panda
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This is what your shared mail box looks like for a $4M new home in Orchard Hills. Do you get your own mail box if you spend $7M?
Orchard Hills 4 - "The Summit" Updates
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NEW -> Contingent Buyer Assistance Program
If you're willing to buy in West Irvine off Jamboree, lower or no HOA homes can be found:
College Park home with $60/month HOA:
The West Irvine homes were built in late 90s and are newer than College Park homes built in 1970s. But at College Park you can find single story SFR's like the one above with some yard space for gardening. At $1.3 million it's um... a bargain in Irvine these days. With the money saved you can drop some money to update the interior. Hope that's not travertine tiles (looks great, until holes start appearing).
panda
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Why would anyone in their right mind want to spend $7M in Orchard Hills? With that kind of money, I would buy in Newport Coast.
irviniteeee
Active member
Well, unfortunately, people are paying that much to live in OH as well as Hidden Canyon...to each their own I guess.
scubasteve
Active member
Yikes… from the Brookfield site FAQ; fire insurance related or because they can?
What are the HOA dues at Vista in Summit?
The HOA dues at Vista are estimated to be $995/month, then at Build-Out, estimated to be $774/month, all subject to DRE approval.
What are the HOA dues at Vista in Summit?
The HOA dues at Vista are estimated to be $995/month, then at Build-Out, estimated to be $774/month, all subject to DRE approval.
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These shared mailstations are more secure because they lock. Also there is a package locker that locks. I prefer this set up to when I lived in an older section of Irvine where each person had their own mailbox in front of their house and there was repeated mailtheft from unlocked boxes.
CalBears96
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It's safer and also less work for the USPS. They don't have to drive around the block. And the package lockers come in two sizes, the big one pretty big. I agree that this setup is better.
miniDragonPaw
New member
I believe it is the new/old regulation. USPS bundles up the mailbox to save on money and fuel.
sleepy5136
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HOA being near $1000 per month is insane.
someguy
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+ $6,500/yr Mello Roos. Cost of ownership will be high here. Like others have mentioned, for these (expected) prices and carrying cost, Newport looks much more attractive.
yeah but you don’t get the view of all the white Teslas.
irvinehomeowner
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They have those cluster mailboxes in Newport too!!
irviniteeee
Active member
LOL the HOA fees are ridiculous. That's more than Shady Canyon. And for the smallest neighborhood in OH...okay.
Does OH have a high concentration of white Teslas?
Just like Trump, Elon, and DOGE... everything including our daily life is becoming less familiar to us.
panda
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It is just a luxury image thing. Perhaps it because Panda is a Georgia resident, but only apartment complexes and townhomes have cluster mailboxes here. If a builder tried to pull this off with luxury homes in Johns Creek, they would get executed by the buyers.
Let me give you an example with Lifetime Fitness in Irvine. I have a signature membership in Johns Creek but I was able to get access to Lifetime Fitness at the Irvine location. You feel like you are rich working out there as you are in presence of luxury as you walk in thru those doors. You can see Lambos, Ferraris, and cars I haven't of before parked in the valley parking next to Lifetime. Even inside the gym, everything feels luxurious including the high end lotion and shampoo they have in the lock rooms. I don't get that feel when I walk in to my local Lifetime Fitness in Johns Creek. If I spend $4M on a brand new luxury home, I am going to expect a man guarded gate inside a golf course community and at the minimum also expect my own mail box where I can easily access it without having to get into my car.
Let me give you an example with Lifetime Fitness in Irvine. I have a signature membership in Johns Creek but I was able to get access to Lifetime Fitness at the Irvine location. You feel like you are rich working out there as you are in presence of luxury as you walk in thru those doors. You can see Lambos, Ferraris, and cars I haven't of before parked in the valley parking next to Lifetime. Even inside the gym, everything feels luxurious including the high end lotion and shampoo they have in the lock rooms. I don't get that feel when I walk in to my local Lifetime Fitness in Johns Creek. If I spend $4M on a brand new luxury home, I am going to expect a man guarded gate inside a golf course community and at the minimum also expect my own mail box where I can easily access it without having to get into my car.
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Imnotmoving
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It’s the 2 car garage that kills me.
momopi
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If you're willing to buy in West Irvine off Jamboree, lower or no HOA homes can be found:
College Park home with $60/month HOA:
The West Irvine homes were built in late 90s and are newer than College Park homes built in 1970s. But at College Park you can find single story SFR's like the one above with some yard space for gardening. At $1.3 million it's um... a bargain in Irvine these days. With the money saved you can drop some money to update the interior. Hope that's not travertine tiles (looks great, until holes start appearing).
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irviniteeee
Active member
Westpark has HOA around 50 bucks in the SFRs. Parts of Turtle Rock have reasonable HOA too. Parts of Northwood have no HOA, as well as many of the neighborhoods in El Camino Real and The Ranch off Irvine Center and Jeffrey.
ratchet_resident
Member
this is irvine we are talking about. it is rare to find anything more than 2 car especially for new constructions
sleepy5136
Well-known member
When your house is almost 5k sqft it should be illegal to have a 2 car garage. 4 car minimum…