It’s a crisis that there are no SFHs in commuting distance to jobs with good schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your HHI and what do you deem affordable? We have people posting here with a 200k+ HHI who think only a house under 500k is affordable.

There are houses in good areas that are under $750k, but they don't have updated kitchens, nice finishes, huge yards, etc.

$750K on that income is to high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your HHI and what do you deem affordable? We have people posting here with a 200k+ HHI who think only a house under 500k is affordable.

There are houses in good areas that are under $750k, but they don't have updated kitchens, nice finishes, huge yards, etc.

$750K on that income is to high.

I disagree, but that's beside the point -- we need to understand what OP considers affordable before we can respond to her point.

[Anonymous]

OP has to be a troll. No real person can be this melodramatic.

[Anonymous]

Move to a crappy place like Oklahoma City or Little Rock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That normal people can afford.

Well, normal people go with the commute, housing and schools they CAN afford. It sucks but that's unfortunately how market works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your proposed solution?

DP
Tax second and third and fourth homes out the wazoo.
Higher Tax on investment properties
Restrict the amount of money non-citizens can spend on real estate.
Restrict corporate ownership of SFH
Restrict foreign countries from owning property in the US
Better enforcement of money laundering in real estate

I’m sure there are more.

I am a politician and I want to raise your taxes.
It always works!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move to a crappy place like Oklahoma City or Little Rock.

In some ways, with schools with shootings, stabbings, rapes, and ODs, this has become a crappy place. Indeed, close in suburbs are going downhill

[Anonymous]

There is PG county
Schools are good enough for the politicians to not do anything about it
Surely the politicians would do something if there was a need

[Anonymous]

I think high realtor commissions are to blame. Every time a house sells, COMPS go up 6%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I heard this in 1988 when I moved to the DC area. You don’t always get what you want.

+1 It was 1989 for us. Got a townhouse in Springfield, VA. Commuted to DC. I think the kid turned out fine.

+2. I've never been able to afford a SFH in a "good" school according to the DCUM crowd. Living in the DCC in MoCo. Our affordable mortgage has allowed us to save for retirement, college, and put two kids through private high school.

[Anonymous]

1000% crisis and when you do put an offer above asking there’s alway some SCHMUK that bids ridiculously higher or forgoes inspections. I hope the market crash and burns again.

[Anonymous]

PG County.

[Anonymous]

Gentrify the neighborhoods around the "bad" school and it'll become a "good" school eventually. All good schools have become the way they are by pricing out low-income families and through NIMBYs fighting off low income housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not everyone needs to live in Arlington or Bethesda.

Neither have good public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PG County.

You know why OP won’t consider this.