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Look! A home in my price range, finally! For $475,000...

P: 7/12/2009 3:28:29 AM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,322 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	Not a lot of privacy in the bathroom though and it is a short sale so it's probably a teaser price. http://www.redfin.com/CA/Redondo-Beach/2012-Robinson-St-90278/home/6685773 _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 7/12/2009 3:28:29 AM

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P: 7/12/2009 5:03:28 AM
Italiahaircolor Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,338 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 12/17/2007	Okay...the bathroom comment has me thrown...I don't know if you're serious or not. But, if you are--and have an additional 100k--you could flip that place and it would be really adorable. ____________________________ Remember to keep your words soft and sweet...you may have to eat them someday.
Posted: 7/12/2009 5:03:28 AM

P: 7/12/2009 5:43:40 AM
pennquaker09 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,486 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2007	Oy vey. Sephora is the mothership! - diamondfan Leasing any car is not a smart thing, but leasing a Mercedes is flat out stupid.
Posted: 7/12/2009 5:43:40 AM

P: 7/12/2009 9:24:44 AM
neatfreak Ideal Rock Total Posts: 13,456 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 2/17/2007	Eek. And I thought our bay area fixer upper we're buying this week needed a lot of work.
Posted: 7/12/2009 9:24:44 AM

P: 7/12/2009 10:30:51 AM
April20 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,067 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/1/2008	I'm officially horrified.
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:30:51 AM

P: 7/12/2009 10:44:44 AM
cara Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,479 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 3/21/2006	Oh, oh my. Too bad I'm used to your avatar, as that's about the only response that seems appropriate.
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:44:44 AM

P: 7/12/2009 11:59:49 AM
somethingshiny Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,652 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 7/22/2007	Tee hee about the bathroom!! Gosh, I thought OUR house was a fixer upper... * "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." ~ Karen Kaiser Clark *
Posted: 7/12/2009 11:59:49 AM

P: 7/12/2009 12:00:07 PM
Bia Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,299 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 3/28/2008	North Carolina is looking better and better... ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it Salvador Dali
Posted: 7/12/2009 12:00:07 PM

P: 7/12/2009 12:00:59 PM
Mrs Cut Rock Total Posts: 277 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 7/12/2008	TGal, I feel your pain! Housing prices are so high here compared to the rest of the country. I guess that's just what you have to deal with if you want to be in SoCal - the weather is so great today! Any time I think perhaps we'll move somewhere less expensive, I remember the weather (and no mosquitos!) and I decide it's probably worth it even if it means I can never retire...! Good luck!
Posted: 7/12/2009 12:00:59 PM

P: 7/12/2009 12:24:37 PM
icekid Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,555 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 11/17/2004	Uhhhhhmmmmmm thankfully California is SO not for me.
Posted: 7/12/2009 12:24:37 PM

P: 7/12/2009 1:38:22 PM
Beacon Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,734 Last Post: 11/9/2009 Member Since: 7/14/2006	Terrifying
Posted: 7/12/2009 1:38:22 PM

P: 7/12/2009 1:51:23 PM
sba771 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 623 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 6/1/2008	Wow...and I thought Long Island prices were bad. This shocked me.
Posted: 7/12/2009 1:51:23 PM

P: 7/12/2009 3:00:19 PM
FrekeChild Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,891 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 12/14/2007	OMG. _______________________________ "Women are either goddesses or doormats." Pablo Picasso "In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane." Mark Twain
Posted: 7/12/2009 3:00:19 PM

P: 7/12/2009 6:24:01 PM
Miranda Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,042 Last Post: 9/24/2009 Member Since: 2/18/2006	Oh sweet heaven! That's a bit of a fixer upper!
Posted: 7/12/2009 6:24:01 PM

P: 7/12/2009 6:47:07 PM
JulieN Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,145 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 7/25/2005	I had no idea the Redondo market was that inflated.
Posted: 7/12/2009 6:47:07 PM

P: 7/12/2009 6:56:50 PM
canuk-gal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 9,195 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 4/19/2004	HI: Has anyone said "yikes' yet??? cheers--Sharon "People who possess great qualities, do not need to show off".
Posted: 7/12/2009 6:56:50 PM

P: 7/12/2009 7:26:03 PM
movie zombie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,216 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 1/20/2005	and to think 2 years ago what this would have sold for.......location location location. mz "I don't feel enjoyment watching films that evoke passivity. If you need that kind of comfort, I don't understand why you wouldn't go to a spa." Chan-wook Park
Posted: 7/12/2009 7:26:03 PM

P: 7/12/2009 7:46:50 PM
*Danielle* Cut Rock Total Posts: 329 Last Post: 10/13/2009 Member Since: 10/4/2008	Hence why I plan on moving when the time comes. I just can't afford Orange County, and Southern California in general.
Posted: 7/12/2009 7:46:50 PM

P: 7/12/2009 7:55:18 PM
HollyS Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,098 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 7/18/2007	I'm glad I live in Texas! That house, in that condition, would be torn down here; and if it were not, it would sell for about $40,000.00, (someone would buy it for the lot and tear the house down)! The house DH and I saw today, that I would love to have, is $149,900. And it was move-in ready, in a great neighborhood, updated kitchen, new bathrooms, new tile, new carpet, new paint, etc. It had a deck, privacy fence, sprinkler system, security system, was nicely landscaped with mature trees, and so on. And still, DH says, "I don't know. I'm not really ready to do this. I didn't think we were serious yet; I thought we were just looking and seeing what's available." I bit my tongue to keep from saying things I can't take back. We've been looking for a month, we have a realtor, we are preapproved for a loan; how could he think we weren't SERIOUSLY LOOKING? So at this point, we're hardly speaking to one another. I'm too po'd to really be much more than barely civil. _____________________________ "I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson
Posted: 7/12/2009 7:55:18 PM

