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bearishgurl
Participantyuhtey, you still haven’t posted your “turd” listing you posted about here which you recently rejected due to not liking the granite countertops in the kitchen.
The Piggs would like to assess that property and tell you what they think it’s worth and whether or not you should make an offer on it.
Where is the link??
Participant[quote=flu][quote=yuhtey]no way, i put it up for bear grillys to comment on and tell me just how i’m supposed to fix that one up.[/quote]
If your’re planning to buy in Carmel V. You need to sacrifice sq footage for a better location.
1.3m for around 3000sqft in a good location. That’s most likely doable. Anything that is larger above that goes up in price, anything that deviates from the prime locations goes down in price. Prime locations center around Ocean Air and Sage Canyon access. It’s just how pricing works. You can try the community called Santa Barbara that’s I believe is further north … Pricing there is slightly better.[/quote]
yuhtey, I never offered to “critique” CV homes for you. flu is the main “resident expert” here on CV.
Your listing on Almond Way suffers from “economic obsolescence.” You can’t fix it. It has a “value” and I don’t know what that is … based upon recent sales which have the same or similar issue.
flu has thus far given you good advice, especially this most recent post. I hope you are taking notes and taking heed … cuz you need to reduce your housing expectations for CV in your price range.
flu should try to give you a value of what he believe the Almond Way home will eventually sell for, given its “economic obsolescence.” He’s come close in the past in predicting a future sold price in CV … a little under but close.
I could be considered an “expert” in a few micro-areas of SD County but Carmel Valley is not one of them.
ParticipantJust saw this thread. I don’t understand why OP even started this thread (except for possible trolling purposes). Why is he gravitating back to Del $ur when the monthly HOA/MR there is “eye-watering.” And the current new development there is selling homes which have “particle board cabinets with metal drawers … for $1.5M” (quoted from his own words in the OP from the “Best Family Areas” thread).
December 5, 2015 at 6:10 PM in reply to: Who is responsible for what in detached condominiums? #792088Participant[quote=flu]OP just go get your HOA documents. The HOA documents will spell out the terms for you than any “expert” here who thinks all condos follow all the same rules. No one knows the intricate details of the specifics of your condo and HOA rules, and it would be foolish for you to listen to anyone’s advice who doesn’t know your specific condo and your specific HOA’s rule. While in escrow, part of the responsibility of the seller is to provide you with those CCR’s. You might need to pay a fee for them, but you definitely should get them and review them.[/quote]
Uhh, flu? I AM an “expert” in this regard and provided OP with valuable (general) info here.
December 5, 2015 at 5:42 PM in reply to: Who is responsible for what in detached condominiums? #792084ParticipantI should add that one could also own their own (minuscule 2-3K sf) lot in a PUD and also an undivided interest in the common area … if there is any. In this case, the APN will still only be 8 digits.
December 5, 2015 at 5:38 PM in reply to: Who is responsible for what in detached condominiums? #792083ParticipantAnother thing to look for is the legal description on the last grant deed or trust deed filed. If it states that the owner owns an “undivided [# of units in complex] interest in the development, instead of showing an assigned lot for the unit (which belongs only to the owner of the unit), then the unit is a condo. The vast majority of detached condos in CA are considered “PUDS.”
December 5, 2015 at 5:34 PM in reply to: Who is responsible for what in detached condominiums? #792081ParticipantIf the complex you are considering is a Planned Unit Development (PUD) and the unit you are considering in it is not attached to any other unit, then you, as an owner will be liable for everything except the common area. Your front yard may be mowed and maintained by Association landscapers.
If you have a preliminary title report for the unit and the plat map in it shows that you will own the lot the PUD sits on (however small) and the unit has an 8-digit Assessor Parcel Number (APN) instead of a 10-digit APN (signifying a condo), then you will be responsible for the entire dwelling, just like a SFR (within or without an HOA) and will need to secure a homeowner’s insurance rider for it prior to COE.
