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dancerjodiWhen I got to my parent's house yesterday my Mom mentioned that a house around the corner on Tolman Street was up for sale. Its in Newton, right over the line (i.e. like 15 houses from my parent's house). I figured, what the hell - its a small house, and is in one of the cheaper parts of Newton. After the Waltham open house we dropped off Tiggerette at home, dropped off the car at my parent's house, and my Dad and I walked down.
Its a 3 bedroom bungalow (one floor) that my Dad's first girlfriend lived in when they were kids (hee hee, small world). The asking price? $469k. Yikes! My dad was floored. The rooms were small save for the family room in the back, the house wasn't even totally painted (one side and the back were all peeling) and there was basically no yard. Their "office" was the front porch, which had some kind of electric heater in it. The realtor acted a lot like the one at the house in West Newton that we went to last week, doing a whole soliloquy on the house and area and such. I have yet to see a broker do this in another town.
Here it is - this kind of drives home the differences between towns despite their proximal location. My parents house is literally a 1 minute walk from here in Waltham, and despite Waltham having become overinflated over the years you'd never see a house that small, of that type for that price in the Watch City.
http://www.newenglandmoves.com/Listings/SingleFamily_NewEnglandMoves.htm?id=1007170273
This whole home sale and search process is becoming almost comical. I think laughter is what keeps us sane. Someone came yesterday, not interested in making an offer (and was the first person to say that they thought the house was overpriced, and the that interior was "average" as opposed to "above average"). Since this conflicts with what all of the others would say I'm trying to not take it all that seriously. Someone is coming tonight at 5:00 too. At least seeing a lot of activity is good, but it would be nice if someone would make an offer though . . .
Oh, I'm almost done with draft #1 of my Master's Paper, whoot! When I'm done with this draft I'll wait till Wednesday to get the comments from my preliminary data analysis paper, make any last edits, and pass in the official draft to my professors on April 28th. Thus, its looking like I'll get my Evaluations final paper done by the last class, definitely! Free time - here I come!
Its a 3 bedroom bungalow (one floor) that my Dad's first girlfriend lived in when they were kids (hee hee, small world). The asking price? $469k. Yikes! My dad was floored. The rooms were small save for the family room in the back, the house wasn't even totally painted (one side and the back were all peeling) and there was basically no yard. Their "office" was the front porch, which had some kind of electric heater in it. The realtor acted a lot like the one at the house in West Newton that we went to last week, doing a whole soliloquy on the house and area and such. I have yet to see a broker do this in another town.
Here it is - this kind of drives home the differences between towns despite their proximal location. My parents house is literally a 1 minute walk from here in Waltham, and despite Waltham having become overinflated over the years you'd never see a house that small, of that type for that price in the Watch City.
http://www.newenglandmoves.com/Listings/SingleFamily_NewEnglandMoves.htm?id=1007170273
This whole home sale and search process is becoming almost comical. I think laughter is what keeps us sane. Someone came yesterday, not interested in making an offer (and was the first person to say that they thought the house was overpriced, and the that interior was "average" as opposed to "above average"). Since this conflicts with what all of the others would say I'm trying to not take it all that seriously. Someone is coming tonight at 5:00 too. At least seeing a lot of activity is good, but it would be nice if someone would make an offer though . . .
Oh, I'm almost done with draft #1 of my Master's Paper, whoot! When I'm done with this draft I'll wait till Wednesday to get the comments from my preliminary data analysis paper, make any last edits, and pass in the official draft to my professors on April 28th. Thus, its looking like I'll get my Evaluations final paper done by the last class, definitely! Free time - here I come!
