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Realtor Wendy Rawley walks by the pool at a ranch-style estate in Yorba Linda valued between $2.9 million and $3.2 million. “It’s country living in the middle of the city,” Rawley said. PHOTOS: ED CRISOSTOMO,
541 2 Lakeview Ave. Priced at $2.9 million 2.5-acre property
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Rawley shows the master bedroom at the home, which features three bedrooms, three baths and a four-car garage with an apartment upstairs.
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n Lakeview Avenue, there’s a slice of what the Land of Gracious Living used to look like, and it’s on the market. The ranch estate at 5412 Lakeview Ave. embodies the kind of properties that brought many equestrians to Yorba Linda. The 2.5-acre property has potential for whomever can offer at least $2.9 million for the keys, said Realtor Wendy Rawley. Although the property doesn’t have a barn or corral, it has enough land to be a horse household. It is also zoned for up to four residences if an investor wants to build. There is a four-car garage with an upstairs apartment, a tennis court, a pool and an orange grove. “If we keep getting rid of all of this, we won’t be the Land of Gracious Living,” Rawley said. “It’s kind of that last piece of what used to be.” Still, Yorba Linda offers all sorts of nifty homes and lifestyles. The Yorba Linda Star thought it would be fun to take a glance at a few neighborhoods and share them with you. The city’s housing stock includes lakeside houses with boat launches, hillside mansions, condos tucked into greenery and master-planned community tracts. The Yorba Linda Star spoke with several homeowners to find out why they love where they live.
Rawley enters the tennis court on the property, which doesn’t have a barn, but is large enough for horses.
Rows of orange trees stand in a grove included on the 2.5-acre property.
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‘Good Buy Girls’ say goodbye to TLC BY DANIEL LANGHORNE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
The reality show “Good Buy Girls” was canceled by TLC after four episodes aired because of low viewership. The 12-episode show followed Tara Gray and Brook Roberts of Irvine, who are the co-hosts of a Savi Ranch-based home shopping network called DSN Jewelry. Gray and Roberts tried to persuade their boss, Art Garabedian, to expand his merchandise beyond highend jewelry and gemstones to include items like a home-spray tanning booth and a dog treadmill. “Unfortunately the show didn’t resonate with our audience as much as we hoped,” Niki Kazakos, a
Yorba Linda Water District seeing a construction boom STORY AND PHOTOS BY DANIEL LANGHORNE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Tara Gray, Art Garabedian and Brook Roberts, from left, are co-hosts of the reality show “The Good Buy Girls” on TLC, which was canceled after four episodes.
spokesperson for TLC, wrote in an email. “We will not be airing the remainder of the episodes.” Gray and Roberts did not respond to phone calls for comment. Garabedian, the owner of DSN Jewelry, said he was
initially told that TLC was considering running the remainder of the episodes at a different time slot because they were already shot. “It’s frustrating for me, because I’d like to tell my viewers,” Garabedian said.
The Yorba Linda Water District is overseeing a surge of construction that would allow the district to pump groundwater throughout its entire system. District officials say that projects could help limit their ratepayers’ costs and provide the district with an alternative if there is ever a problem with getting imported water from the Metropolitan Water District. Michael Beverage, a longtime member of the district’s board of directors, said the board does not want to solely rely on Met-
Construction is underway at Yorba Linda Boulevard and Gun Club Road for a new booster pump station.
ropolitan Water District because of periodic, scheduled outages or if a fire or earthquake impact the Diemer Treatment Plant. “We’d still be able to pump groundwater wherever we don’t have damage (to our system),” he said.
The district recently completed a major pipeline project on Yorba Linda Boulevard to deliver water to a booster pump station under construction at Gun Club Road, adjacent to The S E E WAT E R ● PA G E 2