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Ppl hoard things in their garage or use it as a workshop. If it gets reported to hoa that someone is consistently parking their second car on the street, they'll come inspect your garage to see that the space isn't being used in other ways.

Late 20s, combined salary >250k and there's no way we will consider 800k until our student loans are paid off. We both went to 4yrs undergrad + 3yrs grad school with ten year student loans. This puts us in our mid 30s before we start looking for 800k+. We went with 10% down on a 700k condo and...

Whiskey is a good enough deal to keep my membership. Save like $10 a bottle. I was at the Alhambra Costco one time and saw a man get punched in the face.

I liked that Caserta had a bathroom for every bedroom and the master bath had separate tub and shower. Overall the floorplans were nice. But at 500-700k the 3bedroom units will probably overlap in pricing with Citrine which is detached.

No not just fha. Anything beyond the conforming loan limit becomes a jumbo loan to all lenders.

I agree detached > attached but conforming loan limit for Irvine is $625500. Making a down payment of 75k vs 175k is a big difference at the entry level market.

If you do upgrade the bathroom flooring, do it through the builder. Otherwise you end up voiding some warranty.

Jade Court is a condo. You pay $123 JC HOA on top of $126 CV HOA

The yard is 12ftx26ft.

People have waited multiple releases for the units along Scented Violet so I don't even think you'll be able to get plan 1/3/4 on that side of the release. As for the non-premium lots these have been increasing 5-6k per release so the pricing seems normal. $629k last release was for plan 1, not...

Jade Court Plan3 has an option to do landscaping through the builder (concrete slab, ~3 small trees, sprinklers, plants) for ~$10k. Is this worth doing? Is there anyone here in JC that has chosen this option?