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Walking distance to strip clubs is a real selling point! If you get too soused to drive you can just walk home. They should put that benefit on the sales literature. It's a great market to sell real estate to as well; anybody who gets soused at a strip club is either very rich or very loose with...

Any night save the 19th for me.

A "realtor critique" outing could be a real hoot! It would be interesting to see some realtard freak out at a pack of knowledgeable IHB's going into critique mode on pricing, construction, layout, decor, marketing ...

Our neighborhood in Orange meets most of your requirements, except I think the HOA would go postal on sidewalk chalk. Certainly the neighborhood pool is a lively place and many early evenings I have to watch out for the children who are playing in the road. And I'll happily support a HOA coup...

We're going through the adoption process now. We've attended our classes, had our paired, individual, and network interviews, passed our DMV checks, criminal background checks, employment verification, filled out dozens of pages of questionnaires, found respite providers, and I forget what else...

<blockquote>The New England Centenarian Study conducted by Boston University Medical Center found that women who give birth after 40 were four times more likely to live to 100 or longer than were women who gave birth at younger ages.?</blockquote> Based on experiments breeding animals for...

Oh, I forgot the very nice <a href="http://www.newhomesource.com/communitydetail/market-28/community-41887/view-details/builder-4922">Prospect Village</a> in Tustin. It's the only "live-work" development I've seen in OC where the workspace is large enough to actually do work. The homes are very...

Why to wait to 2010 (or maybe even later) for Irvine: What has really driven down prices so far is the foreclosure wave. That, in turn, has mostly been driven by the collapse of assorted bad loans, when they become unsustainable for the borrowers. In lower-priced areas most bad loans have...

The advantage of mortgage mods is that it may avert an unnecessary foreclosure and move. Since the house will cost a lot less under the current and coming saner prices, in many cases the current resident couldn't afford it under crazy bubble prices but could afford it now. With a mortgage mod...

Medicare is SO bad that... All my father's friends (mostly doctors and mostly multimillionaires) unflinchingly rely on it in their retirement. Most don't even carry supplemental ("scams", as they call it). The US *already* gets most of its care from public healthcare - since most medical...

I picked 4, but it's too strong - I might move to Irvine to be closer to a job or for a house I really liked. Probably not gonna happen, but I think I would like living in Irvine, just not as much as I'd like some other places. I agree this is more of the "Orange Country Housing Blog...

Well it's not like there's a desperate shortage of office space in OC anyway. :-/ Those are pretty nice units, but a million each for construction costs? That's insane. Even at bubble prices, I don't think they could have gotten that.

If by "loft" you have the usual idea of a high-ceiling rental with somewhat industrial fixtures, Stadium Lofts doesn't quality. It has about 4 units actually built in a "loft" style. Mostly they're standard apartment-style places. There are also some live-work lofts (albeit with very...

<blockquote>I think the second floor and the first floor are reversed.</blockquote> No, I'm from the South and it's not too unusual to see fronts like that. They do sometimes have part brick/part siding building and the bricks (heavy) go on the bottom. Now the Frankenstein combination...

Part of what pushes down the price on the Corona condo IR posted on is the HOA dues of $330/month. At current interest rates, the P&I on $89,000 would be about $450/month. Add in property taxes, and the homeowner is paying almost as much on fees and taxes as on the mortgage. Or, to put it...

I'll guess: all three! He is really just trying to make somebody else suffer but he knows at some level it's his fault and, insofar as he's been "cheated", he's punishing the wrong people anyway. So he rationalizes it as "the house is evil" so he can pretend to himself that he isn't being evil...

New developments are supposedly resistant to liquefaction because they compact the ground before building. My house would be at a very high risk for liquefaction (old stream floodplain) but the ground underneath was compacted to some ridiculous depth like 80 feet so supposedly it's at much lower...

I expect the mortgage market will be working by then, so: <b>Somewhat longer than it will take for your mortgage payments to add up to more than twice the value of the house.</b>