Mt. Pleasant craziness

[Anonymous]

People talk about the Petworth and H Street and other craziness. This house was listed for 839K and just sold for 940K. It's nice, but not that great. I'd take the 700 K house in Petworth.

http://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1750-Hobart-St-NW-20009/home/10007139

[Anonymous]

Mt. P prices have been laughable for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Can't see pics unless your signed in, but I always wondered about home prices in this neighborhood. It's too congested for my taste anyway.

[Anonymous]

Can someone tell me why the neighborhood is so hot? It's not that metro accessible, and the amenities are better in other neighborhoods. As I have been house hunting, I don't understand how these houses command the same prices as those on Capitol Hill, which does amenities. I am genuinely curious as I currently don't live in the area.

[Anonymous]

It's viewed as safer than Petworth and Capitol Hill, and you get Deal/Wilson vs. the schools other EOTP neighborhoods are assigned to.

But it's not super convenient as far as public transportation goes, and the retail is very ho-hum. Even the places that sound like interesting alternatives to the Salvadoran stuff that predominates generally are pretty lousy.

It is definitely an area where people who've bought at prior peaks have gotten burned.

[Anonymous]

Wow. That price is crazy. Also agree with the confusion about the prices of Mount Pleasant. Must be the school boundaries thing. I live just east in CH and think we're a lot better regarding amenities and metro access. Never have understood the MP craziness.

[Anonymous]

Mt Pleasant is one of the best urban neighborhoods in DC, and probably one of the best in the country. Beautiful streets and housing stock; relatively safe and quiet; cute nice strip of retail on Mt Pleasant, and much more in Columbia Heights. Also walking distance to the zoo, Rock Creek Park, and Adams Morgan. Transit is the bus or walking to Columbia Heights metro, depending exactly where you are.

[Anonymous]

Mt unpleasant - can't stand the obnoxious faux hippies

[Anonymous]

Mt unpleasant - can't stand the obnoxious faux hippies

[Anonymous]

I don't get prices in mt. P either. It does have appeal - deal/Wilson, proximity to the park/zoo and not far from neighborhoods with more/better amenities. But the houses have no yards, it's a hike to transport, the retail scene is grim and crime is more of an issue than in other similarly priced neighborhoods with better amenities. We looked a little there when house hunting but quickly dropped it from our search radius because it seemed overpriced for what you got. Our range was higher than prices in mt.P but the cost/value proposition just didn't add up for us. Clearly some arrive at a different conclusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mt Pleasant is one of the best urban neighborhoods in DC, and probably one of the best in the country. Beautiful streets and housing stock; relatively safe and quiet; cute nice strip of retail on Mt Pleasant, and much more in Columbia Heights. Also walking distance to the zoo, Rock Creek Park, and Adams Morgan. Transit is the bus or walking to Columbia Heights metro, depending exactly where you are.

Hmm.

The original housing stock is nice, but nowhere near as nice as what you'd find in much of other cities like Boston, New York, Charleston or Savannah. And there are few blocks in Mt. P. where there aren't some homes that remain in substantial disrepair.

It is "relatively" safe and quiet if you are comparing it to Petworth and Columbia Heights, but not WOTP neighborhoods. Lots of car break-ins and lots of vagrants spilling over from Mt. Pleasant street into the residential areas.

The retail strip is not cute. It's still heavy on bodegas, cheap restaurants that cater primarily to Hispanic immigrants, and discount grocery stores. There's a smattering of hipster bars, and more upscale restaurants, but the latter mostly suck. To take one example, there's a little Brazilian cafe there now that's totally underwhelming and wouldn't last more than a week or two in the Ironbound district in Newark, or the Boston suburbs. The Thai restaurant that's on the strip doesn't hold a candle to any number of places in the suburbs. Etc.

Transit options are as described - OK, but not great for an urban neighborhood in the District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone tell me why the neighborhood is so hot? It's not that metro accessible, and the amenities are better in other neighborhoods. As I have been house hunting, I don't understand how these houses command the same prices as those on Capitol Hill, which does amenities. I am genuinely curious as I currently don't live in the area.

Metro is a 10 minute walk and bus lines run right through it. Add to that, it's walkable to colhi, admo, dupont, logan, and most of NW. I don't live there, but hoped I would by now. It has a tight knit, active, and vibrant community. It's beautiful. It has diversity both in race and socioeconomic status. Capitol Hill is so isolated in this city. That's changing, but mt p is a fantastic neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mt Pleasant is one of the best urban neighborhoods in DC, and probably one of the best in the country. Beautiful streets and housing stock; relatively safe and quiet; cute nice strip of retail on Mt Pleasant, and much more in Columbia Heights. Also walking distance to the zoo, Rock Creek Park, and Adams Morgan. Transit is the bus or walking to Columbia Heights metro, depending exactly where you are.

Hmm.

The original housing stock is nice, but nowhere near as nice as what you'd find in much of other cities like Boston, New York, Charleston or Savannah. And there are few blocks in Mt. P. where there aren't some homes that remain in substantial disrepair.

It is "relatively" safe and quiet if you are comparing it to Petworth and Columbia Heights, but not WOTP neighborhoods. Lots of car break-ins and lots of vagrants spilling over from Mt. Pleasant street into the residential areas.

The retail strip is not cute. It's still heavy on bodegas, cheap restaurants that cater primarily to Hispanic immigrants, and discount grocery stores. There's a smattering of hipster bars, and more upscale restaurants, but the latter mostly suck. To take one example, there's a little Brazilian cafe there now that's totally underwhelming and wouldn't last more than a week or two in the Ironbound district in Newark, or the Boston suburbs. The Thai restaurant that's on the strip doesn't hold a candle to any number of places in the suburbs. Etc.

Transit options are as described - OK, but not great for an urban neighborhood in the District.

This is a bonus to me. I don't want my neighborhood to turn into the chain restaurants or unaffordable places a la 14th street.

[Anonymous]

I love it in threads like this one when all the millenials post and assert that the measure of a given address is its proximity to restaurants. And bars. And capital bikeshare or the MBT or whatever you guys just -love- so much.

Call us when you have 3 kids ages 4, 6 and 9 and tell us how much they love Big Bear

I felt that way myself when I was little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mt Pleasant is one of the best urban neighborhoods in DC, and probably one of the best in the country. Beautiful streets and housing stock; relatively safe and quiet; cute nice strip of retail on Mt Pleasant, and much more in Columbia Heights. Also walking distance to the zoo, Rock Creek Park, and Adams Morgan. Transit is the bus or walking to Columbia Heights metro, depending exactly where you are.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Wait while I wipe a tear from my eye.

HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Are you serious?