Tustin, from a cleaner's point of view
Old Town is the part people picture: a few dozen blocks around El Camino Real with board-and-batten cottages, Craftsman bungalows and early Spanish Revival houses, many of them under the city historic survey. They are small by modern standards, often 1,200 to 1,800 square feet, with wood floors, high baseboards and bathrooms that were retiled in 1955 rather than 2015. Careful work, and slower than the square footage suggests.
North and east of that, the city is ordinary in the useful sense. Tustin Meadows, Peppertree and Laurelwood are seventies tracts with predictable plans; Tustin Ranch adds larger two-story houses from the late eighties and nineties. Then Tustin Legacy, on the closed Marine air station, put thousands of new units up from 2005 onward around Columbus Square, Columbus Grove and Tustin Field. Attached three-level plans, tandem garages, and finishes that are still under warranty.
The building stock here
The middle of the range is a 1,500 to 2,000 square foot two-story tract house with tile downstairs and carpet up. Old Town runs smaller and older with original wood and 1950s bathroom tile. Tustin Legacy runs newer and taller, often three levels over a garage, with vinyl plank, white quartz and shower glass that spots within a week on this water. Association rules and vendor paperwork are common on the Legacy side and rare in Old Town.