Luxury Real Estate Agent in Tustin, CA
Paula Aragone represents sellers and buyers of Tustin's best property, from Old Town's pre war stock and the golf course tracts of Tustin Ranch to the hillside estates that carry a Tustin address but answer to the county.
Tustin holds the smallest high end market of its neighbours and the widest range inside it. Old Town carries genuinely pre war housing, Tustin Ranch carries Irvine Company golf course product from the late 1980s, and Tustin Legacy carries new construction on a former Marine Corps air station. On the Legacy side the honest sequence is unusual: a buyer's counsel reads the environmental file before the floor plan, because institutional controls run with the land.
| The historic core | Old Town, Craftsman and Victorian era stock, exterior alterations scrutinised |
|---|---|
| The golf course tract | Tustin Ranch, planned 1982, annexed 1986, around a 165 acre course |
| The largest lots | North Tustin, Lemon Heights and Cowan Heights, all unincorporated county |
| What sits on the Legacy title | Recorded institutional controls, plus a Community Facilities District |
| Still open on the base | Groundwater plumes, an active PFAS investigation, a five year review due 29 October 2026 |
| In the record since 2023 | The 7 November 2023 North hangar fire and its debris footprint |
Four Tustins, and Only One of Them Sells Like a Normal House
No other city in this group holds a pre war downtown, a 1968 park tract, late 1980s golf course product and a former Marine Corps air station within a few miles of each other. That range is the opportunity and it is also the difficulty.
Old Town Tustin is the historic core: Craftsman bungalows and Victorian era homes on walkable streets, the only concentration of genuinely pre war housing among these four cities other than Westside Costa Mesa. A 1997 General Plan amendment allowed up to 291 additional residential units in the Old Town commercial area to support mixed use, and the city maintains an Old Town programme. The practical consequence for a seller is that the city takes an interest in exterior alterations, and the buyer at this level is buying the original fabric rather than in spite of it.
Tustin Ranch is the golf course market. The Irvine Company planned it in 1982, the county approved it in 1986 and Tustin annexed it the same year, creating the 92782 postcode. It was planned for about seven thousand residential units across the density range, and nearly all of its neighbourhoods surround the 165 acre, eighteen hole Tustin Ranch Golf Course. Tustin Marketplace opened on Jamboree in 1990 with about 120 shops. This is the submarket where a buyer is usually comparing Tustin against Irvine and paying close attention to Tustin Unified.
North Tustin, including Lemon Heights and Cowan Heights, is where the largest lots and the custom hillside estates are, and it is not the City of Tustin at all. It is unincorporated Orange County. That means county permitting, a different fire responsibility area, a separately adopted fire hazard severity zone map under Ordinance No. 25-015 adopted 26 August 2025, and frequently septic rather than sewer. A listing that calls this Tustin without saying unincorporated is misleading the buyer about who issues permits.
Tustin Legacy is the fourth, and it is the reason this page reads differently from the others. It is the master plan for the 1,600 acre former MCAS Tustin, and it produced Tustin Field I and II, Columbus Square, Columbus Grove, Greenwood, Amalfi and the newer phases. The Navy began assessment in 1980 under what became the Installation Restoration Program. Contaminants released during military and prior agricultural use include pesticides, solvents, jet fuel and firefighting materials, and contaminated groundwater plumes remain.
The current focus is PFAS from aqueous film forming foam used in burn pit exercises, hangar suppression systems and crash response training, detected in shallow groundwater above EPA drinking water standards. The city's position is that there is no drinking water pathway, because the shallow groundwater is not used for drinking water and Irvine Ranch Water District supplies PFAS free drinking water. The Navy continues investigation under EPA, DTSC and Regional Water Quality Control Board oversight. The fifth five year review opened in November 2025 covering Operable Units 1A, 1B, 3 and 4B, with the final report due by 29 October 2026.
Then there is the fire. On 7 November 2023 the seventeen story WWII North blimp hangar burned and smouldered for twenty four days before being declared out. Released contaminants included asbestos, lead and arsenic, debris was measured at up to 37 percent asbestos, and the hangar timber had been treated with a fire retardant containing aluminium, cadmium, chromium and zinc. Debris travelled more than three miles and affected roughly ten thousand homes across Tustin, Irvine and Santa Ana, with Columbus Square, directly across from the hangar, hardest hit. Any of that touching a property is a material fact.
