Buying and razing a home in Pimmit Hills
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Anonymous
takoma park looks like a female hippie's unshowered/unshaven armpit but you don't hear me declaring it a dump as well. |
Anonymous
See? Now Pimmit Hills isn't just ugly. It also attracts, like, INFERIOR people. Clearly, persons of No Style, No Taste, No Substance, No Distinction. Probably have IKEA kitchens, too. The Horrors! |
Anonymous
You don't live there - what do you know about what vast majority in PH looks like? If you do, and hate it as much as you do, there's drugs for that. Older homes are (still) a (shrinking) majority, but hardly a vast one, as one teardown follows another. |
Anonymous
No neighborhood will ever be entirely 100% rebuilt with new homes, especially in a short period of time or without any other reason, like massive redevelopment. There are plenty of flips and remodels/additions in PH just as in the more expensive areas inside beltway. And, the more popular it becomes, the more expensive it will be to build new, people's salaries are not getting any higher, so more old shacks will stay. And you are forgetting that the whole appeal of PH is that it is a lower cost area, and attractive to those without big budgets, take this away, and PH has to compete with everything else inside beltway. The affordable pricing is what's giving this place an edge. |
Anonymous
I totally agree, there are just too many of them and they are uglier than older homes in other inside beltway areas. But ironically, they are the reason, why this area is so attractive, it keeps the prices lower and makes it an affordable place within beltway with good schools, close to amenities, other places have a hard time competing with. |
Anonymous
I've driven around the area plenty of times. The vast majority of PH consists of tired old houses and poorly kept yards, with random McMansions here and there. No one should buy into the fantasy that it's going to be the next North Arlington or that all the old houses will have been torn down five years from now. Sorry if it bothers you when the truth is pointed out. |
Anonymous
Denial |
Anonymous
Maybe you should drive around there again, although I do wonder what keeps you coming down not just once but plenty of times - appetite for ugly? Majority of PH is still old homes, but not a vast one; in two years I've been here I can count dozens of new construction sites. Slowly, their numbers are growing. How long it will take, no one can say. And let's just point out one thing again: North Arlington isn't popular on account of its looks. It's a great area, but that thing called beauty ranks very, very low on the list of its advantages. |
Anonymous
North Arlington is full of charming neighborhoods and homes. Pimmit Hills was, is, and will long remain an eyesore that should have been torn down decades ago. |
Anonymous
| Not a PH resident, but I will say this----neighborhoods do change. Just look at Langley forest in McLean. In the early 1990's, it was a tired neighborhood with 1 acre lots. My parents thought about moving into a home that was on the corner of Mackall and Gtown pike in 1988 or so that was being sold by the Mormon Church at the time. It was an ok home, but not really that spectacular. As soon as they drove around the neighborhood they thought 'ugly' and decided to move to another part of Mclean instead that had more homogeneity. Within two years, houses in the neighborhood had begun to be torn down. And now today a teardown in the neighborhood goes for $1.2million, and most houses start at around $3 million. In high school I would run through the neighborhood, and was always amazed by how the houses were changing and how some of the newer homes were ugly. Now 20 years later, after the shrubs have grown, the houses look nice. PH has a lot of homes---and it will probably take more than 20years, but in all honesty, I think that people buying in PH are making a smart investment if they are in it for the long hall. With that said, if people buy a lot and make their forever house---that will serve them well while they live out their lives, and when they decide to sell later. In the meantime---people who try to buy and build and flip will probably have a tough time doing so in the short term b/c people will look at the surrounding neighborhood and see what looks like 'junky houses'. But the people with a vision will see beyond the junk and into the future. Tysons area is going nowhere but up, and it's becoming a metropolis as it is. Again, I don't live in PH, I overspent and because of my wife bought in the Reserve----but I can't help but think that I could have gotten 6 houses in PH for what I paid in the Reserve, and would be far ahead financially twenty years down the road. |
Anonymous
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21:31 again. I wrote something incorrectly. Long haul--not hall. sorry about that.
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Anonymous
It's also full of nondescript brick boxes. People don't seek out North Arlington for the looks. It's a great area but it's not the beauty that makes people pay $600K for a tiny box on a main road. I can't quite get why PH's popularity appears to bother you as much as it does. |
Anonymous
Can't please you , can it. If people tear down to build new houses, it's bad. But on the other hand, it SHOULD have been torn down. I guess it's being torn down but by the wrong people? |
Anonymous
It is popular on acount of its looks. Have you been to Country Club Hills, Chain Bridge Forest, Lyon Village or Cherrydale, just to pick a few places? They are full of beautiful homes. Pimmit Hills, on the other hand, is only "popular" because housing is in short supply right now, and the only transition there has been from a run-down dump to a run-down dump mixed with some of the region's tackiest McMansions. There are virtually no distinctive or eye-pleasing houses there. So calling it the next North Arlington is a very big stretch. |
Anonymous
The reason Arlington is expensive is due to the location near DC and the metro. I see parallels to the Tysons redevelopment and metro. |