Usually, the monthly HOA dues on PUDs are significantly less than those for condos … that is, unless the complex has a lot of amenities for the residents which the HOA needs to maintain.
Even “twinhomes” (2 units usually joined at the garages) are considered “PUDS.”
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=yuhtey]it’s a-sian, not b-sian.
we implement the kneeling on dry rice technique on our 16-month-old when he can’t get the animal puzzle pieces back in place in under 30 seconds. discipline!
i will clarify that the assumption about my wife is wrong. she is from orange county and they all think san diego is for losers. i have a hard time disagreeing with her most of the time. although – stories from the irvine battlefield are not pretty these days. apparently the fobby chinese and indians are driving everyone south to mission viejo. ouch.
we are in agreement about the locations here. CV no doubt has some of the highest end homes in the county, but the real draw is the school system and the low tax/hoa proposition. we could “take it our leave it” but are watching closely because every once in a while a really great place comes up in our price range. as you can imagine, we are getting good at spotting turds online without needing the viewing. “oh, is that an old-timey grandfather clock next to her majesty’s dining set? oooh, look at that pointless square-tiled granite countertop…REJECT”
they are not terribly overpriced, but one would think 100k to 200k off of sticker would allow for some updating. we are the type of buyers who don’t lowball.[/quote]
If I were you and absolutely had to buy in CV I’d find a house that needs a lot of updating then do the remodel. Contact the listing agent directly and put in strong offer.[/quote]
Thanks for re-posting the OP’s post of yesterday here, FIH. I referred to it from memory this morning cuz I had to go somewhere. It was the actually the “pointless” kitchen countertop, not the kitchen floor that made the OP and his spouse reject this CV listing and call it a “turd.” They didn’t like the pattern in the granite countertops so rejected the listing outright for that reason, people!! This happened in a chronically low, trickling-in inventory situation. Umm, beggars can’t be choosers.
OP, if that “’90’s palace” had “granite” in it, it’s already been “freshened up.” In the ’90’s, 6″ square ceramic tile and Corian was used by developers on countertops in coastal CA tract homes. Sorry you don’t “like it.”
Most cosmetic fixers still have Formica or ceramic tile (with what’s left of the crumbling molded grout) for kitchen-countertop material (or Corian with cigarette burns in it).
I’m not sure you two are cut out to purchase a cosmetic fixer. Just an obviously recently-replaced kitchen countertop with the “wrong” pattern/color throws you guys off to where you are paralyzed and in a tailspin … instantly rejecting a listing for a really dumb reason.
FIH may be able to set you up with a good granite person, to replace a perfectly good countertop should you come to your senses and make an offer on said listing and (God forbid) get it accepted.
OP, why don’t you post the “turd listing” you rejected here so some of these very knowledgeable Piggs can “critique it” and tell you what they think it’s worth … in their “expert opinion.”
That’s what you should have done when you created this thread. In SD County, it doesn’t get any better than Piggington when a new buyer needs advice on current values in a given area. And you desperately need it.
Participantyuhtey, what the Piggs are trying to tell you is that, at the present time, you can’t afford what you want where you want it for your first home. There’s nothing new about this phenomenon. It was alive and well in SD in ’75, ’85, ’95, ’05 and now, 2015.
For those “entitled boomer-sellers” you speak of in CV who need to “freshen” their place before putting it on the market (acc to you) and need to just sell low (to you) and leave (cuz they don’t need the schools anymore, acc to you), that house may have very well been the 3rd, 6th or 9th house they’ve owned in their lives.
Let me clue you in. That listing very likely wasn’t their first rodeo. If they were longtime Californians, their first rodeo may very well have been a 1500 sf 3/2/1.5 in Allied Gardens (SD) or El Monte (LA).
This is the main problem with your generation (I’m going to assume you’re Gen Y here). You need everything to be perfect for your first home. I noticed here that you posted yesterday that and your spouse made fun of a recent online listing in CV which you called a “turd,” again because of the owner’s furnishings (which you wouldn’t be buying) and the “pointless tile” they used in the kitchen.