Bringing a High Value Tustin Property to Market
In three of the four Tustin submarkets the sequence is ordinary. In the fourth it is not, because a Legacy property is sold to a buyer whose lawyer will read a title report, a covenant and a five year review before anyone talks about the kitchen. The order below assumes the harder case.
Read the title report as an environmental document
On the former MCAS Tustin land, expect the preliminary report to carry a covenant or deed restriction, most commonly a prohibition on extracting or using shallow groundwater and on certain subsurface disturbance. Those are institutional controls and they run with the land. Read them before anything is written about the property, because they change what can honestly be said about it.
Assemble the permit and status file
Request the permit jacket, approved plans, inspection log and final from the Tustin Building Division at 300 Centennial Way, by address and APN, and compare against the Assessor's recorded square footage. In Old Town add the historic status question and any Mills Act position. In North Tustin the permitting authority is the county, not the city, so the file sits elsewhere entirely.
Prepare for the camera and for the inspector, not for a remodel
Paint, glass, lighting, floors and landscape restoration earn their cost. On Old Town stock the priority items are different: original wood sash, the raised foundation and under floor access, and anything a previous owner did to the street facing elevation. Exterior work in Old Town needs the city's view before it starts, not after.
Commission the imagery the property actually needs
Tustin Ranch sells on the golf course frontage and the tree canopy, so aerial context does real work. Old Town sells on detail, which means interior stills that show joinery, glazing and proportion rather than wide angle rooms. North Tustin sells on lot, grade and privacy. The set is built for the property, not from a template.
Position it against what the buyer is really weighing
A Tustin Ranch buyer is usually comparing against Irvine and paying attention to Tustin Unified. An Old Town buyer is comparing against Orange and Westside Costa Mesa and wants the stock, not the convenience. A North Tustin buyer wants the acreage and the trees. Writing to the wrong one of those three is the most common positioning error in this city.
Run the campaign wider than the city
Tustin is the smallest of these markets and the local pool alone will not fill a high value listing. Placement runs through Luxury Portfolio International and the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World network, Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate, and the First Team Real Estate network across Orange County, supported by print and direct outreach to agents holding relocating buyers.
Show by appointment and qualify before the address goes out
Proof of funds or a lender letter from someone who has read the file, established before a showing is confirmed. On a Legacy property, send the environmental disclosure package with the confirmation rather than at the offer stage. A buyer who is going to walk away over institutional controls should do it before they have spent a Saturday, not after they have written.
Take offers on terms and on who is advising the buyer
At this level the inspection period, the appraisal position, the source and seasoning of funds and any contingent sale matter more than the headline. On a Legacy property add one more question: whether the buyer's counsel has already reviewed the covenant. An offer written before that review is not yet an offer, it is a first draft.
Carry the diligence, then close on a documented file
Expect a general inspection plus specialists, and on Old Town and 1960s stock an electrical and supply piping review. Expect a Phase I request on Legacy from an institutional or cautious buyer. Close with the permit record, the association documents, the special tax notice from the levying agency and the environmental package handed over as one file.
Tustin Neighbourhoods, and What Each One Asks of a Seller
The four submarkets barely overlap, and a buyer shopping one of them is rarely also shopping another. These are the areas that carry the top of the market and the ones a high value file most often involves.
Old Town Tustin
The historic core. Craftsman bungalows and Victorian era homes on walkable streets, the only genuinely pre war concentration in the city. Exterior alterations attract the city's attention, and a historic resource question can attach to individual parcels.
North Tustin
Unincorporated Orange County, not the city. Large lots, custom hillside estates and mature trees. County permitting, a county adopted fire hazard map from August 2025, and septic rather than sewer on many parcels.
Lemon Heights
Within North Tustin. The hillside estate pocket, with the largest lots and the longest sightlines in the area. Buyers arrive for the acreage and the privacy, and they are usually comparing against other unincorporated county hillsides.
Cowan Heights
The other North Tustin hillside pocket, equestrian adjacent in places and heavily treed. Same county authority, same separately adopted fire zone map, and the same requirement to say plainly that it is not the City of Tustin.
Tustin Ranch
Planned by the Irvine Company in 1982, approved 1986 and annexed the same year, creating the 92782 postcode. Around seven thousand units planned, nearly all of it surrounding the 165 acre eighteen hole Tustin Ranch Golf Course.
