[temeculaguy]

I think I may have figured it out. Your listings are from sandicor. Anyone using a realtor not based in San diego would probably list in their mls, thus not showing up in your search. Somehow redfin pulls from all the regionals. I think downtown condos or other areas with investors from areas out of town, would get missed by your site. Same with repo clearing houses. The repo I bought was listed out of L.A. by a realtor working for a particular bank, who had all their listings in so cal. That happens frequently.

As an experiment i compared downtown SD using your website and redfin. RF had 452 actives (excluding pendings, which was another 119) in 92101, you had 300. I excluded shorts on redfin and still got 332. So excluding pendings and shorts, your missing listings, as a consumer I’d like to see them all and I’ll decide. Based on my little experiemnt, 1/3 of the downtown listings are not using sandicor, or at least they are not getting onto your website.

[temeculaguy]

I think I may have figured it out. Your listings are from sandicor. Anyone using a realtor not based in San diego would probably list in their mls, thus not showing up in your search. Somehow redfin pulls from all the regionals. I think downtown condos or other areas with investors from areas out of town, would get missed by your site. Same with repo clearing houses. The repo I bought was listed out of L.A. by a realtor working for a particular bank, who had all their listings in so cal. That happens frequently.

As an experiment i compared downtown SD using your website and redfin. RF had 452 actives (excluding pendings, which was another 119) in 92101, you had 300. I excluded shorts on redfin and still got 332. So excluding pendings and shorts, your missing listings, as a consumer I’d like to see them all and I’ll decide. Based on my little experiemnt, 1/3 of the downtown listings are not using sandicor, or at least they are not getting onto your website.

[temeculaguy]

I think I may have figured it out. Your listings are from sandicor. Anyone using a realtor not based in San diego would probably list in their mls, thus not showing up in your search. Somehow redfin pulls from all the regionals. I think downtown condos or other areas with investors from areas out of town, would get missed by your site. Same with repo clearing houses. The repo I bought was listed out of L.A. by a realtor working for a particular bank, who had all their listings in so cal. That happens frequently.

As an experiment i compared downtown SD using your website and redfin. RF had 452 actives (excluding pendings, which was another 119) in 92101, you had 300. I excluded shorts on redfin and still got 332. So excluding pendings and shorts, your missing listings, as a consumer I’d like to see them all and I’ll decide. Based on my little experiemnt, 1/3 of the downtown listings are not using sandicor, or at least they are not getting onto your website.

[temeculaguy]

I think I may have figured it out. Your listings are from sandicor. Anyone using a realtor not based in San diego would probably list in their mls, thus not showing up in your search. Somehow redfin pulls from all the regionals. I think downtown condos or other areas with investors from areas out of town, would get missed by your site. Same with repo clearing houses. The repo I bought was listed out of L.A. by a realtor working for a particular bank, who had all their listings in so cal. That happens frequently.

As an experiment i compared downtown SD using your website and redfin. RF had 452 actives (excluding pendings, which was another 119) in 92101, you had 300. I excluded shorts on redfin and still got 332. So excluding pendings and shorts, your missing listings, as a consumer I’d like to see them all and I’ll decide. Based on my little experiemnt, 1/3 of the downtown listings are not using sandicor, or at least they are not getting onto your website.

[temeculaguy]

Not sure if this holds true for san diego but I found your data to be flawed for temecula. You have all the zip codes to choose from but when I searched for example 92592, I only got 41 properties, that’s missing something. Redfin gives you the shorts, the pendings, the recently closed. I can map it, choose an area within a zip code, uch more helpful for actual searching. Are you listings leaving out discount listings that only pay the selling agent a fraction of a commission? When I was actively shopping I could get public access to the mrmls and I could also get to it through some realtors websites, it was helpful but I abandonded it because redfin is easier to use.

Plus for my example of 92592 on redfin, I got 715 total listings. Of that 371 were active, 344 pending. Of the actives, 212 were shorts. Of the pendings 131 were shorts.

From all of that I can learn things, find things, the bargains are usually in those listing, especially if sites like yours are missing them. How you came up 41 total is a bit confusing but had I gone to it by chance or based on an advertisement, After a few minutes of seeing how minimal it is, I’d never go back.

