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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:28 PM Apr 2013

Home-building boom returning to Southern California

Morning light revealed pitched tents and scattered sleeping bags in front of the sales offices of luxury builder Woodbridge Pacific Group.

Attracted by a dozen new Huntington Beach homes touted as "starting in the low 1,200,000s," about 15 hopefuls had camped out for days. They were waiting for a chance to get their names on a list to buy into the first phase of a new subdivision.

One would-be buyer had flown in a friend from Las Vegas to hold his place in line. Another shopper had hired a pair of men to wait in 12-hour shifts. Christopher Thibodeau, a 43-year-old operations director for a biotech company, rented out an RV so he could telecommute for a week in the builder's parking lot.

"Do you absolutely have to be here? Maybe, maybe not," Thibodeau said, sitting inside the spiffy camper with his laptop and iPhone laid out on a desk before him. "I am just going to be safe and camp here."

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-home-construction-20130414,0,2308880.story

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Home-building boom returning to Southern California (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2013 OP
I guess there aren't any existing houses available in Southern California? AndyA Apr 2013 #1
the sharks are cicyling in Brentwood near the golf coarse . olddots Apr 2013 #2

AndyA

(16,993 posts)
1. I guess there aren't any existing houses available in Southern California?
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:53 PM
Apr 2013

Or, couldn't they buy a perfectly nice, extremely luxurious, incredibly large home and tear it down to build their $1.2 million McMansion?

The wealthy elite class. So wasteful, so spoiled, so greedy. Couldn't care less about being green, because if they were they'd buy an existing house, perhaps a cool mid-century modern or contemporary, and restore it. Then they'd really have a showplace. They'd also be doing something good for the environment because the greenest house is the one that already exists.

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
2. the sharks are cicyling in Brentwood near the golf coarse .
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 02:08 PM
Apr 2013

tear down the 6to 700 square foot VFW houses built after WW2 and build those 4ooo square foot shit boxes with 7 bathrooms .

the money they spend to "stage one of these trash mansions could house 3 middleclass families.

the agents are in their 20s
and probably unpaid associates I've seen hinky before but this is like a carnival before the scammers pull away in their euro trash regalia to move to the next mark.

I've been here 35 years and never seen it so anti middle class =6 million dollar houses next to tiny lots with VFW starter house owned by original owner or their kids.

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