Tustin Ranch Golf Course frontage
The premium position inside Tustin Ranch. Frontage, mature canopy and a protected outlook are what the buyer is paying for, which is why aerial and elevated imagery does most of the work on these listings.
Peters Canyon and Ladera
The Tustin Ranch pockets buyers navigate by school name, alongside Tustin Ranch Elementary. Pioneer Middle and Beckman High complete the set. This is the submarket where district reputation is doing real work in the decision.
Tustin Meadows
Built 1968 by the Robert H. Grant Company, roughly nine hundred to nine hundred and thirty five homes on six floor plans, streets laid out to discourage through traffic, wrapped around the eight acre oval Centennial Park.
Peppertree
Built 1973 to 1976, detached single family, roughly 1,320 to 2,607 square feet. Notable for carrying no association dues, which at the upper end of this stock is a genuine and quotable difference.
Laurelwood
A 1970s attached townhome community with its own association, one of the earliest planned attached communities in the city. Reserve position and building envelope questions run the diligence here rather than lot or view.
Tustin Legacy
The master plan for the 1,600 acre former MCAS Tustin. New construction, a Community Facilities District, and recorded institutional controls on the land arising from an ongoing federal remediation.
Columbus Square
Tustin Legacy, completed 2013 with Columbus Grove, 1,540 combined units plus 240 senior apartments. Directly across from the hangar site and the neighbourhood hardest hit by the 2023 fire, which is a disclosure item regardless of what a given property experienced.
Columbus Grove
Tustin Legacy, contemporary product oriented to Irvine employment. Part of the tract lies in Irvine, which splits schools and city jurisdiction across a single named community and confuses buyers who read only the community name.
Greenwood
Tustin Legacy, completed 2017, 375 units. Modern systems throughout, so the diligence is environmental and assessment based rather than defect based, and a cautious buyer may ask for a Phase I.
Amalfi
Tustin Legacy, on Legacy Road and Tustin Ranch Road. Newer product with the same recorded controls and the same special tax position as the rest of the Legacy area, and the same need for an accurate environmental statement.
Tustin Field I and II
Completed 2006, 565 combined units, the first residential delivery at Tustin Legacy. Old enough now to be reselling routinely, which is when the covenant on title starts getting read by second and third owners.
Southwest Tustin
Identified in the city's Housing Element as concentrating a large share of lower income housing, with targeted code enforcement and physical improvement programmes. The oldest and densest part of the city, and an adjacency worth understanding rather than ignoring.
Six Files a Tustin Buyer's Counsel Opens Before the Floor Plan
Tustin, California
At this level the buyer usually has a lawyer, and in Tustin the lawyer starts with the record rather than the residence. Each of these exists whether or not the seller has looked at it.
Institutional controls are recorded against the land
Institutional controls are land use restrictions that run with the land, enforced across all operable units at the former MCAS Tustin to prevent exposure to contaminated groundwater. A Legacy seller should expect the title report to carry a covenant or deed restriction, most commonly prohibiting extraction or use of shallow groundwater and certain subsurface disturbance.
That is a material fact under Civil Code 1102 and it belongs on the Transfer Disclosure Statement and in the supplemental disclosure, not left sitting in the title report for the buyer to find. It is also why an institutional buyer or a cautious lender will ask for a Phase I on a property that looks brand new.
The word cleaned up is the wrong word
The fifth five year review, opened November 2025, covers Operable Units 1A, 1B, 3 and 4B, with contaminants under review including volatile organic compounds in groundwater and soil and landfill contents at one unit. Remedies in place include extraction and treatment of impacted groundwater, soil excavation, landfill containment, in situ bioremediation and monitored natural attenuation. The final report is due by 29 October 2026.
The accurate statement is that remediation is ongoing, groundwater plumes remain, the PFAS investigation is active and land use controls are in place. Describing the site as cleaned up is inaccurate and it is the single fastest way to lose the trust of a buyer who has already read the public notice. Say it factually, date it, and move on.
The 2023 hangar fire is in the record whether or not it touched the house
The fire began 7 November 2023 and smouldered for twenty four days. Debris containing asbestos, lead and arsenic travelled more than three miles and affected roughly ten thousand homes across Tustin, Irvine and Santa Ana. Public agencies detected asbestos in debris but did not test inside residences. Of nineteen homes privately tested, nine showed asbestos. The city cleared about 75 percent of 1,094 debris reports submitted through its portal.
