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Participant[quote=pemeliza] Here are some examples in Mt. Helix that blow away anything we looked at there a couple of years ago at similar price points:
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-110006266-9565_Alto_Dr_La_Mesa_CA_91941
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-100073352-4825_Mount_Helix_La_Mesa_CA_91941
[/quote]The first one is by notable architect Robert Des Lauriers. Maybe Mt. Helix is where the deals are around this price (finding a bottom?). Coast and midtown seem unrealistically sticky to me, whereas many areas in the county are flirting with serious affordability.
Participant[quote=jpinpb]What makes this purchase so difficult for me is I am still a bear. [/quote]
Same with me, as someone who closed in December. I think in terms of a mindset, its an asset. No lofty expectations, just finally finding a place to live and settling into an economic reality. Following housing becomes interesting, but less personal.
Participant[quote=jpinpb]What makes this purchase so difficult for me is I am still a bear. [/quote]
Same with me, as someone who closed in December. I think in terms of a mindset, its an asset. No lofty expectations, just finally finding a place to live and settling into an economic reality. Following housing becomes interesting, but less personal.
Participant[quote=jpinpb]What makes this purchase so difficult for me is I am still a bear. [/quote]
Same with me, as someone who closed in December. I think in terms of a mindset, its an asset. No lofty expectations, just finally finding a place to live and settling into an economic reality. Following housing becomes interesting, but less personal.
Participant[quote=jpinpb]What makes this purchase so difficult for me is I am still a bear. [/quote]
Same with me, as someone who closed in December. I think in terms of a mindset, its an asset. No lofty expectations, just finally finding a place to live and settling into an economic reality. Following housing becomes interesting, but less personal.
Participant[quote=jpinpb]What makes this purchase so difficult for me is I am still a bear. [/quote]
Same with me, as someone who closed in December. I think in terms of a mindset, its an asset. No lofty expectations, just finally finding a place to live and settling into an economic reality. Following housing becomes interesting, but less personal.
ParticipantCongrats! Seems like a lot of Piggs have found some affordable houses and the timing is right. We waited for like 7 or 8 years, reading blogs, thinking everyone was crazy, were proven right, and here we are.
We closed in December, too – 4.25 fixed w/o points, as we could have locked in 4.0 with a fee. That was the first week in November – we lucked out. One income, won’t grow out of it, etc. I fully expect prices to drop, but I cannot call bottom. Sometimes, you’ve just got to go for it if it works.
ParticipantCongrats! Seems like a lot of Piggs have found some affordable houses and the timing is right. We waited for like 7 or 8 years, reading blogs, thinking everyone was crazy, were proven right, and here we are.
We closed in December, too – 4.25 fixed w/o points, as we could have locked in 4.0 with a fee. That was the first week in November – we lucked out. One income, won’t grow out of it, etc. I fully expect prices to drop, but I cannot call bottom. Sometimes, you’ve just got to go for it if it works.
ParticipantCongrats! Seems like a lot of Piggs have found some affordable houses and the timing is right. We waited for like 7 or 8 years, reading blogs, thinking everyone was crazy, were proven right, and here we are.
We closed in December, too – 4.25 fixed w/o points, as we could have locked in 4.0 with a fee. That was the first week in November – we lucked out. One income, won’t grow out of it, etc. I fully expect prices to drop, but I cannot call bottom. Sometimes, you’ve just got to go for it if it works.
ParticipantCongrats! Seems like a lot of Piggs have found some affordable houses and the timing is right. We waited for like 7 or 8 years, reading blogs, thinking everyone was crazy, were proven right, and here we are.
We closed in December, too – 4.25 fixed w/o points, as we could have locked in 4.0 with a fee. That was the first week in November – we lucked out. One income, won’t grow out of it, etc. I fully expect prices to drop, but I cannot call bottom. Sometimes, you’ve just got to go for it if it works.
ParticipantCongrats! Seems like a lot of Piggs have found some affordable houses and the timing is right. We waited for like 7 or 8 years, reading blogs, thinking everyone was crazy, were proven right, and here we are.
