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Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]LOL yes but so did Norco not long ago, the cows etc… will be moved soon.
I don’t want to live there but the planning is already done, it will be a big city (>200K population).[/quote]Shoveler, I take it you are referring to the swaths of land on either side of the *new* (redirected) I-15 in RIV Co. Yes, I’ve driven up/down that stretch a few times and there is a LOT of newer commercial development in that corridor.
IIRC, those 2 dairy farms you’re referring to were 2 very LARGE parcels whose owners elected NOT to sell to Big Development. That is, AFTER Big D drew up plans for their land as part of their “master planned community,” lol. Thus, these (agricultural) parcels (on the E/SE side?) of the MP community are bordering it and the new buyers in it currently have the “cow smells,” lolol.
It seems like Big D (Lennar, et al) jumped the gun here. They began construction long before successfully acquiring all the land they needed to form their contiguous master-planned community.
Are your SURE Big D has actually acquired these dairy farms?
Since the dairy farms were always there and in use, will this land be part of a CFD (as the adjacent new-home communities are) if/when it is sold? Refresh my memory. Weren’t the dairy farms in an unincorporated area?
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]I need to find the link again, but the lennar and DR horton did a survey and they found their millenial buyers really wanted to live a suburban lifestyle (maybe close to the city true), but they did not want to live in condos etc… or in a crowded urban centers.
Anyway I need to find that link again. but the issue is even if they did there is no way (at least in Socal) that they could all fit in the existing urban centers so there would need to be new urban centers created.
Yes I agree though next to UCR will be a new urban center so will eastvale LOL.[/quote]The young families in my area (headed by millenial parents) who are renting SFRs (on std or bigger lots) mostly can’t see fit to take care of their yard and gardens. Some of their LL’s provide gardeners and some don’t. I can’t believe how lazy this group is, especially the SAHP. I worked FT, took care of the house AND garden (both on the large side) and even pool and ALSO took care of my kids on the eves/weekend and did ALL the grocery shopping!
I feel that a lot of millenial parents can’t even walk and chew gum at the same time. Clearly, the care of their kid(s) just overwhelms them to the point that they miss their trash pickup day … among other, obvious issues with a SFR that should have been taken care of.
Perhaps most of these young parents (20’s) should be raising their kids in apts or condos where the landscaping is taken care of and enclosed dumpsters are provided. This group doesn’t park in their garages anyway (they’re used to store junk). They’re CLUEless on how to properly run a household in a SFR.
ParticipantThose longtime bay area dwelling boomers (especially those who are still with the same partner for 40+ years and bought their original homes in the ’70’s) have MUCH DEEPER pockets than the rest of us.
In other words, bay-area boomer couples who haven’t suffered major health or business setbacks or divorce(s) and who have BOTH been gainfully employed all of their lives (whether they have begun collecting their pensions or not) are typically worth a whole lot more than similarly-situated SD County couples. This is just by virtue of the higher pay scale there (leading to higher pensions) and MUCH higher property values.
I don’t care if they lived all their lives in Hayward, Livermore, Concord or even Vallejo! They’re still financially better off today than 90% of their “brethren” in the rest of the country.
There are TONS of these boomer couples in the bay area (I know a few) and they’re buying vacation, pre-retirement and retirement homes (for all cash) wherever their hearts’ desire.
In the mid-1970’s, I had a chance to relocate (with a prospective roommate) to San Mateo and a good job waiting for me in Half Moon Bay and instead chose to relocate to SD … and the rest is history. That’s one BIG mistake I made as a young person that I deeply regret now. But who knew at that time what would become of the (then “sleepy”) SF peninsula?
I also declined an offer of admission to Cal at the age of 18 …. another bad mistake …. HUGE.
I had no advice, direction or support from parents or other relatives at that time and it is now wa-a-a-ay too late to unring that bell :=0
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]That’s a myth, They really want the same things boomers did, there is just a small minority that wants to live the urban life style, but they are much hyped.[/quote]My “millenial” kids made themselves scarce when it was time to mow the lawn, weed and tend to the gardens (clipping, hedging, transplanting, fertilizing, hauling bags of dirt, etc, etc) over the years. I’m here to tell you that they DON’T WANT this kind of life. It’s wa-a-a-ay too time consuming when their time could be better spent twitter-twitting on the way to check out the latest micro-brewery in wine country in their “spare” time, lol….
Now, if they could start their OWN micro-brewery in said wine country, they would elect to have a gardener to assist them on their 2+ AC lot 😛
Meanwhile, the likes of Kelseyville are filling up with boomer vacation-home buyers who are slowly and steadily pricing the millenials out of their “pipe dreams” to (prematurely) exit the 9-6 grind in SF and SV. This is at least one typical pipe dream of millenial biz-degree holders who are NOT carrying any student loans (my kids never took any out). We’ll see how all this turns out over the coming years.
