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Even if you don't care about being outside in your yard, there are other negatives to an excessively small yard of the type common in Irvine new builds. If you are so close to neighbors due to tiny lots, your house will be very dark due to shading, no plants can thrive in the dark,  and also...

This house by house transformation of a neighborhood is exactly what happened in the Port Streets in Newport Beach, which started off looking very much like Turtle Rock area in Irvine. I think the Turtle Rock location is desirable enough that with time, this house will not be a white elephant...

Of course, "personality" is the most subjective rating of all, and highly dependent on how the interviewer clicks with the interviewee. The interviewer can not avoid bringing their own biases to the table. Very similar to what Harvard and other Ivies did to Jews early in the 20th century to...

looking for the next greater fool to unload it on. The music keeps going until one day it finally stops, and there are no more greater fools.

The smallest homes in the Groves are about the size of the largest homes in the Reserves. There are no condos (detached or otherwise) in the Groves. Many of the Groves homes have extra room options,  like formal dining and library/den in addition to the Great Room/open kitchen, downstairs in...

The article is stating some pretty obvious things, isn't it? Valedictorians get the best grades. But life is not about grades. I happen to be a prior valedictorian who went to an Ivy and am in one of those professions. The "average" people at my college went into medicine, corporate Big...

You could have bought almost anything in Irvine in 2011-12, at the bottom of the market, and made out like a bandit if you sold now.

I think you misunderstand. I am just talking about my impression of floorplans at the 1.5M pricepoint for new Irvine construction in general. I'm not in the market to buy a new house. I did buy a few years ago, new construction in Irvine, and got my multiple rooms, and am perfectly happy where I...

I would buy resale for 1.5M.  Plenty of larger, nice homes, not even that old, in Woodbury, Westpark,  Woodbridge, for that price, with yards and little to no Mello. I'm like IHO--I prefer the older, more "classic" floor plans. The trend in floor plans is cyclical. I wouldn't be surprised in the...

I looked into doing a tear down and custom rebuild once--not Irvine, but another part of OC. Better have a lot of cash and time on hand. Unless you are paying cash for the land, or already mortgage free on your current home, you have double carrying costs--paying on the new place, all while...

my taxes are going up this year due to cap on SALT. My personal response to the tax increases is to work less. Part time now and so worth it.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that these floorplans suck for 1.5 million? Its like one single large room for the downstairs plus a small guest bedroom. If I spend 1.5, I expect a house with more rooms/flexible usage options, like a den, home office, music room, etc. Otherwise, it just...

but isn?t Eastwood filled with tons of FCBs and investors who buy, and immediately rent out? do you deny it? A lot of new Irvine neighborhoods are like that. The new build property closes escrow, and within a week, its listed for rent with no landscaping, window coverings or anything that makes...

sounds like all the more reason not to live in Eastwood or other FCB /investor heavy neighborhoods. Who the F would want to live in a place like that with no sense of community,  random people passing through on a transient basis, and absentee landlords with no long term stake in maintaining the...

Get ready for more this summer. They have a VERY packed summer concert schedule. Next up, POISON, this FRIDAY!  >:D LiveNation is on a roll with their Heavy Metal summer!  Its kind of funny in a depressing way to see these rockers so over the hill and still trying to act the "bad boy" Reminds...

The section of Portola that I drive is posted 50 mph and I see people doing 65-70.

I prefer to live in a clean, new, manicured HOA neighborhood, but within a quick drive to places like Tustin, Costa Mesa, etc, for more "authentic" non-chain, more interesting and cheaper restaurants and shops. Am perfectly happy to live in place where there's no nightlife and nothing stays...

True story. I had a nanny when my kids were young. Before me, she used to work for a family in Woodbury who owned several oil wells in Western China!!!  A family friend of her former employer was the guy who owned the factory who makes all the Bell bike helmets. Why on earth such a wealthy...

Some people may be working from home and have the flexibility to do pick ups even in the middle of the day.

in my newer single family neighborhood, its mostly older  (in their 40s-50s) folks who rolled in equity from previous houses they owned in Irvine or elsewhere in Orange County/LA, foreign cash buyers who live here maybe only a portion of the year, or travel frequently to attend to their...