Why is San Diego real estate still so expensive?

[bearishgurl]

[quote=briansd1]BG, the problem with buying a fixer is that you have to 1) be handy, or 2) know the right contractors who will help you fix the fixer. Otherwise, you have to pay retail for everything and the purchase and remodel together would not make financial sense…[/quote]

Well, brian, didn’t you just post that you would also take Pt. Loma at the “right price?” If you manage to get sellers in 40-80 year old Pt. Loma to agree to sell to you at the “right price,” do you think the property will be “turnkey??”

You will have to find a way to live in it as-is and “fix the fixer” little by little as funds become available. If this is too distasteful, you should not attempt to obtain a Pt. Loma SFR at the “right price.” It’s as simple as that.

[quote=briansd1]I’m with you jstoesz, everyone please buy in Carmel Valley.

I wouldn’t mind a fixer in Point Loma, at the right price, of course. ;)[/quote]

Lol!

[briansd1]

BG, I have buddies in the construction business who could work on my job in between contracts.

The problem with the old houses is that the sellers are still in dreamland; they want to price their properties near the prices of those that have been remodeled already. The land is worth money, but the old structures aren’t worth much. People have emotional attachments; but they need to realize their handy work over the years is actually a deduction to the value of their properties.

Contracting is mostly labor. The housewives who expect their kitchens done on a timely basis pay for the timeliness, the ancillary upgrades and the hand holding.

For those of you wanting to remodel, I recommend making friends with the people who actually do the work. If your neighbors are remodeling, walk over to talk to the people doing the work and get their phone numbers.

[briansd1]

BG, I have buddies in the construction business who could work on my job in between contracts.

The problem with the old houses is that the sellers are still in dreamland; they want to price their properties near the prices of those that have been remodeled already. The land is worth money, but the old structures aren’t worth much. People have emotional attachments; but they need to realize their handy work over the years is actually a deduction to the value of their properties.

Contracting is mostly labor. The housewives who expect their kitchens done on a timely basis pay for the timeliness, the ancillary upgrades and the hand holding.

For those of you wanting to remodel, I recommend making friends with the people who actually do the work. If your neighbors are remodeling, walk over to talk to the people doing the work and get their phone numbers.

[briansd1]

BG, I have buddies in the construction business who could work on my job in between contracts.

The problem with the old houses is that the sellers are still in dreamland; they want to price their properties near the prices of those that have been remodeled already. The land is worth money, but the old structures aren’t worth much. People have emotional attachments; but they need to realize their handy work over the years is actually a deduction to the value of their properties.

Contracting is mostly labor. The housewives who expect their kitchens done on a timely basis pay for the timeliness, the ancillary upgrades and the hand holding.

For those of you wanting to remodel, I recommend making friends with the people who actually do the work. If your neighbors are remodeling, walk over to talk to the people doing the work and get their phone numbers.

[briansd1]

BG, I have buddies in the construction business who could work on my job in between contracts.

The problem with the old houses is that the sellers are still in dreamland; they want to price their properties near the prices of those that have been remodeled already. The land is worth money, but the old structures aren’t worth much. People have emotional attachments; but they need to realize their handy work over the years is actually a deduction to the value of their properties.

Contracting is mostly labor. The housewives who expect their kitchens done on a timely basis pay for the timeliness, the ancillary upgrades and the hand holding.

For those of you wanting to remodel, I recommend making friends with the people who actually do the work. If your neighbors are remodeling, walk over to talk to the people doing the work and get their phone numbers.

[briansd1]

BG, I have buddies in the construction business who could work on my job in between contracts.

The problem with the old houses is that the sellers are still in dreamland; they want to price their properties near the prices of those that have been remodeled already. The land is worth money, but the old structures aren’t worth much. People have emotional attachments; but they need to realize their handy work over the years is actually a deduction to the value of their properties.

Contracting is mostly labor. The housewives who expect their kitchens done on a timely basis pay for the timeliness, the ancillary upgrades and the hand holding.

For those of you wanting to remodel, I recommend making friends with the people who actually do the work. If your neighbors are remodeling, walk over to talk to the people doing the work and get their phone numbers.

[faterikcartman]

A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)

[faterikcartman]

A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)

[faterikcartman]

A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)

[faterikcartman]

A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)

[faterikcartman]

A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)

[an]

[quote=faterikcartman]A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)[/quote]
Although, generally this is true, it’s not true for all cases (unless you’re only talking about $/sq-ft and not total housing price). If you’re talking about total housing price, you might want to compare Mira Mesa(Ice) to Bonita(Sun).

[an]

[quote=faterikcartman]A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)[/quote]
Although, generally this is true, it’s not true for all cases (unless you’re only talking about $/sq-ft and not total housing price). If you’re talking about total housing price, you might want to compare Mira Mesa(Ice) to Bonita(Sun).

[an]

[quote=faterikcartman]A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)[/quote]
Although, generally this is true, it’s not true for all cases (unless you’re only talking about $/sq-ft and not total housing price). If you’re talking about total housing price, you might want to compare Mira Mesa(Ice) to Bonita(Sun).

[an]

[quote=faterikcartman]A factor helps explain some pricing in comparing areas is the elephant in the room everyone will fall over themselves trying not to notice. I thought someone would come out and say it in a few posts above, but no one did.

If area schools are filled with ice people you pay more. If filled with sun people you pay less.

It always cracks me up that my die-hard left-wing friends always talk a good game but live smack in the middle of ice people central.

(See John Derbyshire “We Are Doomed” for more on Ice People and Sun People (broadly speaking Asians and whites, and blacks and Hispanics). Please ignore crackpots and racists on the subject.)[/quote]
Although, generally this is true, it’s not true for all cases (unless you’re only talking about $/sq-ft and not total housing price). If you’re talking about total housing price, you might want to compare Mira Mesa(Ice) to Bonita(Sun).

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