We closed in December, too – 4.25 fixed w/o points, as we could have locked in 4.0 with a fee. That was the first week in November – we lucked out. One income, won’t grow out of it, etc. I fully expect prices to drop, but I cannot call bottom. Sometimes, you’ve just got to go for it if it works.
Participant[quote=CA renter] Along with the decimation of the middle class, we’ve seen the decimation of middle class neighborhoods[/quote]
This is absolutely right. But there still the taste culture thing. Over the last 10 years, we’ve been told “luxury for all,” so for a lot of people, its Carmel Valley or nothing. As we’ve seen on recent threads, quiet, diverse neighborhoods like San Carlos are not even on people’s radar. Its about aspiration and homogeniety.
I think San Diego will begin to live up to its potential when people with means move and invest in nice family neighborhoods in places like Clairemont, San Carlos, La Mesa, Serra Mesa, Morena, etc and live a simpler economic life rather than really, really stretching to make some area with perceived status. Then all those neighborhoods become better, and the new residents will have a lot more money to spend enjoying San Diego. Hell, even parts of Linda Vista, National City, & Rolando are ripe for the picking. But you can’t be afraid of people who look different from you – you need to see diversity as an asset especially for your kids. I was impressed by the number of white people who moved their families into SFRs in City Heights during the last 10 years, investing in the neighborhood and committing to diversity. If the boom/burst didn’t happen, and if the bottom didn’t fall out from under a lot of those folks, change might have happened more quickly. I still think it has a lot of potential.
Participant[quote=CA renter] Along with the decimation of the middle class, we’ve seen the decimation of middle class neighborhoods[/quote]
This is absolutely right. But there still the taste culture thing. Over the last 10 years, we’ve been told “luxury for all,” so for a lot of people, its Carmel Valley or nothing. As we’ve seen on recent threads, quiet, diverse neighborhoods like San Carlos are not even on people’s radar. Its about aspiration and homogeniety.
I think San Diego will begin to live up to its potential when people with means move and invest in nice family neighborhoods in places like Clairemont, San Carlos, La Mesa, Serra Mesa, Morena, etc and live a simpler economic life rather than really, really stretching to make some area with perceived status. Then all those neighborhoods become better, and the new residents will have a lot more money to spend enjoying San Diego. Hell, even parts of Linda Vista, National City, & Rolando are ripe for the picking. But you can’t be afraid of people who look different from you – you need to see diversity as an asset especially for your kids. I was impressed by the number of white people who moved their families into SFRs in City Heights during the last 10 years, investing in the neighborhood and committing to diversity. If the boom/burst didn’t happen, and if the bottom didn’t fall out from under a lot of those folks, change might have happened more quickly. I still think it has a lot of potential.
Participant[quote=CA renter] Along with the decimation of the middle class, we’ve seen the decimation of middle class neighborhoods[/quote]
This is absolutely right. But there still the taste culture thing. Over the last 10 years, we’ve been told “luxury for all,” so for a lot of people, its Carmel Valley or nothing. As we’ve seen on recent threads, quiet, diverse neighborhoods like San Carlos are not even on people’s radar. Its about aspiration and homogeniety.
I think San Diego will begin to live up to its potential when people with means move and invest in nice family neighborhoods in places like Clairemont, San Carlos, La Mesa, Serra Mesa, Morena, etc and live a simpler economic life rather than really, really stretching to make some area with perceived status. Then all those neighborhoods become better, and the new residents will have a lot more money to spend enjoying San Diego. Hell, even parts of Linda Vista, National City, & Rolando are ripe for the picking. But you can’t be afraid of people who look different from you – you need to see diversity as an asset especially for your kids. I was impressed by the number of white people who moved their families into SFRs in City Heights during the last 10 years, investing in the neighborhood and committing to diversity. If the boom/burst didn’t happen, and if the bottom didn’t fall out from under a lot of those folks, change might have happened more quickly. I still think it has a lot of potential.
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