What is curb appeal in Central San Jose?
780 E Taylor St, San Jose 95112
$575,000
* Status: Active
* Bedroom: 3
* Bathroom: 2
* Year Built: 1938
* Lot Size: 4791
* Square Footage: 1686
* List Date: 2/27/2008
* Garage Spaces: 2* MLS#: 781035
BANK OWNED* SPANISH STYLE CLASSIC HOME. BATHROOMS W/ITALIAN TILE. MARBLE FIREPLACE* DECO PAINT* DESIGNER CURVED FRONT WINDOW* REFINISHED HARDWOOD FLOORS. BEAUTIFUL MOULDINGS AND TRIM* BUILT-INS IN BEDROOMS* LOTS OF NOOKS AND CRANNIES* LARGE EAT-IN KITCHEN WITH DISHWASHER, BUILT-IN OVENS, STOVE & VENT HOOD. FULL HOUSE CONCRETE BASEMENT DIVIDED INTO ROOMS* & MUCH MORE, READY TO MOVE INTO* BBQ AREA
Wow… when I first saw this house I thought to myself “Whose castle is this?” Who’s the king? YOU ARE!
I mean, look at the construction. Very very spanish style. Very very classic. It’s like I’m in Europe, but in San Jose at the same time! No need to travel ever again!
With curb appeal such as this, how can anyone resist? Personally I think that you are so fortunate as to win this house in the inevitable bidding war, you really need to add a water fountain in the middle of the front yard. Ask the Vatican for references!
By the way, this last sold on 9/8/2004 for $629,000 - and I bet this will sell at that price again. You just wait.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Must have been painted by a moonlighting lowrider…
Not even an illegal alien felon invader would have such low class.
Perfect for San Jose. La Raza!
May 12th, 2008 at 6:43 am
From the wallstreet journal —
From late 2006, the 35-year-old software engineer worked at a small telecommunications-equipment maker called Ditech Networks Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. Last year, the company swung to a net loss and laid off employees. Seeing headlines about an economic slowdown, Mr. Kher got nervous and started hunting for another job. Offers came from two tech start-ups, but he wasn’t interested in start-ups anymore. He wanted to join a big company.
“I know there’s a downturn coming,” Mr. Kher says. “I didn’t want to take any more risk.” On Feb. 4, he joined BlackBerry maker Ltd. as a senior software engineer.
Mr. Kher is part of a new flight to safety among tech-industry workers as the economy struggles. In growing numbers, these workers are gravitating to larger companies that they hope can better weather a downturn. Ian Arcuri, an engineer in Research Triangle Park, N.C., left a local tech start-up to join giant Inc. in October. “If I have to live through an economic downturn for three years, then I’d like to be at a company with a big war chest,” he says.
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According to the California Department of Finance, more than 108,000 people evacuated Silicon Valley between 2000 and 2003, a period when one in five jobs in the nation’s tech capital disappeared. Tech workers dispersed to the East Coast, to up-and-coming tech centers such as Austin, Texas, and to India and China.
This time, however, there is little relocation so far, especially with the housing slump, credit crunch and rising oil prices affecting all corners of the economy.
As Silicon Valley recovered from the tech slump in 2004 and 2005, dozens of Web start-ups flourished, and many engineers sought big paydays by joining tiny companies such as and Facebook Inc. Venture capitalists poured $9.9 billion into young companies in the area last year, up from $6.8 billion in 2003, according to VentureOne.
Nonetheless, Silicon Valley is now displaying some signs of weakness.
In January, the unemployment rate in Silicon Valley’s metropolitan areas of San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara rose to 5.3% from 4.8% a year ago
http://biz.yahoo.com/wallstreet/080307/sb120485185824018261_id.html?.v=3
May 12th, 2008 at 7:38 am
>>In January, the unemployment rate in Silicon Valley’s metropolitan areas of San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara rose to 5.3% from 4.8% a year ago
Are not those layoffs all real estate related?
May 12th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Price chopped - now $512,900.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:22 am
The difference is, the dot-com crash was just a bubble bursting, this time around it’s deep and structural.
We have Indian companies not bothering with the US any more, it’s much more profitable for them to market to and sell to Africa etc.
This is why I say, we’re going into a deep, long-cycle, real-live, Depression. Not one of these piddly little recession things. I didn’t even notice the 2003 recession, and as for the dot-bomb, yes that was traumatic for those in the tech industry, but it was also superficial and short-lived.
What we’re heading into is the real deal.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:23 am
BTW this is the house every Fallugan dreams of!
May 12th, 2008 at 8:23 am
BTW this is the house every Fallujan dreams of!
May 12th, 2008 at 8:26 am
absolutely and utterly ghastly.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:10 am
hey, are they going to chop people’s heads off on the roof? like apocalypto?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
This is one of the most visually disturbing homes I have ever seen. I would like to imagine that home is a peaceful place for living. This is not.
This the worst and cheap form of spanish style. Was this home taken out from a theme park like Disneyland or Knotts Berry Farm and installed it here?
May 12th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I’ve got that beat.
http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=19681509
May 12th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Wow, not just Spanish style, but in a hispanic neighborhood as well. Virtually in spain.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
This house reminds me of “From Dusk Till Dawn”. I bet there are vampires inside.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Sheeeeeiiiit.. if that house comes with Salma Hayek, i’ll take it.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I think she is included in “NOOKS AND CRANNIES“.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Burbed, please take a look at this house:
http://www.realtor.com/search/listingdetail.aspx?zp=95035&bd=4&typ=1&sid=90dc9cd51248416dbd5b0a5733d63115&lid=1096440739&lsn=1&srcnt=193#Detail
It’s pretty funny.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I don’t get it. What’s funny about it?
May 12th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I don’t get it. What’s funny about it?
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The first picture shows neighborhood children play area. I guess that looks funny.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
There is no picture of the house, only the children play area. Oh well.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
MY GOD.
It’s like a tiny little Tuscan palace of nightmares.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Oh weird, I loaded the link and this time I see the playground. I guess my browser barfed the first time.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Made of poop!
May 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I’ve got a friend who lives just 3 blocks from this house. The neighborhood is actually very charming and full of older homes with cute period details. I can’t speak for how safe it is but there aren’t bars on every set of windows.
That said, I’m not willing to pay $512K for a remodeled kitchen that doesn’t have pergraniteel.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I’m waiting to read that there is an after-market for fancy counters (and toilets) as the thieves who stole the appliances and copper pipes go back for seconds.
Doesn’t every home deserve Travertine?
May 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Wow, madhaus considers this house, that’s pretty unusual.
Are you sure this is a charming neighborhood? Central San Jose scares me.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Yes rick, I have visited but not lived there. When you say I would consider it, I would not buy it for my family because school district is our most important consideration. But for my friends who have no children and don’t plan on ever having any, this is a nice area to live and I would mention this place for them.
What do you think of when you think “Central San Jose”? I think the worst thing about this place might be the airport flight pattern, but the neighborhood is very nicely kept up here. Go to Google Maps and look at the street view on Empire across the street from the park (the house neighborhood isn’t mapped), it looks similar. I also took a “walk” down 12th street which looked worse.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Well it is west of 101, so not the worst of Central San Jose, but the county jail and superior court are pretty close, further down south of Taylor and along 1st is where the homeless of San Jose appears. During the day time the area is OK, I would not want to walk around the area at night.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I meant west of 1st.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:12 am
What I’m hearing Madhaus say is, this neighborhood would be good for his friends, but not for himself. He’d rather be in 94087.
In the same vein, buying a house in the RBA is good for himself, but not for others, such as Pralay.