Thursday, February 24, 2011

Northern Virginia Bits Bucket 2/24/2011

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

5 comments:

pat said...

http://franklymls.com/AR7474094

File under EIOOWWWW, My ass hurts.


sells in 2005 for 211K, sells now for 80K.

Which is a great deal on a 1 BR


Is the palce dying with HOA fees?

housebuyer said...

Pat-

Those condo fees seem crazy high for a low-end 1 bedroom unless they include everything (water, electric, gas, cable, internet...)

pat said...

wow 401/Month.

Yeah that's kind of brutal, i wonder what that is.

Gas/Power/Water shouldn't be half that.

even basic cable and internet is
small.

I wonder if the building, is in bad shape

housebuyer said...

Pat-

I would have thought that the condo fee would have been ~200/month without any utilities, so if you add the utilities 400 isn't that bad, although its still not great. It does seem odd to buy a house where the condo fee costs as much as the mortgage.

pat said...

my take is there is a special assessment