Comments on: $399k house in Sunnyvale – what well kept homes look like http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/ SF Bay Area Real Estate, Home Price and Mortgage Insanity Blog - Burbed.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:44:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: zanon http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48651 zanon Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:39:45 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48651 you are 100% correct anon you are 100% correct anon

]]> By: anon http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48645 anon Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:35:16 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48645 Just make sure you're not one of the suckers who think that buying a home is a good idea. Enjoy the benefits of home non-ownership! There are so many. Just make sure you’re not one of the suckers who think that buying a home is a good idea.

Enjoy the benefits of home non-ownership!

There are so many.

]]> By: zanon http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48644 zanon Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:53:20 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48644 sfbubblebuyer: Not true. It's what creates my cheap cheap rent. Old owners, young renters. All good. sfbubblebuyer: Not true. It’s what creates my cheap cheap rent. Old owners, young renters. All good.

]]> By: sfbubblebuyer http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48642 sfbubblebuyer Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:43 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48642 I love seeing 1 mill houses that have tax assessments of 100k. It makes me feel so good to know all the parasites in California are feasting happily on the blood of the younger generations. I love seeing 1 mill houses that have tax assessments of 100k. It makes me feel so good to know all the parasites in California are feasting happily on the blood of the younger generations.

]]> By: nomadic http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48641 nomadic Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:58:47 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48641 R asked, "did it sell?" LOL - no. I did see it re-listed last fall for maybe $150k less but even then I don't think it sold. BTW, the assessed value of the place is just over $100k with only one refi for $645k. R asked, “did it sell?”

LOL – no. I did see it re-listed last fall for maybe $150k less but even then I don’t think it sold. BTW, the assessed value of the place is just over $100k with only one refi for $645k.

]]> By: anon http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48640 anon Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:29:00 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48640 For 20% higher than listing, I'm sure. There's no end to what people will pay for the privilege of <strike> indentured servitude</strike> homedebtorship! For 20% higher than listing, I’m sure.

There’s no end to what people will pay for the privilege of indentured servitude homedebtorship!

]]> By: R http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48637 R Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:56:30 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48637 Did it sell? Did it sell?

]]> By: nomadic http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48633 nomadic Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:30:41 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48633 <i>Any time I walk into a house and see the granite counter top slapped on 1950’s whitewashed cabinets, I know the house is a giant steaming turd that they frantically polished.</i> Reminds me of an open house I went to in Spring 2008: 1960s cabinets painted white, new granite slab countertops and a mysterious hole in the master bathroom ceiling where maybe an exhaust fan had been ripped out. Asking price? $1.4M Oh, and it had a funky old-people smell. Any time I walk into a house and see the granite counter top slapped on 1950’s whitewashed cabinets, I know the house is a giant steaming turd that they frantically polished.

Reminds me of an open house I went to in Spring 2008: 1960s cabinets painted white, new granite slab countertops and a mysterious hole in the master bathroom ceiling where maybe an exhaust fan had been ripped out. Asking price? $1.4M

Oh, and it had a funky old-people smell.

]]> By: Pralay http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48632 Pralay Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:55:41 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48632 <i>I like how there are three different styles of cabinetry in the kitchen</i> ----- I bet those cabinets are made of cheap particleboard. Even those white drawer/cabinet handles are made of plastics. When previous seller sold it on May 2007, I am sure he didn't have to do anything on his 20/30 year old cabinets and countertop - "take it for $665K or get lost". I like how there are three different styles of cabinetry in the kitchen
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I bet those cabinets are made of cheap particleboard. Even those white drawer/cabinet handles are made of plastics.
When previous seller sold it on May 2007, I am sure he didn’t have to do anything on his 20/30 year old cabinets and countertop – “take it for $665K or get lost”.

]]> By: BobbyS http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48631 BobbyS Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:52:42 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48631 Maybe the current owners conspired with friends or family members and bought the place for the inflated price of 665k in 2007 in hopes of creating a false impression of its value so that they could sell it at an even higher price in a couple years. But they probably did not forsee the bubble popping and are now scrambling. Maybe the current owners conspired with friends or family members and bought the place for the inflated price of 665k in 2007 in hopes of creating a false impression of its value so that they could sell it at an even higher price in a couple years. But they probably did not forsee the bubble popping and are now scrambling.

