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Nude, Those are Strawman arguments. I'm not talking about slacking off academically so much that you wind up having to get a GED or not even going to college. They have to get at least A's and B's, "good" grades. <em>excellent social skills are the result of patterns instilled...

If you become a doctor, you will probably make between 150K to 300K per year which is nearly guaranteed even if you have poor bedside manner and no personality. But if you have social skills and are able to promote yourself and get people to do things with you, then you can make millions as Dr...

Nude, <em>Well-rounded shouldn't even be a consideration if it's going to put your kids in third place to the world before they even hit college.</em> I think you are assuming that taking challenging classes and putting all efforts to get the best grades, even at the expense of...

irvine123, What's with the Paris bashing? It's a great place, though I wish I could understand French. It's a great place to walk around. You are can gawk at and stare down people without getting into a fist fight. It's true that it is not a violent place at least in the city proper...

bkshopr, I understand the issues about Feng Shue and Woodbury, but lets look at it a different way. I think Woodbury is one of the densest suburbs in terms of number of homes per area in all of Irvine--to the point that it almost has a "city feel" rather than a suburb. Paris is a great...

bkshopr, How can you say that TIC will just postpone Orchard Hills, Laguna Crossing, Stonegate, etc. until 2010? I drive by Laguna Crossing regularly and I see plenty of construction vehicles moving around. Do they just get to a certain point of land grading, then just hibernate for...

Concerning the life span of a plasma TV, I was doing research on this before I bought my plasma TV.&amp;nbsp; Basically there are a lot of rumors out there about how it burns out relatively quickly, but if you look into it in detail, I think you will find that plasmas last about as long as...

bkshpr, Thanks for the great info. Do you think the pricing of Laguna Crossing is going to be similar to Orchard Hills? Or Woodbury? Or even in between?

Did they have a list of the plans with exact prices? Or was it still in the range state?

Excellent post! I hope you have the energy for more of these type of posts. Do you already have more reviews already set? Or does it matter to you--and would it help to take a poll from this blog for your next post?

Major Schadenfreude, oc_fliptrack, Have you used Everbank to buy gold or foreign currency? I've heard rumors in the past that the conversion rate wasn't that great, but I never used them before. Is this the optimal way to do it?

<em>"A loan that would pay a 3 point rebate to the broker will now cost the broker a quarter of a point." </em>Did I read that right? Or did you type that wrong? Are you saying that a broker now has to PAY a quarter of a point to do the loan?

That seems to be an excellent homemade swamp cooler--especially if you don't have an automatic irrigation system for your yard. The only problem is that many homes in Irvine have a HOA which might complain about tubing that comes out of windows.

I know that over at City Walk (also a live-work product in Aliso Viejo by Shea Homes) you have to use the top two floors for living and can not convert any part of the top two floors for business.

Yes it does! But you have to look at how fast and sharp a house drops in price. One prime example is 118 Lattice in Quail Hill (92603). It is a 2460sqft fairly new home that was nicely upgraded. The highest comp, at the peak for this floor plan was 1.45mil in 2005. I believe it was...

Technically speaking, there is not an "unlimited" supply of land even in Kansas. Even in Kansas you can't build an infinite number of homes as they are not making more land there. I the point is that for all intents and purposes, the amount of land is not going to be a limiting factor for...

irvine_native, I know you couldn't buy in 2000, but were you thinking at the time that housing prices were going to increase significantly, and that you had to get money together before it was too late? Or did you not have any idea of the bubble (like me)?

I would like to see us get away from the current Tuscany fad and get back to the 18th century San Francisco facades--the kicker would be to have up to four floors (though I'm not sure how legal or expensive that would be, anyone here knows?) in order to save space and land costs, or to have...

I wouldn't buy with 30% off peak mainly because it still seems overpriced--and still would not hit 2002 prices for the majority of properties. Also personally, if the homes were cheap enough, I would move to Corona. They would have to be about 50K for a nice SFR though.

liquid, I'm guessing you pay about $2000/month for a somwhat uncomfortable apartment? Like many here would suggest, you could rent a nice condo or house for $3000 a month and lower the chance of going mad.