Laguna Altura celebrates one year anniversary

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Laguna Altura celebrates its one year anniversary
Saturday, May 19 & Sunday, May 20
10:am - 6:pm @ Laguna Altura Sales Galleries

The Village of Laguna Altura celebrates its one year anniversary this weekend, and you're invited to join in the celebration. Stop by any of our Laguna Altura Sales Galleries this weekend only for a special certificate to Bacchus Secret Cellar in nearby Quail Hill Shopping Center - buy one flight and enjoy your second flight of wine on us!*

PLUS, enter to win a one night stay in an Ocean View Bungalow Guestroom and $250 resort credit at Pelican Hill Resort when you attend our anniversary event! Don't miss your chance to toast Laguna Altura.

 
Bacchus seems like a good night out if you have a babysitter...  Two flights of wine?  Who's driving me home?  I'm gonna score some free booze this weekend... So does each community give out the certificate? 
 
might as well serving drinks on site, especially at Sienna and San Remo; maybe a few drunk visitors will sign the contract so the pathetic sales figures will look a little better.

Splicing the models with weeds also works. TIC can borrow the playbook from Henry Nicholas.
 
The Motor Court Company said:
might as well serving drinks on site, especially at Sienna and San Remo; maybe a few drunk visitors will sign the contract so the pathetic sales figures will look a little better.

Splicing the models with weeds also works. TIC can borrow the playbook from Henry Nicholas.
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Maybe if they dropped the prices instead of pulling this stupid stuff that won't get them anymore sales they might move a few of those homes.
 
TIC needs to learn from LR. One of the founders of the TNHC was an executive TIC canned to make room for the current mastermind of disasters.
 
totally agree with IHS-  we checked out LA yesterday as our friends just bought a toscana last week and wanted to see if we were missing anything.  the whole drive into the community, we just kept thinking why does LR look so much better.  had they built the equivalent of LR, i think they would have had a slam dunk.

for all those waiting for the mythical orchard hills, see TICs track record, do you think it will be more like LR or LA?
 
LR is the last gem. OH will be just another disaster.  TIC can buy the best gun to shoot the target but the problem lies with the bad shooter.
 
I was at Cortona this past weekend and was told that the Cortona Plan 1 will almost certainly see a price increase of ~$5K in the next phase. If I remember correctly they had a plan 1 and a plan 2 available from the previous phase release.

BTW I always thought LA was way overpriced but compared to some of these recent QH listings for Olivos Plan 1, Cortona Plan 1 actually doesn't seem like a terrible deal:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/111-Lattice-92603/home/5902668
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/105-Lattice-92603/home/5902681
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/100-Treehouse-92603/home/5902473

 
Staying objective and impartial is the key. LR is outstanding architecturally but the location is compromised. Your emotion takes you one way and could blind you from seeing other angles. LR price point for the size of a house is a good value but it reflects it's negative premium. This is a life altering decision and you can't put 4 lemons under the foundation so easily.
 
Am I the only one who dislikes Quail Hill? I feel like that place should have a negative premium due to the 405 proximity, lack of accessibility to the coast (unless Uncle Bill in Shady gives you a remote) and cramped quarters.

 
LAtoOC said:
Am I the only one who dislikes Quail Hill? I feel like that place should have a negative premium due to the 405 proximity, lack of accessibility to the coast (unless Uncle Bill in Shady gives you a remote) and cramped quarters.
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I wasn't too fond of QH when it first opened... but after living there for a while... it grows on you. Although it seems cramped (especially in the condo tracts), the area itself is nice and wide open with several large parks. The elevation is great and not sure what you mean by lack of accessibility to the coast... it's right next to Irvine's only coastal canyon (? TIC).
 
funny you mention that.  after LA, i was telling my wife i wish they built something more like quail hill and as she wasnt that familiar with QH, we decided to drive through.  it was nicer than LA but didnt feel that amazing.  everything was hidden and then when you did pull into a set of homes, they were really close together.  i always like the drive into ladera and remembered QH is being better
 
rkp said:
totally agree with IHS-  we checked out LA yesterday as our friends just bought a toscana last week and wanted to see if we were missing anything.  the whole drive into the community, we just kept thinking why does LR look so much better.  had they built the equivalent of LR, i think they would have had a slam dunk.

for all those waiting for the mythical orchard hills, see TICs track record, do you think it will be more like LR or LA?
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Yup, if the equivalent of LR was at LA, it'd be a slam dunk.

And, as you ask, I was so disappointed with LA, as well as other current TIC offerings, that I figured it's not waiting for the mythical OH, as I feared that even if it ever did appear someday, I'd have waited for disappointment.
 
I will be hesitant to categorize any part of Irvine as amazing. The only exceptions I can think of are parts of Turtle Rock and Turtle Ridge.
QH is not bad for Irvine in my opinion -- I just wish the asking prices for the SFRs here were more realistic.
 
health trumps everything. Even if LR homes cost $1 and zoned to University I still will not live there. LA sure can use some price adjustment to make it more attractive.
 
LA has lots of health issues as well right?  you are living at the intersection of 2 freeways in a little valley.  all the dust and pollution settles into.  have you ever driven the 405 into the valley?  at the right time of day, you can see a thick brown cloud over the valley...
 
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Toscana is further away from the 405 and you have Sienna and San Remo as buffer
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rkp said:
LA has lots of health issues as well right?  you are living at the intersection of 2 freeways in a little valley.  all the dust and pollution settles into.  have you ever driven the 405 into the valley?  at the right time of day, you can see a thick brown cloud over the valley...
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