Listen up! If you ever need a reference to a good, fast, reasonable, extremely professional local tile man, pm me!
The reality is that YOU have two? young kids (baby and toddler?). Haven’t you eaten enough cereal bowls full of nails by now for breakfast? How’s apt/condo life treating you?
IMO, you currently “need” a house if you’re going to remain in SD County. You may have a year or two “wiggle room” to find a suitable one to buy (while the values inch up every month, lol), but that’s it. One of your kids will eventually start school.
I’ve lived in SD County for nearly 40 years and am originally from Alameda County. I’ve been around the RE block on numerous occasions and am also a longtime RE licensee (35 yrs). In addition, I’ve had several decades experience handling money and raising kids and can tell you with certainty that money keeps indefinitely but jobs don’t, necessarily. Have you ever (gasp!) considered buying a cosmetic fixer for say, $675K and saving the rest of your downpayment or cash you were going to use to buy a ~$1M home?? It is entirely possible that you could need to put your entire family on the state’s (expensive and rising) health insurance exchange at some point if you can’t afford (temporary) COBRA for them. Someone in your family could be injured by an uninsured or underinsured driver or be diagnosed with cancer.
Those are just but a couple of examples of life’s little problems which could befall you and your family and you got a lo-o-o-o-ong way to go, buddy.
If you’ve recently had the good fortune of a buyout or inheritance, you would be wise not to put all your eggs into one basket. Especially not while attempting to live long-term in a CA coastal county. “nuff said. Just think about this. I don’t care about your spouse “saving face.” “Saving face” with who, exactly?
If your spouse considers herself too Asian to live amongst some Bsians, then she needs knocked upside the head for a dose of a reality check. You and she are not “better” than your brethren or “better” than any generation, for that matter. You can start in a “starter” or “move-up” home, like your predecessors did.
You don’t need to start at or nearly the top rung of the ladder.
Participantflu, I recall posting that the canyon where the original Carmel V sits (Del Mar Heights) housed migrant farm workers in illegal makeshift shacks for ~20 years. That is a FACT and part of SD’s history. I remember how messy it was when they all finally got evicted and it was AFTER the first couple of phases of new homes were completed and the new homebuyers (uphill) began complaining about the litter and noise in the evenings/weekends and their streets being used for ingress/egress. CV developers kept building despite the (almost 2 miles?) of shacks, sewage and filth (even regular prostitution) below so they obviously were banking on their ignorant homebuyers not craning their necks over the ends of cul-de-sacs with binoculars to see what was going on down there before they went into their trailers and signed on the dotted line. Evicting these people was one of SDPD’s biggest challenges in their history and the cleanup was massive.
Once again, you’re “shooting the messenger.” I remember this whole incident like it was yesterday. The whole town was talking about it and it was even on 60 minutes, I think. I didn’t make any of it up. That’s the history of your area, flu! You cannot unring that bell now.
Yes, I have in the past posted that CV was “overpriced” because it was nearly all on tract and many of its newer subdivisions either had too large of house built on a standard city lot (5K sf) or had substandard lots. But that was before I fully understood that it was mostly or almost wholly propped up by foreign cash. Now I get it and there is nothing that you or I or yuhtey or any prospective CV homebuyer can do about it.
If the OP doesn’t like what it on offer in CV, he is free to move his home search elsewhere. And yes, as he stated here, the stores and everywhere else one does their errands in CV are likely going to be crowded and lacking in parking spaces. “Road rage” isn’t the way to handle this, though, especially for a disenchanted renter who is free to move on.
The Ralphs at Willow Grove and Hwy 94 (near that good county listing I posted here) doesn’t have that problem.