Sorry, just being honest.

The mls is out of the bag nowadays, it’s no longer a secret and realtors are needed for transactions and negotions, not selecting. Either show them everything or they will go elsewhere. Today’s R/E consumer wants to shop at a grocery store or a costco, not a 7-11. Minimal selection will only get those looking for convenience, the rest of us want to see it all. Maybe you have a data problem, maybe you are not focussed on my area so the data is unchecked. But if you are filtering shorts, repos, discount fee listings and other less profitable properties, then you need to change that. Even then, I found the website not as user friendly as redfin.

[temeculaguy]

Not sure if this holds true for san diego but I found your data to be flawed for temecula. You have all the zip codes to choose from but when I searched for example 92592, I only got 41 properties, that’s missing something. Redfin gives you the shorts, the pendings, the recently closed. I can map it, choose an area within a zip code, uch more helpful for actual searching. Are you listings leaving out discount listings that only pay the selling agent a fraction of a commission? When I was actively shopping I could get public access to the mrmls and I could also get to it through some realtors websites, it was helpful but I abandonded it because redfin is easier to use.

Plus for my example of 92592 on redfin, I got 715 total listings. Of that 371 were active, 344 pending. Of the actives, 212 were shorts. Of the pendings 131 were shorts.

From all of that I can learn things, find things, the bargains are usually in those listing, especially if sites like yours are missing them. How you came up 41 total is a bit confusing but had I gone to it by chance or based on an advertisement, After a few minutes of seeing how minimal it is, I’d never go back.

Sorry, just being honest.

The mls is out of the bag nowadays, it’s no longer a secret and realtors are needed for transactions and negotions, not selecting. Either show them everything or they will go elsewhere. Today’s R/E consumer wants to shop at a grocery store or a costco, not a 7-11. Minimal selection will only get those looking for convenience, the rest of us want to see it all. Maybe you have a data problem, maybe you are not focussed on my area so the data is unchecked. But if you are filtering shorts, repos, discount fee listings and other less profitable properties, then you need to change that. Even then, I found the website not as user friendly as redfin.

[temeculaguy]

Not sure if this holds true for san diego but I found your data to be flawed for temecula. You have all the zip codes to choose from but when I searched for example 92592, I only got 41 properties, that’s missing something. Redfin gives you the shorts, the pendings, the recently closed. I can map it, choose an area within a zip code, uch more helpful for actual searching. Are you listings leaving out discount listings that only pay the selling agent a fraction of a commission? When I was actively shopping I could get public access to the mrmls and I could also get to it through some realtors websites, it was helpful but I abandonded it because redfin is easier to use.

Plus for my example of 92592 on redfin, I got 715 total listings. Of that 371 were active, 344 pending. Of the actives, 212 were shorts. Of the pendings 131 were shorts.

From all of that I can learn things, find things, the bargains are usually in those listing, especially if sites like yours are missing them. How you came up 41 total is a bit confusing but had I gone to it by chance or based on an advertisement, After a few minutes of seeing how minimal it is, I’d never go back.

Sorry, just being honest.

The mls is out of the bag nowadays, it’s no longer a secret and realtors are needed for transactions and negotions, not selecting. Either show them everything or they will go elsewhere. Today’s R/E consumer wants to shop at a grocery store or a costco, not a 7-11. Minimal selection will only get those looking for convenience, the rest of us want to see it all. Maybe you have a data problem, maybe you are not focussed on my area so the data is unchecked. But if you are filtering shorts, repos, discount fee listings and other less profitable properties, then you need to change that. Even then, I found the website not as user friendly as redfin.

[temeculaguy]

Not sure if this holds true for san diego but I found your data to be flawed for temecula. You have all the zip codes to choose from but when I searched for example 92592, I only got 41 properties, that’s missing something. Redfin gives you the shorts, the pendings, the recently closed. I can map it, choose an area within a zip code, uch more helpful for actual searching. Are you listings leaving out discount listings that only pay the selling agent a fraction of a commission? When I was actively shopping I could get public access to the mrmls and I could also get to it through some realtors websites, it was helpful but I abandonded it because redfin is easier to use.

