Comments on: $251,000 free instant equity in Willow Glen http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/ San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley House Price and Mortgage Insanity Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Real Estater http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32584 Real Estater Mon, 18 May 2009 00:28:22 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32584 Notice to all: Now is the <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/These-cars-have-got-to-go-apf-15272295.html?sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=" rel="nofollow">best time to buy a Chrysler</a>! Notice to all:

Now is the best time to buy a Chrysler!

]]> By: anon http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32583 anon Mon, 18 May 2009 00:15:12 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32583 well said, mortgageaware. put another way: willow glen is san jose and san jose sucks. well said, mortgageaware.

put another way: willow glen is san jose and san jose sucks.

]]> By: MortgageAware http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32582 MortgageAware Sun, 17 May 2009 22:47:28 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32582 Willow Glen must be one of the most overrated piece of a neighborhood I have ever seen. That place has a downtown that every time I pass through it (mostly it is the Lincoln Ave., by the way), I feel I have entered the 1960s and stuck in a twilight zone, with the place really having no distinctive restaurants or shops or anything that truly stands out. Just go a bit towards North and you will end up in an industrial auto repair area and dive bars, go a bit to East from Lincoln and you will be neighboring the the Good Year and Willow St. gang areas. Meridian and Hamilton on the East and South have nothing special going for them, either. It is the place people go to either feel their age and remember their good ol' youth years watching the old, outdated Ma and Pa shops, or the younger (thinking themselves as ) yuppie ones go, not because it is hip or young or anything, but because they just want to go somewhere that has a name to it to feel like they are dining or having brunch in a fancy t place in the heart of San Francisco, simply because San Jose does not have much to offer in terms of "sit in" neighborhoods. (Of the other two, Santana Row is really a shopping area, and downtown is not such a great place to hang out). There are a couple of "historical" restaurants that are popular and I have had some of the worst services there, and the food was passable. So, Willow Glen, pretends it is something special, while in really, by any stretch of imagination, is an old, run down downtown passing through a bunch of expensive suburban residential neighborhoods and streets. But, of coarse, ask any "Willow Glen"ian and they will tell you tomes about how that place is special and that everyone wants to live there. I guess one is excused when one's vision is so limited ... Willow Glen must be one of the most overrated piece of a neighborhood I have ever seen. That place has a downtown that every time I pass through it (mostly it is the Lincoln Ave., by the way), I feel I have entered the 1960s and stuck in a twilight zone, with the place really having no distinctive restaurants or shops or anything that truly stands out. Just go a bit towards North and you will end up in an industrial auto repair area and dive bars, go a bit to East from Lincoln and you will be neighboring the the Good Year and Willow St. gang areas. Meridian and Hamilton on the East and South have nothing special going for them, either.

It is the place people go to either feel their age and remember their good ol’ youth years watching the old, outdated Ma and Pa shops, or the younger (thinking themselves as ) yuppie ones go, not because it is hip or young or anything, but because they just want to go somewhere that has a name to it to feel like they are dining or having brunch in a fancy t place in the heart of San Francisco, simply because San Jose does not have much to offer in terms of “sit in” neighborhoods. (Of the other two, Santana Row is really a shopping area, and downtown is not such a great place to hang out). There are a couple of “historical” restaurants that are popular and I have had some of the worst services there, and the food was passable.

So, Willow Glen, pretends it is something special, while in really, by any stretch of imagination, is an old, run down downtown passing through a bunch of expensive suburban residential neighborhoods and streets. But, of coarse, ask any “Willow Glen”ian and they will tell you tomes about how that place is special and that everyone wants to live there. I guess one is excused when one’s vision is so limited …

]]> By: madhaus http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32581 madhaus Sat, 16 May 2009 00:55:13 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32581 <i>Seriously people just die here. It probably IS the same in 94301. </i> So, <b>WillowGlenner</b>, you admit that once you move into a home in Willow Glen, you "just die here"? That's not exactly a good marketing slogan. Seriously people just die here. It probably IS the same in 94301.

So, WillowGlenner, you admit that once you move into a home in Willow Glen, you “just die here”? That’s not exactly a good marketing slogan.

]]> By: rick http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32580 rick Fri, 15 May 2009 07:20:36 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32580 Unearthy, not really, $350 is way too high for Daly city/Colma, it should be under $200 like the shitty places north of Fremont. Unearthy, not really, $350 is way too high for Daly city/Colma, it should be under $200 like the shitty places north of Fremont.

]]> By: WillowGlenner http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32579 WillowGlenner Thu, 14 May 2009 23:35:12 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32579 Seriously people just die here. It probably IS the same in 94301. I know somebody who has been waiting for a house to come up for sale on a specific street here for 4 years- nothing. The WIllow Glen neighborhood association average age must be 68 or something, no kidding. Thats the homeowners. The TOWN is a different story- its young and hip. But the homeowners are definitely not that. Seriously people just die here. It probably IS the same in 94301. I know somebody who has been waiting for a house to come up for sale on a specific street here for 4 years- nothing. The WIllow Glen neighborhood association average age must be 68 or something, no kidding. Thats the homeowners. The TOWN is a different story- its young and hip. But the homeowners are definitely not that.

]]> By: DreamT http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32578 DreamT Thu, 14 May 2009 23:28:45 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32578 how witty!! how witty!!

]]> By: madhaus http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32577 madhaus Thu, 14 May 2009 23:26:28 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32577 <b>WG</b> sez: <i>Nobody ever leaves WG. Its one of those places where you check in and you don’t check out.</i> Why's that, WG? Is the neighborhood built over a superfund site? Hah, maybe that's the problem with 94301 as well. WG sez: Nobody ever leaves WG. Its one of those places where you check in and you don’t check out.

Why’s that, WG? Is the neighborhood built over a superfund site?

Hah, maybe that’s the problem with 94301 as well.

]]> By: Pralay http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32576 Pralay Thu, 14 May 2009 23:07:54 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32576 <i>Nobody ever leaves WG. Its one of those places where you check in and you don’t check out.</i> --- That sounds like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705246/" rel="nofollow">Sopranos</a> <b>"Once you're into this <del>family</del> <i>place</i>, there's no getting out"</b> Nobody ever leaves WG. Its one of those places where you check in and you don’t check out.
—

That sounds like Sopranos

“Once you’re into this family place, there’s no getting out”

]]> By: WillowGlenner http://www.burbed.com/2009/05/14/251000-free-instant-equity-in-willow-glen/#comment-32575 WillowGlenner Thu, 14 May 2009 23:04:25 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3453#comment-32575 Nobody ever leaves WG. Its one of those places where you check in and you don't check out. Nobody ever leaves WG. Its one of those places where you check in and you don’t check out.

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