This is what happens when you perch an expensive home on the side of a mountain.
I've been driving through Laguna for years, looking up at those homes and wondering how long it would take for them to come crashing down.
"I've been driving through Laguna for years"
I walked in one. You had to walk a long gang plank style walkway to get to the actual entrance. No thanks. I felt very uneasy the whole time I was in that hillside house. Every little crackle or pop noise made me jumpy. An occasional crackle or pop usually means a house is settling which is normal but I don't want to be in a settling house in Laguna.
I was driving up the hillside in So. Laguna last week to see a client and the amount of new housing all along the route was amazing. On one lot that had maybe 20 feet of land and then a sheer drop they were cantilevering a huge home off the cliff face. I was thinking that if there were an earthquake I wouldn't want to be in that house or driving up that road either!