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Thanks for responding. Probably right. I'll see what else I can find on my own.

It's been awhile since I posted here, but I have a family member considering the Temecula/Murrieta area for buying, so I am back. I took a quick look at some of the properties for sale there, and many are at or below $200sf which I remember was a basic metric I read about a decade ago. Like last...

Ha. They plugged the Ayn Rand institute in Irvine in that article. On CNN Money? I couldn't be happier about that.  :D

Completely agree. IMO, the County became aware, probably many years ago, of the material volume of ethically questionable transactions that were occurring in the market and developed this probably verbal-only policy to deal with them to limit the doubloon losses from the County treasure chest...

This is more info than anyone wanted, but if someone ever comes to this board looking for broad-based appeals information, I opted to be overly-thorough. Completed my appraisal assessment appeal this morning. The process is relatively simple. You feed the meter at the County Courthouse (One...

"You're going to wait a long time...if you want to have a discussion please do.  The fact that you got offended speaks volume." That's the best you can do, huh? I'm sorry I couldn't help you. There are some that I just can't reach.

"After all that...you still have not set forth any specifics or alternatives." You didn't ask for any. You insulted me instead. And so far, no apology.

"Seriously, think beyond yourself for 5 seconds." "If you don't like property taxes...move to an anarchy state." I have been studying monetary and fiscal policy, U.S. and European political and economic history, libertarianism, and Austrian and Keynesian economics for nine years now. As of...

"your are making this issue more complex than it is. its not rent, etc. it is just another tax that the govt is raping us for.  income tax, sales tax, property tax, and the worst one is the estate tax. not many people have to worry about the estate tax but that is probably the worst one." I...

I'll let you know the outcome. It is very strange. It was a standard sale, no short sale or anything like that. No backdoor deals or questionable exchanges of cash or collaboration between buyer and seller, nobody anywhere in the transaction was related to anyone else, nothing like that. No...

Yeah.............I know. I think about it every time I have to deal with property taxes and I will never understand how my fellow citizens don't realize that property tax is theft. It's rent. Straight up RENT, paid to the Government. If there is a property tax, it should only be on productive...

Alright, I have a new situation I would love some advice on, and this Board is always a great place to go for that. So I bought a house from a family that had owned it for 20 years at the end of 2011 which the County appraised at the time of purchase for property tax purposes at $140K more than...

Odd. Just yesterday someone was telling me about the 99 year leases on the land in Irvine if you buy a property. I imagine this is limited to certain areas and is not widely done now? I would think that would impact selling prices, no? I mean I looked at homes on Balboa that were "dirt cheap"...

HA! I knew which movie you were referencing, and even what she is saying because it's taken on a life of its own, but never having seen the movie, I wanted to wait to respond until I'd seen it. Now I have seen it. To avoid volunteering in the future I have taken everyone's advice and I am...

I hear ya. I rented in Irvine for 8 years, first at Las Palmas and then at Woodbury. Had a nice brand new carriage unit in Woodbury, with nobody above or below, only one shared wall in the bedroom to my neighbors bedroom, corner unit with a nice view of trees and quiet street. The best apartment...

We live in this area in the hills around the OC Mining Company and I agree with what's been said so far. The following are all my thoughts on the area, pros and cons, etc... We were house hunting while pregnant so we were concerned about a "walkable" area too and despite that concern we were...

I agree with you with the caveats you mentioned. I would wonder why someone would pay it off faster if they did not plan on living in it for the life of the loan, just doesn't seem that over 5 or so years the savings would make that much difference and you could potentially do more with your...

Thanks to everyone for your input. Based on the responses I'm going to avoid the accelerator program and do some combination of all of the aforementioned payment styles. I'll make sure that I can do all of this without penalty of course (pretty sure I can), so I'll just make a higher payment...

I have a 30 year fixed mortgage that just started in the Fall of last year. I have been receiving offers to sign up for "The Equity Accelerator" program which I believe is a third-party company. The program claims that by having my monthly mortgage payment that is due the first of every month...

I remember when working with SGIP, one of my questions was a couple hundred dollars in coin I had to deposit so I emailed him about it. He had already advised me from the start that anything going into my account was subject to heavy documentation review, but I thought, "Surely not a few hundred...