Recent content by duplicitron_IHB

My wife and I live in a plan 2 and their article made me feel like a loser for not being gay or single.

I called and the prices in Woodbury for the same units are still +50k over Portola Springs. What kind of strategy is this? How do they expect to sell the last Woodbury units with this happening down the street.

<p>So, really, most of the $150,000 I put down on my current house, I made off the bubble on my first house. Even if my equity is greatly reduced I'm really in no worse position than I was when I started. </p> <p>So, what was the right thing to do in all this? Obviously the most profitable...

I'll give you guys some room for some obvious market correction, but do you really think a $900k house in Irvine will soon be worth $450k?

See, this sounds like trying to time the market and enter at the best possible place. I'm just not that kind of guy. Sure, I would have liked to bought at the rock bottom, but, in reality, I think it is really difficult for a "joe schmoe" with a wife to do something like that with his primary...

Feeling trapped is never fun. I guess I knew there would be a possibility/probability of a dip of 10-20%, but I guess I didn't think it would be as severe as everyone on this board thinks it will be. It sounds like a lot of people expect prices to be reduced by 40%.

My math comes out a little differently than yours. My loan was for $363,000 at 6.25%. After the tax reduction for interest and property tax, assuming this property rents for $1900, I'm paying $500 more a month to own this unit rather than rent it. If you want to count the...

My wife and I bought our first home in 2004 in Corona for $390000 and sold it a year later for $490000. We didn't buy it as an investment, but ended up hating the neighborhood and wanting to move closer to work. We then spent the next six months renting in Irvine (I anticipated a drop)...