4 Comments

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   College Joe on May 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm

   How many of your buyers are turned off by Leucadia and its funk? It’s interesting how they’ll be a nice remodel next to a home that hasn’t changed since the 1960s…..I prefer the varity; it provide character and interesting neighbors!

   There’s also a couple homes across the freeway, north of Leucadia that are for sale: in the 19-2.1MIL range, ocean view on Hymettus and a few others. I rode my bike by the one on Hymettus when I was home last weekend and loved it! It looked great.

   And the lot on Andrew fell out of escrow…not it’s for sale $3,000,000.

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   College Joe on May 17, 2011 at 7:13 pm

   now it’s for sale for $3,000,000*

   Also interesting that the split-level Nantucket home has been moved into and the other one hasn’t sold……too high price?

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   François Caron on May 18, 2011 at 11:07 am

   Just one problem with removing that detached wall and replacing with a single supporting post: how do you fix the floor so the strips don’t reveal where the wall used to be?

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   MarkB on May 18, 2011 at 1:39 pm

   I second the “prefer the variety” in a neighborhood for the same reasons stated in comment #1.

   Of course a cardboard shack (or single wall plywood construction) on any street must eventually be eliminated but the same size and style houses for block after block does nothing at all constructive. Different sizes and styles are pleasing to the eye and diversity in neighbor stock makes better neighborhoods (my big fat opinion for the day).

   The perceived financial benefits of sameness are illusory. It’s much much better that everyone involved in selling a house has to use their brains when pricing and not some cheesed up cookie cutter comp.