Recent content by joeyp

Here's some 3 car garage porn for this thread, (don't worry very safe for work) http://philip.greenspun.com/images/20091226-el-dorado-hills/in-sequence Apparently, people outside of california call these "snout houses," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snout_house

OK, I've learned enough reading here and IHB that remodeling is never a good investment. If you spend $50k on remodeling a kitchen you won't be able to sell your house for $50k more, probably less than $25k more. But what about an addition that adds square feet to your house? In some of...

This is the planned new campus for Lutheran South High School. It's a new school that has been operating for the past 3 years at St Paul's in Woodbridge. The city of irvine planning site has 100+ pages on the project. Try going here...

A trick to try in fantasy football. Probably too late to do it this year in most leagues. Pick up the Bears running back Adrian Petersen http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6134 and see if you can trade him to some sucker for something of value.

I don't know the people involved, but just read the IHB blog and have a hobby of analyzing businesses. So here are some observations. If I had $100 million and I had to invest it in residential real estate, I would let these guys manage my portfolio. Both IR and chevy seem like very sharp guys...

Apparently last night there was a home invasion robbery in Newport Coast, near Kobe Bryant's home. Anyone hear anything about it? http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/09/manhunt-in-kobe-bryants-neighborhood/ People in Irvine, where crime does not occur, slept soundly.

Was IHB itself a 2008 bubble that has burst? Image from http://www.quantcast.com/irvinehousingblog.com