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'MERICA~ FVCK YEAH~ said:
ok then i stop posting then... sorry we dont see eye to eye
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It's much easier to do your due diligence on an estimated neighborhood when you are buying a re-sale home versus trying to figure it out for a new home community, especially when you are buying early on.  By the time the first handful of phases have sold and their owners have moved in, probably half of the homes have already been spoken for.  Even though my parents came here from Europe barely speaking English, they were friendly to our neighbors and had many friends on our street so I think it's not a language barrier issue....it's a personality issue in my opinion. 
 
i started carrying a water gun on my dog walks. i think like 50-60% of the folks i encounter on my walks are asian. if i say hi and they dont say hi back i squirt them with my water gun. hopefully after enough squirts i can get them to assimilate to the US culture and and get them to say hi.

can i get arrested for this?
 
irvinehomeowner said:
I think a phase release isn't a good place to befriend neighbors. At that point in time, you are competitors. :)
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Exactly.  Phase release is a high stress event if you're serious about buying.  If you're not seriously buying you're just wasting everybody else's time and pissing them off.
 
I'll give a hypothetical where you would not want to be friends with someone at a phase release:

I meet bones, chat with him (her? I think I forgot) and we are friendly.

Then we talk about which lot we want... and we want the same one... except bones is in front of me on the list.

I kindly ask bones if he/she would consider passing... and the rest is up to your imagination.

Would have it been better to not be chummy with bones so if they do take the lot you wanted, you wouldn't care?
 
bones said:
irvinehomeowner said:
I'll give a hypothetical where you would not want to be friends with someone at a phase release:

I meet bones, chat with him (her? I think I forgot) and we are friendly.

Then we talk about which lot we want... and we want the same one... except bones is in front of me on the list.

I kindly ask bones if he/she would consider passing... and the rest is up to your imagination.

Would have it been better to not be chummy with bones so if they do take the lot you wanted, you wouldn't care?
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Ok maybe we're talking past each other?  I'm not saying meet your BFF for life at a phase release.  I"m talking about common courtesy... smiling, making super small talk, making eye contact.  I got NONE of that at the Arcadia phase release. 

And in your hypothetical, shouldn't you not friend any of your kid's friend's parents?  Their kid could be taking your kid's spot at Harvard, your kid's athletic scholarship at Stanford, your kid's girl crush to prom.  Wouldn't it be better to not be chummy so if any of that happens, you wouldn't care? ;)
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See... you get it. Maybe you may not be that way... but that's how THEY might think.

In your next fortune cookie:

"Do not smile at he who may take your lot"
 
So funny how you guys are arguing about zero stress but you're only looking at it from your perspective.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that if there are 10 people at the phase release and only 6 homes available that more than one of you will want the same plan/lot.

And whether it's true or not, the perception for everyone else may not be the same as yours... after all, you're asking why *they* are not friendly with you.

I'm trying to give you a possible answer but you guys get so defensive. Others could be language barrier, cultural differences, fear of the man (hehe), etc etc.
 
Last neighbor I got to know didn't vaccinate her kids. I couldn't contain my massive eye roll. Kind of spoiled things moving forward.
 
One of my co-workers just moved into his Laguna Altura home but since he has a condo from family that he lived in for pennies, he was thinking about selling.  He bought for $670,000 Plan 1 Siena and saw going prices of $829k.  He was wondering if it was worth it....5% fees plus taxes would still net a profit....worth it??
 
FranchisePlr said:
One of my co-workers just moved into his Laguna Altura home but since he has a condo from family that he lived in for pennies, he was thinking about selling.  He bought for $670,000 Plan 1 Siena and saw going prices of $829k.  He was wondering if it was worth it....5% fees plus taxes would still net a profit....worth it??
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That Sienna home for $829K is not getting much traction. It's been on the market for about 43 days already. From what I have gathered, the homes in Cortona are selling much faster, going pending in a week or so after initial listing, and at $500+ psf.
 
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