But no one even comes to look at the house. We live in a gated, golfcourse community in the Inland area of Southern California. It has everyamenity. It is also located in one of the areas hardest hit in therecentrecession. Local Air Force bases closed and jobs in the aerospaceindustries and building trades dried up, forcing hundreds of families totransfer to other states or seek jobs elsewhere.
Houses stand empty allover the area.
When we heard that the Los Angeles area real estate was picking upaboutsix months ago, we were all elated. We waited patiently for the momentumto reach our area, but so far it has completely bypassed us. There should be a balance in reporting the local real estate market. People do notunderstand that Los Angeles does not represent all of California whereareas vary greatly in their economy. In our senior community, the only way youcanget out of your house is to die, which has happened to some of ourneighbors, while waiting futilely for years to sell.