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Oh boy! Hallelujah.

I am getting flash back of 1976 when I rode a bus to Marineland in Palos Verdes from the inner city where I grew up. My bus transfer was from Torrance where I needed to board another bus to the wealthy city of PV.

As the bus was approaching me I could hear the passengers were very noisy. Once I ,the only minority, boarded the bus full of white kids wearing Ocean Pacific and Hang Tens carrying surf boards the bus became totally silent.

I think you just ended this 24 page epic thread
 
Sincere? Not welcome? Not sure what you mean. Never said I didn't feel welcome, was only asking when it would be made available. Screw feng shui...cheap housing in a safe neighborhood is all that matters. So does anyone know?
 
One facet of Irvine is to legally discriminate the poor by pricing and their kids from dragging down the API scores.

Wake up Blueberry are you this naive? These buyers are running away from Hallelujah and why would they want her following them to Woodbury? This is a sensitive subject so allow me to be blunt because most would be afraid to post how they really feel so I am posting on the behalf of them. They may tell you that they are not like that and they welcome the poor into their community and their hood rat friends hanging around their pocket parks. The least that they want is some 909 and 310 in the midst of their neighborhood. Just read their posts in the past how they don't want an affordable project next to their home and TIC is assuring the public that the affordable would blend in with the same architectural standard as market rate building so the poor people's dwellings do not drag down the environmental perception and its RE value.

Caste discrimination is quietly practice here. Why aren't you staying in Santa Ana and wanting to move to Irvine?
 
[quote author="hallelujah"]Hi,

Haven't followed this site long but had a question for anyone with information. I currently live in the inner city and wondering if anyone knew when the low incoming housing would be made available in woodbury?

Trying to get my kids out of the inner city and finally try to do good in school. I told my friends and relatives about the low income housing being built one day and I'm hopeful that we can be your neighbors one day.[/quote]

Haiku?
 
[quote author="Blueberry East"]
[quote author="ck"]

Haiku?[/quote]

Haiku did mention on that other site that he will post here with new IP address and username. Highly suspicious.

For a moment I thought it might be BK in disguise starting a discussion with himself, but the 'Screw Feng Shui' comment makes that unlikely.[/quote]

You should know me by now. I hate being a sheep and be a part of a herd. Why would I want to use a trick that PANDA had already used?

I avoid buying in the pasture.

When others buy I restraint from buying. When they are not buying I buy to avoid competitive pricings. I buy when surpply is high and demand is low. That is simple RE 101.

I buy first before the FOBs and FCBs get there and that is RE102.

I buy luxury for a cheap price and good schools for even a cheaper price. RE 103.

Timing is the essence. I buy to settle not settle to buy.
 
[quote author="graceomalley"]One facet of Irvine is to legally discriminate the poor by pricing and their kids from dragging down the API scores.

Wake up Blueberry are you this naive? These buyers are running away from Hallelujah and why would they want her following them to Woodbury? This is a sensitive subject so allow me to be blunt because most would be afraid to post how they really feel so I am posting on the behalf of them. They may tell you that they are not like that and they welcome the poor into their community and their hood rat friends hanging around their pocket parks. The least that they want is some 909 and 310 in the midst of their neighborhood. Just read their posts in the past how they don't want an affordable project next to their home and TIC is assuring the public that the affordable would blend in with the same architectural standard as market rate building so the poor people's dwellings do not drag down the environmental perception and its RE value.

Caste discrimination is quietly practice here. Why aren't you staying in Santa Ana and wanting to move to Irvine? [/quote]

I'll admit it. I would not want to live near affordable housing.
 
@mikeirvine:

Those are similar to the reasons I stated 2 years ago on the IHB that Irvine will be stickier than other places during the bubble burst. You would think that even investors would recognize the lower possibility of margins but they are still buying. What I theorize as happening is people were buying everywhere as prices jumped everywhere (yes... even in the IE) but as everything fell apart... many moved to the areas that held their values better. This "flight to quality" not only applies to homeowners... but also "sharks".

The perma-bears on the IHB would ridicule anyone who held onto such theories but it's not like I'm saying you have to buy in Irvine now... I'm just saying that there are people who see that buying is Irvine, even at these high prices, is the best value for their money (even if fundamentally it does not seem that way). I feel that IrvineRenter has recognized this by his entry into the real estate brokerage business.

And I really like those Shea models... if they had products like that in Irvine (well... they kind of do in PS) at the HK Collection prices... it would be harder for me to wait.
 
[quote author="mikeirvine"]After Looking for a home for many years like many of you guys .... I came to release that there are no perfect house.

I'm reading a lot of comments and information on forum and most of the times is about something bad and people opinions on what they like or don't ...... A perfect house = prefect Bank acct <!-- s:) -->:)<!-- s:) -->
When is the best time to buy? when you have the money, ready to buy and you found what you like.

