[cristalight]

Thanks PerryChase. Yes, our budget is around $800k (+- 50k) and I’m trying to convince my husband to wait a little longer, it would be nice to get a better, a nicer place with the same amount of money. But he sees a house not much as an investment, if he finds a house that he falls in love with he’d buy it, he wouldn’t think about the market, or the neighborhood, etc and I’m totally the opposite :(:(

How hard is it to buy a lot here and build your own place? we come from Mexico and almost everybody does that there. We’d like to do the same here but we wouldn’t even know where to start, and I always hear people complaining about contractors, etc.

Thanks again.

[cristalight]

Thanks PerryChase. Yes, our budget is around $800k, and I’m trying to convince my husband to wait a little longer, it would be nice to get a better, a nicer place with the same amount of money. But he sees a house not much as an investment, if he finds a house that he falls in love with he’d buy it, he wouldn’t think about the market, or the neigborhood, etc.

How hard is it to buy a lot here and build your own place? we come from Mexico and almost everybody does that there. We’d like to do the same here but we wouldn’t even know where to start, and I always hear people complaining about contractors, etc.

Thanks again.

[cristalight]

Thanks LostCat !!

As you said, I’m not very familiar with the area, I just drove from Mission Valley to the house (Halifax Estates) and the area around it didn’t look very nice. Which was weird because I did a little research on Del Cerro, and I found what you just said, that is an affluent neighborhood. My husband and I loved the view, we both grew up in a house up in the mountains but also IN the city, so we are looking for something like that around here.

Thanks again for your comments. I’ll drive around Del Cerro this afternoon so I can get to know the area.

[cristalight]

Thanks so much guys !!! you’ve been very helpful (as always)

[cristalight]

Yes the prices in Escala are going down. The one we are checking later today is a 3Br 1700 sq ft detached, those were $779k last year. Now it’s $739k (motivated seller). We are SO waiting till late 2007 and see what happens.

[cristalight]

Thank you guys !!!

This has been very helpful. We will definitely wait. In the mean time I will keep reading these blogs, they’re so interesting and as I said before very helpful.

Today we have an appointment to see MLS 066080821, just to check it out.

Thanks a lot again.

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