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ParticipantPrices are continuing to drop at Harveston:
xx096 PASADENA DR, Temecula, CA 92591
1991 s.f. cottage with upgrades
Price Reduced: 06/13/07 — $419,900 to $389,900
Another 150K price drop and it might be an OK deal!ParticipantI’m getting close to throwing in the towel on Temecula as well. My wife and I have lived up here for seven years. When we moved up here, we thought we’d live here forever. Now that we don’t own a home anymore, there’s really no advantage to being here. My job is pretty decent, stable and close to home but I’ve started looking for work elsewhere because I just don’t really want to be here anymore. I’m getting increasingly bored and hot with each passing month. I’d prefer either San Diego or the Bay Area. I’ve lived in both of those areas before and know which neigborhoods I’d want to live in. Basically, I’m tired of having to drive so far to get to anything and I want to live near the coast. I don’t care about having a lot of square footage or a house with a big lot. I’d rather be close to the beaches, parks, and cultural attractions. If we decide to have kids, I don’t think I’d want to raise them here either. Even though this place is billed as family friendly, it seems more and more like a cultural wasteland of cookie cutter tract homes with lifted 4×4’s racing down the streets at all hours. So what if you can rent a fancy new house for cheap? I don’t want to sit at home 24/7!
ParticipantI’m getting close to throwing in the towel on Temecula as well. My wife and I have lived up here for seven years. When we moved up here, we thought we’d live here forever. Now that we don’t own a home anymore, there’s really no advantage to being here. My job is pretty decent, stable and close to home but I’ve started looking for work elsewhere because I just don’t really want to be here anymore. I’m getting increasingly bored and hot with each passing month. I’d prefer either San Diego or the Bay Area. I’ve lived in both of those areas before and know which neigborhoods I’d want to live in. Basically, I’m tired of having to drive so far to get to anything and I want to live near the coast. I don’t care about having a lot of square footage or a house with a big lot. I’d rather be close to the beaches, parks, and cultural attractions. If we decide to have kids, I don’t think I’d want to raise them here either. Even though this place is billed as family friendly, it seems more and more like a cultural wasteland of cookie cutter tract homes with lifted 4×4’s racing down the streets at all hours. So what if you can rent a fancy new house for cheap? I don’t want to sit at home 24/7!
ParticipantI agree that using things like astroturf, native plants, xeriscape, etc. is the way to go. Going forward, I think we will have no choice up here in Temecula and we’ll be better off without all this grass in the desert.
I wanted to do something along these lines when I owned my house but my wife wanted a tropical look. After a few hot summers and some big water bills, she started to change her mind. Our rental house has a very small yard so there isn’t very much grass to water – at least it’s a step in the right direction.
Aside from the water usage, lawns cause a lot of environmental damage due to fertilizer and pesticide runoff. Plus there’s the hassle of having to mow it, fertilize it, fix sprinkler heads, etc. The less grass, the better.
Plants should be suited to the climate as well. I can’t believe some of the plants that Lowe’s and Home Depot sell up here. Almost everyone that moves up here from San Diego has a story about how they spent a couple hundred bucks on plants that all burned up in the summer heat. I did that but I brought them all back (I had saved the pots) and got a store credit. After that, I started researching what types of plants, trees would do well up here before buying them.
ParticipantI agree that using things like astroturf, native plants, xeriscape, etc. is the way to go. Going forward, I think we will have no choice up here in Temecula and we’ll be better off without all this grass in the desert.
I wanted to do something along these lines when I owned my house but my wife wanted a tropical look. After a few hot summers and some big water bills, she started to change her mind. Our rental house has a very small yard so there isn’t very much grass to water – at least it’s a step in the right direction.
Aside from the water usage, lawns cause a lot of environmental damage due to fertilizer and pesticide runoff. Plus there’s the hassle of having to mow it, fertilize it, fix sprinkler heads, etc. The less grass, the better.
Plants should be suited to the climate as well. I can’t believe some of the plants that Lowe’s and Home Depot sell up here. Almost everyone that moves up here from San Diego has a story about how they spent a couple hundred bucks on plants that all burned up in the summer heat. I did that but I brought them all back (I had saved the pots) and got a store credit. After that, I started researching what types of plants, trees would do well up here before buying them.
