$1,050-a-month to live in a SHED! Outrageous listing in San Diego boasts one tiny 200sq ft room - an

Lol this is nothing. I’m on the market for a property just outside of dc. I will probably spend about $540k for 900 square feet.

 

Not enough windows.

 

You obviously know nothing about real estate. A condo in a complex that used to be an apartment complex? Most condos are apartment complexes. Apartments don't physically change when they become condos. Apartments are apartments. What I'm guessing you mean is that rental apartments were converted to condos by the owner, which is a legal process. $390,000 for a two bedroom condo is nothing. In Manhattan, two bedroom condos are well in 7 figures. $15,000 to renovate is also nothing. I spent more than 20 times that much. $270 a month is also nothing. 5 or 10 times that month is more like it.

 

I got a “killer” deal on a condo in Ballston. $650,000 for 980 sqft. I’m originally from Cali so that really didn’t throw me off but it’s still amazing to compare what that money will get you elsewhere. I was in Goldsboro, NC for awhile and $150,000 bought 2,400 sqft worth of a beautiful house.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by take off, but my wife's mom got sick. That sent us back to Colorado.
I'm not sure where it was in the housing cycle to tell you the truth, but I think I could have got a lot more for it than I did.

 

My cousin and her husband spent around $400+k for 900 sq ft in Chevy Chase about 2 yrs ago.

 

"Who says there's more than enough affordable housing in California ?"

I don't think anyone, liberal or conservative, says that.

 

could it be a tax scam, to get a tax write off for not being able to rent it or new tax laws?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/02/a-b...ng-out-a-room-in-your-house-or-apartment.html

 

A recent survey showed that 1/2 of the register voters in California want to get out of California.

10 million native born Americans have already fled the state of California over the past couple of decades. They were mostly white middle and upper middle class who kept California's tax coffers full and were mostly Republicans or conservative independents.

They were replaced mostly by immigrants and illegal aliens.

Because of California's state, county and local regulations and restriction it's only profitable for developers to build large luxury apartments and homes.

A few months ago it was the grand opening of a large apartment complex near Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles.
12 years since the developer applied for a permit.
Actual construction time building the apartment complex, 18 months.
10 years on approving the permits, with hearings, environmental impact studies, requirements and regulations and bribes being paid that is so common in Los Angeles and other municipalities run by Democrats.

In Koreatown in Los Angeles the city of L.A. using Prop HHH taxes to build affordable subsidized housing.
A 36 unit low income, affordable housing apartment complex is being built. $700,000 for the cost of each unit.
The Liberal activist demanded that each unit should have granite countertops in the kitchen.

 

There's more than enough affordable housing in California.

But not for 40 million people.

And the California progressives in Sacramento still have the welcome mat out at the border.

 

Ah, so it's conservatives who say "there's more than enough affordable housing in CA".

Thank you.

 

It all comes down to overpopulation.

Just not in California but also the USA and the world.

In my lifetime I have watched the world population more than double from 3 billion to 7 billion.

I watched America's population more than double.

I watched California's population quadruple.

 

It's not so much widespread overpopulation, but overpopulation in the more desirable areas and regions to live.

If, for example, you look at a map of all the major cities, they were all built on the geographically and climatically most optimal areas to live. It wasn't just a coincidence they were built there.
I don't think people really understand this, and the full extent of that implication.
If there are not already lots of people there, chances are that area wasn't an inherently naturally desirable area to live, for numerous reasons.

And with immigration, we don't see them populating the less desirable places, they are mostly crowding into the already overpopulated cities.

 

In a city like San Diego no, and San Diego isn't even the priciest area in California. However there are places in the state where you could rent a 3 bedroom for under $800 a month

 

Slab City?

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...cbn=EntityAnswer&cbi=0&first=1&cw=1129&ch=543

 

I suppose it all depends when and who the immigrants are.

Immigrants today from shithole countries tend to settle near county social services offices.

 

Short distance to teat.

 

Slab City aka the freest place in America.

ANARCHY !

A tweekers paradise.

 

Yeah, there's places out in the inland desert far away from most job opportunities where you can bake your brains out in the middle of the Summer due to the scorching temperatures.

With all the migrants that have moved to some towns like Barstow, they look like pretty economically depressed dusty towns, almost like some sort of version of Northern Mexico. I saw a few documentaries about the financial struggles these sort of towns (inland southern California) went through after the Housing Bubble popped. The cities had to suspend vital city services to the residents living there, businesses started being boarded up, and the city councils started demonstrating almost blatant corruption, devising clever schemes to prevent citizens from being able to speak at their public hearings and complaining.
The homeless litter the streets in the downtown urban core of all these small towns.

 

It amazes me that people want to live in big cities. They probably don't know anything else.

 

The Difference is
San Diego, University Heights
and
Apple Valley, no apples - just hot, stinky desert.


Moi

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All liberals should live in one of these low Carbon footprint homes.

 

It's what they think about us in the boonies. They got their MoMA, we got our trot lines and free takeout in the skiff.

 

Kinda like Antelope Valley which is also in the Mojave Desert like Apple Valley.

I have driven through Antelope Valley hundreds of times and haven't seen one freaking antelope.

But according to some, there were antelope at one time in the Antelope Valley but because of climate change from 1882 to 1885 (more than likely man caused climate change) all of the antelope died from starvation.

Los Angeles...Spanish for "The Angeles" but in my life time the only Angeles I ever saw in Los Angeles were riding Harley Davidson choppers.

 

My suggestion based on experience -- buy property farther out and take the MARC train into DC if possible. The farther away from DC the more your money will buy and the better your quality of life will be IMHO.