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Participantnew website for rental prices
I just found this new website that tracks rental prices. It’s much better than rentometer and it actually gives out really good information about the neighborhood you are looking up.
I tested some of the rent prices, and it seems that my rents are too low! Even after my increases! So take it with a grain of salt, as you must with any information that comes your way.
The site is pretty good because it gives statistics on $/sq. ft., neighborhood crime statistics, incomes, vacancy rates, and even differentiates between types of rental units, such as SFRs vs. apartments. Good stuff.
I also read this article at calculated risk that says that the rental market in San Diego is brisk and that they expect rent price increases (although they say the opposite about Riverside and San Bernardino).
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/02/bre-properties-renters-moving-out-to.html
The numbers being reported here seem to be by large REITs and large apartment managers.
Participantnew website for rental prices
I just found this new website that tracks rental prices. It’s much better than rentometer and it actually gives out really good information about the neighborhood you are looking up.
I tested some of the rent prices, and it seems that my rents are too low! Even after my increases! So take it with a grain of salt, as you must with any information that comes your way.
The site is pretty good because it gives statistics on $/sq. ft., neighborhood crime statistics, incomes, vacancy rates, and even differentiates between types of rental units, such as SFRs vs. apartments. Good stuff.
I also read this article at calculated risk that says that the rental market in San Diego is brisk and that they expect rent price increases (although they say the opposite about Riverside and San Bernardino).
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/02/bre-properties-renters-moving-out-to.html
The numbers being reported here seem to be by large REITs and large apartment managers.
Participantflu:
If you were truly asian, you would have plastic wrapped that sofa….
🙂
Participantflu:
If you were truly asian, you would have plastic wrapped that sofa….
🙂
Participantflu:
If you were truly asian, you would have plastic wrapped that sofa….
🙂
Participantflu:
If you were truly asian, you would have plastic wrapped that sofa….
🙂
Participantflu:
If you were truly asian, you would have plastic wrapped that sofa….
🙂
Participantre-development
Instead of demolition (the reason why they don’t do the demolition is because it requires a lot of money) in the rustbelt, the local gov’t will condemn and take ownership of abandoned houses and re-develop it into affordable housing. I don’t see why they can’t do that here. It’s certainly a cheaper process than building brand new affordable housing.
Participantre-development
Instead of demolition (the reason why they don’t do the demolition is because it requires a lot of money) in the rustbelt, the local gov’t will condemn and take ownership of abandoned houses and re-develop it into affordable housing. I don’t see why they can’t do that here. It’s certainly a cheaper process than building brand new affordable housing.
Participantre-development
Instead of demolition (the reason why they don’t do the demolition is because it requires a lot of money) in the rustbelt, the local gov’t will condemn and take ownership of abandoned houses and re-develop it into affordable housing. I don’t see why they can’t do that here. It’s certainly a cheaper process than building brand new affordable housing.
Participantre-development
Instead of demolition (the reason why they don’t do the demolition is because it requires a lot of money) in the rustbelt, the local gov’t will condemn and take ownership of abandoned houses and re-develop it into affordable housing. I don’t see why they can’t do that here. It’s certainly a cheaper process than building brand new affordable housing.
Participantre-development
Instead of demolition (the reason why they don’t do the demolition is because it requires a lot of money) in the rustbelt, the local gov’t will condemn and take ownership of abandoned houses and re-develop it into affordable housing. I don’t see why they can’t do that here. It’s certainly a cheaper process than building brand new affordable housing.
Participantflat earth
There are regulations in the development code that specify how many houses you can put into a property that has a certain amount of slope. Based on looking at it, I can guess that there is probably space for only one house (that is how badly the slope shows up when I look at the topographic maps). With that and the access issues, I find it difficult to see how this place can be developed.
As for breaking it up into parcels and then selling it to the houses surrounding it, there are several problems with that.
1) Who wants to buy land that is essentially useless because of the slope issues
2) The existing landowners surrounding the parcel already have a fairly large amount of useless slope in it.
3) Assuming that the property was able to be divided (big if), why would anyone want to increase the amount of land they have and increase their property tax basis?
I know a lot of people will look at the location and start thinking, hey, something can be done with it. It’s what we surveyors call the flat earth tendency. It looks nice now, but when you start doing the due diligence, the surveying, the engineering, it begins to lose its luster.
Participantflat earth
There are regulations in the development code that specify how many houses you can put into a property that has a certain amount of slope. Based on looking at it, I can guess that there is probably space for only one house (that is how badly the slope shows up when I look at the topographic maps). With that and the access issues, I find it difficult to see how this place can be developed.
As for breaking it up into parcels and then selling it to the houses surrounding it, there are several problems with that.
1) Who wants to buy land that is essentially useless because of the slope issues
2) The existing landowners surrounding the parcel already have a fairly large amount of useless slope in it.
3) Assuming that the property was able to be divided (big if), why would anyone want to increase the amount of land they have and increase their property tax basis?
I know a lot of people will look at the location and start thinking, hey, something can be done with it. It’s what we surveyors call the flat earth tendency. It looks nice now, but when you start doing the due diligence, the surveying, the engineering, it begins to lose its luster.
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