November 28, 2008 – 6:43 pm
From the NY Times: House Hunting, Catch and Release Style Somewhere along the way, tramping around a solidly built old house became my version of the ultimate in weekend recreation. After the house museums, the heirloom houses most likely to be available for scrutiny without attracting the attention of the police are properties for sale. [...]
September 28, 2008 – 12:29 pm
39 Totten Pl MLS# 2104849 – Zillow Page Ask $429,900 3 bedrooms – 1.5 bath $7,069 – Village Taxes: $474.60 This is my very first post on the blog and possibly my last for a while, I’m due to have our little girl any day now. Anyway, this is my report on 39 Totten Place. [...]
September 16, 2008 – 7:33 am
We saw these open houses three weeks ago. These may be our last open houses for a while. I’m working this weekend coming up and the Tuesday after that is my wife’s official due date. Time flies when you’re having fun. There were 13 open houses Sunday, 8/24/2008 in Babylon Village. I often work on [...]
There were a lot of open houses this Sunday. We visited the one that we were mildly interested in and afterward we drove around a bit running some errands. It seemed like every street we drove past had a sign or two pointing us to an open house. It was the first Sunday in August [...]
This was another pleasant summer afternoon spent exploring houses in Babylon Village. We weren’t the only ones out and about. At each of the houses we went to we ran in to at least one other couple there looking for their dream house. Time begins to draw short for me and my wife. Our baby [...]
The wife and I went to two open houses on Sunday. There were a lot to choose from, owing in part to the nice weather and the beginning of the spring glut. As usual, though, the pickings were slim for us. This is is due in part to the fact that we’ve narrowed our search [...]
December 2, 2007 – 10:32 pm
28 Greenmeadow Dr MLS#2020894 Two Bedroom – Two bath – Upper floor Condo Asking $415K I’m been very interested in the idea of living in a condo. I’m a renter now, but I owned my own house for 12 years and I’m in no particular hurry to get back into lawn mowing, snow shoveling and [...]
November 18, 2007 – 1:13 am
MLS Number: 1991229 Asking: $499,000 Taxes: $8,135.70 Five beds, 1.5 baths, garage, basement. What’s the right price for a house? These days, who knows. If you’ve read any of my other open house reports, you know that I’m of the opinion that just about everything is overprices these days. Some by a little, some by [...]
August 31, 2007 – 10:38 pm
I went to an open house yesterday. I haven’t been going to many open houses lately, either because I’ve been working the weekends or because I’ve had better things to do with my time. There haven’t been that many homes that I might be interested in anyway. But there was one yesterday for a house [...]
The Stats: MLS# 1974001 Asking: $499K 6 room cape 3 Beds – 1 Bath Taxes: $7600 Prior sale – 11/2004: $310K (from Zillow) This house popped up on MLSLI just this past week and it immediately caught my eye. As you can see from the picture, it’s a sweet, little cape with tremendous curb appeal. [...]