And has One Paseo even broke ground yet? If you think it’s crowded in CV now … just wait! Big Development tried mightily for years to get permitted a 12 story highrise condo with commercial on the first floor in dtn Chula Vista about 10-12 years ago and it was summarily shot down by the City Council after months of massive citizen input. The fenced >3 AC lot still sits empty today.
I was truly sorry to hear that you CV-ers weren’t successful in shuttering the One Paseo plan and that at the end of the day, your SD Councilperson sold you folks down the river. That’s how the chips fall sometimes.
Carmel Valley will always be synonymous with density because that is how your esteemed leaders envision it so you all have no choice but to live with it. Some of us choose not to.
Participant[quote=joec] … If your wife is asian, good luck trying to live somewhere else. Her “face” won’t allow her to live in south or east county and you’d be fighting a losing battle I think as mentioned trying to force where to live (as a guy)…[/quote]
What exactly do you mean by this, joec? There are many thousands (80K to 100K?) of Asians residing in South County. And several thousand residing in East County … including about 3-5K Guamanians.
Participant[quote=Hobie]I think this thread is done and I encourage our new member to take his business elsewhere. Can we lock this thread?[/quote]
Good idea.
Participant[quote=yuhtey][quote=flu]
Lol. She recommends buying in chula vista.
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yes, and she’s being very culturally insensitive about it, too.[/quote]
Uhh, yuhtey? (You too, flu.) Where exactly on this thread have I recommended to you to buy your first home in Chula Vista?
I actually feel Chula Vista is not for you, primarily due to its “blueness.” We have plenty of custom homes, large lots and wealth down here … we just don’t flaunt it (much akin to the attitude of longtime La Jollans). So, that’s not the problem. The problem here is that your kind would not fit in in these parts, mostly due to your overt intolerant attitude and besides, I feel you would be miserable.
I now feel that you would do best in a relatively plain vanilla walled-in brick enclave of all brick mcmansions, all on one-acre lots surrounding a man-made lake smack dab in the middle of TX (length of commute be damned). The good news is that you can probably afford this! And who knows, you may be able to snag a new construction home to your liking!
Now, all you need to do is get yourself transferred over there stat and buy yourself a nice new $65K jacked-up 4×4 dualie doublecab one-ton-plus pick-em-up truck with shiny chrome Smittybuilt tubular siderails and hang whatever your little heart desires on the tow hitch to go house-hunting in. Don’t be bashful! Fill the back window and bumper with all your tea party and assorted right-wing bumper stickers! ‘Careful how you talk to the locals ’round there, though … even when doing something innocuous … like pumping gas! You might quickly find yourself in an unexpected shitstorm for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. And I can assure you that there won’t be time for you to fix it.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=bearishgurl][quote=njtosd][quote=yuhtey]the only positive about mira mesa is that wings n things. mmmm.
i love all the CV folks trying to tell me that, because it’s not to my taste, that i “just can’t afford it” and that it’s above my class. has my point been proven without me saying anything?[/quote]
You’re the only one whose mentioned your “class”. And if it’s not to your taste why are you keeping such close track of theCV RE offerings?[/quote]
Just saw this. Bingo![/quote]
Maybe he’s just laughing at himself. Like what kind of bourgeois shit did I get myself into? Some of you take it too seriously.[/quote]
I understand this, FIH. But if it is truly OP’s spouse that has “roped him into” trying to buy in CV (as flu suggested) and he hates living there and hates the “90’s trac palaces” (apt description) which is the main inventory there, then he needs to address that issue with her ASAP.
If OP is going thru this charade just to placate her and then venting to us, that’s NOT a “good plan.” He’s wasting his agent’s time and sellers’ time (if they’re leaving on short notice so their house can be shown).
I have found that more non-working spouses than working ones (especially those who have never held down a FT job) tend to be VERY unrealistic and delusional when faced with “shopping” for their first home. If this is the case with yuhtey and he and his spouse are not on the same page in regards to something as huge as a home purchase, then he needs to have a “come to Jesus” (CTJ) conversation with his spouse and the sooner the better. JMHO.
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