Posted on 09/23/2020 5:28:20 AM PDT by ShadowAce
What it’s like living in California now is a little bit significantly different than seven months ago. California, now officially the world’s largest prison has the industries of homelessness and lockdowns to bolster its economy. Along with the highest tax rate in the nation, businesses being shutdown is another fantastic strategy that’s sure to improve the economy. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Garcetti, and Nancy Pelosi are spear heading the charge to help make California the zombie apocalypse capital of the world.
A family business in Seattle (Hardwick Hardware ) is packing it in, and moving to Post Falls, Idaho. They say Seattle is hopeless. I would think California is worse, unfortunately.
You could have asked my older brother anytime in the last 35 years, but last Thursday he drove out of that sh!thole never to return. I am sure he will engage you either with heated verbiage or hot lead.
Like living in Tijuana in allot of places.
Lived there for a few years in the mid ‘80s. Weather was great (except for the smog), rent was too damn high and there was too much crime.
What i noticed was that the overall quality of the people was lower than what i was used to.
“Let say I can get a nice place in the CA countryside for 50 cents on the dollar. Would it be worth it? Has the low balling started? I am past worrying about schools and all of the BS.”
Home Prices are rising in the good places to live.
They are falling in Gay Frisco, Oakland and parts of LA.
American buyers with cash are fleeing from NY, Chicago area and even LA and buying homes in the other areas often before the Real Estate agent finishes driving the for sale sign stake into the ground.
The non ChiComs from Hong Kong are still buying with cash.
One of my wife’s best friends here in California has gone into the business of staging homes going on sale with furniture, paintings and even kitchen stuff, with her daughter and 2 other retired friends.
Their only problem is not selling the staging furniture as they prepare the empty homes to sell. Buyers are paying cash for the new homes and buying the staging furniture.
They staged an estate sell and show. Not only did the new buyers buy the home at several thousand more than the asking. The real estate agent had set up a little desk in the foyer and had several offers, The new home buyers bought the home and the staging furniture.
Re property taxes, new buyers get hammered in liberal counties. Prop 13 only protects those who have lived in their home for a year or more.
Our northern counties are more reasonably priced and most are conservative. I’m recommending Butte county to some out of state buyers if they like 4 seasons, and Del Norte for cooler coastal buyers.
PS: If you buy online I think CA waves the tax. I could be wrong.
Every online purchase is taxed at the time of purchase.
Friend in Antioch, Ca for a longtime has refused to leave. Last week her husband posted on his FB page...enough is enough. We will take the loss on the house and get our of CA.
That is from Prop 13, which was passed in 1978.
Newsom is doing his very best to destroy Prop 13.
And-—Prop 15 is only opening the door to also end Prop 13 for residential property.
Keep in mind that Prop 15 isn’t taxing buildings based upon the price paid for it-—they will be back to doing it with assessments....Which can be killer.
Indeed....great weather, particularly this year....with no power. Love it.
You can be sure if this goes through - and it eventually will - they'll come after the rest of us property and homeowners.
Count on it.
The feral state never gets better the out house is full.
Daughter and husband searched for two years in San Francisco - in the city (don't ask why).
Every time they put in an offer, a Chinese person would make a far better offer - in cash - and write a check for the full amount. They were being out-bid by tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars (these properties are over a million and up).
They were about to give up, discouraged, when husband liquidated some stock and used that as a cash sweetener on a property they wanted - and were accepted, finally. They have a shared backyard and a walk-up, no elevator (not good for my arthritic knees). Lots of homeless around, even though it is a nice, pricey area.
They wonder why I haven't visited in over a year.
Expensive. I have read stories on Nextdoor app of people getting 50% increase in their DWP bill for electric.
They never send out a reduced bill : )
People replying are saying that they just guess instead of reading the meter so you have to get them to come out. There must be a way to easily read the meter yourself so you know what the usage is.
The non ChiComs from Hong Kong are still buying with cash.
At first they bought a lot of homes in Vancouver, BC.
Then, they started buying here in the counties, north of Frisco. They buy every type of home from 2 BR post Korean war houses to very expensive homes.
Often they are not in their new homes for months at a time.
Now, they are being out bid by Americans leaving their dangerous blue cities.
There’s a pandemic, but Southern California home prices are at record levels:
9/23/2020, 2:18:07 PM · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
LA Times ^ | 09/23/2020 | Andrew Khouri | Staff Writer
#11 Popcorn...more popcorn!!!
Just wait till the brush fires near your place to start popping popcorn. Roasted popcorn : )
We take out the brush. We “manage” our land.
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