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    Hardwood Flooring Depot

    Strange, I had a great experience with this company and my neighbors have as well. They were the only company that understood what we wanted without using quarter rounds throughout the entire house. Highly recommend talking to Camron from Hardwood Flooring Depot.
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    Recommendations for garage floor epoxy

    Concrete Creations did my home as well and I couldn't be happier.
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    Homes with master br on first floor?

    OH3 has a couple plans with first floor master bed/bath.
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    Tustin Legacy South

    If by "who" you are inquiring who the current master developer is for this project, it is the City of Tustin.  If memory serves me correctly, the Centex/Shea deal fell apart in 2006, and then Shea themselves walked away around 2011-ish.  I believe the City closed escrow on that property shortly...
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    Looking for high end landscape/pool contractor

    ^^100% this.  We hired Land Concern as our landscape architect for our backyard landscape job, and though our lot is not as big as others in OH, when we bid our architectural plans, we selected the ones who were confident they could execute to the detail everything that was proposed.  As a...
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    Orchard Hills Neighborhood 3

    It'll be over a year easily before the Reserve will have a guard at the gate.  The CC&R's state that the guard won't be posted until a certain threshold of sales has been met (iirc north of 80%), so the Reserve has quite a long ways to go considering the second amenity hasn't even broken ground...
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    Solar mandate

    If I were you, I'd stick to my guns and not let the builder screw me, particularly because of my experience with KB in particular.  I've worked with a lot of homebuilders, and there's nothing in the state mandate that says homes being sold by Q4 2019 need to have solar.  Nothing threatens the...
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    Orchard Hills Neighborhood 3

    They are indeed very similar; however, Verdi Plan 1 has a first floor master bedroom, whereas I believe Lago does not offer that.  Noticeably when we toured those models, the Verdi models have a 10' ceiling on the first floor whereas the Lago models only have a 9' ceiling (I just received an...
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    Orchard Hills 3 Residents Smelt Odor From All American Asphalt

    See my responses above.  I live in OH3, and these complaints are nothing but baseless WeChat rumors.
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    Recommended landscapers

    We recently had our landscaping completed with KS The Land Collection, specifically Andru Kang: (949) 285-5359.  Our yard was a mixture of concrete/tile work and some trees/shrubs, and he executed it without any issues.  GL
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    Landscaping cost

    Hard to believe this "rule of thumb" considering the size of lots that are being subdivided in Irvine lately.  I'd say the rule of thumb is closer to 5% (for the bare minimum) and close to/over 10% if you're including a pool.
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    Kyung Bok Kung raises the bar for Korean barbecue

    Capital Seafood =/= Capital Grille (South Coast Plaza)
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    New Development: PS-5

    Though it's the first time IP as a 'brand' is building in Portola Springs, IP and CalPac are both subsidiaries of TIC, so I wouldn't say it's some sort of a new revelation.
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    Starter Family Detached Home Battle: New vs Resale

    If memory serves me correctly, the only new homes with front loaded drive-ways for under $1M were in Portola Springs.  Regarding those resale homes, the Harvard Square home looks to fit your criteria the best, but a LOT of homes in that community have first floor 8' ceilings which make the...
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