborhood.

[cyphire]

jg… I’ve been nice and have ignored the dozen or so of your posts where you have been both rude and boorish. I don’t care if you need to express your religious identity – you can even spell things out if it makes you happy. If you could consider toning it down a bit I would appreciate it.

It takes 2 to have an argument… I’m not interested… Besides – I love garlic and currently live in Bird Rock. I’ve met lots of nice people here who dislike Bush, think that the religious right has a lot of moral issues to answer for and would like to see a fairer society. That being said… Have a nice evening.

Ciao

p.s. Will be traveling tomorrow – will check in on Sunday night or Monday night. Keep the venom to a minimum. Thanks.

[cyphire]

jg… I’ve been nice and have ignored the dozen or so of your posts where you have been both rude and boorish. I don’t care if you need to express your religious identity – you can even spell things out if it makes you happy. If you could consider toning it down a bit I would appreciate it.

It takes 2 to have an argument… I’m not interested… Besides – I love garlic and currently live in Bird Rock. I’ve met lots of nice people here who dislike Bush, think that the religious right has a lot of moral issues to answer for and would like to see a fairer society. That being said… Have a nice evening.

Ciao

p.s. Will be traveling tomorrow – will check in on Sunday night or Monday night. Keep the venom to a minimum. Thanks.

[CardiffBaseball]

Lighten up Francis. err Cyphire. You haven’t been around long enough to see he busting your *alls. (sorry finally finished up watching The Sopranos on my DVR).

[CardiffBaseball]

Lighten up Francis. err Cyphire. You haven’t been around long enough to see he busting your *alls. (sorry finally finished up watching The Sopranos on my DVR).

[patientrenter]

Well, cyphire, some people find jg’s efforts to bring religion and/or politics into the real estate threads cute, others find it boorish. Clearly it’s intended to provoke. You are a little trout in the stream. He has selected bait that you can’t avoid or resist, and you keep getting hooked, and he continues to fish for the pleasure of getting you and others hooked. People fish forever if the fish keep biting, and they fish a long time after the fish have stopped biting, but eventually they get tired of it and quit baiting the hook if all the little fish are smart enough.

Patient renter in OC

[patientrenter]

Well, cyphire, some people find jg’s efforts to bring religion and/or politics into the real estate threads cute, others find it boorish. Clearly it’s intended to provoke. You are a little trout in the stream. He has selected bait that you can’t avoid or resist, and you keep getting hooked, and he continues to fish for the pleasure of getting you and others hooked. People fish forever if the fish keep biting, and they fish a long time after the fish have stopped biting, but eventually they get tired of it and quit baiting the hook if all the little fish are smart enough.

Patient renter in OC

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc

Neighborhoods: Valley Center or rural NC Inland east of I 15
Dwelling: house, mobile, mfr home, tipi, yurt,
Price range: up to $450
Size range: two bedrooms
Currently: rent 3/2 on 1.4 ac. in SW Esc w/pool (nice, but oh how I detest wall to wall carpeting filled with the filthy vermin of past tenants, cottage cheese ceilings with the nooks and crannys filled with old cigarettes, grease and sounds of bygone days, “curtains” made of plastic strips that go clickity click at the slightest breeze)
Shopping the market?: more like window shopping. Each day I check in with Zip, Realtor.com, Craigslist, NC Times, FSBO.com, etc.(also have an agent) just in case that perfect little dreamhouse on acres with oaks, stream, well, built before 1960 with fruit trees in a picturesque setting
happens to come up in my price range. Til then I wait impatiently. Goal: sustainable homestead

I’m Not Like Everybody Else”

[eccen in esc]

eccen in esc

Neighborhoods: Valley Center or rural NC Inland east of I 15
Dwelling: house, mobile, mfr home, tipi, yurt,
Price range: up to $450
Size range: two bedrooms
Currently: rent 3/2 on 1.4 ac. in SW Esc w/pool (nice, but oh how I detest wall to wall carpeting filled with the filthy vermin of past tenants, cottage cheese ceilings with the nooks and crannys filled with old cigarettes, grease and sounds of bygone days, “curtains” made of plastic strips that go clickity click at the slightest breeze)
Shopping the market?: more like window shopping. Each day I check in with Zip, Realtor.com, Craigslist, NC Times, FSBO.com, etc.(also have an agent) just in case that perfect little dreamhouse on acres with oaks, stream, well, built before 1960 with fruit trees in a picturesque setting
happens to come up in my price range. Til then I wait impatiently. Goal: sustainable homestead

