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The best part about buying a house was that I was able to put our old fridge in the garage and turn it into a DBF (dedicated beer fridge). Completely full of Beer, or at least it was. Need to go back to Bevmo. My current favorite is Stone IPA. Nice and hoppy. <a...

I don't understand who the target market is for some of the developments there. Paloma is one such development. $800k gets you no driveway, no privacy, a 4 foot deep side yard that might as well be shared with the neighbor and bizarre floorplan layouts. They spend the time to include...

They paid a buyers commission of 2.5%. That plus 4 months of holding costs and closing expenses tells us that money was indeed lost here.

An update: It sold for $750,000.

I disagree that this is Urban. It is the suburbs. Very crowded suburbs. You can't walk anywhere except to maybe cross Jamboree to the district/Marketplace and Public transportation sucks compared to real urban areas. As evidenced by the numerous cars parked on the street, you still have to...

Have you actually walked around Columbus square? That might change your mind a little. It is one big parking lot. Wall to wall parked cars and they aren't even done building yet. Cars parked illegally in the red. I don't understand how or why there are so many cars. Cars bug me so this...

Toured these models recently. I found the size of the master bathrooms in these models to be ridiculously large. Seemed like a complete waste of square footage. They are as large as a small bedroom or office! What is the point of the big space there? I also believe that having to walk...

UCI professors and high level administrators. Staff? not so much. You would be on the waiting list until you retire. http://www.icha.uci.edu/eligibility.htm

Churches have also been pretty good for hosting the towers. The one one Culver and Sandburg is silly though. No one would notice a small cell phone tower in that area. But a 40 foot stained glass box? Yeah, that kind of sticks out a little. What were they thinking?

So what happens when a 30 year old condo tract doesn't charge enough HOA fees and neglects all of the important repairs? Lawsuits and chaos! Special assessments ahoy! Lawsuit text: http://rsjnews.com/Complaint_portion_from_BINDEL,_et_al%20_v%20_RANCHO_SAN_JOAQUIN_HOA,_INC%20_et_al.pdf...

I would be amazed. 30k off 700 is nothing. Our offers were for a higher percentage off from asking than that and they always countered. That's just how it is in this market. They must have a poor realtor to "tear it up" or are retarded. Unless, of course, you have contingencies such as...

I bet you that they counter with 685k.

* No built ins. Media niches, loft desks, etc. Takes away flexibility. * Windows everywhere. * Big, private yard. * A den/office downstairs. * Parks, off street walking paths. A playground you can walk to without crossing a street. * Soundproof walls, so my band doesn't bug the...

I was a broke college student and my wife was handicapped from multiple back surgeries. We could barely cover the rent in 2000.

The home we bought last week was way under 4x our income. There are several problems with using the median Irvine income for a cost basis on houses. Irvine has a ton of apartments and there are many low income or retired owners who bought ages ago for pennies. These people are not in...

Even minivans haul ass these days. Although it is all pointless since Irvine is a sea of cars and red lights...

I hate to say it, and I'm sure I'll offend someone, but south OC is kind of the Bible belt of OC. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but I could never live there. I prefer the diversity of Irvine. On the traffic. If you work anywhere from Irvine or north, seriously research the...

Why post here? This is an Irvine housing blog. Seems appropriate. Other people have posted that they bought here. This forum is more than just a bunch of bears patting each other on the back for waiting and timing the market perfectly. Since I am anonymous, why not share what the buying...

Redfin seemed a little too scaled down. They only have one agent for all of Orange County. Since we are newbies to buying a home, Zip seemed like a good compromise to help us through the process. I love the layout of their site for searching. In hindsight I probably should have given Redfin...

Bigmoneysalsa, You replaced my word bigger with better. I do not believe that we can find a better home. We can certainly find a bigger home, but as I said bigger != better.