Thoughts on this Silver Spring house?

[Anonymous]

Interested in any insight into this house. It seems overpriced but wondering if that specific neighborhood dictates that price. Also of course the size of the lot. Seems to have some positives but negatives too, including need for updating and small bathrooms.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/824-Burnt-Mills-Ave-Silver-Spring-MD-20901/37127947_zpid/

[Anonymous]

We have friends who live in that neighborhood. It is a gorgeous, stately neighborhood where most houses have 1 acre lots. I still think the house is overpriced by maybe 50k. The public schools there are wildly mismatched with the neighborhood (why spend 800k to send your kid to a Title I school?). I'm not being snobby, I lie in Silver Spring too, but our kids are not at a Title I school. But my friends do love the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

The schools associated with this address have 5% white students and 67% Free and Reduced meals students. I live in SS, but that combo is too much for me. I guess the families send their kids to private school in that neighborhood if that is like other houses in the neighborhood.
If I had 800,000 for a house, I would get better schools.

[Anonymous]

Yes, overpriced. The lots are big, but the houses are mostly ugly, just like this one. And I live in and love SS!

[Anonymous]

i wouldn't spend that kind of coin to live in burnt mills and havinf been built in 1942 but looks like it was renovated recently, WTH does it still have radiators?

[Anonymous]

Burnt Mills is a really cool neighborhood but the schools are awful and it's surrounded by crime.

Try Woodside -- a similar feel, altho the lots are smaller, and you can walk to downtown SS. Plus, that ES is Woodlin which has a great reputation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have friends who live in that neighborhood. It is a gorgeous, stately neighborhood where most houses have 1 acre lots. I still think the house is overpriced by maybe 50k. The public schools there are wildly mismatched with the neighborhood (why spend 800k to send your kid to a Title I school?). I'm not being snobby, I lie in Silver Spring too, but our kids are not at a Title I school. But my friends do love the neighborhood.

I could have written this post, word for word.

That said, I have a good friend (highly successful, high SES, highly educated) who lives in that neighborhood and whose kids went to local schools. They are all in college now and doing great. Still, I don't think I would buy in that neighborhood.

FWIW, I live near downtown Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i wouldn't spend that kind of coin to live in burnt mills and havinf been built in 1942 but looks like it was renovated recently, WTH does it still have radiators?

Radiators are a PLUS. I can't imagine removing them when renovating - I'd take them over forced-air heat in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous]

It's not overpriced for that small neighborhood, it's kind of like an odd refuge of huge homes on incredible lots among some so-so areas. Heavily historic Jewish population. Pretty sure no one who lives in that neighborhood sends their kids to public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not overpriced for that small neighborhood, it's kind of like an odd refuge of huge homes on incredible lots among some so-so areas. Heavily historic Jewish population. Pretty sure no one who lives in that neighborhood sends their kids to public schools.

+1000, maybe 20 years ago they would of gone public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not overpriced for that small neighborhood, it's kind of like an odd refuge of huge homes on incredible lots among some so-so areas. Heavily historic Jewish population. Pretty sure no one who lives in that neighborhood sends their kids to public schools.

+1000, maybe 20 years ago they would of gone public.

20:23 here. As I mentioned above, I have a close friend in that neighborhood whose kids went to local public schools. My friend and her DH are Ivy-educated professionals, were comfortable with the schools, and their kids were successful there (and beyond).

[Anonymous]

4/15 19:15 poster here. Our friends send their kids to public too. I wouldn't pay that kind of money for that school choice, but they seem ok with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4/15 19:15 poster here. Our friends send their kids to public too. I wouldn't pay that kind of money for that school choice, but they seem ok with it.

20:23 here and I agree with you. I live in, and like Silver Spring, but I couldn't send my kids to those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have friends who live in that neighborhood. It is a gorgeous, stately neighborhood where most houses have 1 acre lots. I still think the house is overpriced by maybe 50k. The public schools there are wildly mismatched with the neighborhood (why spend 800k to send your kid to a Title I school?). I'm not being snobby, I lie in Silver Spring too, but our kids are not at a Title I school. But my friends do love the neighborhood.

Wow. You are being snobby. I just spent a million in Arlington and my children will continue to attend their Title I county-wide school.

[Anonymous]

I think it is lovely. Don't be afraid of middle to lower income families at the same schools. Go tour the schools, talk to parents and the teachers before making a rash decision simply because of Title 1 status.