Posted on 01/15/2018 9:29:02 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Have you been up there? Most are much bigger, but more pricy. Closest neighborhood to Montecito in SoCal might be some of the more country hoods on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Lots of trees, ocean breeze, rural country feel (but fricken mansions all in that Mediterranean style).
We would have Breakfast there all the time. Always had an Omelet that was bigger than the Plate it was served on. That was when all the Waiters were grumpy old white guys. LOL Did you ever go to El Tepeyac in Boyle Heights and get a Hollenbeck Burrito? It was my first real Mexican Food. It even came with extra grease... Yummmmmmy!
No, but I can't count the number of mom and pop Mexican joints I ate at, and they were all good. A guy could eat well on just five bucks a day, eating at those places.
No, I haven't, but I don't care how beautiful the scenery is. I just can't think with such astronomical prices for such little real estate.
Here in Texas you can buy a 7,000 square foot mansion on ten acres, right outside Dallas, for $3 million. And that's in gorgeous, rolling countryside.
When we visited an ex Angeleno friend in Rockwall, TX, we were told to look at such and such a mansion and told it cost $500K. Our chins dropped and hung down to our chests. The homes are so large and lovely. Also in Nashville, where I am interested in moving. How can you keep 5000 sq ft clean?? It sounds like a palace.
Our fifty year old house back home was 1,000 square feet, and sold for $395K. I almost felt ashamed accepting that offer. There's no way in hell that house was worth that.
Your old house is worth over $600k now for sure.
Check out your old neighborhoods here on realtor.com or trulia. It’s shocking, really. My dad bought his house in the 1960s for $20k and people thought that was too much. It’s worth $2m now (on an acre which is kind of rare in LA).
By the way, Rockwall was gorgeous. My dearest friend who moved there had terminal cancer and has passed. Their house which to us was practically free had like 6 bedrooms and 3 levels, and wasn’t anywhere near one of the fancier homes.
We still live in the area, but we’re now on the other side of the lake. Had to let the house in Rockwall go, as (at the time) it was too far outside the metro, which negatively impacted our business. We spent about five hears living in a more central location until we built the business back.
My wife and I will be shopping for our last house sometime next Spring, but not in Rockwall. I love the properties over there, but the property taxes in that county are some of the highest in the state, and the traffic congestion is nightmarish.
We’ll likely be looking for something in the $500K to $700K range on the west side of the lake. Homes in that range are appreciating about 20% a year right now, so we’ve got to hustle.
If it weren’t for the business, and the fact that our kids will likely be starting families in the next few years, we’d probably move even further out, where the house values are much lower.
Oh, I know it is. That house appreciated another $100k within a year of us selling it. My family is working on selling my dad's 60s era rental house in San Jose, which he bought for about $25K in 1967. It will probably fetch $650K.
My uber lib brother owns a similar house in the area, and is sitting on several hundred thousand in equity, but he won't cash out and move to greener pastures. He's just welded in place, which is fine by me. I don't need him moving to Texas.
No, you should stay close to the kids, if they are about to pop out some grand kids!
“Proglodytes”
Oooh, I’m writing that down.
I love Katy Grimes. She is not only a good writer and has a great mind, she is a patriot, not a profiteer like so many “stars” in the conservative arena.
They destroyed paradise and I hope they rot in hell for what they did!
I believe they will. Politics are actions on a larger than personal scale. Judgement, and its punishments and rewards, should, in a perfect universe, be enlarged as well.
Yep. much as we'd like to move to a more rural area, we're gonna stay close by for the grand kids to come.
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