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<p>I was nice in my comment, because in my mind I was thinking the only RE scam the buyers were involved in was overextending himself with loans he couldn't afford and 2 lenders that were all to eager to lend to him ...</p> <p>also the website is so riddled with typos one would think it were a...

<p>Lol crucial. I expected more "taunting" from you as the resident perma-permabear.</p> <p>Thanks for the comments. I will be contacting the remediator I used for our townhome for their thoughts about the 2x4 mold I saw.</p> <p>My question was if earthquake insurance was worth purchasing. I...

<p><strong>Loan Qualification / Escrow process</strong></p> <p>The only contingency for Lennar is that you qualify with their lender, UAMC. By then, New Century had melted down ... so I was surprised that our loan officer was preparing an alt-A loan (I went through the loan application and...

<p>OK, in the land of permabears and nirvinerealtors and others who chose to rent or buy, here's our story. Let what we've learned by our experience help others currently buying ... or to come.</p> <p>I'm a resident finishing his training at some hospital in Los Angeles; my wife is a...

<p>1) Noise from Jamboree - I can't hear anything. I sat there for about 30 minutes listening for landing planes to John Wayne and didn't hear any. For that matter, I did not hear any train horns either.</p> <p> 2) Power lines - that's your own preference. No data right now to...

<p>sordid. Doesn't sound like there was much love lost for the two.</p> <p>what doesn't make sense is ... it was the couple that called the cops there, what gives with waving guns around at the people you called?! Now that is just plain dumb. </p> <p>Through your efforts at alienating...

<p>I dunno. My parents are into that stuff (I'm asian ...) and frankly you don't need to be the little boy to the emperor and say it's all a load of <a href="mailto:$#@&#$@$@">$#@&#$@$@</a></p> <p>Haha, Feng Shui may hold water with an immigrant buyer but not with anyone > 0th generation...

still, though, 600 sf for 300k?? lol!! I can buy a cardboard box for far less!

Totally bizarre. And fishy. What were those documents???

<p>Mine are with E*Trade Complete = 5.05% ... EmigrantDirect gives the same savings rate.</p> <p>I have toyed with the idea of putting some into Prosper.com and selecting only the top grade of borrowers ... but wonder about the underwriting of Prosper ...</p>

<p>Updated Pricing List: Entering Last Phase</p> <p>Phase 5, </p> <p>lot 246 (must have fallen out of escrow) Plan 2B, 6272 sf lot: 919k for 5/18 close</p> <p>Phase 6</p> <p>Lot 252 Plan 2A 4878 sf lot: 935k for 8/14 close</p> <p>Lot 253 Plan 3A 5782 sf lot: 1025k for 8/16 close...

<p>Lennar Cantara</p> <p>Incentive #1 Buying down points and/or purchasing flooring 25k</p> <p>Incentive #2 Closing costs if you go with their lender 6k</p>

Re: Columbus <em>Square</em> - it was constructed upon the actual air field, so there is what's euphemistically referred to as a "toxic plume" of chemicals such as MTBE (jet fuel additive) in the ground water. In the disclosures it recommends that people and pets not eat fruit grown in the soil...

<p>You don't see people protesting when the housing prices go up ...</p> <p>Folks gotta stop whining. They signed a contract, they knew what they were getting themselves into (I hope) ... a house that you live in is exactly that, a home, not a share of stock.</p>

<p>I went and looked at that plan 3. Apparently the guy runs a restaurant and his wife ran off with some employee of the restaurant. He hasn't unpacked anything yet and stuff is all lying around.</p> <p>It's going to stay on the market as long as it's more than 969k (which is what the plan 3s...

<p>Wow, what a great deal - that's more than 100k less than the original list price.</p> <p>I would consider that a good deal.</p>

<p>What about prosper.com ? Seems like if you spread out your loans and stay with the high credit ratings (ie low default rate) you can still get 7.65% over the 3 yr period of the loan, better than any CD out there. Even after subtracting their loan fee of 0.5% / year ...</p> <p>Or is prosper...

Ow, imagine the pain of Einhorn, who had sunk 160M into this POS ...

<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/11/calif.fire.ap/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/11/calif.fire.ap/index.html</a></p> <p>case and point about Anaheim hills / Yorba Linda ... just look at the nice smoke plume from outside your window ...</p>

<p>Hmm. I bank with E*Trade (5.05% APY savings acct linked to brokerage) and I can get a standard 30 year jumbo for 6.25% with no points and 990 in closing costs.</p> <p>I think you can do better than 7%</p>