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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just last summer.

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  • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A house not a condo? Was it a major fixer upper? Do you have a inside track with a realtor or someone?

    Cause bucks and Mont Co aren’t the best district, but a good one and their prices are 2 to 3 times higher right now. According to a quick and lazy web search the Radnor district is the best in the philly area. Me and the SO have NOT been watching homes in that area, but I know Radnor is a nice area and can’t imagine the housing being a 3rd of the price as bucks/mont Co.

    I am taking care not call you a liar, but that price seems very unusual (too low) for any area I can think you are talking about.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am taking care not call you a liar

      I appreciate that. :)

      I did say “one of the best school districts” and it’s in the same ballpark as Radnor, at least (but not Radnor). It is a full-on house, a semi-detached with a sizable yard in a weird neighborhood of smallish houses that were built during WWII to house workers at the Navy Yard in Philly (the neighborhood is known as “Garden City” in Wallingford). These houses were never intended to last 80+ years but they’re still better-built than today’s pieces of shit. The house was not a complete gut-and-rebuild project but it wasn’t move-in ready, either (although the seller thought it was despite collapsing ceilings, a 25 yo water heater, and not a single door that closed properly - including the front door). It was a private sale brokered by a coworker of mine who knew the seller, but the price was in line with recent sales of other houses in this little neighborhood.

      I’m careful to avoid being the kind of moron who says “I bought a cheap house so I think the housing market crisis is a complete fiction”, but I do think in general that having the willingness (and the skills) to fix up a less-than-perfect house can mitigate the problem somewhat. Just not in LA or Toronto.

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      • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I gotcha. I still think you did very well. I can see that yea, no one factor shaved 150k off the price. Sagging (you called em collapsing) ceilings does want to make me assume you are already a contractor or super handyperson type.

        More importantly, this thing you said,

        in a weird neighborhood of smallish houses that were built during WWII to house workers at the Navy Yard in Philly (the neighborhood is known as “Garden City” in Wallingford).

        Philly has a lotta neighborhoods and none of us know the names of all of em, but “Garden City” is not a Philly hood. If the people of Wallingford think otherwise, good on em.

        Navy Yard is south philly. And as said I once I aint south philly. But, Jim’s finally opened back up so let us give praise to one of the few cheesesteak places I’d ever give a tourist directions too…

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes you get lucky. Where i am the housing market is batshit insane. Managed to get a classic quarter acre block in a decent area under the average - and the house isn’t a classic postwar piece of shit

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