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"University is extremely similar to UC Irvine" Strange, it never occurred to me that UCI would be considered a "competitive" school.

"Mcgwire makes out okay, he got in on the early phase." sell4u must make a huge amount of $$ in real estate, since making almost $2M on a home in less than 4 years is only "okay".

"You try to find a picture of a car with a jaguar on the roof!" I don't have a photo of that, but I have a photo of my wife hugging a cheetah. :)

No matter how bad the Nav is in BMWs, it can't be worse than in Maseratis. :) On the other hand, iDrive is so annoying that when I test drove a 750, I decided against buying it primarily because of the interface and went with an Audi A8 instead. :P

"How big is that lot on 12162 Afton Lane? Looks like a private compound, complete with pool, basketball court, and two-story tree house. The exterior face looks sweet" IIRC, it was a bit over 1/3 acre (15k sq ft).

Hmm, the link I just posted didn't work. You can find it on homeseekers.com via MLS#P627900. The only things I did not like about the home (at least from pictures) were the kitchen layout and the master bath looks to be smaller than my current one. I don't know if they knowingly listed...

"You want me to look into them Doc?" Nah, I called the Realtor? and found out the property I was realllllly interested in @ $1.45M sold in 2 days at over list price with multiple offers. :(

"Ipop, what's a "mht" file? I can't read them on my Mac. Can you put that info into a more common format like html or pdf? Thanks for all the great work." mht files are a microsoft format for reproducing a html page with all the images intact. unfortunately, there is no easy way to read...

Argh, just in the last 48 hours multiple listings in the 1.1-1.6M range that I was strongly interested in either have gone into escrow or were taken off market. This is killing me.

"BUT, the coverage sucks ! It seems to only have about 3/4 of the coverage/reception strength that I had with the Razor. What gives ?" Strange, my iPhone has far superior reception when compared to the Samsung Syncs I have on AT&T. "It chose the EDGE standard for the data side of the...

"Did you ask the realtor what would get their clients to relist?" No, I was too surprised at her reluctance to show the home even when I stated that the asking price seemed reasonable to me. The realtor did say the owners were considering relisting "in the Fall" when they thought things...

Yesterday I found a home in North Tustin that I really was interested in but when I called up the realtor, they told me that just the previous evening the owners decided to take the home off the market because selling conditions were worsening. I said, what if I could offer their full asking...

"It appears DataQuick is not necessarily wrong, more like DataQuick just does not know what is important." Oh, I see. It appears awgee is not necessarily confused, more like awgee just knows what is most important to everyone when they are deciding when to buy a home. BTW, I *am* being...

Yikes, two homes in the $500/sq ft range. I'm still hoping for Tustin Ranch/Northpark/Woodbury homes in the 1-1.4M range to close in the $300-330 range. When I see that happening, I'm putting our home up for sale.

Anything is possible if worded correctly. Your offer would have to include a contingency that you would only be able to open escrow on one home (assuming you didn't mean to buy two houses). If this is made clear to the sellers and they still accept your offer, you would be okay. Otherwise, there...

It is difficult, this waiting game, as the prices just haven't been dropping as quickly as I had hoped. The MF's in Woodbury are interesting, but really am hoping for pricing more in the 1.2M range rather than 1.4M. Wife doesn't want to put our current home up for sale until we've seen a home we...

1) There is no loophole as long as you don't get one written into the contract. If the builder is desperate enough to sell, anything is negotiable, so just try pushing them harder. 2) This is nothing new. Builders use upgrades to make money. They will not "tear stuff out" etc. as they won't...

Grout is indeed incredibly painful to clean. There is an ever-growing number of surfaces available for counters, including granite, Corian™, any number of the "more granite-like" synthetic stone surfaces, concrete, glass, brick, and butcher block. All have their advantages and disadvantages...

"I didn't refer to it by name because I'm also willing to look at Lemon Heights and Cowan Heights." Yeah, all of those can be lumped into north tustin, as there really is no official "there" there. Those are nice areas, especially Lemon Heights, where many of the hill homes have spectacular...

"I looked at a house in Coto about three months ago to rent and it was STILL 380." In Irvine, GRM is now at around 340. And I don't live in Irvine, or Coto, so we never peaked at those insane prices. :D