[SanDiegoDave]

Try to spend one weekend in SD without hitting any chain stores/restaurants or strip malls. It is very easy to do when compared to other cities out there.

I have to agree with that statement. If you haven’t found enough to do outside of major tourist attractions in San Diego, you’re not looking hard enough.

And I moved here from New York!

Each weekend my significant other and I try out a new restaurant. It’s fun. Up and down 4th and 5th downtown it will take you a year to visit all the non-chain restaurants if you try a different one every week. Throw La Jolla and Del Mar into the mix and you’re choices are that much greater.
(we’re big into trying new places to eat, that’s why I emphasize on the restaurants).

Besides the food, there is the spectacular scenery and terrain for bike riding. Pick an area on the weekend, and hit the road. Torrey Pines, the beaches, inland over by Poway, etc. Lots of places to see. And keep yourself in shape at the same time 😉

Coming from NYC, I figured the theater scene here would not live up. But much to our surprise, it has. All the good national touring shows come through S.D. And the locally originated stuff is top notch.

For us, a Friday evening dinner downtown followed by a Padres game or theater show is a lot of fun.

Despite being “touristy”, the Wild Animal Park and zoo really do have a lot to offer. The WAP especially, with their new tram and ever-changing animal exhibits, continues to impress. And just as with the cycling, you can get a great healthy hike in that place if you venture out to the more distant habitats.

The Del Mar Fair blows. But the horse racing is a lot of fun if you get a group of people together for it.

Check the schedules for street fairs and farmers markets in places like Hillcrest & La Jolla. You’ll love ’em.

Plenty to do around here. You just have to search for it.

[SanDiegoDave]

For someone who is into golf, I’d argue it’s still not worth it. Not when you can buy a house with no HOA, and play many times in a month at comparable courses for less than $270.00

For someone who is not into golf, the course and additional HOA is utterly worthless.

[SanDiegoDave]

For someone who is into golf, I’d argue it’s still not worth it. Not when you can buy a house with no HOA, and play many times in a month at comparable courses for less than $270.00

For someone who is not into golf, the course and additional HOA is utterly worthless.

[SanDiegoDave]

For someone who is into golf, I’d argue it’s still not worth it. Not when you can buy a house with no HOA, and play many times in a month at comparable courses for less than $270.00

For someone who is not into golf, the course and additional HOA is utterly worthless.

[SanDiegoDave]

cyphire wrote: Another factor… These houses suck. They are stucco and wire crappy houses 6 feet from their neighbors.

That is something we have discovered since we started looking through CV a lot. It’s bad. For houses that are less than 20 years old, they are in horrific condition. Noisy. Plastic pipes. Deteriorating walls. The list goes on.

It’s sad. I love the over location. But assuming one’s house will be standing in another 20 years is a total crap shoot.

[SanDiegoDave]

cyphire wrote: Another factor… These houses suck. They are stucco and wire crappy houses 6 feet from their neighbors.

That is something we have discovered since we started looking through CV a lot. It’s bad. For houses that are less than 20 years old, they are in horrific condition. Noisy. Plastic pipes. Deteriorating walls. The list goes on.

It’s sad. I love the over location. But assuming one’s house will be standing in another 20 years is a total crap shoot.

[SanDiegoDave]

cyphire wrote: Another factor… These houses suck. They are stucco and wire crappy houses 6 feet from their neighbors.

That is something we have discovered since we started looking through CV a lot. It’s bad. For houses that are less than 20 years old, they are in horrific condition. Noisy. Plastic pipes. Deteriorating walls. The list goes on.

It’s sad. I love the over location. But assuming one’s house will be standing in another 20 years is a total crap shoot.

[SanDiegoDave]

I speak only in terms of CV by itself. I follow the area very closely. CV is no 4Closure Ranch. But it’s still overpriced. My opinion (no claim to be a psychic or anything) is that CV is going to see its biggest declines in the next 6-12 months. More sharp percentage drops in price per sq ft.

You’re right that those who are selling are the ones who really need to. But what’s left there right now is going to be stuck that way unless they lower their prices. We all know the value of some parts of CV with respect to its location (proximity to freeways, beach, schools etc.) But any of those houses just sitting there unsold (especially in the “heart” area – the Carmel Creek, Carmel Country, Del Mar Heights Rd) means they are overpriced and/or something is just “wrong” with the house (which means they should lower the price anyway until the “wrong” is worth it to prospective buyers).

