Recent content by markspitz11

1. Price. 2. Poor community design (walls everywhere, inside a bowl, etc.). 3. Higher MelloRoos/HOAs. 4. Front door of house opens in small alley (Siena and Remo)

Why not?? It's the perfect place for houses! Why is it protected and other places are not protected?

Does anyone know when/if they will build houses on the open land/hills at the cornet of Jeffrey & 405fwy (north of Quail Hill). How come there are no plans to build there yet? I think that is one of the BEST locations in Irvine!

...and in Quail Hill, you probably don't get much for 700K, am I right?

I'm looking in the 600-800K range.

is anybody in this forum considering buying in Laguna Altura? I get the sense that every person who is posting has no intention of buying there and is just pointing out all the bad things about it (including some of my own comments).

I'm not going to buy, because I don't want to live inside a bowl!

and here are the models:

the photo was taken standing on one of the hills/walls. QH is in the distance. Irvine Spectrum is behind me.

Haha, I went Jason Bourne style... It's a platform, but there is a thick wall of dirt (as high as the roof of the houses) almost all the way around and where there's no wall, there's a big hill. So it looks like a big bowl with houses inside it. Here's a panoramic:

saw it! the biggest disappointment is that there is a big wall of dirt (about 25-30 feet high) around the whole complex so none of the houses will have any views, because the wall is as high as the roof of the houses. it's like a big 30-foot deep pit with houses being built inside it, such bad...

Yeah, but isn't there a "back way", i.e. to not enter from the official gate area, but from one of the hillsides? I imagine there are only 1 or 2 security guides at the front gate on Sundays to prevent cars/people from entering the site. Just thinking outside the box... 

Does anyone know a good place to park the car and do a mini hike around the Laguna Altura contruction site this weekend? I know how to do the walking around part, but need a place to park! I'm assuming the construction guys are not there on the weekends?

Yikes, the prices are really high! Even worse, the tax+MR+association fee is almost 20K/yr! and this is for motor court homes. This is discouraging. Does anyone know who has the best 15-year-fixed loan rates with 0 points these days? I think WF is the official preferred lender. And how much...

And does anyone know why the prices for San Remo are starting in the low 700's when the website says "starting mid 600's"??