I’m a boomer who has recently been “priced out” of several of these “bucolic” towns myself (with 60-100+ yo housing) :-0
ParticipantI just noticed that Trump is 61 days older than Bill Clinton yet I feel he looks a few years younger than Clinton in his face. Hillary Clinton is 68 (16 mos younger than Trump) but she looks a few years younger than him (did she have any work done on her face??). Whatever … she looks great!!
Sanders is 74 (and will be 75 in Sept) which is five years older than Reagan was at the time of his first inauguration.
ParticipantI see Trump as being in the oldest subset of boomers and is currently age 69. He would be 70 at the time of the general election and his possible inauguration as the 45th President of the US.
In spite of his rather brusque manner, he’s got such lofty ideas on how he will “make this country great again” with a pretty good understanding in his head of most of the issues. It would be terrible for the country to find him exhausted and with high blood pressure by the time he might finally get the chance to do so.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Also, whatever stimulants (even coffee or red bull) that trump is on must wreck havoc with his metabolism.[/quote]I believe it. A few years ago, I cut my coffee intake in half in the mornings. I’m down to less than a half a pot per day which is about two full travel mugs.
ParticipantOn a lesser (expensive) note, all my life, I have traveled a few weeks per year by road and frequently utilize motor lodges and (a few) business-type hotels when I am not staying with friends or relatives. A smallish microwave and frig are now standard equipment (even up to 13cf frig’s) in motor lodge chains throughout the nation. Nearly every traveler brings into their room at least a medium-sized ice chest to unload for their stay, however long or short. The vast majority of road travelers no longer want to wait to be served in a full-service restaurant while on the road when they could be making road time to their destination for the night (and possibly have more time in at their hotel for relaxing and swimming, etc before turning in for the night). Also, today’s road travelers like to eat the breakfasts they are used to eating at home … not necessarily the fruit loops and white toast/bagels and imitation orange juice the hotel chain may be offering. And they like to have their favorite sandwiches made for the road. Hence, most bring their own groceries from home (and coffee/small coffeemaker if they’re particular about their morning coffee). I’m no exception :-0
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]BG, it’s a lot easier to eat well when you’re rich. When people don’t eat well, it’s because they are “addicted” to eating what is delicious in their view. Rare and expensive food is also associated with delicious and desirable.
My dream is to have a personal chef whom I can instruct on cooking healthy food that I want to eat. That would save me so much time and aggravation.
For example, I would like a streamed fish and apple skin salad. Make it taste good and low calorie too.[/quote]Trump can easily have a good personal trainer/dietician as part of his entourage (to work around his heavy campaigning schedule). These one or two people can board his private jet with him and be at his beck and call whenever he has a free hour plus while doing his “meal planning and prep work” in the background. He may already have someone like that on staff who isn’t currently with him on the campaign trail or whom he isn’t properly utilizing.I have had several sky-warrior-type relatives who were very successful in life but succumbed to the air/road warrior lifestyle where they frequently flew “red-eye” flights to make morning meetings in a distant city on time and mostly ate at buffets set up for their groups in hotel conference rooms. They also didn’t avail themselves of hotel fitness equipment. A few of them are no longer alive and their chosen “lifestyle” is a big part of the reason why. This type of lifestyle (in combination with cabin pressure and excessive sitting with cramped legs in planes) is horrible on the circulatory and digestive systems. Especially for those routinely traveling away from home for work more than half the month.
This was 10-25 years ago and most big business hotel chains have now gotten a clue and improved their business buffets with more fresh fruits and vegetables (depending on locale, of course) and offer less prime rib carvings and au jus, potatoes and gravy, etc as was served in the past. Also, I have noticed that most business hotel chains now have much better-equipped gyms, on-site spas, indoor lap pools and hot tubs for inclement weather, etc, as well as many more of their rooms equipped with kitchenettes enabling their regular business guests to store and prepare fresh meals and snacks in their rooms so they aren’t stuck with eating 3 meals per day out, waiting to be served. This also frees up more time to hit the gym and swim … even if its snowing outside.
Participant[quote=outtamojo][quote=FlyerInHi]I watched Trump’s interview over the weekend. He said had there not been Iraq we would not have had Obama. He’s right.
I’m liking Trump more. I like how he went after Bush at the debate and told him to be quiet. He’s also right on Korea, Syria, Libya.[/quote]
Looked like he gained a few pounds.[/quote]Agree. Trump needs to lay off the champagne and caviar and begin conferring with his personal trainer at least one hour daily. He needs to keep himself as healthy as possible if he is to successfully plow thru an arduous successful? campaign and also have the stamina to successfully make headway with the entrenched “DC establishment” to accomplish his lofty goals … should he be elected.
