Here’s part 2 for August of 2009. In case you missed it, part 1 can be found here. There are four houses in this post and there will be four more in part 3.
I’m not sure what this blog is going to become as things change for me and my family. But I expect that I’ll still do these Sold Homes posts. In the two and a half years that I’ve been writing, I’ve developed more that a little taste for this real estate thing.
34 W Jackson Ave
- MLS# 2164760 – Zillow Page
- Sold: $550,000 – 8/13/2009
- Prior Sales: none
- 3 bedrooms – 3 bath – Split
- Taxes: $12,281 – Village Taxes: none
A nice, big, three bed, three bath split with an updated kitchen right on the canal for $550K? Hard to say, but this looks like a tremendous deal.
50 Cadman Ave
- MLS# 2180638 – Zillow Page
- Sold: $459,000 – 8/18/2009
- Prior Sales: none
- 3 bedrooms – 2 bath – Cape
- Taxes: $9,284 – Village Taxes: $1,033
We went to visit this one back in may. You can read the original house report here. There was a pretty contentious argument in the comment section of this post, so it’s worth reading just for that.
This still seems like a lot of money for this house.
19 Whalers Cove
- MLS# 2148684 – Zillow Page
- Sold: $317,500 – 8/18/2009
- Prior Sales: none
- 2 bedrooms – 1,5 bath – Condo
- Taxes: $3,655 – Village Taxes: $541
We’re slipping under $320K now for the two-bed Whalers Cove condos. This one says it was recently updated, but it doesn’t look like they spent a huge amount of money.
163 Sumpwams Ave
- MLS# 2158658 – Zillow Page
- Sold: $612,500 – 8/25/2009
- Prior Sales: none
- 4 bedrooms – 2.5 bath – Colonial
- Taxes: $12,281 – Village Taxes: $1,279
There’s only one thing to say about this listing. Why don’t I make more money?
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Can’t wait to read the “Homes Bought in November” post! haha! Good luck, and congratulations, man!
December, if we’re lucky… otherwise January.
In the two and a half years that I’ve been writing, I’ve developed more that a little taste for this real estate thing.
You should build the website that puts the guild members alongside their intellectual peers, the travel agents.
Funny thing about buying a house. If you do it right, by the time you educate yourself enough, it’s a shame you only need to buy one.
Same with creating a wedding, man!
Interesting, Met. Your observation would explain alot about the similar types of people I see thriving in the sales functions of both industries.
skip the wedding, put the money on the house.
skip the wedding, put the money on the house.
Wedding expense is water under the bridge for me, Blog. Hopefully I will need just the one; its worked out well so far.
But if your point is not to waste money listening to those wedding consultant scammers… INVEST it wisely with the used house sales flacks — HA! (Excuse my while I sop up the spewed coffee from my keyboard.) They don’t call themselves “brokers” for nothing.
Debra did an awesome job of planning our wedding and wringing value out of every nickel spend.
When all was said and done, getting married cost us a bit over twenty grand. That includes rings, dress, Rabbi, reception for 80 people and a week at the Sandals Grande St. Lucia to decompress afterward.
I hear ya, the point was I would rather put the 20K towards the down payment. We all have our priorites. Southward Ho or a Boat?
“Southward Ho or a Boat?”
Uh, neither?
The funny thing is that I never was one of those girls who planned her wedding from the time she was a teen–I knew some girls like that, who bought Brides when we were teens, and I thought they were crazy. I was busy buying British music magazines! But sometime in my thirties I got seduced by Martha Stewart Weddings, and when Gary and I got engaged, I knew I wanted to have a small and simple, but pretty, wedding. And we did.
When we got engaged, my second thought was “let’s just buy a house!” And then the economy tanked and we combined the “rebate” and my VA Mortgage and we did both.
I liked George Street, a lot, too. The outside has a lot of appeal.
Anyone do any pole decorating, this weekend?
Any pole dancing (figured I’d at least ask)?
We got one on Main Street near Lo-Man’s Sporting Goods, and another on good, old George Street.
Any pole dancing (figured I’d at least ask)?
My money would be that the used house sales flacks who lurk here were pole dancing to supplement their income. See Gary’s post about the NYTimes reporting members of the guild “Going the Extra Mile”.