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Was that condo you bought for $70K in California? What did the condo that started at $3K end up getting sold for at the auction? Seems like a $70K condo would be easy to payoff in a few years on a normal salary in the 1990s?

I've noticed in the last few years that the exterior of homes In high end developments ($2 million and up) is not stucco but smooth paint. Has anyone noticed this? Is this trend moving down market to "regular" new homes in Irvine? Reminds me of the transition from the 70s popcorn ceilings to...

Chinese cooking has other dishes that smell terrible, worse than shrimp paste, but taste great, like fermented bean curd with pork and string beans, which my parents made and I make regularly at home, but have never seen on a restaurant menu. Another really smelly dish is dried salted fish with...

One thing I don't understand is that Cox serves Irvine, a city with a lot of Chinese, but they only have 1 channel with Chinese content, while Alhambra has a similar percentage of Chinese but Charter has about 8-10 Chinese channels. It'd be nice if I could pick Charter to provide my cable...

Although one puzzling thing about the Plan 1 Tides, the amazing home, is the lack of a pantry or butler'sarea next to the kitchen. There literally is no storage area other than cabinets for all the stuff people usually store for cooking the big fancy dinners in the gourmet kitchen. It reminded...

Stucco is cheap in Cal, in the north west and east, siding is cheaper. In denver, brick facade is cheap. -- I've always wondered why would this be the case, that some areas are mostly vinyl siding or brick facade, I thought it was due to local custom or tradition but didn't think it was due to...

<p>I'm pretty unhappy with Cox internet service but maybe I'm blaming the wrong company or maybe that's the way it's supposed to be, BUT here is my situation, maybe someone can tell me if I'm doing something wrong?</p> <p>In my old house all I had to do was connect the Ethernet cable from the...

oops I re read the original post and found fecamp is in the $800K range not the $8M range.

<p>The street Fecamp is in an $8 million development? That's one of the worst street names I ever heard, I thought it was Fecal at first. Second worst is Furrows in Orchard Hills, I think of a worried person with a furrowed brow.</p>

i forget the name of the development, it might be the Tides, it's the development lower down in CC than the uppermost one, but the Plan 1 Tuscan model home is the most amazing (in a good way) looking house I've ever seen. You enter through the courtyard, then you see a series of arches with the...

sell, you said "I would estimate a 5-8% decline in home prices in 2007 in CC, a rather mild decline compared to all of NC. I have my opinions as to why that is." What's your opinion on why just a 5-8% decline, which is pretty small compared to what happened in other areas?

<p>I'm answering bk's question although I know I'm not the subject of his question, but high rise living has a bit of the novelty factor for me, plus I never lived in a house with a view, and high rise living has the best views possible. I wouldn't feel superior, I'd just feel that I was doing...

<p>the post sounds like a real person, there's a lot of detail that would be missing in a typical spam post or marketing pitch. Nobody's going to profit from the original poster renting in LB. Besides, that was the exact same thought process I had, looked at the Marquee, liked the Plaza...

actually you couldn't pay me enough to work with blood and bodily fluids every day...:)

<p>This thread is pretty fascinating because it has real-time data on escrows in Irvine and from ipoplaya's data it looks like things might be stabilizing after the recent freefall in prices that's well documented in IrvineRenter's blog. Here's my viewpoint as a homeowner who bought in Ventura...

how many total homes in shady canyon?

my first thought was that's the house/dungeon from the first saw movie

boston, i grew up near pasadena and arcadia, never heard of Tops World Famous but love pastrami and want to try it, wheere are the locations? Googling doesn't come up with anything for it.

Living at home you could save like crazy. Figure you can save the same amount as rent or a mortgage, that's $25,000 a year. In ten years you at least $250,000 even if you put the money in an investment that is so bad you have 0% return, and $500,000 with 12% annualized return on your...

<p>I thought the closest trains to Orchard Hills were along Edinger? That's about 4 miles away and I could still hear a faint train whistle around midnight with the double pane windows closed at the OH apartments. I had no idea the whistles could carry that far. Can't believe how it is for...