Affordable house in good condition in Mountain View
$665,000
Beds: 2 Baths: 2 Sq. Ft.: 900 $/Sq. Ft.: $739 Lot Size: 5,460 Sq. Ft. Property Type: Detached Single Family Style: Contemporary Stories: 1 View: Neighborhood Year Built: 1940 Community: San Antonio County: Santa Clara MLS#: 80954396 Source: MLSListings Status: Active On Redfin: 67 days This home is in good condition with a potential opportunity to use your creativity and expand or rebuild into a new home. It is located in a great neighborhood. Walking distance from Rengstorff Park, Mountain View Recreation Division and close to the San Antonio Shopping Center. With some of the best schools in the Los Altos School District nearby.
Is it just me or does it look like the front door was a last minute addition to the house? In fact, there’s some strange architecture going on there – like the giant gap between the windows. And what’s up with that strange garage-like thing?
That said, at just $665,000 it is clear that the affordable house price crunch is over. The price is also probably depressed because of the rain. Once the sun comes back out, boom this house is going to be rocketing towards $800 per square foot. After all, the house is on Stanford Ave. Just think about the impression that you’ll leave on Stanford college app readers when they see your kids’ application! They’ll be super impressed!
Bonus points for a next step: paint the house cardinal color!
February 8th, 2010 at 7:52 am
A lot of the stuff around Rengstorff is sketchy at best. I remember driving to the Costco on Rengstorff much of the area around there is disgusting and trashy.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:33 am
The selling point of this house is not the house itself, but the mid-peninsula location, proximity to park, and Los Altos school district (if this is indeed the case).
February 8th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Aw, bummer. It’s been taken off the market.
It looks like a trailer home with a carport glued to the front.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Castro Elementary – API 769, Graham Middle – API 830, Los Altos HS – API
The fact that this house is in the LAHS zone is more of a discredit to that school than a credit to this house. Elementary and middle schools are Mountain View-Whisman.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Sorry, Los Altos High has an API of 840.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Interesting – the state site I found says the 2009 API for LAHS was 825. (I wanted to see how my local schools compare.)
But even more interesting is that they break the API down by racial subgroups. It just goes to show that a child’s home life (i.e., parental influence) has a real impact on how well they’ll do in school. Not that it would come as a surprise to anyone, but with all of the focus on sending a kid to just the right school so they don’t end up a bum, parents seem to lose sight of it.
Here’s the link I’m referring to:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/AcntRpt2009/2009GrowthSch.aspx?allcds=43696094334116
February 8th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
ASDF is right, the hood sucks, plus, I do believe it is a trailer home. And you don’t have to pay to live in a trailer in a crappy neighborhood. I do that for free – my place leans a bit to port, my bathroom arrangement is uh, “green”, and the gang activity is constant.
Of course by gang I mean a gang of geese, in fact this place is for the birds if you count the crows, chickens, bluejays, etc around the place. Now if you’ll s’cuse me, I have to go drive my hooptie and by that I mean, roll a wheelbarrow around.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
You’re right nomadic, I was looking at the API for the district. Mountain View High somehow managed to do better than Los Altos High, what’s up with that?
February 8th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
MV and LA share high school districts. (LA north of Fremont Ave; south of that is Fremont High District/Homestead High School.)
But, LA addresses don’t always go to LA High, and MV addresses don’t always go to MV high. The LA/MV boundary kind of goes NW to SE, along El Camino. But the high school boundary is roughly 90 degrees. So if you are in North LA, you go to LA High. South LA goes to MV High. (except the farthest south which is Homestead High.)
on average MV is a little nicer on the southeast section, which goes to MV high. So MV High (which draws from that section) has a higher API. Weird huh.
I totally agree with Nomadic’s claim that API has as much to do with parental involvement as the school itself. (sometimes it’s referred to as Affluent Parents Index.) But part of the appeal of going to a school with high API is that the teachers are able to have a faster pace, because the kids come better prepared. Also a big part of the outlook is the group that the kids hang out with. If they are hanging out with people who understand the value of education, that’s good. If hanging out with people who have no aspirations… So even if the teachers are of equal quality in the low-API and high-API school, the kids in the high API school can learn more.