MAN FIGHTS EVICTION AFTER RENT INCREASE FROM $1,800 PER MONTH TO $8,000

I was born and raised in Newport Beach, Southern Cal, and the water always gets warm in the summer, 65+.

The ocean is filled with thousands of surfers, body surfers and swimmers, it’s really nothing like you say...

I did live in the Bay Area, Santa Clara, and I loved the Sco, just loved it. Golden Gate Park, Chinatown, Highway 17 to Felton and Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz.

It’s a great area...and maybe in a few decades the crazed Marxists will all be gone...

Did you home have a good view?

Yes. We were on the upper north side of Bernal Heights, facing the inner Mission District. The rear dining room and kitchen, as well as an upstairs bedroom had a sweeping view of the city, from Twin Peaks and the GG Bridge towers at the left, Civic Center to the financial district, and the Bay Bridge and Potrero Hill at the right. My dad would often be at an open window, daydreaming while looking upon the city. Back then in the 1950s, there were many animated lit advertisements on buildings and billboards. My favorite was a brewery in the center that poured beer into a mug that slowly filled complete with foam. These animated ads were banned a few decades later and disappeared, a real shame.

Due to increasing crime, my mom moved to the peninsula and sold the home in the early 1970s after renting it to others for a couple years. Same day we turned over the home to the buyers, they showed us a scale model of the home with remodeled improvements. The buyer was a writer for Sunset Magazine. They planned to add a floor, expand the dining room and make various improvements for about $60,000. We thought they were nuts, because we sold the house for $23,000 and they wanted to put in another $60K! A few years later, they didn't seem crazy at all because various homes on the street were undergoing upgrades by yuppie buyers adding wine cellars, decks and jacuzzis. Something the blue collar sellers couldn't afford and cashed out. Now the neighborhood is completely gentrified with $1.5 million dollar homes (greatly improved homes).

The drive along the Pacific Coast Highway is wonderful. From about Santa Barbara area to Carmel along the coast is slow and winding, but breathtaking. Speed limits there are low, but it's a relaxing drive if you have the time. Along the way is the Hearst Castle, a must-see. A detour from the coast down the mountain trails into the Simi Valley is also very nice. A must-see near Santa Barbara is Solvang and Buellton, two towns a couple miles apart. Solvang is a Dutch village, has some of the finest pastry and breakfast diners in the country, as well as Dutch architecture. Buellton has some nice auto museums and wineries. Do visit Jack Mendenhall's Gas Pump Museum, you have to arrange ahead of time for a tour.

As for Lake Tahoe, it has changed drastically over the last couple decades. Now, it's high-priced hotels and a few large casinos, with a few public beaches. The proliferation of Indian casinos in California spelled doom for the smaller old-time casinos which I preferred. Fifty years ago South Lake Tahoe was full of small cabins, amusements, motels and shops that blue-collar families enjoyed. You could rent a cabin on the lakeshore and enjoy the beach right outside; my family often did that. All these small venues were destroyed and replaced by large hotels for rich tourists and the charm is gone. A better bet is to go to nearby Carson City and Virginia City in Nevada.

It’s a great area...and maybe in a few decades the crazed Marxists will all be gone...
Ed

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Its turned rather conservative because NO ONE likes to pay taxes. The commies are renters and they are the ONLY ones who run for office. The rest of us are too smart to do that.
The commies are the fighters-against-higher-rents.

But, when one gets old, the property taxes are fixed. My property taxes are a joke...as they're the same as they were in 1969.
No complaints from me, other than I WISH the Giants would $$$pay$$$ for some fabulous pitching. Annoying.

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