Cleanup Will Boost Properties
* After having read your Oct. 10 article on the completion of the McColl dump site, I should have made an extra effort to stay in my home in Fullerton Crest.
I purchased my home there when the tract was brand-new in 1977. In fact, my house was the first home to be completed among the 255 dwellings in that tract. Earlier this year I lost my job with the county assessor’s office as a real property tax appraiser and was forced to sell my house of 20 years.
I now read that the McColl dump site is having the final touches in a rather long uphill battle to clean up what was once a dangerous and very smelly health risk in northwest Fullerton.
The facts that the economy in Orange County is now on the upswing, interest rates are favorable, housing inventory is low and, most of all, the site where the dump used to be will now be part of the Los Coyotes Country Club, leads me to believe that property values in Fullerton Crest will now most likely see a sudden increase.
Maybe I should have borrowed some money to get new carpets, paint and drapes and kept the house a rental.
BILL SPITALNICK
Newport Beach
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