California

[ultrarunner]

All of my friends out your way live off of Greenhorn Road...

They have commented that things have change over the years with more of a Drug influence creeping in...

My parents owned some acreage in Los Gatos that was part of an old orchard with a Diary Farm nearby... when I came along they sold it and that went the family fortune... or would be fortune!

I'm still looking all the time for a home for my 50 vehicle collection... it has taken a lifetime to accumulate and really can't enjoy them at all being spread out all over the place... so I keep looking.

Ideally it would be somewhere close enough to a small town where I could drive the Horseless Carriages and room for everything to be stored safe inside...

Found the ideal perfect place in 2012 and was the backup offer for 59 days.

A couple of year back I looked at a place in Calaveras... 7,200 square foot shop... home was not to my taste and decided to pass... found out this week the person that bought it was also a car collector and he lost much in the Butte Fire last year... so this is also a concern as my insurance is dependent on availability of things like fire hydrants in fire prone areas.

 

[AchingBack]

I moved to Pasadena, California with my parents and brother in 1950, from Indiana. I was seven years old. I lived in Southern California for 26 years. Leaving there for Oregon in 1976 was the best move I've ever made.

 

[CCWKen]

With 40,000,000 people buying $5/gallon gas, you'd expect the "economy" to be at the top.

 

[dickfoster]

All of my friends out your way live off of Greenhorn Road...

They have commented that things have change over the years with more of a Drug influence creeping in...

My parents owned some acreage in Los Gatos that was part of an old orchard with a Diary Farm nearby... when I came along they sold it and that went the family fortune... or would be fortune!

I'm still looking all the time for a home for my 50 vehicle collection... it has taken a lifetime to accumulate and really can't enjoy them at all being spread out all over the place... so I keep looking.

Ideally it would be somewhere close enough to a small town where I could drive the Horseless Carriages and room for everything to be stored safe inside...

Found the ideal perfect place in 2012 and was the backup offer for 59 days.

A couple of year back I looked at a place in Calaveras... 7,200 square foot shop... home was not to my taste and decided to pass... found out this week the person that bought it was also a car collector and he lost much in the Butte Fire last year... so this is also a concern as my insurance is dependent on availability of things like fire hydrants in fire prone areas.

I live on Scotts Flat Road. It a bit higher, 3600' and cooler than down in town. I'm around a thousand feet higher and I don't think it's quite as populated on this side of the lake. The homes around here seem to move right along when they hit the market. I think the one across the road stayed on the market for maybe a month if that at something over 1 million, 1.2 I think. One just down the road went on the market a couple of weeks ago and I noticed the sign says sale pending already.

Why don't you come up here and buy Five Mile House, it's for sale and has been around since 1890 when it was a stagecoach stop. He went out of business last August due to mismanagement and I want my neighborhood bar and resturant back. Just don't try to do too fancy and fru fru like he did. I imagine he's ready to talk a good deal. There's living space upstairs but no room for your car collection unless you take up the whole parking lot. Welcome

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Steppenwolfe... what are your impressions of Walnut Creek?

The reason I ask is this is still a very much in demand region with lower priced and high end homes within a few miles...

Lot of higher end retail still going into to downtown Walnut Creek and all the new housing is gobbled up fast.

Loved Walnut Creek, much nicer than San Jose or San Diego. And, yes, we were involved with that high end retail.

 

[MossRoad]

Oh shoot......I hope he never finds out my name is David and live in South Bend, Indiana!:drink:

DOH!

 

[MossRoad]

I thought Kaiser has gone under.

:laughing:

I thought you guys were talking about AM General.

AM General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ultrarunner]

Kaiser Industries was in just about everything at one time... ship building, auto manufacturing, minerals, metals, aerospace, etc...

A very small after thought way back when was a Healthcare system for employees... fast forward and it is the engine that drives Kaiser Permanente.

 

[ultrarunner]

I live on Scotts Flat Road. It a bit higher, 3600' and cooler than down in town. I'm around a thousand feet higher and I don't think it's quite as populated on this side of the lake. The homes around here seem to move right along when they hit the market. I think the one across the road stayed on the market for maybe a month if that at something over 1 million, 1.2 I think. One just down the road went on the market a couple of weeks ago and I noticed the sign says sale pending already.

Why don't you come up here and buy Five Mile House, it's for sale and has been around since 1890 when it was a stagecoach stop. He went out of business last August due to mismanagement and I want my neighborhood bar and resturant back. Just don't try to do too fancy and fru fru like he did. I imagine he's ready to talk a good deal. There's living space upstairs but no room for your car collection unless you take up the whole parking lot. Welcome

I do like historic areas that are a little off the beaten path... summer visitors on weekends is OK...

