Saturday, June 19, 2010

Northern Virginia Weekend Bits Bucket 6/19-6/20, 2010

Please post your local house search updates, MLS finds, on-topic ideas, and links here.

Posted by Harriet at 6:00 AM

9 comments:

Ace said...

Hey, Reecon,

The Monster House owner must be lurking here. The price just dropped below $1 mill.:

Hurry, it'll go fast!

6/19/10, 11:37 AM  
housebuyer said...

Ace-

Other than the house is a monstrosity and I can't imagine ever wanting a 10K sq. ft. house you have to admit that at under $1MM it looks reasonably priced. Paying $100/sq.ft. for a updated house is a good price. Now they just need to find a rich person that has a hoard of children and they will be in good shape.

6/19/10, 11:56 AM  
pat said...

it would make a good diplomatic residence for a small country, say an african nation or a stan...

lots of room to entertain, just have a shuttle to metro and you could hold great parties there

6/19/10, 12:51 PM  
Ace said...

Yeah, but think of the utility bills!

I was thinking it would be excellent for cat rescue fostering.

Here is a USA Today story about one of our local rescue groups. I do some work with this group and I can tell you that Kelley is an amazing person as are several other people who work tirelessly for the benefit of others:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2010-06-01-pettalk02_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

6/19/10, 12:53 PM  
Ace said...

oops, meant to make that a link:

Sabrina the hospice cat

6/19/10, 12:55 PM  
Ace said...

HB, also, as a potential short sale, the bank may not agree to that price.

Can you imagine the cost of furnishing the place?

6/19/10, 12:56 PM  
housebuyer said...

Ace-

I agree that is a risk for a short sale, but my guess is they are no longer paying bills so it will become an REO soon enough in which case I doubt they would raise the price much if at all.

Yeah even with Ikea furniture it would still cost a small fortune to furnish it

6/19/10, 5:03 PM  
Ace said...

What is the matter with these people?

This house was for sale forever at a lower price, and didn't sell then.

Instead of making teeny price cuts from a way-too-high starting point, why not get it sold by setting the price right now?

drip drip drip

Happy Father's Day to everyone.

6/19/10, 6:45 PM  
housebuyer said...

Ace

I agree dropping your price less than 0.5% is stupid and some of their reductions were way less than this.

6/20/10, 7:43 AM  

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