Tasteful Friends: A “Homey” Palm Springs Home for your Consideration

It’s fine! I am guessing it belonged to a nice upper middle class Mexican family. Palm Springs is so relaxing.

I found the iron valance…unique.

Homey? more like homely.

That fireplace is too big and chunky for that little sitting area.

My first thought was the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman intro.

Ghastly! Just ghastly!

The decor is very consistent.

R7. Indeed.

Marble tile flooring is abhorrent.

Decor aside, this is *not* Palm Springs. It's Cathedral City, the neighboring town to the east of Palm Springs.

While there are nice parts of Cathedral City (CC), there's also parts that aren't as nice, and this is one of them. The location of this home is much farther north in CC than the nicer neighborhoods. Also, it's near a major interstate, as well as in the wind zone (sandstorms all the time) AND it's also in the part of CC that got flooded last year.

So it's a big ole NO.

So hideous and dated and yet built in 2002.

Then again, that's most of the homes in the area.

Ugh...Cat City "realness."

R10. OP, here — thanks for the info — I am likely retiring there with the husband.

Buying on Native land for us is also a no-go, as the leases will likely outlive us, and who knows if HOA negligence will result in shady rentals, etc…

OP, you must have meant homeysexual.

There is a finger in one of the photos.

^ Do you mean just laying on the floor unattached to a hand?

over part of the lens

The good thing about the photos is a normal lens, not a wide-angle that makes every room look wide and spacious.

I think the house has potential. Not much yard, but it seems like you could go outside and relax in privacy. Not sure what is under all of that bougainvillea. (What kind of fence.)

If you cleared out the furniture and painted over all of the mustard yellow, that would immediately refresh the situation.

You could probably just re-face the kitchen cabinets.

R13 We actually have a home on leased land. We didn't have and haven't had any issues with it, though having to have the Bureau of Indian Affairs also be part of the escrow process can extend that process by a few weeks. You have to find a home where the land lease is 35 years or more out if a lender is involved.

Cathedral City does not allow short term rentals, and most longer term rentals are from people who are here for a few months at a time, so it's rare to have renter issues. On the other hand, Palm Springs is just overwhelmed with short term rentals - there's a huge glut of available houses and many of the nicer neighborhoods there are practically unlivable due to massive parties every weekend.

Also, Palm Springs home prices shot up during the pandemic and any of the nice MCM homes range from 800K in the north end of Palm Springs (the windy area) to 1.5M or more in the south end. Those may be coming down a bit with the interest rate slowdown, but it's still out of reach for a lot of people. Cathedral City, by comparison, is more affordable. There are new homes in that area, in neighborhoods closer to Rancho Mirage 500s-low 600s.

It can be a great place to retire, but like every place, it has its ups and downs.

[quote] I am guessing it belonged to a nice upper middle class Mexican family.

R1 No. It's belonged to an ElderGay married couple since it's original sale in 2002, and apparently someone died since, the Listing Terms at Redfin say: PROBATE, Cash To New Loan.

I can't believe there's a house in California that's affordable.

I remember after the 2008 housing crisis seeing homes in Palm Springs listed for $99k

^ Perhaps, but that would have only benefitted people who could pay cash or arrange private financing since lenders all froze up. In other words, the rich enjoyed a fire sale.

[quote]It can be a great place to retire, but like every place, it has its ups and downs.

Most places don't have a majority of summer days with temps from 110 to 120 degrees.

^ That sounds like hell on Earth.

It's the strange collection of weird photos the real estate has used on the listing. One of his thumb? A lopsided one of a drinks cabinet? There is a lot of seating in that house. Maybe it was like that after the wake.

This one:

The venetian plaster tells me that somewhere there is a table with a long-skirted table-cloth.

On top of the table is a TV/VCR combo.

Under the table, covered by the skirt, was the last complete collection of Ryan Idol videos.

This summer was dreadful. The dry heat is usually tolerable because the really high temps are in short spurts here and there. But this summer was hot from May to October.

90 consecutive days this year over 100.

The window treatments, gah. The pictures with the realtor's finger in shot

R20: The partner who insisted on moving to PS was the one responsible for the furnishings and probably the one who died. The other one is responsible for the hideous kitchen and probably was a younger shop-bottom.

[quote]My first thought was the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman intro.

Is there any waxy yellow build-up?

The older partner died in 2021 at age 85. The surviving spouse recently died at age 74, resulting in this probate sale.

The older partner must have gotten his taste from his grandmother or great aunt. It seems like he wanted to bring the ambience of a dark old house in a small town to the desert.

Did you all notice the notation in the listing, that upon inventory by the estate administrator, "turn key furnishings will be offered outside of escrow."

All of this stuff can be yours!

[quote]A “Homey” Palm Springs Home

OP is just like the people from Naperville who claim to be from Chicago or the Montclair "New Yorkers". Cathedral City is mostly trailer parks filled with ticky tacky hovels decorated exactly like this.

