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@alangregg: Alan, what would be a synonym for "street presence"?

I’d like to see what does ArchiSavant have to say about this one and Nile Niami’s proposed project for the 70,000-square-foot house on Airole Way in Bel Air.

This house somehow feels out of place in Crystal Cove. Yes, it fulfills all the requirements for how a house should look in this particular Irvine Company community, but it’s just not a community for such big mansions. This isn’t Beverly Park. There is barely space for these edifices to breathe, even when they’re of typical Crystal Cove sizes. Why this lot, of all the possible lots available? Paul Merage’s house, on the other hand, somehow works, but it must be its fairly isolated and quite particular location.

Why settle for a view of a rusty chain link fence people. Commuters whining about traffic in LA are obviously not from LA so you guys need not comment further. Silverlake is not a gated community so NIMBYs should move to Bel Air or Palmdale. And people whining about the city not having any money to do said park are just defeated and resigned thru also don’t need to be part of the equation because they offer no solution. There is money in the coffers and commuters can take a different route than silverlake blvd, the rendering is complete barring any new analysis. Newly re-elected Mayor Garcetti was an old resident and must know this would be beneficial to LA in the long term despite nimbys, transplants and short sighted people.

again how is it a 35k savings if that place is really only worth 20k ????? tell me how ??

ust read you can buy a clean mansion for $1000 in DETROIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! DETROIT ???

I am still waiting for real estate to drop out here in manhattan and in LA bel air, BH, SF

so far it has dropped what 5% ? still waiting for the 90% drop, will that ever happen in my lifetime ???? or will the idiot owners let the homes, penthouses fall into forclosure thereby destroying what is left of the economy, at that point there will be no buyers left……..

the greedy realtors need to have caps, "1998 prices" quick or the USA is done for

Just for fun I looked up where the Bel Air people would normally have to send their kids to, to see if it was really so bad, or if they are a bunch of whiners…. University Senior High School —

http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=sarcx4&which=8886

Looking at the proficiency rates – YES it really is pretty bad!

Student Performance – California Standards Tests
2007-08 Percent Proficient and Above
English – Language Arts

38.0%

Mathematics

14.0%

Science

32.0%

History – Social Science

23.0%

@travelingman: Economics is zero sum. For every dollar a bank lost on a loan or mortgage security there’s a home seller or issuing lender who walked away with some money.

Let’s say you bought 5 homes in Riverside for 100k in 1996. In 2005 Pabst borrows 2.5mil from Countrywide and pays you 500k for each of your 5 properties. Pabst can’t make the payments. I’m foreclosed. Countrywide auctions them off at 200k each and takes a $1.7m write down. Countrywide loses big. T-Man though is 2.5 large. Let’s party with T-Man!!!
T-Man could have even been the ULTIMATE vulture and bought the houses back at the auction but he’s shopping the money on his new digs in Bel-Air…….

@guest (#13): "I live on Sunset and because of the traffic I have been robbed of a neighborhood."

Been there a while, have you? Since it was horse trails?

IF NOT, then you haven’t been ‘robbed’ of anything. If you didnt know SUNSET BOULEVARD was one of the busiest traffic thoroghfares in all Los Angeles, you need to go back to the Wizard and exchange that artichoke he gave you, that he told you was a brain.

PS: The minute I saw the proposed blocks, I thought, the only place harder to widen would be making Bel-Air Road three lanes each way.

I feel bad pointing out a mistake, One Wag, since your comments are some of the best on Curbed LA. However, the house on Laurel Lane designed by Douglas Honnold was built by Samuel and Frances Goldwyn. Since the 1970s, after his parents passed away, Sam Jr. and his family have lived there. The house was listed in Sep 2008 for $24 million, but hasn’t yet sold. It’s a fine example of the Georgian-style homes that were so popular in Los Angeles during the 1930s and I hope it doesn’t get torn down.

Louis B. Mayer lived in a rambling Colonial-style home covered with white-painted shingles on St. Cloud Road in Bel-Air that was later the home of Jerry Lewis and his family. It was torn down in the 1990s and Bernie and Iris Cantor built their enormous French-style home there, that Mrs. Cantor currently has on the market for $53 mil.

Pretty decent NYT renter vs. buying article BUT the Beverly Hills example was exceedingly inaccurate. In no universe would a million dollar condominium fetch 7k a month in rent. Even in Manhattan, 5k a month will rent you a million dollar unit.

Here’s a Bel-Air home, listed in the MLS, where if anything, list prices on rentals are generally higher than actual values: $7500 a month, for a home listed for sale at $2,595,000

http://guests.themls.com/profile_page.cfm?mls=10-425995&tab=search
 

1. here, no I don’t work for any public agency. But I do know that the city of LA zoning code allows for only 42" high fences or hedges at the front property line, and all of these in Venice and elsewhere in the city are in violation of the code, so I’m trying to find a happy medium between private/public space, quiet enjoyment and sense of community.

People need to go into situations with their eyes open. None of this "I moved next to LAX and now I complain about the jet noise". Venice has small lots and thus residences are closer to the public right of way. If you want a walled compound, live in Bel-Air, otherwise you need to be a part of your community.