What's with Glen Echo Heights?

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Anonymous wrote:While I don't agree that most of the lots are problems there are some head scratchers. The one being developed where tuscarawas and walhounding meet up on the busiest corner in the neighborhood is going to be interesting.

They seem to put anything up on pretty much any lot in the neighborhood. And people buy them.

I've noticed all the Rembrandt Builders houses. They're enticing and seem like good construction (if you like the style), but some of the lots make me nervous.

Most people in Glen Echo hate the Rembrandt houses. The faux chateau look is the farthest thing from the character of the neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:While I don't agree that most of the lots are problems there are some head scratchers. The one being developed where tuscarawas and walhounding meet up on the busiest corner in the neighborhood is going to be interesting.

They seem to put anything up on pretty much any lot in the neighborhood. And people buy them.

I've noticed all the Rembrandt Builders houses. They're enticing and seem like good construction (if you like the style), but some of the lots make me nervous.

Most people in Glen Echo hate the Rembrandt houses. The faux chateau look is the farthest thing from the character of the neighborhood.

Hmmm...what about them is faux chateau? Not sure what you mean.

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OP, the neighborhood, and Mohican Hills next to it, are basically going through gentrification. Unlike the more planned neighborhoods around it, for example Sumner and Wood Acres, Geln Echo Heights is old and has evolved over time. The really large in-fills are a fairly recent phenomenon but there are many very nice renovations that have gone on as well. It is just going to take some time for the junkier properties to flip.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

Has anything ever been done about this? I remember it from when we lived in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

Has anything ever been done about this? I remember it from when we lived in the area.

Nope. Still there. Montgomery County could not care less.

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Pretty neighborhood. Unfortunately it has been totally blighted by 24/7 airplane and helicopter noise.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty neighborhood. Unfortunately it has been totally blighted by 24/7 airplane and helicopter noise.

No it hasn’t. You are free to move to the country.

Why is there always one of you in every chat.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

That's sad especially when homes in GEH can run into the multi-million dollar range.

Yes, it is so, so, so sad. It's devastating to think about those in multi million dollar homes having to be impacted by a ramshackle house in the neighborhood. It's just so sad.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

Can someone provide a link to this infamous house? I've tried looking on Google Maps in the Waukesha/Madwaska vicinity, and don't see anything that I would call a blight.

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Wow, this is a revived thread. I posted back in 2016 about my grandparents house in GEH. It has since been torn down.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

Can someone provide a link to this infamous house? I've tried looking on Google Maps in the Waukesha/Madwaska vicinity, and don't see anything that I would call a blight.

housing code violations are searchable to the public online in Montgomery County

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

That's sad especially when homes in GEH can run into the multi-million dollar range.

Yes, it is so, so, so sad. It's devastating to think about those in multi million dollar homes having to be impacted by a ramshackle house in the neighborhood. It's just so sad.

It’s all perspective right, they complain about the one house with a relatively poor family while people in other parts of town complain about the concentrations of poverty. But everybody complains

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Anonymous wrote:There is no HOA in Glen Echo Heights so it is quite easy for those decaying properties to linger. However in recent years Montgomery County has had to respond to an increasing number of complaints fro newer residents. Not that the County does much.

to be fair there is like 3 crappy houses left and maybe a half dozen of middle class but under utilized ones that no longer belong after that. There are far more 3mil homes than 600k, it doesn't really affect the fabric of the area

I live in GEH and this is simply not true. While the rate of tear downs is increasing, there are way more than 3 "crappy" houses left. There are many. I'd put it in the dozens. I think I know the one the OP mentions, and it is only one eyesore among many. Although it is an especially big one. I'd give it another decade before there are 3 left.

That one, if we're talking about the same thing, is actually am illegally occupied building according to county codes. Not that the county would do anything about it.

If you are talking about the place in the Waukesha/Madawaska area, it's my understanding that there have been multiple complaints over the past few years years. It's obvious to everyone around the neighborhood that the place is unfit for habitation and should be condemned. Somehow the owner manages to skirt the inspectors. Maybe it's who the County sends out to look at it.

The house is infamous in the neighborhood. A real blight.

Can someone provide a link to this infamous house? I've tried looking on Google Maps in the Waukesha/Madwaska vicinity, and don't see anything that I would call a blight.

housing code violations are searchable to the public online in Montgomery County

How would someone who is not familiar with the neighborhood even search this? A link or some search terms with a link would be helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, this is a revived thread. I posted back in 2016 about my grandparents house in GEH. It has since been torn down.

Are you the OP of this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, this is a revived thread. I posted back in 2016 about my grandparents house in GEH. It has since been torn down.

Are you the OP of this thread?

No, I posted a response on the first page back in 2016.