affordable houses are crappy
It’s a two-in-one!
Recently someone found this site by searching for: affordable houses are crappy
That is so not true. Let’s look at today’s affordable house:
127 HEMLOCK Ave, Redwood City, CA 94061 | MLS# 80937527
For Sale (MLS-listed)
$325,000
127 HEMLOCK Ave Redwood City, CA 94061
Beds: 3
Baths: 1
Sq. Ft.: 1,170
$/Sq. Ft.: $278
Lot Size: 5,000 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Stories: 1
Year Built: 1943
Community: Horgan Ranch
County: San Mateo
MLS#: 80937527
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active This listing is for sale and the sellers are accepting offers.
On Redfin: 115 days
Bank owned, Repaired and Move-in Ready! 3 bedroom 1 bath home. Recently painted interior and new carpets in 2 bedrooms. Hardwood flooring throughout living area and some bedrooms. In home laundry area. Covered patio in backyard Close to schools, shopping and Highway 101.
This house is plenty affordable. Assuming that you have one of those strange families where only one parent works (SEXIST PIG! MISOGYNIST!), and the person makes the typical $125,000 a year – then this house falls way below the 3x recommendation range. Plenty affordable. It’s even repaired and move-in ready!
Crappy? Let’s take a look:
Sorry, I just don’t see how you can call that crappy. It’s got new countertops! Look, it even comes with a row of business cards attached to it!
So… lots of affordable houses here in the Bay Area. Not all of them are crappy.
December 10th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Off topic to the post, but very relevant to other threads:
US News & World Report top high schools:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2009/12/09/americas-best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html?PageNr=2
#26 is in Nashville! Hi Bob! #30 is too. that’s really interesting. These are both magnet schools with competitive admissions, so not really the same as a normal high school. But still, very interesting.
#3,4 and 7 are in CA, but not RBA. Top RBA school is #36, Mission San Jose (if Fremont is RBA…) or Gunn at 67.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I went to a Magnet elementary school. I’m not sure how it was supposed to work. Ours was a small school. Only about 300 students. The building was pretty modern and was only 5 years old when I started going. Students who lived in the district went to it. Since this was a rural area there weren’t many kids to start with. To my understanding magnet schools are meant to include diverse subjects and curriculum as well as desegregate the racial composition. Since our region was almost entirely of Scotch-Irish descendants, we didn’t really have much of any desegregation. So I’d guess ours was a magnet school under the loosest of definition. I didn’t have to be in a lottery to go. I was in the district to go to it and that was that.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:52 am
burbed, you picked the headline to mess with the bank that’s trying to sell this, didn’t you? Redfin’s new “site’s linking” section is pretty funny today!
Sites Linking to 127 HEMLOCK Ave
affordable houses are crappy | SF Bay Area Home Price and Mortgage Insanity Blog – Burbed.com
127 HEMLOCK Ave, Redwood City, CA 94061 | MLS# 80937527 For Sale (MLS-listed) $325,000 127 HEMLOCK Ave Redwood City, CA 94061 Beds: 3 Baths: 1 Sq. Ft.: 1,170 $/Sq. Ft.: $278 Lot Size: 5,000 Sq. Ft. Property Type: Detached Single Family Stories: 1…
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December 10th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Sold for $620K in 2005… Instant equity!
December 10th, 2009 at 9:02 am
SiO2, don’t overlook lowell (#28) and last year’s version of this list was posted in the other relevant thread, along with the WSJs top private high schools.
December 10th, 2009 at 9:49 am
The whole yard is shrubbery and the house looks like it was formerly a bomb shelter. What’s not to love?
December 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Hey, that shrubbery could come in handy if you ever need a favor from the Knights-who-say-Ni.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Hey, that shrubbery could come in handy if you ever need a favor from the Knights-who-say-Ni.
Yes, but then you would be forced to continue to give them MORE shrubberies! And then they would ask you to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with…. A HERRING!
December 10th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Get three earners in there, you get your own bedroom and a shared kitchen and bathroom for your $1000 a month, whatta deal.
Or, you get in there with whatever faked papers and Obamabux you can, cook a few batches of meth and cash in. Then split.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
The choice of Misogynist over Misandrist or a more neutral term showcases the poster’s own sexist bias very well.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
#6-8, well played.
Bob,
“Since our region was almost entirely of Scotch-Irish descendants, we didn’t really have much of any desegregation.”
this reminds me of my Midwestern upbringing, where a mixed marriage is when a Polish person marries a German.
“I was in the district to go to it and that was that.”
That’s a very unusual magnet school. In fact, how is it different than a normal school? Typically a magnet school pulls from across the district, across all the local school boundaries, and you get in either by lottery or by application. Or some combination. Like in CUSD, there’s Faria Elem, for those who find the normal neighborhood CUSD schools insufficiently academically focused.
And as Bob said, the magnet schools in some cases are used as a desegregation tool, where kids can be brought in from across the district, and pulled from local schools which might be segregated based on who lives in the neighborhood. Busing with an incentive. Didn’t really work for Faria though, there’s about 5 non-Asian kids there.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
hmm, most Scots I know don’t care to be called “Scotch.”
I should stop picking on bob though – we’ll miss him after he’s gone. If he goes. If he gets that job. (A sincere “good luck” to you too!)
December 10th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Bob’s leaving?
December 10th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Re#1
In regards to the top high schools, where are the highly touted Cupertino, Palo Alto and Los Gatos high schools??
Only RBA listing I saw was Santa Cruz!
Ha! Well, if anyone knows about ‘high’ school, it would be Santa Cruz.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
#13 – as soon as RE buys another property and pigs fly, according to steve.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
BAI,
Palo Alto, Gunn (in PA), Monta Vista & Lynbrook (in Cupt), and Saratoga are in that list. Also Mission San Jose in Fremont.
The list has multiple pages, the page with the Nashville schools was just 25-49 out of 100.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Crappy houses are usually occupied by crappy people.
December 10th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
John, do you have any anecdotal evidence you may be able to provide?
December 11th, 2009 at 3:17 am
Anon, Sure. John lives in a crappy house.
December 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I don’t know why no one has commented on the math fail.
There are “some bedrooms” that have new hardwood floors. The plural implies that it’s at least 2. Furthermore, there are “2 bedrooms” with new carpet.
So if multiple bedrooms have hardwood floors, and 2 bedrooms have carpet, doesn’t that make the total number of bedrooms to be at least 4?
December 14th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Maybe one bedroom has hardwood under the carpet? Or more likely, the realtard has a hard time counting. Or there is an “un-warranted” fourth bedroom.