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thank you so much! This will be a huge help. Piggs are awesome!

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thank you so much! This will be a huge help. Piggs are awesome!

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thanks for the info. It was recently relisted, so I am surprised it’s already expired. But I’m glad to hear it! Thank you!

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thanks for the info. It was recently relisted, so I am surprised it’s already expired. But I’m glad to hear it! Thank you!

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sdrealtor, it appears that the house I have had my eye on at 1687 Fisherman Dr in Carlsbad is now off the market. I know the builder’s daughter slightly and through her he told me last week he would go down to $1.385 million (the house is listed for $1.425 million) and that he wasn’t going to go lower as he wasn’t in a rush to sell – he could hold onto it for another year before he was in trouble. We have looked around a lot and do like the house, so I will be bummed if it’s gone. Any idea if it’s gone into escrow? thanks

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sdrealtor, it appears that the house I have had my eye on at 1687 Fisherman Dr in Carlsbad is now off the market. I know the builder’s daughter slightly and through her he told me last week he would go down to $1.385 million (the house is listed for $1.425 million) and that he wasn’t going to go lower as he wasn’t in a rush to sell – he could hold onto it for another year before he was in trouble. We have looked around a lot and do like the house, so I will be bummed if it’s gone. Any idea if it’s gone into escrow? thanks

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Hi SD Realtor,
I did know the house was listed previously as I have been watching it for some time, but my realtor never said anything to me about it. What is a “Lis Pendens”? Interesting that the listing expired, not sold. Why wouldn’t the builder have renewed? And why would the second listing price have been higher? I see that occasionally, but it doesn’t make sense to me, considering the market (of course, I am not up on these strategies like so many on this site are – I am hoping to learn from you all).

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Hi esmith,

that’s interesting about zillow. When I tried to look it up the property on zillowon Monday when it went off MLS, the image they showed was of cleared land, but no houses. How soon do offers/sales show up on zillow? And how did you get the image with the completed houses? I just tried it again this morning and got the same thing I always had….Getting this home for $600 would be great…I can dream, right?

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I have been looking a lot (although we probably won’t buy until next summer, depending on how things look) and there was a house that we really liked at 1687 Fisherman Drive, 92011. It was listed at $1,429,000 for just over 4000 sq ft & brand new construction on almost 1/2 acre lot. My realtor knew I really liked this house, and asked me straight out what was keeping me from making an offer. I told her that we thought prices were going to drop significantly, perhaps 30% over the next 12-24 months (she’d heard this from me before). She then asked why I didn’t make them an offer at 20% under asking, that “lots of people were doing that now”. We decided not to do so, and I am sad to see that the listing is off MLS as of this week. I assume an offer was accepted since it’s a new house and the builder is in close-out for that development. I’d be very curious to see what it went for. The listing agent told me the builder was very motivated.

As an aside, my realtor doesn’t think (or won’t admit) that the market is crashing. She says there was a needed correction, but that things are leveling out. Whatever!

[amy]

Why do you think prices in Olivenhain will drop to levels of 2001-2002? I would love to live in that area – horses, great schools, close to the coast and you have some elbow-room!

[amy]

You can’t get asthma unless you’re pre-disposed. Then it’s a matter of your immune system kicking into overdrive. Austin does not have a pollution problem – it’s a very clean city.

[amy]

Allergies are bad in Austin because, unlike a lot of Texas, Austin is very green & hilly. There are lakes and rivers, and therefore there are trees and other foliage. Since it rarely freezes in Austin, nothing really dies out and counts can get quite high for specific pollens. And unlike San Diego, there’s not a coastal breeze to blow things away. Surprisingly, Austin is not that humid – there are a few weeks when it’s sticky, but mostly it’s a dry heat (and it does get HOT!).

[amy]

Does anyone know when Poinsettia will be punched through? Is there a plan approved or is it currently just talk?

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yes, it is. My husband has asthma and allergies, and he had times of the year when it was bad. “Cedar Fever” in Dec. – Feb. is particularly rough if you happen to have a sensitivity to that pollen. They have a saying in Austin, that if you don’t have allergies when you move there, you will within 3 years. I lived there for four and had one week in the spring that I had symptoms, but that was all. I worked for a pharma company and sold asthma/allergy medication, so for me it was great. 🙂 But seriously, I’m from New England and lived in Chicago and Minneapolis, and Austin is slightly worse for allergens, but not horribly.

My husband also has allergies here on the coast, so go figure.

[amy]

We just moved to SD in April after living in Austin for 4 years. We LOVED Austin and it was a big decision to move away, especially when you consider housing. Our upgraded 3600+ sq ft house on a 1/4 acre, built in 2002, backing to conservation land in a great school district & neighborhood, was priced at $360,000. We paid $6000/yr in taxes, but no income tax. We cannot afford to buy a home here, although our income is now well over six figures. We’re renting until the market corrects. Austin is a fantastic, artsy, liberal, geographically beautiful, family-friendly, educated town that is growing incredibly fast, in part due to the masses from CA paying cash for homes. Seriously, of the houses in our neighborhood that changed hands in the four years we lived in Austin, easily half of them were purchased by Californians.
That being said, I lived in Dallas for almost two years and my husband spent the same amount of time in Houston and neither of us would live anywhere in TX other than Austin.

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