Okay you now have decided to buy a house but where should you live.  Of course you want to live in Santa Monica or Brentwood and not in West LA or Mar Vista. So off you go with budget in hand and discover unless you want to sleep standing up, not have more than 3 people in your home at the same time and finally not look at that “popcorn ceiling” it is time to turn to “plan B”.  Balancing Budget, Loctaion and Details of the home is the tricky part of buying a home unless you have unlimited funds and then you can stop reading now. Also pick up that damn phone and call me.

So for the rest of you we need to do the this juggling of what is important to us, what is the best buying opprotunity and what represents a potential good investment for resale in the future. Remember most buyers stay in there house a maximum of 7 years and firsttime buyers 5.

Saw a great article,  5 Tips In Choosing A Neighborhood , it wont answer all your questions but it will give you a good starting point of where you should look