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Wrong decade.

What caused the drop between late 80s to early 90s?  And the prices stagnated for 5+ years.

Espresso cabs can go very well with light color flooring.  The pic too bright but if you see it person, it totally works. 

Your mortgage is going down.  Check your monthly statements and you will see your owed balance going down.  That is the gain. 

I am surprised that an agent advised a lease short a few days of a year.  It really is meaningless as peppy has noted.  Also, your agent family friend should have used the standard CAR agreement.  If you don't have access to that, use the first tuesday free forms.  Both are very good lease...

I agree with LL.  I found IHB to be fairly balanced and there were a lot of commenters that made very compelling points.  Regarding the crash, it wasn't far from the purchase prices but it was far from the amount pulled out of the housing ATM.  Many houses were over leveraged. Frankly, I...

I do appreciate Larry and IHB.  He wrote what we felt and helped us stay on course as we sat on the sidelines from 2004-2012.  We were able to buy our first house almost at the bottom and I thank Larry for that.  I will make sure to write a comment on his blog.  What ever happened to...

If this is your first purchase, I absolutely recommend working with John (SGIP).  I used him on my first purchase and my first investment and highly recommend someone super knowledgeable walking you through everything. That being said, I have done the majority of my loans and refinancing...

You didn't mention your reasons for looking to buy a place and your current situation.  For example, do you have a roommate?  If you had a 3b instead of a 2b, would you take on an additional roommate?  And you mentioned renting this out when you look to move up.  You won't need your downpayment...

I am saying that creating a sense of urgency and competition is sales 101.  I can't speak for others but I have been in sales my whole career.  I don't lie and have won the majority of my business because of my transparency and knowledge.  But when I negotiate, I do assume that everything the...

"Shady agent"???  Sales negotiations are all about creating an illusion of competition.  That isn't shady or unethical.  There is a lot to hate agents for but saying your offer is too low or saying that there are other offers when there aren't isn't one of them.  And even your example doesn't...

It is hard to say the exact cost as there are many factors.  We did an addition on a raised foundation house and it cost about $200 per sq ft and it was only adding about 150 sq ft total.  If we were adding a lot more, it would have been less.  Also, we are in Mille Fluers Plan 3 and we have...

Its not just the finished items.  Outlets, hose bibs, and many other things you would never consider "upgrades" are now a line item that you have to select.  The interesting thing is when you buy a resale, you will never know if they spent that extra $5K in insulation or not. 

Further, during the actual purchase, you will get all sorts of disclosures that specify everything including property, lot, HOA etc.  Are you worried that you can buy something and it not be correct?  That is pretty much impossible with the amount of papers you will sign and escrow and your...

Sunnyirvine, I gave you the link to the official parcel map and zoning from the city.  How much more official do you need?  It is clear that this is a SFR.  Medium density residential == SFR. 

Not vested.  There was other thread to sell FSBO or not and I was continuing my points from that thread.  I meet a lot of agents and I think less than 10% of active agents really have a passion and understanding of their trade.  That is pretty much true for many industries so its not just RE but...

Jessica is prominent agent in this area in terms of advertising and yet can make glaring mistakes like this.  This is prime example of a waste of an agent.  Description in all caps sucks.  Pics suck.  Listing data wrong. 

http://maps3.cityofirvine.org/iparcels/index.html Look under "Parcel". If "Feature" says condominium, it means its condo or townhouse.  Medium density residential is an SFR for Irvine.  66 Rossmore is SFR.

Why are people shy about this info?  Sharing will only help everyone get better price transparency and improve the quality and bids for buyers. 

Most agents list dens as bedrooms in the listing so I don't think resale will matter that much. As far as rental, you can just put wall wardrobes that give same space as a typical small closet.  We had a bathroom added which needed 4 walls (shower/toilet separated from sinks) so more...