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CoronitaParticipant[quote=yuhtey]nobody is going to come back here and post that they just bought a million dollar home at address X. who would be comfortable posting that on the internet?
the drop-off observed is because the potential buyers actually buy something and move on. i’m trying to figure out maybe i will post the area, post-transaction, but nothing more. the cyber-stalking one can accomplish with the APN, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. is staggering – if the property is not under a trust.[/quote]
A million dollar home is not that special here in San Diego, or for that matter in socal or nocal, so I don’t quite a understand why you think it’s such a big deal. Especially when rates are so low, job market isn’t that bad. Any two seasoned professional couples with decent jobs and not a lot of outstanding debt elsewhere could manage that, if they chose. Some famailies dont want to do that, because they want to be able to have more financial flexibility elsewhere. And for other families they don’t need to be pretentious and buy that $1.2-1.3million home as a “starter home”, taking out a large mortgage to do it.
Let’s face it, if you are buying house now, your buying while prices are high. Your money isn’t going to go that far for you given your expectations and where you want to be. You can take a chance and rent longer to see when home prices correct, and maybe it will work out for you if you don’t have to wait that long paying someone else rent and wait for the correction. Or you can get more realistic in your expectations.
CoronitaParticipantSo, you went from Carmel valley to del sur. OK. And now you are worried about and Islamic center. And previously you complained about some old baby boomer looking at your kid funny because he/she is mixed. This has got to be the biggest troll or you are really a fvcked up person that needs to take a serious look in the mirror at all the things you complain about other people. We are done here. Talk to your agent to help you, although I think for the it’s a waste of time because you won’t be buying anytime soon.
Just rent. Figure things out yourself in the meantime.
CoronitaParticipantAh yes. Thanks Rich for the ignore list option. Added.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]http://m.trulia.com/property/3219160391-32848-Stonefield-Ln-Temecula-CA-92592[/quote]
$137/sqft..lol… Nice house.
How much would something like that rent for. Just curious
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Was walking around Morgan Hill while my little one was at his piano lesson and passed a home with a flyer 4 sale.
4000 sq. Ft, asking 545k looks beautiful, fancy custom closets, great schools.
Yeah its temecula. But that’s not a bad deal. It’s awesome here[/quote]
Got a linky?
CoronitaParticipantGod damnit sitting next to the toilet all day for a stupid capsule camera to pass through your digestive system just sucks…. Can’t work, can’t play, can’t do weights, can’t run, can’t drive, can’t do shit…
Thankfully, I’ll be done in a few more hours, and then I’m outta here.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]You can also predict I will say something only tangentially relevant. But it will be hard to say what it will be.[/quote]
True. You will offer a profound lifelong lesson…Just like you did on Piggington Issue#2
http://piggington.com/ot_the_weekly_piggington_report_issue_2
CoronitaParticipant[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]
So you are a snob… Just just don’t like being out-snobbed…Lol… I think you’ll fit right in carmel valley just fine 🙂
Well gee, I guess that means you’ll be one of the parents that will absolutely want to be by either Ocean Air or Sage Canyon Elementary. Lol…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=flyer]Understand, flu. In our case, it was a pure connection thing, dating back to family ties from years past. No funds (except tuition) were involved.[/quote]
Cool. Maybe I’ll start bringing up my alumni membership at my school. That way, I can get cozy with folks in the admissions dept again…
College application is nothing….In San Francisco, in order to get into a private pre-school/kindergarden, parents have to write a freaking long application for the kid!
I looked at it. It was worse than any college application I have ever filled out, including all the ivy’s.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=flyer][quote=flu][quote=flyer]For better or worse, getting into Harvard Med is actually more who you know than anything else–so that evens the playing field with regard to other factors that might come into play. Acceptance rate when my daughter started was around 6%, it’s now 5.3.[/quote]
Well, I’m sure that explains why folks overseas are able to get into pretty good schools. If I had a few million to donate to any school, I’m sure my kid’s grade wouldn’t really matter either….[/quote]
Our daughter had all the quals. Didn’t matter. Stiff competition without inside connections.[/quote]
I wasn’t saying she didn’t have the quals, BTW. I was just saying that having a lot of money does allow you to bend the rules a lot. Even in this country. So maybe your daughter did have the quals, but I am sure plenty of her peers probably didn’t.
Bush junior is a classic example.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=bearishgurl]flu, 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.[/quote]
Thanks for proving my point. Let’s move on to step #6 shall we?
CoronitaParticipant[quote=flyer]For better or worse, getting into Harvard Med is actually more who you know than anything else–so that evens the playing field with regard to other factors that might come into play. Acceptance rate when my daughter started was around 6%, it’s now 5.3.[/quote]
Well, I’m sure that explains why folks overseas are able to get into pretty good schools. If I had a few million to donate to any school, I’m sure my kid’s grade wouldn’t really matter either….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=flyer]I’m sure you’re joking, but with the previous discussion here, it does make one wonder.
In retrospect, I guess you could say I had a “Tiger Mother” before it was in vogue, and we raised our kids in pretty much the same way. Everyone turned out well, but we were prepared if that had not been the case.[/quote]
A tiger mom/dad that puts that much emphasis on success..At worst, there kids turns out average to slightly above average unless he/she has some other issues going on. Better than kids that put no effort into their work. There are some cases that it backfires, and the kid flunks out of Harvard (no seriously). But there is a higher percentage of success. Also, starting with generation 2. Let’s face it. Generation 2 ends up having a better financial future than generation 1 who made all the sacrifices and ends up passing it down to generation 2. So there is part of a wealth transfer to kids to increase the odds of not failing. The new wealth from asia (business people) on the other hand probably aren’t very well educated, and made money by being in the right place at the right time in an emerging market. They take their money and send their kids to the best school their money can buy. So it will take about 3-4 generations before they end up as fvcked up as many other americans are.
CoronitaParticipantSo the reply wasn’t necessarily directed at BG above, but it just seems like there’s a common theme when someone brings up Carmel Valley…
A typical thread about Carmel Valley beings like
1. New buyer to be….. posts/complains about affordability of Carmel Valley
2. New buyer starts to rant about the crappiness of Carmel Valley
3. New buyer asks others for other comparable places to live
4. Someone always brings up the stucco box, overpriced, crap, snobbery aspects (I call this the sour grapes syndrome)
5. Then, usually Santee, El Cajon, Chula Vista cheerleaders jump in and say how much a better value homes in these areas are and what quality craftmanship homes built in these areas are. Citing that Carmel Valley homes have too many lizards, walls, and stucco on the houses.
6. Would be buyer says something like “are you fvvcking serious. I might think CarmelV is a douchery, but comparing it to Chula Vista or El Cajon, you’re nuts”. (which, is somewhat true)… Of course if someone that lives in Carmel Valley were to say this, that person would be considered a snob… But of course a person that is looking to buy in Carmel Valley says the same thing, that’s not being a snob.
7. Then there’s bitch and moan session about Carlsbad and Encinitas too far away, La Jolla is a much better place and should be priced where Carmel Valley is current priced, Rancho Bernardo/4S having way too high MR, some smacktalk about Stonebridge (which currently escapes my mind), and some aspect of Santa Luz being expensive and not really RSF. Oh, and anything along the 15 is one big fire hazard that will go up in flames any day now…
8. Then the would be carmel valley buyer goes away and doesn’t post again. The house that was shown on piggington that he/said was a rip off at a given price ends up closing 2-3 month later, if not at asking price, close to it, or even above it.
9. And we never here from the OP again for a long time…… Kinda like the past couple of other threads too…
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