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You can?t control everything mainly time. If you get lucky that?s great, but I?ve come to the decision to not put off buying a home or starting a family because you want to time the market. My nephew has an argument with his parents whenever he saves up enough to buy whatever new video game is...

Very disappointed by the prices they were offering. Even when considering MR in newer Irvine areas you were still getting way more value. Much better area, better schools, etc. The smallest unit already had a waiting list and we were confused how? It?s a narrow apartment with laundry in your...

From a shoppers perspective we have noticed prices dropping slowly. Specifically the more recently build homes in the lower end price range in Irvine. When we first started looking we noticed very few price drops and when we spoke to seller agents they didn?t think the seller would accept much...

We were quoted higher rates for any loan over the conforming amount.Usually was just and eighth though. I?m not sure about owning.com though.

Definitely true eyephone, but also YMMV situation. You could end up with terrible neighbors in any situation, but issues can be increased with attached for sure, especially if you share multiple walls with multiple people. I will say that when we?ve spoken to people in the newer condo...

This is one reason we wouldn?t want to buy an older attached condo. Our options in our budget are a small detached condo if we stretch our budget a bit built 1995-2017, older units with a thorough inspection. Or a much more recently built attached condo and would prefer new or as new as...

We are around that same budget and also check out basically every area in irvine in that price range. I agree they seemed overpriced, but reading on here it seems like those areas are extra desirable in Irvine so people are willing to overpay a bit for the house because of the area. We?re...

The windows all face north same direction as garage. One small window to west, but it?s blocked by tree and part of neighbors house.

No idea about water heater. I will say I don?t think it?s related to any of that, cars, water heater, etc. We can all be out at Disneyland or something since the morning, no cars in garage, just a big empty space. Come home at 8pm and that room is easily 5-10 degrees hotter than anywhere in...

From a prospective home buyer these seemed way overpriced when we considered them. No MR sure, but the tiny sliver of a house is around $520-540/sqft. Three stories. Santa Ana school district. Granted we aren?t in the market for a small condo like that. Next models up are bigger so there will...

North. The entire room is basically above the garage. Only room in house that is entirely above garage.

Sure, but we notice this even if the cars haven?t been used since the day before.

We?ve been to all around Irvine and those areas and still haven?t been able to smell this asphalt. We keep hearing about, complaints from people selling at open houses mention it and say it?s barely noticeable so don?t worry about it. Maybe we need to go on a hot breezy day or something because...

One thing I did not know about attached condos is they often include hazard/fire insurance. So the cost of an attached vs detached was the same when we got quotes from our insurance since on the attached we only needed personal insurance which was around $20/month. The thing is in PS were ONLY...

What?s high for Irvine? We?ve been looking at areas built around 2000-2017. Some of the older ones are a bit lower and have lower MR. For us it?s the monthly payment. If the house we want is a bit cheaper, but has higher MR and/or HOA we?d be fine. So if a place had high MR or HOA our budget...

I see. It?s a bit above what we wanted to pay. We can check it out if it?s still available though. It?s a combination of everyday having to go up stairs just to come ?home?, lugging groceries upstairs, etc. We like the idea of having a ?normal? house setup with kitchen down and bedrooms up, but...

Our agent took us to Eastwood. Said it was hot. We liked the area, but didn?t like the home designs that much. I?m not sure if there was something available at the time, he was just showing us the main Irvine areas that were selling well at the time. For instance that one, isn?t there someone...

Just us, two adults. Kid in 1-2 yrs. We don?t have that many holidays at our place, that?s why a clubhouse is a nice bonus not a necessity. We try to host a few because most of our family lives in NoHo, Ventura or Torrance. They can drive down to OC once in a while instead of us always having...

Thanks I?ll check those out. One looks familiar so we may have seen it. The sweet spot for us right now would be a small 3 bedroom maybe 1400-1600?. Were ok with giving up a big master bedroom for a third separate room in case we have a 2nd kid. We saw a few homes around 750k in that category...

Sorry about Tustin Fields. We went to see it with our agent and it took us 10 minutes to park and one of us had to take the driveway. Our family is big. If we bought say a 1500? condo no way we can host a holiday like Christmas there or a child?s birthday party. What do you mean by #2? Not...