Giant Price Cut on House in Mountain View - now affordable
$850 per square foot - “Perfect starter or retirement home” [Burbed.com]
September 17, 2008
$850 per square foot - “Perfect starter or retirement home”1758 Crane Ave, Mountain View, CA 94040 Miramonte MLS# 80826261 - Property Details
$848,000
* Status: Active
* Bedroom: 3
* Bathroom: 1
* Year Built: 1952
* Lot Size: 5616
* Square Footage: 998
* List Date: 8/5/2008
* Garage Spaces: 1Charming 3BD/1BA house in a fantastic cul-de-sac neighborhood. Refinished hardwood floors, fresh paint, new light fixtures, and fireplace. Spacious front and rear yards with distinctive gardens and beautiful rose beds. Walk to Cuesta Park and Blossom Valley shopping center with Starbucks and Safeway. Perfect starter or retirement home for anyone wanting a desired Mountain View location.
Remember this house?
Well, I have sad news everyone - it’s price has been cut.
The new price?
That’s right everyone. A 2% price cut.
Finally, these difficult economic conditions have hit Mountain View. The suffering has begun - but I think this is as far as it will get. 2% ouch!
On the other hand, Mountain View is now more affordable than ever. From $849 per square foot, it’s now $830! What do you expect for an address as prestigious as this? Let’s face it - the bottom has been reached.
Thanks to the anonymous tip on this tragedy!
November 5th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
“Well, I have sad news everyone - it’s price has been cut.”
Argh. Where’s my apostrophe shotgun?
November 5th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Too much coffee this morning, DreamT?
misuse of “it’s:” probably #1 punctuation mistake.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Is it really worth mentioning in the listing that this house is close to a Starbucks? In Seattle, that wouldn’t be necessary, since every point in King County is within walking distance of at least one Starbucks—and a Seattle’s Best, and a Tully’s.* It is impossible to believe that the RBA hasn’t achieved a similarly high standard of living.
*In fact, as a consequence of coffee drinking (and subsequent coffee excretion), Puget Sound contains detectable levels of caffeine.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
It is price been cut!!!!! DO YOU HEAR ME?! IT IS (a)PRICE BEEN CUT!!!!!!!!!!!
Realtors. Because you shouldn’t have to be able to formulate a coherent english sentence to make 6 figures.
Nomadic - my observation is that the most common mistake on teh intarnet is a misuse of there their and they’re.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
There is no price cut in RBA. That’s simply impossible. It’s just a strategy for trigerring overbidding war.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Ha.
Watching the credit implosion work its way into the RBA…
Almost brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?
November 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Is it in a “fantastic cul-de-sac neighborhood” or in a “fantastic cul-de-sac’?
November 5th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
1) anon, our gracious host mangled that sentence. Play nice.
2) There is no price cut in RBA. Pralay, you are correct. If there is a price cut, it is automatically kicked out of the RBA.
3) R, there’s probably a cul-de-sac somewhere in that neighborhood! But you’re right, it really doesn’t make any sense as written. Realtors are notoriously poor writers. It always seemed to me they should hire a proofreader since image is generally important to them.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
>>There is no price cut in RBA. Pralay, you are correct. If there is a price cut, it is automatically kicked out of the RBA.
Come on, guys. This spin is getting old. We already said RBA does not change with market conditions. It’s areas where professionals would choose to live. When in doubt, check with Pralay. If he would not live there, then it’s not RBA.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
We already said RBA does not change with market conditions.
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Since Chuckie never defined RBA (well, “where professional would choose to live” not a definition, but a circular argument), we go by burbed version of RBA.And it does change with market condition.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
“1) anon, our gracious host mangled that sentence. Play nice.”
I am not understanding.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
LOL. Oh. now I see.
I just assumed the bad grammar was in the description of the home. I only read like 1 in 4 of the home descriptions and figured DreamT had done the proof reading for me.
I wish I had as much time to read this blog as RE does. Then I could read it more carefully.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I was too excited by the price cut to type correctly.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Don’t get too excited. I already bought it.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I ran out of ammos after shooting at the apostrophe.
burbed, why don’t you include your original posts in the RSS feed? I only get the comments.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Pralay says,
>>Since Chuckie never defined RBA (well, “where professional would choose to live” not a definition, but a circular argument),
I thought we just said this:
check with Pralay. If he would not live there, then it’s not RBA.
The only way there can be a circular argument is if Pralay keeps chasing his own tail.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
anons says,
>>I wish I had as much time to read this blog as RE does.
Til 2AM in the morning is not enough time for you?
November 5th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Aww, isn’t that cute!
RE responded to both Pralay and me.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Til 2AM in the morning is not enough time for you?
As opposed to what? 2AM in the afternoon? (Sorry, another pet peeve. Redundancy.)
November 5th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
It’s not a cul de sac unless it’s a dead end street with a circle at the end for turning around. This road actually connects two streets that would otherwise be cul de sacs. There are lots of those in Cuesta Park. Oh, and it backs out to a noisy street (Miramonte Ave), doesn’t look special at all, and was probably worth around $100K as recently as 1990.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Burbed,
Don’t be so smug.
How would you feel if you just threw $20K away?
Huh? Come on, spit it out. Tell us.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
why don’t you include your original posts in the RSS feed
Wordpress has two feeds - comments and posts.
I think you subscribed to comments, not posts.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Silly me. Thanks, works great.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Wait, the RBA has defined as anywhere Pralay wants to live? But that means Santa Clara is in the RBA, and I thought it was Real Gray Area. What the heck? Does this now mean all of Sunnyvale is RBA too, not just the teeny little tip on the end with CUSD and Homestead High?
But look! A price cut in the best zip in Mountain View! An actual price cut! Too bad this agent isn’t as adventurous as Voss Road broker, cutting the house $400K and then relisting it for $250K higher after attracting a frenzy caused by high-tension power lines.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
This house needs to be cut more. It is not only in Mountain View, but Mountain Time Zone.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Wait, the RBA has defined as anywhere Pralay wants to live?
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Madhaus,
That’s another way Chuckie saying “I just cannot define this f*cking RBA, hence I am going to make circular argument“:
Definition of RBA: where professional would like to live.
What are the areas where professional would like to live? Answer: RBA.
Isn’t that a nice circular argument?
Of course there different levels of RBA. There are areas of RBA where only talented people live who teach their kids to be well-rounded.
And there are areas of RBA where only losers live who teach their kids to play guiter.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
How about RBA is where only men with trophy wives can afford to have only one household income. Stay-at-home moms (not trophies) cannot live in RBA unless they are drawing big fat alimony & child support payments.
My imagination is running away with me because Chuckie always seems so chauvinistic.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
My imagination is running away with me because Chuckie always seems so chauvinistic.
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Come on! You are so negative, nomadic. Couldn’t you guys talk some positive sides of Chuckie? Like huge equity, frequent flyer miles, prestigious zipcode, sub-zero refrigerator, well-rounded kids and most importantly - a mega-project where he signed a NDS.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Pralay, don’t forget his rock solid sense of self. It defies logic, reason, derision, scorn and outright hostility! (Not to mention thrives on attention of any kind.)
If that dude were to ever lose his job, I think his head would explode. I would truly feel sorry for him for a moment.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
He is awfully extraordinary in that regard.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Pralay, don’t forget his rock solid sense of self.
Rock solid? He can’t even spell Steve E. Rave On correctly.