Not sure where I will end up or if I will make a move... thought for sure it would be Washington State but since I bought the property tax going up 80% one year and all new wetland restrictions on my land add new challenges... plus the nightmare of titling and paying tax in Washington on my collection is another matter.

 

[murphy1244]

Kaiser Health Care is bigger than ever... it is a dominating force in Health Care... expanding and building like crazy.

Here is a listing for a 1150 square feet 1940 home on two acres that some many find interesting priced at 1.2M

1471 Felder Rd, Sonoma, CA 95476 - Home For Sale and Real Estate Listing - realtor.com(R)

They closed up here. Sold out to health span ran by Catholic charities.

 

[Wagtail]

Yep... I'm in Thurston County and my taxes went from $6800 to $12,000 in one jump after I-747 was tossed... my neighbors all experienced the same...

Home on 16+ very pretty acres with a little creek where a few salmon spawn... real peaceful and serene.

It $1000 a month property taxes really give my pause to re-evaluate my long range plans...

A typical move of one of my retired friends is to be closer to kids and grand kids who made lives outside California...

Good LORD! I had to re-read that first line...

My annual property tax is A$1,200 (no, I didn't drop a zero) if I pay it in one go. Maybe A$1,300 if I were to pay it in quarterly instalments.

Perhaps you all should think about retiring down here? [which is fine as I've "already got mine". ]

 

[ultrarunner]

During the time I worked in Germany/Austria I was always getting into discussion with coworkers about the cost of living around the world... some lived in magnificent homes that had been passed down for hundreds of years...

Both places are not known for inexpensive living yet the property taxes due on valuable property was only a fraction of my experience in Washington and California...

I currently have the Washington property rented and taxes and insurance take about 10 months rent if all goes well.

 

[jerrybob]

Yep... I'm in Thurston County and my taxes went from $6800 to $12,000 in one jump after I-747 was tossed... my neighbors all experienced the same...

Home on 16+ very pretty acres with a little creek where a few salmon spawn... real peaceful and serene.

It $1000 a month property taxes really give my pause to re-evaluate my long range plans...

A typical move of one of my retired friends is to be closer to kids and grand kids who made lives outside California...

Yikes.....that's terrible. Nothing like that happening here.....we pay about $3K for 6 acres and our neighbors are elk. Thurston Co. is way too crowded for me......startin to look like Calif.

 

[jerrybob]

All of my friends out your way live off of Greenhorn Road...

They have commented that things have change over the years with more of a Drug influence creeping in...

My parents owned some acreage in Los Gatos that was part of an old orchard with a Diary Farm nearby... when I came along they sold it and that went the family fortune... or would be fortune!

I'm still looking all the time for a home for my 50 vehicle collection... it has taken a lifetime to accumulate and really can't enjoy them at all being spread out all over the place... so I keep looking.

Ideally it would be somewhere close enough to a small town where I could drive the Horseless Carriages and room for everything to be stored safe inside...

Found the ideal perfect place in 2012 and was the backup offer for 59 days.

A couple of year back I looked at a place in Calaveras... 7,200 square foot shop... home was not to my taste and decided to pass... found out this week the person that bought it was also a car collector and he lost much in the Butte Fire last year... so this is also a concern as my insurance is dependent on availability of things like fire hydrants in fire prone areas.

50 vehicles......that is impressive and really cool!

 

[ultrarunner]

Only about half are insured... the rest are projects.

Started out wanting one car from each decade.

At one time it was easy to do restorations... I could go to the corner paint store and buy what I needed... not like that anymore.

 

[dickfoster]

Only about half are insured... the rest are projects.

Started out wanting one car from each decade.

At one time it was easy to do restorations... I could go to the corner paint store and buy what I needed... not like that anymore.

It's hard to buy even good lacquer or paint thinner in this state now. You have to go to a paint store because the junk in the hardware stores and home centers isn't worth bringing home must less pay for. At least I'm close to Nevada if it becomes necessary.

 

[ultrarunner]

One of the guys in the car club goes all the way to Reno to buy his supplies and it is not cheap...

I painted cars with Dupont Centari with hardener or Lacquer.... got nice results.

Maybe I should be looking to places like Gardnerville?

 

[bcp]

From:
North Beach tenant's rent increased from $1,8 to $8, a month - SFGate

A North Beach tenant recently received notice from his landlord that the rent on his North Beach apartment was going up from $1,800 a month to $8,000, ABC 13 reports.

Last year, Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad made headlines when she posted a notice from her landlord on Facebook stating that her rent is jumping from $2,145 to $8,900.