]]> By: sfbubblebuyer http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48630 sfbubblebuyer Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:26:24 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48630 Any time I walk into a house and see the granite counter top slapped on 1950's whitewashed cabinets, I know the house is a giant steaming turd that they frantically polished. As DDuck noted, they couldn't even be bothered to put the same hardware on the cabinets to try and make it look like an actual remodel. Any time I walk into a house and see the granite counter top slapped on 1950’s whitewashed cabinets, I know the house is a giant steaming turd that they frantically polished.

As DDuck noted, they couldn’t even be bothered to put the same hardware on the cabinets to try and make it look like an actual remodel.

]]> By: DensityDuck http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48629 DensityDuck Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:53:03 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48629 I like how there are three different styles of cabinetry in the kitchen--but a nice shiny new GRANITE COUNTERTOP, just like they said to do on HGTV! ***** Ten bucks says that giant gaudy throw-rug is covering up five years of dog-vomit stains. ***** Fireplace: That reminds me of a place I rented a few years ago which had a "bar counter" built into a spare bedroom. The bar counter was trimmed with "rough-cut wooden beams" that turned out to be molded and painted Styrofoam! I like how there are three different styles of cabinetry in the kitchen–but a nice shiny new GRANITE COUNTERTOP, just like they said to do on HGTV!

*****

Ten bucks says that giant gaudy throw-rug is covering up five years of dog-vomit stains.

*****

Fireplace: That reminds me of a place I rented a few years ago which had a “bar counter” built into a spare bedroom. The bar counter was trimmed with “rough-cut wooden beams” that turned out to be molded and painted Styrofoam!

]]> By: SiO2 http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48627 SiO2 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:08:27 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48627 It's freaky that this house sold for $665k in 2007. Something similar in Cambrian would have been about the same. Nicer nhood (Sunnyvale has very nice parts but this is not it) comparable or possibly better schools (this is Fremont high). Svale is better commute to many places but that's about it. It’s freaky that this house sold for $665k in 2007. Something similar in Cambrian would have been about the same. Nicer nhood (Sunnyvale has very nice parts but this is not it) comparable or possibly better schools (this is Fremont high). Svale is better commute to many places but that’s about it.

]]> By: sfbubblebuyer http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48626 sfbubblebuyer Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:00:59 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48626 Nomadic, I didn't know it! Nomadic,

I didn’t know it!

]]> By: nomadic http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48625 nomadic Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:18:38 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48625 sfbb - you're a poet. sfbb – you’re a poet.

]]> By: Joe http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48624 Joe Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:41:32 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48624 Worthwhile read: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/07/foreclosure-filings-hit-record-15.html Worthwhile read:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/07/foreclosure-filings-hit-record-15.html

]]> By: Jojo http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48623 Jojo Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:37:53 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48623 Is this crack house week? Is this crack house week?

]]> By: Alex http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48622 Alex Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:23:11 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48622 I like that new acronym BAWK -- Bay Area Well Kept Nice touch, burbed. I like that new acronym BAWK — Bay Area Well Kept

Nice touch, burbed.

]]> By: Joe http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48621 Joe Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:19:51 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48621 It's not hard to believe this place would catch $665k during the last thoes of the bubble when people making $60k could get no down option arm loans of $700k. POS is still overpriced IMO. It’s not hard to believe this place would catch $665k during the last thoes of the bubble when people making $60k could get no down option arm loans of $700k.

POS is still overpriced IMO.

]]> By: sfbubblebuyer http://www.burbed.com/2009/07/16/399k-house-in-sunnyvale-what-well-kept-homes-look-like/#comment-48620 sfbubblebuyer Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:10:43 +0000 http://www.burbed.com/?p=3705#comment-48620 I like the solitary chair off in the corner. That's where you can sit and stare at the wall listening to your house rot around you while your wallet quietly weeps. I like the solitary chair off in the corner. That’s where you can sit and stare at the wall listening to your house rot around you while your wallet quietly weeps.

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