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There are four(!!!) kindergarten classes if I'm not mistaken, they really could have used a second school over at the Meadows! It is nice seeing so many little ones out and about at the various parks, playgrounds, and even town center.

Hi Xander, I don't live in The Meadows, I'm across the street in Baker Ranch. My oldest kid just started kindergarten and we drive him up the hill to Foothill Ranch elementary, it's pretty close. I imagine when we're older we'd look to share rides. Currently we have a nanny come 4 days a...

Nice job. I did mid 2009 and late 2020 for some impressive gains myself.

The reason it has to is because Real Estate is extremely tax advantaged compared to most other investments. I can't 1031 my Apple stock appreciations into Anthropic shares. I can't get my tax rate fixed to 'now' so future tax increases on capital gains aren't applied, I can't get a subsidized...

probably what will happen is people will finally realize it's OK to tax land more and/or rent seeking on land value increases, and capital will flow out from RE speculation and into more productive areas of the economy. That doesn't mean prices will drop but it certainly could slow the...

I've seen escrow companies open, do some transactions, close down, then open with the same owners under a different corporate name.

All depends on if the money printers go BRRR. It very well may look like a 'deal' but you really gotta chart real estate to M2, definitely not to CPI.

I find that hard to believe that Atlanta has more high paying jobs (tech and finance) than LA/OC. Also, harder to super-commute to the Bay while that's doable from OC.

My office is ~8 minutes from Fashion Island. I decided I wanted to eat some ice cream while looking at the pacific ocean, so I did that at lunch a couple weeks ago. My wife and I went to Javiers last Friday and got to eat guacamole, sip jalapeno margaritas, and look at the ocean. I don't...

Panda is like the guy who marries one girl, but keeps a photo book of the girl that got away under his bed. Yes, you can ask your wife to dye her hair and change her outfits, but it still doesn't look like the girl in that photo...

Panda, your statistics are awful here, of course a city that has the population of UCI, a bunch of people who moved in 1970, and a hundred thousand apartment renters, is going to have a lower *median* household income than a small, new city filled with homeowners. You can't make *any* sort of...

Even if one can move to John's Creek and not worry about finding lucrative work, there's still the question of if your children are going to end up nearby. Here in OC, there are so many jobs in OC, LA, or even a 40 minute flight to the Bay. In John's Creek, I think the kids are gonna want to...

i hope people can have nuanced opinions on various topics here. - Deporting illegal immigrants is probably the right move, but having federal agents detaining randos because they look Mexican is pretty bad, and I don't support it. - Bombing Iran, well *now* is the time to do it when Russia...

I just don't know if that scene will head to Mastros in Irvine when it's just not that far to Crystal Cove? Or maybe there's enough business lunches that are paid on the company dime that it matters less that it's not as fancy of a location?

Man, woodbury is a mess these days and there's nothing really convenient from the Great Park. So weird that people are going to spend 2.5M plus for a sliver of a yard and a tiny amount of space on each floor.

whaa? Where? That's a lot of Mastros, will they close down the one in Costa Mesa? Also, if I'm going to pay $70 for a steak and $18 for a martini, I'm just going to drive to Crystal Cove so I can at least get an Ocean View with it...

hah, know the next door neighbor who has a way better lot. Crazy, his house must be worth 5M. The floor plans are interesting too...

Depreciation in electric vehicles is overstated because of the new rebates/incentives. If you can buy a new car and get 7k off, or a used car and get nothing off, of course that means your used car is now worth *waaaay* less than the sticker. But that doesn't' really matter because you got a...

If you're buying a home, sure. If you're just washing some money and/or playing the speculation game, maybe that tilts the odds to some other development or option. I do like the whole office + downstairs bedroom. Less of a fan of the single giant great room. My wife doesn't think it's an...

Damn, i'm finally agreeing with LL, I think the market is coming down and will continue to come down: Stocks are down and a lot of us middle class folks keep (or kept) their down payment in the market until ready to buy. Second, a lot of us tech people are paid in stocks, so with my company...