Maybe I'll become a realtor after the girls are old enough to go to school.
Sheesh! I just found out that the plain-Jane Cape Cod four doors down from us is on the market for $959,000. Why they didn't just call it "A Cool Million Smackeroonis", I can only guess.
Location, location, location! They're waterfront with a fantastic view straight out to the harbor, which adds about $400,000 to the value.
Our house is a VERY modest modular (that's one-half step up from a double-wide), worth a teensy tiny fraction of that. It was nicely landscaped when we bought it, before I started killing all the plants. We had the nasty overgrown firethorn tree that was threatening the side of the house chopped down, and I killed a bush on the side of the house, and now even though it's April one of our lilacs is still only bare sticks. Time to chop the sticks down too, I think.
Our house is "water view" which means if you stand on our deck on tiptoes, you can see a tiny sliver of water between the million-dollar house and the one next door. That sliver adds about $10 to the value of our house.
But we have nice neighbors. :-) I love our small town!
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If you build a taller deck does that mean it was really be waterview? Or maybe a lawn chaise on the roof and you could have a roof top patio?
My parents have been telling people that their house is now water view. I tell them that the water standing in my belliebutton doesn't count. They are checking in on it.
Become a realtor? Sell a house? Wow! That's about like me becoming a day care worker!
Sounds like you have a beautiful little neighborhood. I can't imagine playing 1,000,000 for a house though!
Jen -
I wish! If I could do that, I'd be building! But there's just trees in the way higher up. It would have to be REALLY REALLY tall to clear them!
Housing market has gone nuts up here. Our place has gone up like $100,000 in 3 years. Some places went up $20grand in just a couple of weeks. It's just nuts. Course we'd only be rich if we moved away somewhere where they're giving houses away. *sigh*
believe it or not there are cape cod homestyles even in phoenix. I love them. Tried to buy one a few years ago to no avail. I rented a place with a 'water view'. Yeah when i stood on my tiptoes and looked out the retangle window over my shower I saw a portion of the lake between two buildings. Top Dollar.
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