Open House Picks: Six Months Later
Comment: Not a lot of action. Open House Picks 12/05/09 [Brownstoner] Previous Six Months Later Posts [Brownstoner]
Comment: Not a lot of action.
Open House Picks 12/05/09 [Brownstoner]
Previous Six Months Later Posts [Brownstoner]
Ghetto:
– Kids stay home when we go to open houses (which we do only very selectively now – don’t bother with the unrealistically priced homes).
– I’m not the only one who saw this coming for a long time, and was ridiculed pre-crash. If anything, my predictions are coming true.
– My budget is over $1million.
– Maybe the people who bought my previous place were screwed – at the time we sold, that did not seem the case since we priced low for the then-overheated market (since we saw the market was about to turn). Only after the crash did we realize how lucky we were, and unfortunately, how unlucky others were who bought at the peak (unless they are staying long term and have a lot of financial security).
– My position has been consistent for a long time now.
– I’m a woman.
ghettoazzpnkbtch. You are an antidote. Thank you.
I saw the house on Clermont back in January or February. Pros are location, a garage and nice light; cons are lots of work needed, terrible layout, no yard. Maybe at $1.2M or even lower in 6 months.
Umm back to the subject- what do you all think of that Clermont house? I’m curious.
The latest rallying cry from the retards “We just won’t sell until prices come back”.
I ignore the recent sales data posted on this site where houses, co-ops and condos frequently go for over $1 million because that does not fit my agenda on this site.
I sold a condo at the height of the bubble but the buyers of that place didn’t get screwed becasue they bought from me.
I drag my children to open houses every weekend but I would never take my child out of one school and and place them in another because that might be disruptive.
I have been proclaiming the end of the world for years now. One days, millions of years from now, I will be right and you will all be sorry.
If I bid half off peak comps – which we have already experienced in this market – I still won’t get the property my wife wants. That is why I don’t actually make any bids. I would never follow the advice of someone as dumb adn inconsistant as myself.
Right, which is why I said evidence backs this up too. Trust me, I’ve been looking for a long time (we looked at many places before buying our apt, then started looking for a house only a few years after that) and prices in NYC have definitely been more aggressive (to sellers’ advantage) in spring.
c’mon Muffett. You of all people are not going to quote brokers as reliable source of info.
We have been thinking of downsizing (my repetitive blabbing about it has apparently annoyed Miss Muffet who has abused me about it on one occasion). But still…would love to keep the top floor at our house for the views and light (not the stairs!) or the ground floor for the backyard access and lack of stair-climbing…and then sell three floors but that would mean changing layouts and filing it all. If we kept one of the duplexes then nothing would need to change but what do people here think about the viability of selling a duplex in a two-family house and going co-op? Is it too hair-brained? I really love our location but maybe change is good. I also love the idea of something smaller and more compact with less space to clean instead of using the whole house which seems wasteful (to maintain, heat, rattle around in) now that we’re alone. I feel like we’re simply warehousing years’ worth of junk and waiting to die. “Stuff” can get very oppressive!