The fire, any debris found, any remediation or professional cleaning performed, any testing and its results, and any insurance claim made are all material facts. A seller who had the yard cleared under the city programme should say so and produce the record. A seller who never tested should say that plainly rather than implying a clean result. The uncertainty itself is the disclosure.
North Tustin is not the City of Tustin
Lemon Heights and Cowan Heights are unincorporated Orange County. The county issues the permits, the fire responsibility area is different, and the county adopted its own fire hazard severity zone map under Ordinance No. 25-015 on 26 August 2025, which includes Very High zones in unincorporated areas. Tustin was not among the five Orange County cities newly added under the March 2025 maps.
A seller in the hills may therefore carry defensible space and fire hardening obligations that a seller inside the city limits does not. Many parcels are also on septic rather than sewer. Marketing a hillside estate as being in Tustin without saying unincorporated misstates the permitting authority to a buyer who will need it.
Old Town exteriors are not the owner's alone to change
The city maintains an Old Town programme and takes an interest in exterior alterations. Individual parcels can carry a historic resource question, which changes what can be altered, what a permit will allow and whether a Mills Act position exists. On pre 1940 stock the fabric is the value, so an unsympathetic replacement window or a removed porch is a subtraction, not an improvement.
The practical rule is to establish the status before any work is scheduled, and certainly before photography. Where earlier owners already made unsympathetic changes, disclose them and let the buyer price the restoration. Old Town buyers at this level are usually more forgiving of an honest original than of a confident modernisation.
The Legacy special tax and the easements nobody read
Tustin Legacy is financed through a Community Facilities District covering the MCAS Tustin redevelopment areas including Columbus Grove, Columbus Square and Tustin Field. Civil Code 1102.6b requires the seller to make a good faith effort to obtain the notice from the levying agency and deliver it. The tax bill line is not the notice. Older Tustin, Old Town, Tustin Meadows, Peppertree and most of Tustin Ranch generally carry none.
Separately, the former air station's own airfield is closed and generates no current airport land use obligation, but historic avigation easements can still appear on title in the Legacy area. Tustin as a whole sits inside the John Wayne Airport influence area, so deed and tract map notice language applies where a property was mapped within the noise impact zones. Read those instruments rather than assuming them away.
A Public Campaign, or a List of Names
In a market this small the choice matters more than it does elsewhere, because there is less depth to fall back on if the first attempt does not work. Both routes are legitimate. Neither is free.
Marketed openly
An open campaign lists the property publicly, syndicates it, and pushes it through Luxury Portfolio International, the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World network and Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate, alongside the First Team Real Estate network across Orange County, print, and direct outreach to the agents holding relocating buyers. Every agent in the county can see it and bring a client.
Tustin needs this more than a larger market does. The city's high end pool is genuinely small, and a hillside estate in Lemon Heights or a restored Old Town house does not have forty local buyers waiting. The buyers who exist are often out of the county or out of the state, and they are reached through other agents, not through local visibility.
Openness also does something specific on a Legacy property. When the environmental position is published as part of the package from day one, the buyers who reach the showing stage have already accepted it. That is a far better filter than a private conversation in which the subject comes up late and reads as a concealment.
The honest cost is exposure and memory. The property is public, the market time is public, and in a small city the neighbours will know within a week. If it does not sell in the first cycle, the history follows it. That is a real price and a seller should decide to pay it deliberately.
Marketed privately
A private campaign is worked through a defined list rather than the public portals: network agents who represent buyers at this level, member firms inside Luxury Portfolio International and Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, and named individuals with a demonstrated interest in the specific pocket. Showings are by appointment with funds established before an address is released.
It suits an owner with a security or publicity concern, a household whose move is not yet announced, or an estate that wants a controlled process while family matters are settled. It also has a narrow Tustin use: a North Tustin estate whose likely buyers are a countable list of people already looking at unincorporated hillside property.
The mechanics have to be right. A California seller who instructs an agent to withhold a listing from the multiple listing service signs a written seller instruction, and that document belongs in the file. The environmental disclosure package on a Legacy property still goes out in full before a showing, private campaign or not. Discretion about who is told is not discretion about what is told.
The honest cost is depth. A smaller audience produces fewer offers, and fewer offers usually produce softer terms. In a market this thin that effect is larger than it would be in Irvine or Huntington Beach. Choose privacy because the circumstances demand it, not because it feels more prestigious.
