It has old limestone lintels and 5 of them are cracked one majorly one other has had a steel plate put underneath it. 

If its on a crawl space it could be an easy fix, also I dont know what kind of soil you have in San Diego.

Lost of paint, ripped up old carpet and found gorgeous hardwood floors underneath, landscaping, repainted the front door and shutters, repainted the front fence, built a window box.

I think we are a little early in this semantics shift but I predict in 5-10 years because the real estate industry moves soo slow we will see multifamily and single family investments move underneath “residential investments”.

Wood underneath warps and causes uneven floors, from blocked ventilation spaces in the crawlspace2.

A very badly soiled and damaged carpet in living room had to be torn out and trashed.

The rug was completely pulled from underneath me.It all changed for me that week.

They will light a fire underneath you!

Any information would be greatly appreciated, we're heading up in mid-October to begin the search so just trying to get our feet underneath us before we make the trek.

It seems to confirm what I have been thing about for than the decade.To recap what you said about Cupertino:An emerging city in 70s and 80s started out as becoming 1) high tech central on entrepreneurial soil, 2) new jobs were created, 3) engineers, high income families, and Asian families arrives in masses, 4) Schools become very strong due to high test scores by high percentage of Asian students, thus 5) local real estate home prices starts to appreciate very quickly ultimately forming a bubble.