Year: 2017
La Costa History
Check out the hills of Old La Costa in background - looks like graded lots: The La Costa Resort put Carlsbad on the map! https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/san-diego-la-costa
Carlsbad Promo Video
Shiller on MID Impact
The impact of losing the mortgage-interest deduction has been blown out of proportion by NAR lobbyists. Let's tinker with it now when rates are low and see if lower taxes could spur additional demand. There may be rumblings about lowering the cap on mortgage interest...
Wire Transfers Now Scrutinized
In San Diego, this applies to cash sales over $2,000,000 to LLCs. Wake up and smell the dirty money. That’s the message federal regulators are sending to the real estate industry in Miami and other high-priced housing markets. On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department...
Bob Seger in San Diego 1978
This is real 70's rock and roll, including girls sitting on shoulders of guys, the San Diego Chicken, and the purist 3-stripe Adidas:
The Challenge of Capitalism
An interesting essay on today's housing crisis - thanks daytrip! But the pushers of market-friendly solutions, and even most affordable housing activists, miss a central point in the housing debate: we already have enough housing in this country. The problem is not...
New Flooring
For those who are looking for new flooring and don't mind traveling to the 15 corridor, this new store is just a couple of miles east of Carmel Valley. They have plenty of other extras too - here's a tour:
Down-Payment Insurance
Worried about the bubble bursting? You can get insurance!
Pendings
Rich has his latest report on the San Diego stats: https://piggington.com/july_2017_housing_data_chartsngraphs In his graph above, you can see that the county has been cooking this summer, with as many pendings as we've had in recent years! In spite of higher pricing,...