The Hardest Document in Tustin Is Not the Purchase Agreement
Paula Aragone has worked Orange County transactions for 23 years, across 900+ transactions and $900M+ sold, and she came to real estate after four years of law school. She holds the Certified Luxury Specialist designation alongside CPRES and SRES. In Tustin that legal background is not a talking point, it is the daily work: reading a recorded covenant, an avigation easement, a historic status determination or a five year review and translating what it actually obliges an owner to do.
The reach is built on membership rather than advertising. The brokerage is First Team Real Estate, which carries a Tustin property across Orange County. Placement then runs through Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and its luxury arm, Luxury Portfolio International, and through Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate. That matters more here than in a larger market, because the local pool for a high value Tustin property is small and a meaningful share of the real buyers are being represented by an agent somewhere else.
Presentation is commissioned to suit the property rather than assembled from a template. Architectural photography, a short film, aerial context that shows a golf course frontage or a hillside lot as no still can, floor plans drawn to the measured area, and print worth handing to someone. Old Town needs detail photography, Tustin Ranch needs the canopy and the course, North Tustin needs grade and privacy. They are three different briefs.
The honest part matters here more than in most cities. A Legacy listing that oversells the environmental position will be corrected by a buyer's counsel, publicly and late. A hillside listing that calls itself Tustin without saying unincorporated will be corrected by the county. This office would rather write the difficult sentence at the start and keep the buyer than write the comfortable one and lose them in escrow.
High Value Tustin Property, Answered
The questions sellers and their advisers actually raise about Tustin's upper end, answered for this city rather than in general.
Where is the top of the Tustin market, actually?
It splits four ways rather than concentrating in one place. Old Town holds the restored pre war stock, Tustin Ranch holds the golf course product from the late 1980s onward, Tustin Legacy holds the newest construction, and the unincorporated North Tustin hills, Lemon Heights and Cowan Heights, hold the largest lots and the custom estates. Those four attract different buyers who rarely shortlist across them, so a marketing plan built for one of them will underperform in another.
Is Tustin Legacy built on a Superfund site?
It is built on the former MCAS Tustin, which is subject to a federal remediation programme with operable units and a five year review cycle. The fifth review opened in November 2025 covering Operable Units 1A, 1B, 3 and 4B, with the final report due by 29 October 2026. Contaminated groundwater plumes remain, an active PFAS investigation continues under EPA, DTSC and Regional Water Quality Control Board oversight, and institutional controls are enforced across the units. Sellers should describe it that way, factually and with a date, rather than reaching for reassurance.
What are institutional controls and will they show on my title report?
They are land use restrictions that run with the land, and yes, a Legacy property should be expected to carry one. The most common form prohibits extracting or using shallow groundwater and restricts certain subsurface disturbance. Because it runs with the land it binds the next owner, which makes it a material fact under Civil Code 1102. Put it on the Transfer Disclosure Statement and the supplemental disclosure rather than leaving the buyer to discover it in the preliminary report during escrow.
Is there PFAS in the drinking water at Tustin Legacy?
The city's stated position is that there is no drinking water pathway, because the shallow groundwater is not used for drinking water and Irvine Ranch Water District supplies PFAS free drinking water. What is also true is that PFAS from aqueous film forming foam used in burn pit exercises, hangar suppression systems and crash response training has been detected in shallow groundwater above EPA drinking water standards, and the Navy's investigation is ongoing. State both halves. A buyer who finds the second half after hearing only the first stops believing the rest.
Do I have to disclose the 2023 hangar fire if my house was never damaged?
Disclose what you know and what you did not check. Debris containing asbestos, lead and arsenic travelled more than three miles and affected roughly ten thousand homes across Tustin, Irvine and Santa Ana, with Columbus Square hardest hit. If debris was found, if the yard was cleared under the city programme, if any testing was done and what it showed, and if an insurance claim was made, all of that goes in with the records. If you never tested, say that. The uncertainty is itself the disclosure.
My house is in Lemon Heights. Is that Tustin?
It carries a Tustin address and it is not the City of Tustin. Lemon Heights and Cowan Heights sit in unincorporated Orange County. The county issues the permits, the fire responsibility area is different, and the county adopted its own fire hazard severity zone map under Ordinance No. 25-015 on 26 August 2025, which includes Very High zones in unincorporated areas. Many parcels are on septic rather than sewer. A listing that omits the word unincorporated is misstating who a buyer will deal with.
Does a North Tustin property carry fire disclosure obligations the city does not?
