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    Question about property tax

    Sometimes the county will do a re-evaulation even without the homeowner requesting one. In any case, if it does sell for the WTF asking price, the county will move the value up to the sale price.
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    Has Santa Ana or Riverside seen the worst yet?

    Riverside is at the bottom, probably past it. Low end inventory is insanely low; less than one quarter as much as it was when I was looking in April. I started making notes on the inventory of houses within city limits priced below $175k, excluding short sales and under contract, on Redfin...
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    Buying in Riverside and renting the rooms out to UCR students

    As a Riverside resident who admittedly has not done this, I personally believe that there is significant profit in such an idea. Rents are significantly higher than monthly payments here, although having a professional such as USC confirm this is, of course, a very good idea. The area you...
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    "Low income housing" abuse?

    "Low income" in Irvine is quite a bit of money. It's based on the average income in a given area, and, since Irvine is a upper class area, those numbers are quite high. For a single person, "Very low income" is $32,550 a year, and "Lower income" is $52,100 a year. For a family of five, the...
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    Waiting to catch a wave? Surge of REO listings is unlikely.

    The banks are just shooting themselves in the foot with the "two-years-of-free-rent" program. Pretty soon, everybody is going to want to be part of that program. If they foreclosed in a timely manner, this incentive wouldn't be there.
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    Welcome to the housing bottom

    My worthless opinion is that we are at bottom now, and we are going to stay here for quite some time.
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