P: 7/12/2009 8:13:50 PM
Jas12 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,929 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 5/16/2006	wow, oh wow. Seriously? Well, it's a good thing it's sunny for what, 360 days of the year there....better to live outside I think that would go for about $30 k around here (tear down and build kind of thing. I guess that is what the buyer would do? A 1/2 mil for the lot
Posted: 7/12/2009 8:13:50 PM

P: 7/12/2009 8:24:15 PM
steph72276 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,877 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 3/16/2005	Wow, I would rent for a lot longer! Yuck. I can't believe what a dump half a million dollars will buy there! Here's what you could get in Florida and we have great weather too!http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Orlando_32832_1104065651
Posted: 7/12/2009 8:24:15 PM

P: 7/12/2009 9:57:55 PM
Tacori E-ring Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,090 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Date: 7/12/2009 12:00:07 PM Author: Bia North Carolina is looking better and better...
Posted: 7/12/2009 9:57:55 PM

P: 7/12/2009 10:14:24 PM
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,908 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004	Oh man, that sucks!!!! ____________________________ Piece of cake and a candle. ng gift
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:14:24 PM

P: 7/12/2009 10:23:00 PM
kcoursolle Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,344 Last Post: 10/14/2009 Member Since: 1/21/2006	Yes...another reason why DH and I are moving back to the midwest. We were thrilled with what our budget would buy there (a much smaller budget than yours). Any chance you would settle for a condo though? My friends just bought a very high-end nice 2 bedroom/2 bath condo in brentwood no less for about your budget...something to consider...
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:23:00 PM

P: 7/12/2009 10:27:25 PM
wolftress Ideal Rock Total Posts: 821 Last Post: 11/3/2009 Member Since: 12/12/2006	This is horrifying... I can think of several better things to do with 475,000. Move to Melbourne, you can get a nice house in the suburbs for that amount "Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow."
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:27:25 PM

P: 7/12/2009 10:29:25 PM
Lynn B Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,142 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 5/9/2004	Dear lord!!!! That house would sell here in NW PA for about $10K, and that would include a nice lot!!! And THAT'S my story and I'm sticking to it!
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:29:25 PM

P: 7/12/2009 10:37:34 PM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,322 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	Yup, so cal is crazy. But we can get a smaller house if the lot is big enough because we can do most of our year round living outdoors. Yeah, not worth it, I know. Italia, yes, I was kidding. So Cal real estate is nuts, but that listing really made my eyebrows raise - and I look at a lot of listings!! steph, I know FL is considered to have nice weather, but I can't stand the weather there. Nice in winter, but the humidity in summer, plus the hurricanes! I need nice weather year round! Where I live, it's about 65-80 degrees year round with very little humidity and no bugs whatsoever. Holly, hopefully your DH will come around. If you find the RIGHT house, you should buy it. After all, at that price, it's not like you're that much under if the market keeps going down. Here in Ca, it's possible to be down 100-150K on what you paid for your house. My bro is 100K down, but he also sold at the right time and wouldn't have made 250K on his little house if he didn't choose to move at the time. kcoursolle, no way I'd do a condo in this market. They are losing value the fastest and I don't see the point in buying air. I'd rather keep renting my cheap, flea infested apartment and put away 26K a year! Plus I really want a yard for the kid. _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:37:34 PM

P: 7/12/2009 11:30:23 PM
sunkist Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,719 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 11/15/2005	Haha! OMG, TGal, isn't house hunting fun What on earth happened to that place??? Here's one I found in my area that is affordable. It has a really open floor plan... :D http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Clemente/715-Avenida-Columbo-92672/home/3272390
Posted: 7/12/2009 11:30:23 PM

P: 7/13/2009 12:20:19 AM
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,908 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004	Date: 7/12/2009 11:30:23 PM Author: sunkist Haha! OMG, TGal, isn't house hunting fun What on earth happened to that place??? Here's one I found in my area that is affordable. It has a really open floor plan... :D http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Clemente/715-Avenida-Columbo-92672/home/3272390 OMG that's awful. Tgal, PA has some great deals... But know you are a CA gal ... But feel for you.. And here I thought it was a buyers market!!! ____________________________ Piece of cake and a candle. ng gift
Posted: 7/13/2009 12:20:19 AM

P: 7/13/2009 12:29:28 AM
Linda W Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,442 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 2/15/2006	OMG that house is nasty!!!!!!! Holly: you and your DH should buy that house. What a steal of a price. My girlfriend lives in Fort Worth and I can't believe the prices she tells me of the houses there. ******************************** "Life is what happens to you, while you are busy making other plans". John Lennon
Posted: 7/13/2009 12:29:28 AM

P: 7/13/2009 2:09:16 AM
TravelingGal Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,322 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2004	Date: 7/12/2009 11:30:23 PM Author: sunkist Haha! OMG, TGal, isn't house hunting fun What on earth happened to that place??? Here's one I found in my area that is affordable. It has a really open floor plan... :D http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Clemente/715-Avenida-Columbo-92672/home/3272390 Yikes, you win!! _______________________ Travel quote of the week: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Posted: 7/13/2009 2:09:16 AM

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