It can. Tustin was not among the five Orange County cities newly added under the March 2025 CAL FIRE maps, but the unincorporated county adopted its own map in August 2025 that includes Very High zones. A parcel in a High or Very High zone carries defensible space documentation under Civil Code 1102.19 and, since 1 July 2025, the fire hardening disclosure covering completed retrofits and known vulnerabilities. Confirm the specific parcel rather than reasoning from the city or the county in general.
Can I change the exterior of an Old Town house before I sell it?
Establish the status first. The city maintains an Old Town programme and takes an interest in exterior alterations, and individual parcels can carry a historic resource question that changes what a permit will allow and whether a Mills Act position exists. Beyond the rules, there is a market reason to be careful: on pre 1940 stock the original fabric is the value. An unsympathetic window replacement or a removed porch reduces what a serious buyer is paying for.
Does Tustin Ranch carry a Mello Roos special tax?
Most of it generally does not. The Community Facilities District in Tustin covers the MCAS Tustin redevelopment areas including Columbus Grove, Columbus Square and Tustin Field, and Tustin Unified separately maintains district information for school facilities financing. Old Town, Tustin Meadows, Peppertree and most of Tustin Ranch predate the practice. Confirm the district and amount by APN with the Orange County Treasurer Tax Collector, then obtain the notice from the levying agency, because Civil Code 1102.6b requires the agency notice and not the tax bill line.
Why does the inspection period matter more on an expensive Tustin house?
Because the cost of each finding scales with the property and, on two of the four submarkets, the findings are unusual. Old Town stock carries raised foundations, knob and tube remnants, galvanised supply, cast iron drains, original single glazed wood sash, lead paint on anything before 1978 and asbestos era materials throughout, and under floor access is a genuine inspection item. On Legacy the diligence is not mechanical at all, it is documentary and environmental. Neither of those is a five day exercise.
Should a buyer order a Phase I on a Tustin Legacy property?
A cautious buyer or an institutional lender will ask for one, and it is a reasonable request rather than an insult to the seller. The city itself conducts environmental assessments before developing infrastructure or selling property, shares results with prospective developers and encourages them to conduct their own independent site investigation. A seller who anticipates the request, and who has the disclosure package assembled before the property is shown, keeps control of the timeline instead of losing two weeks to it.
Which schools serve the high end of Tustin?
Tustin Unified serves Tustin, unincorporated North Tustin and parts of Irvine and Santa Ana. The high schools are Tustin High, Foothill High and Arnold O. Beckman High, with Legacy Magnet Academy for grades six to twelve at Tustin Legacy. In Tustin Ranch buyers navigate by Peters Canyon, Ladera and Tustin Ranch elementaries, Pioneer Middle and Beckman High. Note that Irvine Unified serves some parts of Tustin, which is the mirror image of the Irvine boundary problem, so confirm by address.
Part of Columbus Grove is in Irvine. Does that matter?
It matters to a buyer and it should be stated plainly. Part of the Columbus Grove tract lies in Irvine, which splits city jurisdiction and school assignment across a single named community. Two houses that share a community name, a look and a set of amenities can sit in different cities with different permitting authorities and different districts. Never let a buyer infer the answer from the community name, and never let marketing copy imply one when the parcel says the other.
How long does a high value Tustin listing usually take?
Longer than an equivalent property in a deeper market, and the reason is pool size rather than desirability. The city's upper end is thin and a large share of the real buyers are represented by agents outside the county. That is the argument for spending the first weeks on preparation and documentation and for running the campaign through the international networks rather than locally, because a relaunch in a thin market costs more attention than it does in a wide one.
Does Tustin have a point of sale inspection requirement?
No residential building records report or presale inspection requirement was found in the Tustin municipal code, and Tustin does not appear on a compiled list of California cities with presale report requirements. That is a different position from Costa Mesa, which does have one. Because ordinances change and compilations lag, confirm with the Building Division at the start of escrow rather than relying on the absence of a rule. Building Division counter hours run Monday to Thursday and Friday mornings at 300 Centennial Way.
What is the fastest way to lose a serious buyer in Tustin?
Overstating the environmental position on a Legacy property, or calling a North Tustin estate a City of Tustin property. Both get corrected by somebody with authority, both get corrected late, and both cost the seller the buyer's confidence in everything else on the disclosure. The alternative is not difficult. State the position factually, date it, attach the public record, and let the buyer decide. Most of them decide to proceed.
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