Waltham is the place to be

[dancerjodi]

According to this, the market is as hot as it can be in Waltham:
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/x1275807740/Waltham-tops-Forbes-magazines-home-sale-lists

My Gram's house is still up for sale, with a price drop ($359):
http://www.erakirsch.com/detail.asp?listingID=70822656&agentid=104103&searchtype=ByOffice&

Its been on the market for less than 60 days. My parents are frustrated about it, but it seems that according to Forbes, its following the average trend for the area.

Come on, you know you want to be my neighbor!

Comments

[developer.livejournal.com]

Not a bad price! Your dad worked on it too right?

Too bad I'm not in the market atm. :(

Gram's house

[dancer.livejournal.com]

My dad has done a LOT of work on it, to make it safely habitable. You have no idea the scary stuff that was round (and promptly ripped out) of that house! :)

[eeyrg.livejournal.com]

I posted it to my friend A. (you know her!) ;-)

She and her husband have been occasionally looking for houses in the area, they have a condo on the W. Newton/Waltham line and a growing family.

Good luck!

house

[dancer.livejournal.com]

It really is a good sized house (and yard). My dad was five when they moved in, so its been in the family since then (50 or so years).

Roof is new, furnace (gas, forced hot air) is new, basement is all cleaned out/waterproofed and has a finished room, attic is HUGE with a lot of potential.

The windows are old, wiring is old (but is safe, not knob and tube), 2nd floor bath is old but is clean/works, and the exterior walls aren't insulated, but the attic floor is). Lead is questionable . . . its never been deleaded, but nobody ever had an issue with it in my family.

If we weren't so attached to our own house and if we hadn't done all of the work we had already have, we would totally be buying it to keep it in the family (perfect for a growing family who is willing to do some work at some point, but its in move-in condition).

oh

[dancer.livejournal.com]

Kitchen is new too . . .

[darthwk.livejournal.com]

The cost-of-living difference between here and there still floors me.

[littleboogergal.livejournal.com]

But I still want to go there.....

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

We would love to be your neighbor! But we can't afford a house. :(

Random, bizarre question for the day:
Is it WALthum, or walth-HAM?

[dancer.livejournal.com]

its wall-tHAM (as in what you'd put a picture on, th, and the popular easter dinner meat)

[fudjo.livejournal.com]

Hard to say which syllable is really stressed...it's kinda like WalMart, only it's Waltham.

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

Huh. And here I thought I'd always heard it pronounced with the dropped/slurred/whatever last syllable. Thanks for setting me straight. Some friends of ours who used to be townies tried to tell us that YOU couldn't possibly be a townie if you didn't say HAM. Stuck between two townies, I figured I must be mistaken!

Crazy New Englanders... Can't even be consistent in the way they pronounce their crazy cities. Been here 5 years and still making mistakes, I tell ya... :)

[dancer.livejournal.com]

The emphasis is definitely on the "Wall", but the second part is "ham" and not "hum", if that makes any sense . . .

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

Yep! I got it now!

[fudjo.livejournal.com]

WALL-tham.

CHAT-um
WREN-thum
STONE-um

WALL-tham

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. As I was saying about those crazy, inconsistent New Englanders...

How's a poor midwestern raised girl supposed to survive when there's no rhyme or reason behind pronunciations??? Long vowel? Short vowel? No vowel? ARG!!


Glosster. Wouster. Dorchester. *sigh*

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Glosster. Wouster. Dorchester"

nope, is Glawstah, Wusstah and Doahchestah ;)

[christmasjedi.livejournal.com]

DOH!!

Doesn't matter how long I live out here - my alphabet will always have 26 letters in it! :)

[tk7602.livejournal.com]

even worse, if you are from some parts of the state it's wisstah. and people in dorchester seem to just call it "dot"

[dancer.livejournal.com]

I was just trying to emphasize that the second part was "tham" and not "thum" :)

[celiskywalker.livejournal.com]

Looks very cool; and looks to have more space than our house. but Jon would kill me if I tried to get him to move again. It also makes me wonder what we're going to be able to sell our house for (didn't get it for much less than what that one is going for).

good luck selling it though.