Even billionaires can’t “buy” good health if they don’t already have it.
Clinton got a little “chunky” in the tail end of his second term which dogged him until 2-3 years ago, when he finally made a conscious decision to change his ways and live instead of being another fatal heart attack statistic.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Scalia likely had chronic health problems. . . . [/quote]I saw a piece this morning with a video of the innkeeper where he stayed. He said that when the Justice didn’t show up for breakfast or lunch the day after he arrived, he knocked on the door and got no answer. Then he let himself in and found his body on the bed. The covers weren’t even turned back (indicating he may have collapsed as soon as he left dinner the night before, saying it had been a long day and he was “fatigued.”) The county judge in TX stated that the family didn’t want an autopsy and she would sign his death certificate as “natural causes, heart attack” or something like that. The newscaster stated that his doctor in DC has been contacted, who stated that the Justice had seen him twice in the week before and that he told him that he was in “poor health.”
Maybe the quail hunting trip was on the Justice’s “bucket list.”
The place he was staying looked and sounded on the video like a fantastic resort.
I’ll try to find the link again for the video. It was interesting.
Participant[quote=ljinvestor]Contact Jim the Realtor (Jim Klinge) if you want a fair assessment of your home. His contact info and blog is at bubbleinfo.com. It doesn’t sound like the property has too much deferred maintenance, but if it does you have investors like Tom Tarrant who will pay cash and close escrow quickly. Hope that helps.[/quote].
ParticipantOP, I do apologize if my previous posts sounded condescending to you. In your OP and previous posts, you really sounded like you didn’t want to do any work to ready your property for sale, yet you don’t have a lot of equity and really need to get out cleanly.
Gone are the days where buyers will pay anywhere near top dollar for a house which they can’t move into until they spend at least month in there with an air mattress, tools, supplies, a ladder and a pickup truck. With competent flipping teams working diligently all over the county, the vast majority of today’s buyers are buying “turnkey” homes (ready to completely move into at COE). That (and very astute sellers who have consistently maintained their homes to a high degree over their ownership period) is your competition.
Participant[quote=LeavingSD]Hi bearishgurl
I appreciate all of the input from you and others. I do take a bit of offense at your assumption that my home is “dirty” and/or “greasy” and what appears to be an insinuation that we are lazy.
I didn’t think that any of this was relevant to my question, so I didn’t address it, but in response to your comments, my home is clean. We’ve done a lot to improve it in the 8 years that we’ve lived there. We put in new fencing, we rehabbed a broken outdoor kitchen, we put in a patio cover, we re-landscaped the front yard, we put in new pool equipment, we put in a new hot water heater, we put in new ceiling fans, we’ve done work on electrical, etc. etc. The house needed a lot of things when we bought it, many of which we’ve addressed. The kitchen needs a significant amount, something we’ve been saving to do. The cabinets are the original from when the house was built and are falling apart. It is not a matter of resurfacing and painting them. The carpet is old and worn, it is at the end of its life. The hardwood floors have been scuffed and stained as a result of us living our lives in the home. We’ve made a significant effort to manage our resources and address maintenance and improvement of the home in an efficient manner. We would continue to do so if we intended to continue living there.
We are moving because I am transferring within my company. It’s a good opportunity and we have family in that area. I have no illusions about how expensive it is to live in the bay area.
I admit that purchasing this home was not a good financial decision. If you want to judge my overall worthiness to be a home owner based on that, feel free. It’s just not particularly helpful guidance for me.
I do not care what the next owner chooses to do. It does seem inefficient for me to put in a kitchen, carpeting, and paint that I like but they may not. It seems far more efficient to simply credit a buyer for such things or to have a real estate professional advise me regarding what is the most efficient way to address them.[/quote] Based upon this post, get your kitchen cabinets refaced and replace all your non-hardwood flooring with wood-look laminate. If your countertop is tile or formica, replace it with whatever is the cheapest modern material (FlyerInHi is our local resident “expert” on this :-))
Rent a sander and buffer for your real hardwood floor and spend a week getting it back into shape.
Make sure everything is sparkling clean (even under appls and furniture) and that all your screens, doorknobs, etc are in good working order and every window opens and closes. Clean your doors and walls with TSP and spackle and paint your whole house cream white (navajo white if you have large skylights).
Put your stuff in a POD in your driveway (or RV pkg area) while you go from room to room making these repairs while you live there.
This is the cheapest way to get out of your situation with the most money. If you have made all the repairs you say you did in the paragraphs above, just disregard my equity-sharing RE broker idea. You don’t need it. You can easily DIY and keep all your own equity upon sale.
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