With the coming aftermath of ARM resets CV will no longer appear to be as “immune” to the regional decline.

[SanDiegoDave]

I speak only in terms of CV by itself. I follow the area very closely. CV is no 4Closure Ranch. But it’s still overpriced. My opinion (no claim to be a psychic or anything) is that CV is going to see its biggest declines in the next 6-12 months. More sharp percentage drops in price per sq ft.

You’re right that those who are selling are the ones who really need to. But what’s left there right now is going to be stuck that way unless they lower their prices. We all know the value of some parts of CV with respect to its location (proximity to freeways, beach, schools etc.) But any of those houses just sitting there unsold (especially in the “heart” area – the Carmel Creek, Carmel Country, Del Mar Heights Rd) means they are overpriced and/or something is just “wrong” with the house (which means they should lower the price anyway until the “wrong” is worth it to prospective buyers).

With the coming aftermath of ARM resets CV will no longer appear to be as “immune” to the regional decline.

[SanDiegoDave]

I speak only in terms of CV by itself. I follow the area very closely. CV is no 4Closure Ranch. But it’s still overpriced. My opinion (no claim to be a psychic or anything) is that CV is going to see its biggest declines in the next 6-12 months. More sharp percentage drops in price per sq ft.

You’re right that those who are selling are the ones who really need to. But what’s left there right now is going to be stuck that way unless they lower their prices. We all know the value of some parts of CV with respect to its location (proximity to freeways, beach, schools etc.) But any of those houses just sitting there unsold (especially in the “heart” area – the Carmel Creek, Carmel Country, Del Mar Heights Rd) means they are overpriced and/or something is just “wrong” with the house (which means they should lower the price anyway until the “wrong” is worth it to prospective buyers).

With the coming aftermath of ARM resets CV will no longer appear to be as “immune” to the regional decline.

[SanDiegoDave]

I believe that this is when CV start a more pronounced downward price curve. Is there ANYONE who wants to live in Palacio anymore?
This guy has lowered his price four times:
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-071039078-12627_Caminito_Destello_San_Diego_CA_92130

Still can’t sell it. And he’s the lowest price one for sale out of the nearly dozen or so families who are trying to get out of there.

It’s not a bad place. We walked through when it was held open a number of weeks back. The problem is that there are better deals to be had. Who wants to drive a half-mile over speed bumps at 7 MPH through a neighborhood of kids, just to get to a main street? And to pay $270/month in HOA and Mello-Roos on top of it?

These folks need a dose of reality.

[SanDiegoDave]

I believe that this is when CV start a more pronounced downward price curve. Is there ANYONE who wants to live in Palacio anymore?
This guy has lowered his price four times:
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-071039078-12627_Caminito_Destello_San_Diego_CA_92130

Still can’t sell it. And he’s the lowest price one for sale out of the nearly dozen or so families who are trying to get out of there.

It’s not a bad place. We walked through when it was held open a number of weeks back. The problem is that there are better deals to be had. Who wants to drive a half-mile over speed bumps at 7 MPH through a neighborhood of kids, just to get to a main street? And to pay $270/month in HOA and Mello-Roos on top of it?

These folks need a dose of reality.

[SanDiegoDave]

I believe that this is when CV start a more pronounced downward price curve. Is there ANYONE who wants to live in Palacio anymore?
This guy has lowered his price four times:
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-071039078-12627_Caminito_Destello_San_Diego_CA_92130

Still can’t sell it. And he’s the lowest price one for sale out of the nearly dozen or so families who are trying to get out of there.

It’s not a bad place. We walked through when it was held open a number of weeks back. The problem is that there are better deals to be had. Who wants to drive a half-mile over speed bumps at 7 MPH through a neighborhood of kids, just to get to a main street? And to pay $270/month in HOA and Mello-Roos on top of it?

These folks need a dose of reality.

[SanDiegoDave]

I am surprised that nobody has commented on this yet. Has that company been mentioned on these boards before?

They actually did it: took the hype, scam, and uselessness of multi-level-marketing, and combined it with the hype, scam, and uselessness of “flipping” in a housing market that is on its way down.

How this remains legal is beyond me.

[SanDiegoDave]

I am surprised that nobody has commented on this yet. Has that company been mentioned on these boards before?

They actually did it: took the hype, scam, and uselessness of multi-level-marketing, and combined it with the hype, scam, and uselessness of “flipping” in a housing market that is on its way down.

How this remains legal is beyond me.

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