ParticipantThe brown lawn syndrome is just going to have to play itself out. Eventually, someone will buy all those empty houses. The price they pay and the type of buyers they are remains to be seen.
I think we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg so far as far as brown lawns/vacant houses. There are going to be a LOT of ARM’s resetting in Temecula and not much in the way of wages to pay the increased payments.
As a side note, the fact that a lawn can go completely dead in a couple weeks shows you how DRY it is in the Inland Empire. What happens if the drought continues for decades as many scientists are now predicing and watering lawns is no longer an option?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17967097/ParticipantThe brown lawn syndrome is just going to have to play itself out. Eventually, someone will buy all those empty houses. The price they pay and the type of buyers they are remains to be seen.
I think we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg so far as far as brown lawns/vacant houses. There are going to be a LOT of ARM’s resetting in Temecula and not much in the way of wages to pay the increased payments.
As a side note, the fact that a lawn can go completely dead in a couple weeks shows you how DRY it is in the Inland Empire. What happens if the drought continues for decades as many scientists are now predicing and watering lawns is no longer an option?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17967097/ParticipantI rent up in Temecula and I have a 2 year lease – so does my neighbor next door. These landlords seem to prefer the stability of having a tenant for 2 years. Not sure why though – since they’re losing thousands each month they rent these places out!
ParticipantI rent up in Temecula and I have a 2 year lease – so does my neighbor next door. These landlords seem to prefer the stability of having a tenant for 2 years. Not sure why though – since they’re losing thousands each month they rent these places out!
ParticipantHarveston is probably the best location for being “close to everything” in Temecula. But, notice I said “in Temecula”. Temecula itself is a pretty small exurb of San Diego and you’ll face long drives in traffic if you want to get to things like beaches, museums, airports, or big-city type cultural attractions.
Even Harveston isn’t really very walkable – only within the subdivision. If you want to walk to the nearby Starbucks, there’s no direct way to walk there – you have to walk all the way out to a main street and then cut through the parking lots dodging cars. It’s like the people that planned out this area owned a lot of stock in Goodyear, GM, and Exxon. No neighborhood in Temecula is truly “close to everything” although some would have buyers believe they are.
ParticipantHarveston is probably the best location for being “close to everything” in Temecula. But, notice I said “in Temecula”. Temecula itself is a pretty small exurb of San Diego and you’ll face long drives in traffic if you want to get to things like beaches, museums, airports, or big-city type cultural attractions.
Even Harveston isn’t really very walkable – only within the subdivision. If you want to walk to the nearby Starbucks, there’s no direct way to walk there – you have to walk all the way out to a main street and then cut through the parking lots dodging cars. It’s like the people that planned out this area owned a lot of stock in Goodyear, GM, and Exxon. No neighborhood in Temecula is truly “close to everything” although some would have buyers believe they are.
ParticipantOur whole economy (and really our whole society) is based on continually increasing consumption of goods and services financed by debt. No major corporations or governments want to see an end to this because it would take away their power and wealth. So they mislead the public and keep pushing off the inevitable further and further into the future, making the eventual collapse that much worse. Most people are so distracted with idiotic stuff that they don’t stop and think about what’s really behind all of this mess.
ParticipantOur whole economy (and really our whole society) is based on continually increasing consumption of goods and services financed by debt. No major corporations or governments want to see an end to this because it would take away their power and wealth. So they mislead the public and keep pushing off the inevitable further and further into the future, making the eventual collapse that much worse. Most people are so distracted with idiotic stuff that they don’t stop and think about what’s really behind all of this mess.
ParticipantOne of the comments at the bottom of that newspaper article says it all as far as what the fallout will be:
P.D. Asilomar wrote on Jun 2, 2007 11:40 PM:
” When the full magnitude of the REAL problem becomes evident, the air is going to rush out of this inflated real estate market like gas out of the Hindenberg, with similar results. Southern California is the only place where you can pay five times what a house is worth, and then watch it burn down five times or collapse in an earthquake twice before it’s paid for.” -
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