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Pool is much better. They have fountains, which is a much better background noise than traffic. Nicer to look at too IMO.

If the Fed inflates enough, it will come through to wages and house prices. House prices may start going up before wages, actually, because of savvy investors looking for inflation havens. It's not clear how much enough is, though. Japan increased M1 90% over 8 years without much inflation. The...

I have to disagree with the assessment that it's a bad time to buy. The Fed has just promised to print 1 TRILLION dollars to buy mortgage securites (basically) and that really changes thing. This level of printing is totally unprecedented since the Continental, even in the New Deal, WWII, or the...

Right now half my back yard is covered in these tiny little weeds. I've spent hours weeding them out already with much more left to do (I am not OK with drenching my yard in herbicide for a variety of reasons). Right now I'd give up the whole yard, and eagerly. :shut:

<blockquote>That is the very definition of COLLAPSE!!!</blockquote> Not necessarily. Could also be the definition of "mortgage fraud".

I'm not too stressed out about updating a Spanish Mission house. That style was a mishmash from the word go, oops excuse me, I mean it's a "highly eclectic style". Throwing some more stuff in is very much in the spirit of the style. That said, it's not a style that uses large polished surfaces...

Unbelievable pics. Every one makes me think "how did THAT happen?" Almost everything should just not happen even in a neglected home (structural damage, bizzare color choice, incomplete mods, etc.) And in Floral Park, too!

The graph is misleading in that the past two recessions were pretty mild. If you want to say it's something really different, you should compare to 74-75. You'd have to adjust for the increased size of the labor force as well.

<i>15.5% of GDP.</i> Dude, not even close. 2008 US GDP is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)">14.3 trillion</a> and it's a 2 year package, so it's 2.7% of GDP.

That Kings Road property is a real stunner, Troop. Looks great. A lot of that is the well-chosen and impractically sparse decor though - if I were there with my archeological look furniture and cheap bric-a-brac it wouldn't look nearly as good.

OMG! I parked over the fence from that house just 2 weeks ago! <i>LOTS of trees for quiet & privacy.</i> You'd need Del Norte Redwoods State Park for quiet and privacy *there*.

This is a hard one to answer and not well suited for polls, because the answers aren't exclusive. Plus at least in my case where I'd move to makes a difference. It would take little to get me to move to the Bay Area, because of friends and family there. Anywhere else would take an advantage of...

An interesting point is that when you look at some outlying communities where prices are below $75/sq. ft. sales are picking up - places like Victorville and Desert Hot Springs. If these are owner-occupied it might be the start of the bottom. If it's "investors", even people planning for cash...

I generally don't like "affordable housing" programs because they usually work out to be a lottery. Some lucky waiters will get nice apartments in Irvine 5 minutes from where they work and other who differ only in the number they drew on the priority list have to rent a room in Corona. It's not...

Yeah, we went to a CC in Orange last weekend. Packed, lousy selection (except for flatscreens - good selection there), ordinary prices. I overheard one guy say "No wonder they're going out of business!" :lol: We left, went to Fry's and bought a couple of nicknacks there.

I was thinking of <a href="http://orangecounty.lyonhomes.com/homes/community.php/Cambridge_Lane_at_Columbus_Square.html?c=237&utm_source=www.lyonhomes.com/cambridgelane&utm_medium=print&utm;_campaign=.cambridgelane">Cambridge Lane</a> at Columbus Square. Camden Place is a more conventional...

Agreed on the too many stairs business. I think three stories is too many for anything smaller than a mansion for exactly that reason. IMO a 3 story building with normal-sized living areas should be apartment/brownstone style, with every unit on one floor and a shared stair. But, the primo...

Sorry to be negative but I think 360K for the 1315 sq ft. unit is way too much. The location is great, no two ways about it (walking distance to Pinkberry AND Barnes and Noble! AND Arriba mmmmm :coolsmile: ). But that's a steep price for an attached condo - over $260/sq. ft.