Plus for my example of 92592 on redfin, I got 715 total listings. Of that 371 were active, 344 pending. Of the actives, 212 were shorts. Of the pendings 131 were shorts.

From all of that I can learn things, find things, the bargains are usually in those listing, especially if sites like yours are missing them. How you came up 41 total is a bit confusing but had I gone to it by chance or based on an advertisement, After a few minutes of seeing how minimal it is, I’d never go back.

Sorry, just being honest.

The mls is out of the bag nowadays, it’s no longer a secret and realtors are needed for transactions and negotions, not selecting. Either show them everything or they will go elsewhere. Today’s R/E consumer wants to shop at a grocery store or a costco, not a 7-11. Minimal selection will only get those looking for convenience, the rest of us want to see it all. Maybe you have a data problem, maybe you are not focussed on my area so the data is unchecked. But if you are filtering shorts, repos, discount fee listings and other less profitable properties, then you need to change that. Even then, I found the website not as user friendly as redfin.

[temeculaguy]

Not sure if this holds true for san diego but I found your data to be flawed for temecula. You have all the zip codes to choose from but when I searched for example 92592, I only got 41 properties, that’s missing something. Redfin gives you the shorts, the pendings, the recently closed. I can map it, choose an area within a zip code, uch more helpful for actual searching. Are you listings leaving out discount listings that only pay the selling agent a fraction of a commission? When I was actively shopping I could get public access to the mrmls and I could also get to it through some realtors websites, it was helpful but I abandonded it because redfin is easier to use.

Plus for my example of 92592 on redfin, I got 715 total listings. Of that 371 were active, 344 pending. Of the actives, 212 were shorts. Of the pendings 131 were shorts.

From all of that I can learn things, find things, the bargains are usually in those listing, especially if sites like yours are missing them. How you came up 41 total is a bit confusing but had I gone to it by chance or based on an advertisement, After a few minutes of seeing how minimal it is, I’d never go back.

Sorry, just being honest.

The mls is out of the bag nowadays, it’s no longer a secret and realtors are needed for transactions and negotions, not selecting. Either show them everything or they will go elsewhere. Today’s R/E consumer wants to shop at a grocery store or a costco, not a 7-11. Minimal selection will only get those looking for convenience, the rest of us want to see it all. Maybe you have a data problem, maybe you are not focussed on my area so the data is unchecked. But if you are filtering shorts, repos, discount fee listings and other less profitable properties, then you need to change that. Even then, I found the website not as user friendly as redfin.

[temeculaguy]

Thanks flu, but my tastes are odd and I would like to avoid anything new. I refuse to drop 50k on a car that I will drive 3-5k miles a year tops. I like the M35/37, 3 years old they are 25k but they just look like a fancy maxima/camry/accord to me. One thing to realize is that my purchase is not for transportation reasons, it has to be fun and it needs to be an ass magnet. At least the G35/37 looks unique, unfortunately they just came out with a convertible so there aren’t any 2-4 year old used ones out there. Mustangs do nothing for me. I can put off the purchase for a year if I need to, I may do just that and hope the g37 ragtop falls in value, there are some 2009’s out there starting to sell for between 38-40k with under 10k miles on them. Used cars seem to fall in price at different ages based on model, but it almost always takes 2 years at least for the lease returns to start showing up. I’ll probably just bite the bullet and get the 6 series but after your suggestion I’m finding some 911 cabrios about 5-8 years old with very few miles on them for about 30k, I might go that way and make it my new hobby learning how to fix it myself. Thanks for the advice flu.

[temeculaguy]

Thanks flu, but my tastes are odd and I would like to avoid anything new. I refuse to drop 50k on a car that I will drive 3-5k miles a year tops. I like the M35/37, 3 years old they are 25k but they just look like a fancy maxima/camry/accord to me. One thing to realize is that my purchase is not for transportation reasons, it has to be fun and it needs to be an ass magnet. At least the G35/37 looks unique, unfortunately they just came out with a convertible so there aren’t any 2-4 year old used ones out there. Mustangs do nothing for me. I can put off the purchase for a year if I need to, I may do just that and hope the g37 ragtop falls in value, there are some 2009’s out there starting to sell for between 38-40k with under 10k miles on them. Used cars seem to fall in price at different ages based on model, but it almost always takes 2 years at least for the lease returns to start showing up. I’ll probably just bite the bullet and get the 6 series but after your suggestion I’m finding some 911 cabrios about 5-8 years old with very few miles on them for about 30k, I might go that way and make it my new hobby learning how to fix it myself. Thanks for the advice flu.