For me this forum is mainly for me to read whiner post and what others like or dislikes and what is bad around Irvine....

Mike

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Mike...so you were looking for a home for many, many years before choosing to buy in 2010. I must ask, what are the reasons YOU didn't buy for all those years? Why didn't you buy in 2001 or 2003 or 2005 or 2007 or 2009 when many, many other people were buying houses? Perhaps you didn't see the right product, in the right location, at the right price for yourself? If that was the case, did that make you a "NEGATIVE, WHINER" for all those years?

Do you see my point? Mike, its great that you have found the product of your dreams in the 2010 collection. I hope you are very happy and confident with the purchase you made and I wish you nothing but success in the future. But just because others are not seeing the product of their dreams in the 2010 collection does not make them a "negative whiner".

Mike, this is a board for people to express their opinions --- whether or not they agree with yours. By continually insisting that anyone who has a dissenting opinion on the 2010 collection is a "negative whiner", you are trying to silence the opinion of anyone who feels differently than you. To the untrained eye, it might appear like you are seeking validation for your purchase. I hope that is not the case. If you are happy that Sonoma is the right product for MIKE, it should not matter if it is not the right product for anyone else.

I hope everyone continues to post their opinion on this board. If everyone thought the same it would just become an echo chamber and die very quickly. And I hope Mike once and for all quits calling people who don't agree with him negative, whiners. Please tell me I have read that comment for the last time, Mike.
 
[quote author="mikeirvine"]Are you one of them? I didn't say who are the whiners.
Am I one of them, maybe .....

You quoted one part but not the other part .... ???
I mentioned it's good to have negatives comments as there are useful information. And I also mentioned to read less into the words of other people opinions and preferences....

Cool down, CK

Mike[/quote]

Ah nevermind, Mike. I don't think you get what I was trying to say. Perhaps you don't understand that calling someone a whiner is a bit of an insult. I was just trying to tell you to check your words. That's ok, though. I'm off to go look at houses now, after brunch at 85C. Lots of energy from all that sea salt, you know. I'm not looking in Woodbury, though. Hopefully you don't think I'm whining.

Have a good day, Mike!
 
I actually have 101 design flaws to whine regarding the floor plan you bought. However, I will only post after you all close the deal by then it would be too late. It is always nice to see buyers with some regrets like that TV blocking the window or hung too high in Fe's Montecito plan. A bunch of people after the TIC's focus groups voiced how much they do not approve the TV above the fireplace. Good luck in selling your home in resale. There is no remedy for that. So every time when Fe and AJ turn on the TV make sure to think about me!

BTW, the future projects will no longer have the TV above the fireplace. You all just bought a short lived Palm Pilot.
 
Mike's feelings are legitimate, imo. You have to ask yourself what "constructive criticism" is. Giving somebody advice when they can do something about it is helpful. Beating them over the head when it's too late for them to change their situation is not. Intentionally waiting to criticize them when it's too late is just plain mean-spirited.
 
[quote author="graceomalley"]I actually have 101 design flaws to whine regarding the floor plan you bought.

BTW, the future projects will no longer have the TV above the fireplace. You all just bought a short lived Palm Pilot.
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Grace - you are undoubtedly an expert in your field, however, what what you consider to be 101 design flaws, may not be flaws to someone else. Just like you consider your floral park home to be a great place to live and presumably an architectural gem, i would never live in your house, it probably has small closets, small master, etc. To me those are all design flaws and when you resell i would not consider your home. At the end of the day, you only need one buyer to buy your house, and there will probably be a plentiful supply of asians that will buy the resales in woodbury when the new products are coming out elsewhere because those new products will have higher prices and inevitably price some people out.

With regard to buying an outdated product, a short lived Palm pilot, we all buy products that will be outdated. It is the evolution of technology. Your car is outdated, it doesnt have the latest and greatest technology. I have a vizio LCD that we bought 3 years ago, it is outdated now, vizio now offers internet enabled TVs.

It doesnt matter what your write after Mike's home closes. He likes it and will continue to like it regardless of what you say.
 
How can I post something good when knowing that they have made a mistake? Should I lie against my own conscience to make someone feel better by saying something I do not mean. Many of you can do that but not me.

To QW when someone buys an antique car they are not buying it for performance they are buying a piece of history. Out of the entire OC there are only 648 vintage homes in the surviving time capsule community. I don't plan to sell my home ever my home will be heirloom on to my heirs. I had my eye on it since 1989 and I had to outbid 3 other parties for it. I am the 3rd owner since 1933. One can't say for most homes that residents lived there for a lifetime. Again, different folks different strokes. I am only after trophy properties and Diane Keaton is my favorite actress so I wanted her childhood home.
 
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