I’m Not Like Everybody Else”

[speedingpullet]

Little bit north of y’all, but what the hay…

Areas:
Most of Westside L.A – Santa Monica, West L.A, Brentwood, Beverly Hills/BH adjoining, parts of Culver City, West Hollywood, Palms/Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu.
San Fernando Valley – Sherman Oaks, Encino, Studio City and eastern Tarzana, Calabasas, Woodland Hills.
Basically – less than 15 road miles from my husband’s work in Santa Monica – might stretch it to 20 miles for a truly spectaular house in the Malibu hills with land and a view.

House/Condo – SFH only

Price Range: $0 – $750K (although will only seriously consider the high end for abovementioned Malibu hills house). Realistically, more like $400K – $700K.

Size anything from 800 sq ft to 2500 sq ft – the proviso being that the lot square footage has to be 5 times the house sq footage (minimum being 6000 sq ft lot, no matter how small the house is). This helps to weed out very expensive houses, and recently built McMansions/Persian Palaces (of which there are a tragic overabundnace here in L.A)

Currently laughing hollowly at the listings on ZipRealty every day, with no intention of spending one red cent until prices come down to 1999 levels – with 5% compound interest per annum.

In other words, what prices should be here, not the delusional ones that seem to be a specialty of the L.A market.

We’re living in a great rental, with non-FB landlords, who are happy to give us a month-to-month, yearly or two-yearly agreement. We’ll stay here (and our landlords are happy to have us here) until the housing market gets real.

[speedingpullet]

Little bit north of y’all, but what the hay…

Areas:
Most of Westside L.A – Santa Monica, West L.A, Brentwood, Beverly Hills/BH adjoining, parts of Culver City, West Hollywood, Palms/Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu.
San Fernando Valley – Sherman Oaks, Encino, Studio City and eastern Tarzana, Calabasas, Woodland Hills.
Basically – less than 15 road miles from my husband’s work in Santa Monica – might stretch it to 20 miles for a truly spectaular house in the Malibu hills with land and a view.

House/Condo – SFH only

Price Range: $0 – $750K (although will only seriously consider the high end for abovementioned Malibu hills house). Realistically, more like $400K – $700K.

Size anything from 800 sq ft to 2500 sq ft – the proviso being that the lot square footage has to be 5 times the house sq footage (minimum being 6000 sq ft lot, no matter how small the house is). This helps to weed out very expensive houses, and recently built McMansions/Persian Palaces (of which there are a tragic overabundnace here in L.A)

Currently laughing hollowly at the listings on ZipRealty every day, with no intention of spending one red cent until prices come down to 1999 levels – with 5% compound interest per annum.

In other words, what prices should be here, not the delusional ones that seem to be a specialty of the L.A market.

We’re living in a great rental, with non-FB landlords, who are happy to give us a month-to-month, yearly or two-yearly agreement. We’ll stay here (and our landlords are happy to have us here) until the housing market gets real.

[barnaby33]

Waiting hawk, I believe its “”the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid“.

Parts of NP, Hillcrest, Mission Hills.
I-5 Corridor (west side) From Del Mar to Solana.
Blossom Valley (its right by my paragliding spot)

I’d prefer a house, but will settle for a condo as long as its 1200 sqft and has an attached 2 car garage and I don’t stare into my neighbors living room.

Somewhere in the low 400’s, with 20% down already mostly saved. I’d have more if my investment adviser weren’t so lazy.

Josh

[barnaby33]

Waiting hawk, I believe its “”the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid“.

Parts of NP, Hillcrest, Mission Hills.
I-5 Corridor (west side) From Del Mar to Solana.
Blossom Valley (its right by my paragliding spot)

I’d prefer a house, but will settle for a condo as long as its 1200 sqft and has an attached 2 car garage and I don’t stare into my neighbors living room.

Somewhere in the low 400’s, with 20% down already mostly saved. I’d have more if my investment adviser weren’t so lazy.

Josh

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