[temeculaguy]

Thanks flu, but my tastes are odd and I would like to avoid anything new. I refuse to drop 50k on a car that I will drive 3-5k miles a year tops. I like the M35/37, 3 years old they are 25k but they just look like a fancy maxima/camry/accord to me. One thing to realize is that my purchase is not for transportation reasons, it has to be fun and it needs to be an ass magnet. At least the G35/37 looks unique, unfortunately they just came out with a convertible so there aren’t any 2-4 year old used ones out there. Mustangs do nothing for me. I can put off the purchase for a year if I need to, I may do just that and hope the g37 ragtop falls in value, there are some 2009’s out there starting to sell for between 38-40k with under 10k miles on them. Used cars seem to fall in price at different ages based on model, but it almost always takes 2 years at least for the lease returns to start showing up. I’ll probably just bite the bullet and get the 6 series but after your suggestion I’m finding some 911 cabrios about 5-8 years old with very few miles on them for about 30k, I might go that way and make it my new hobby learning how to fix it myself. Thanks for the advice flu.

[temeculaguy]

Thanks flu, but my tastes are odd and I would like to avoid anything new. I refuse to drop 50k on a car that I will drive 3-5k miles a year tops. I like the M35/37, 3 years old they are 25k but they just look like a fancy maxima/camry/accord to me. One thing to realize is that my purchase is not for transportation reasons, it has to be fun and it needs to be an ass magnet. At least the G35/37 looks unique, unfortunately they just came out with a convertible so there aren’t any 2-4 year old used ones out there. Mustangs do nothing for me. I can put off the purchase for a year if I need to, I may do just that and hope the g37 ragtop falls in value, there are some 2009’s out there starting to sell for between 38-40k with under 10k miles on them. Used cars seem to fall in price at different ages based on model, but it almost always takes 2 years at least for the lease returns to start showing up. I’ll probably just bite the bullet and get the 6 series but after your suggestion I’m finding some 911 cabrios about 5-8 years old with very few miles on them for about 30k, I might go that way and make it my new hobby learning how to fix it myself. Thanks for the advice flu.

[temeculaguy]

Thanks flu, but my tastes are odd and I would like to avoid anything new. I refuse to drop 50k on a car that I will drive 3-5k miles a year tops. I like the M35/37, 3 years old they are 25k but they just look like a fancy maxima/camry/accord to me. One thing to realize is that my purchase is not for transportation reasons, it has to be fun and it needs to be an ass magnet. At least the G35/37 looks unique, unfortunately they just came out with a convertible so there aren’t any 2-4 year old used ones out there. Mustangs do nothing for me. I can put off the purchase for a year if I need to, I may do just that and hope the g37 ragtop falls in value, there are some 2009’s out there starting to sell for between 38-40k with under 10k miles on them. Used cars seem to fall in price at different ages based on model, but it almost always takes 2 years at least for the lease returns to start showing up. I’ll probably just bite the bullet and get the 6 series but after your suggestion I’m finding some 911 cabrios about 5-8 years old with very few miles on them for about 30k, I might go that way and make it my new hobby learning how to fix it myself. Thanks for the advice flu.

[temeculaguy]

sdcellar, congrats on the purchase but mostly congrats on using the greatest metric of homebuying, your payment’s relativity to your current rent. Close to rent is good enough usually, same as rent is great but less than rent is fantastic. Having the mindset that you are not investing, you are merely fixing costs and hedging inflation will make this move a sound one. Good work, look forward to the details, moving normally sucks but I found that buying after renting for a while makes the move less painful, not quite fun but close. More like satisfying, because as you finish each portion of the move, you get to say to yourself “I’m not going to have to move that again for a very long time.”

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