805 square feet, 2 bed /1 bath on 5000 sf lot fixer.
i call bunk on your boomers did. They didn’t. My father did, but he was prettybmuchbthe guy the entire extended family called when sh*tnbroke in the house and most of the other families we knew worked the same way, they didn’t fix it, of it they did they bubble gummed it and called a family/friend that knew better.
Boomers consumed. Most of the dilapidated housing out there was driven there by boomers.[/quote]That’s not it, NSR. IIRC, it was on a 7500+ sf pie-shaped lot and was over 1400 sf. I don’t recall there being a yellow line down the street (it was not a thoroughfare). I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t have any relatives who could “fix” anything. Almost all my boomer relatives (incl the women) are very handy. I like to think of myself as “learning the ropes” now as I was a “desk jockey” most of my life and still am to a lesser degree. However, I DID learn to paint, clean brushes with turpentine, mow lawns and weed as a child and did those things for money before I got my work permit. I was also taught to use common hand tools. Over the past few years, my “repertoire” has been building slowly into other trades and the use of power tools (of which I currently own 5). It’s a process.
The listing you posted is on a standard-sized lot and therefore, only so much can be done with it. And due to the “economic obsolescence” of it being situated on a thoroughfare, I don’t think it is worth it to obtain plans for a second story on it (although the view would be very nice to possibly outstanding out some windows).
However, for the buyer who can get it for +/-$325K and doesn’t mind the size of the home (they were going to buy a small condo anyway, with HOA dues) or the street, it is reasonably-priced close in shelter for a SV worker.
Assuming no structural problems, I think I’d rather spend $50-$100K on your listing after getting it for ~$325K and possibly add a family room or extend the MBR + addt’l bath to the backyard instead of continuing to pound the pavement looking for housing another 20 to 100 miles down the road. It’s very affordable for that area.
I’ll try to find the listing I saw a few weeks ago.
I also saw a listing for a fabulous older home on a large corner lot in Livermore (I know, pretty far out, but not anywhere near as far away as Tracy/Stockton) which had some of the goodies in it that SD North Park homes typically have, although I don’t think it was a Craftsman. IIRC, its asking price was <$500K.
Livermore has the Lawrence Livermore Labs as well as a few other corporate HQ in its own right. It's a very nice, self-contained town, although it can get quite hot out there. I grew up near what is now the Amador Valley Blvd exit of I680, which of course, wasn't built at that time. We only had a Safeway and Piggly Wiggly (large convenience store with meat and produce) at that time and of course, there was no I580. There was an exit off the SR-84, I believe, for Dougherty Road in Dublin, which was unincorporated at that time. The SR-84 meandered on out to Livermore, where we occasionally shopped. I remember Livermore's shopping area as having a wood deck for a sidewalk, much like the SD Embarcadero used to be. And the town was very green and FULL of cows (and all the smells that go along with that, lol). I've seen a few other recent SFR listings in Livermore as well, for larger, more contemporary homes ('70's & '80's) on 7500+ sf lots asking under $500K. And this is only what I've seen in the the cities I was searching in Alameda County, my old stomping grounds. There are several affordable SFR areas of Solano County and fewer affordable SFR areas of (eastern) Contra Costa County.
There are a few “affordable” condo complexes with 3 br units off the Dublin Blvd exit of I580 which feed into a “10” elementary school, which was my old (K-8) school back in the day. Who knew? I must say I DID receive an excellent education there 50+ years ago, lol ….
When I repeatedly see posts here about SV workers being forced into buying/renting in Patterson, Tracy and Stockton, I call BS. It is as though these poor worker-bee millenials are self-proclaimed “victims” who can’t even find a cardboard box to live in closer to work! It’s a crock of sh!t.
