Funny comment on Turtle Ridge Dreamers post

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Sometimes when you read a comment so full of arrogance and ignorance at the same time, you just have to laugh. How many of you are envious of the Turtle Ridge buyers after last weeks posts?

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2007-06-27 10:29:56



<p>I live in Turtle Ridge, and everyone drives BMW/Mercedes/Lexus, and don’t forget Porsche/Ferrari/Bentley. Turtle Ridge is not for the working class. Most neighbors are either professionals or business owners. You can’t afford this place living pay check to pay check.</p>

<p>Turtle Ridge is the high end of Irvine. Don’t be envious if you didn’t have the vision to get in 3 years ago and have to wait for market correction now. Most of my neighbors have multiple residential and commercial real estate holdings. I even know several families with multiple homes in TR, one for Mom, one for Sis, etc.</p>

<p>A home you live in is not an investment; it doesn’t produce any returns. But you need to live. And if I’m making half a mil a year for the last 10 years, I want to enjoy my life. After all, you can’t take it to the grave, can you?! If you really want to live in Irvine, raise your kids, enjoy the clean and manicured environment, feel safe, then pay the premium.</p>

<p>There are other choices. Go to Corona and get a 50% discount. Smell the cow shit daily, deal with 91, and sufficate in the heat.</p>

<p>By the way, can you folks even afford $400 monthly association fee? That’s montly payment on a BMW 530i, or Gucci bag for your girl friend each month! By year 2014, which most of you are waiting for the real estate to bottom out, will be more like $600.</p>
 
<p>Where can I get a 5 for $400/mo?</p>

<p>I'll need one to show my Turtle Ridge neighbors that I've "made it". </p>

<p>PS. If I'd made .5MM for the last 10 years, I'd take my money and RUN someplace where it'd buy more than a utility shed on a postage stamp lot .</p>
 
Frankly, I would like to think that someone who has made $0.5M / yr for the last 10 would know how to spell "sufficate" correctly. Although I'm sure that's just my working class, pay check to pay check mentality.
 
<p>ELS - Exactly what I was thinking. And at the end of the day, just because one has the money to dump into an overpriced house, pay for ridiculous HOA fees and buy Porsches/Ferraris/Bentleys and girlfriend's Gucci bags, it doesn't make it a smart decision and it definitely doesn't justify the prices of the homes in TR.</p>
 
<p>I have a theory that these people observe pretty much everyone in their neighborhood following the same consumer trends and consumptive patterns as themselves and therefore they tend to project their financial situation onto them as well. For every $150k Director who can support Turtle Rock prices, there are dozens of staff-level workers who cannot.</p>

<p>I guess the solution is to build an office for Directors and above in Irvine and stick all the staff out in cowshit land.</p>

<p><strong>Edit</strong>: I'd be thrilled with this arrangement... Keeping The Man at a distance.</p>
 
Turtle Ridge buyer demographic has been primarily new money. Attitude and mentality are different from many who are waiting for the right time to buy their first homes. The architectural design IMO is overly ostentatious and the floor plan program with numerous casitas, isolated bedroom suite for the kids, his and her office and separate bath, and second kitchens.



Turtle Ridge has the perfect floor plan that can lead to a dysfunctional family where the husband who has a Gucci bag mistress living at the detached condo Chantory or Arborel that he bought her just outside the Turtle Ridge gate whom never really spent time with his wife. Wife wonders why he shops Vons Pavilion so often.



Kids’ boyfriend and girlfriend have been spending the night at the secluded casitas with private entry staircase and mom and dad will never find out. The walk in closet is a perfect place for friends to hide when mom or dad is snooping around. Husband and wife have their separate office and bath wing they do not have to ever confront each other. I think Fox cancelled the OC series because “Turtle Ridge” is in the work.
 
Agent X's post is 100% fabrication.<p>

High income earners rarely discuss actual monetary amounts, and high net worth folks <b>never</b> discuss actual monetary amounts.
 
Poor me, I lacked the "vision" to buy an overpriced stucco box near the peak of a massive bubble which is now deflating and taking away 50% or more the the resale value.





I wonder if "agent X" is starving "real-estate agent X?"
 
<p><em>Turtle Ridge buyer demographic has been primarily new money</em></p>

<p>I would go with "Turtle Ridge buyer demographic has tremendous access to credit and therefore believes themselves to be new money."</p>

<p>Tide out, swim naked, yatta yatta. </p>
 
<p>It's actually not true that high income and high net worth folks never discuss "monetary amounts" (I haven't heard anyone use the term "monetary amounts," but by that I'm assuming you mean "prices of stuff"). Sure they do. There are all kinds of rich folks out there -- some who consume conspicuously (e.g., Larry Ellison) and some who live frugally (e.g., Warren Buffett). Having money most definitely doesn't cause one to refrain from talking about their money.</p>

<p>I think it was Ernest Hemingway who respondend to the statement "the rich are different" with "yes...they have more money."</p>
 
marty - Sorry marty, I should have been more specific. Personal monetary amounts, such as how much you make, or how much you spent on such and such, or how much you have.
 
Just out of curiosity, when you read a post where someone says they make this or that, how much of a BS exaggeration factor do you put to it? 10%, 20% 30%, more? If people will exaggerate 50% on a mortgage loan application where it might really matter, what is the standard rate of exaggeration on a blog post where it doesn't matter?
 
Sometimes I think I'm the only blog/forum poster in Orange County with an income under $100k. Where I came from, having a steady job, bills paid, a reliable car, and no chemical dependencies meant you were doing pretty damn good. Oy.
 
IR - 90% or more. It would seem the only sort insecure enough to espouse a large income would be a rather unsucessful type.<p>

OCflip - And well mannered children.
 
Hold on a sec, I think you still give the man (?) too much credit (pun intended)...





Troll X says,


"And if I’m making half a mil a year for the last 10 years, I want to enjoy my life"





keyword = if
 
<p><em>"And if I’m making half a mil a year for the last 10 years, I want to enjoy my life."</em></p>

<p>This is exactly why I wouldn't live there. If I did I'd have this realtroll-x as a neighbor. How could I possibly enjoy my life when you have neighbors constantly yapping about how much money they don't really make? </p>

<p><em>"You can’t afford this place living pay check to pay check."</em></p>

<p>That is especially true of those who couldn't afford it without the appreciation like 30 Crimson Rose and 41 Rose Trellis.</p>
 
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