Buying a second home at the shore?

house equity in sand castleHousing in Los Angeles is crazy!

Lotsa talk about real estate and housing in SoCal (Southern California). Real real estate hijinks. Beach house bingo.

And the fallout is real. Read how I was evicted after 19 years in my home. You can even see my eviction notice!

I rather love real estate chatter, or I used to. When the LA Times actually had a Real Estate Section — a few years ago, now — it was my favorite section, full of columns like Pardon Our Dust (renovations), how to present your house to get a good price, lending terms (never bothered to read that, since it didn’t seem I qualified), analysis of different neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles (so I wouldn’t have to drive there) etc.

Of course, now that a house flipper and feeble redeveloper is doing renovations in the house across the street on Waverly Drive, breaking city code as they go, I hate their guts.

Also, I mostly understand equity, but not loans.

In any case, I did this one for the Sunday Magazine, West, in the Los Angeles Times. Everybody loves to read about housing disasters!

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And, PS. Everyone who actually managed to snag a starter home in LA is talking about moving to Santa Barbara or Oregon. Most people in LA think Oregon is the coolest.

ID #3118MH      Caption, which is a little hard to read on this one: (at the beach, one guy talking to another, with a big sand castle behind him) We thought about moving, but we have equity in our sandcastle now.

Donna Barstow

Donna Barstow

Syndicated cartoonist in the New Yorker, LA Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, textbooks, papers. Columnist for 10 years in Psychology Today. Set painter in studio Art Depts. Member Scriptwriters Network, script analyst. Author, 2 hardcopy books, Barnes & Noble Calendar.