I can’t believe that awful place in a crappy part of Cat City is that much. Regret selling my PS place (which was actually IN Palm Springs) in 2015. I sold it for 400k and I saw she recently sold it for 700k without any updates.

Transplants from Lodi or North Caldwell.

Actually, the "younger" of the two deceased husbands (age 74) was originally a native of Caniço, Madeira, Portugal. Prior to moving to Palm Desert initially, the couple usually lived in the Encino and Studio City areas of the Valley where that Slut Brooke Logan is from.

“Coat hangers convey!”

I can't think of anything to say about this very plain punchbowl of Middle Class mediocrity. It is, though, a nice reminder to avoid wall mounted TVs...and everything else seen in the photos, including the three fingers. (Did my dead mother take these photos?)

Let’s all remember; when you’re dead, nobody wants your stuff. Enjoy it while you can.

r39 How did you find all that out? Check you out, Gladys Kravitz!

[quote] Let’s all remember; when you’re dead, nobody wants your stuff.

They don't want it when you're alive, either.

The consignment shops in the PS area are filled to the brim with hideous 80s and 90s decor, vastly overpriced, placed by some mutton-dressed-as-lamb frau types or some old pissy queen that thinks the item they bought for $3000 in 1991 should sell today for $2800 ("but it's so well preserved!").

R43 Address from listing > Probate Riverside County > Name of deceased > Fraubook

An alternative:

A new build in Cathedral City, close to the Rancho Mirage border.

A bit high priced for a home that apparently has no private pool (only a shared community pool).

Same area, older home. This is literally every home in the PS area that isn't MCM - most of these homes were built somewhere between 1980-2000 and all have the same dated interiors and the same sand-rolled-in-poop colored exterior.

Cheaper....but still no pool. Clearly for snowbirds only.

Fine but Cathedral City is not Palm Springs.

I'll pass.

R49 We covered that back at R10

R48, why is there fruit on the top cabinet next to the refrigerator?

Also, their yard looks ripe for dust storms. And, their “Friends” color scheme died in 2001.

[quote]Cathedral City does not allow short term rentals, and most longer term rentals are from people who are here for a few months at a time, so it's rare to have renter issues.

Most of inhabited California doesn't permit short-term rentals, and even PS has severely cracked down on them. Still, illegal STRs are rampant, and outside of fancier parts of the L.A. area, there's very little enforcement of the rules. (Also, a quick search on Airbnb showed over 1,000 STRs in Cathedral City alone.)

[quote]So hideous and dated and yet built in 2002.

I'm currently house-hunting, and I'm truly surprised how BADLY the design of that era has aged. Granite countertops EVERYWHERE! Lots and lots and LOTS of beige! Sponged-on paint! Shitty-ass tile!

[quote]The consignment shops in the PS area are filled to the brim with hideous 80s and 90s decor, vastly overpriced, placed by some mutton-dressed-as-lamb frau types or some old pissy queen that thinks the item they bought for $3000 in 1991 should sell today for $2800 ("but it's so well preserved!").

I'm truly curious who buys this crap, particularly since so many PS mid-century vintage shops have closed (like most brick-and-mortar ones outside of huge cities, sadly).

[quote] 90 consecutive days this year over 100.

Congratulations. I've had 122 consecutive days this year over 100.

What bottom designed this

R53 LOL Granite is still in (and paired now excusively with white cabinets and grey floors). And everything else is beige!

[quote] I'm truly curious who buys this crap, particularly since so many PS mid-century vintage shops have closed (like most brick-and-mortar ones outside of huge cities, sadly).

There are still some MCM stores but a lot of them moved off of Palm Canyon. A lot of the buildings on Palm Canyon, run down as they are, tried hiking rents and lost some of the long time shops. I don't know who they thought would take the shop space over, thus far it's mostly been acai shops and dispensaries.

I hope they enjoyed a nice life there.

Amazingly generic and boring. I wrote that oxymoron on purpose.

[quote]LOL Granite is still in (and paired now excusively with white cabinets and grey floors). And everything else is beige!

I'm assuming this is humor of some sort, but just in case: BITCH, PLEASE. Almost no one uses granite nowadays: both CaesarStone & Silestone have devised quartz-based equivalents to pretty much any type of marble or granite. Looks the same, costs far less, and doesn't destroy the planet.

And white cabinets? No, cupcake. Not at all, unless it's mixed with something like a royal-blue-painted island, or perhaps dark-painted lower cabinets.

Beige is mostly dead, and no, "eggshell white" doesn't count.

The backyard is narrow, but the assessor's map shows that it's very very long: 88+ ft, and it looks wide enough to accommodate a lap pool. Add a built-in spa at the one end and extend the patio space into the angled corner on the end where the BBQ currently is. Additional yard space for entertaining appears to be available in the front courtyard, which is enclosed and not shown in the photos of the listing. From the overhead shot, it looks like that space is at least 30 x 35 ft.