Another new Pimmit Hills Home on the market

[Anonymous]

23:27 - THIS.

Why is an HOA the only solution? PP must have not owned many homes, if at all. You make no sense.

If you spend $1m on a home, you certainly don't want a shanty next door.

Is this so hard for you to understand? You really have to be narrow minded. And tiresome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:23:27 - THIS.

Why is an HOA the only solution? PP must have not owned many homes, if at all. You make no sense.

If you spend $1m on a home, you certainly don't want a shanty next door.

Is this so hard for you to understand? You really have to be narrow minded. And tiresome!

All older neighborhood have a high change of being next to a small rambler. By your definition most of north Arlington is a shanty town with random towering mcmansion you tard.

[Anonymous]

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All older neighborhood have a high change of being next to a small rambler. By your definition most of north Arlington is a shanty town with random towering mcmansion you tard.

Different poster here. The existing housing stock in PH is one reason why the new houses there are the "bargains" that you claim they are and why there is a ceiling on the price of new construction there relative to Bethesda, Arlington, McLean, Vienna and other parts of Falls Church. It's not necessarily snobbery, but a lot of people would be very uncomfortable moving into a new house that is so much bigger than the neighboring homes. The houses in North Arlington generally are bigger than the original 850 SF houses in PH, not to mention better construction quality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Uh, the house behind it, with 4 pickup trucks in the driveway (and not looking like it is likely undergoing renovation). What exactly is on the roof?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7600+FISHER+Dr+FALLS+CHURCH,+VA+22043&ll=38.911456,-77.20715&spn=0.005084,0.009645&sll=38.911696,-77.207199&layer=c&cbp=13,318.96,,0,16.82&cbll=38.911409,-77.207242&gl=us&hnear=7600+Fisher+Dr,+Falls+Church,+Fairfax,+Virginia+22043&t=m&z=17&panoid=1HNj1WOY8AFy5ohX8bKdGw

And then go down 1 house over and there is another brand new home http://goo.gl/maps/pxCCm

Point being people are building new homes it's just a matter of time and you can either get in early. I don't get why all the hate because in South Arlington and DC you get into gentrifying neighborhood and there is no hope of the schools being good or even the location being that great.

Oh, the solar panel was confusing, because of the streams of rust under it from the roof. I suspect that solar array was from the last great solar revolution, after the oil embargo in the 70s!

Another spec home; the re-development of the area seems to be still in early days, and could back track. You can read many other threads about being a 'pioneer' and having a radically more expensive home than is normal for an area. Why aren't these homes being replaced by modest middle-class homes, rather than trying to push PH into a new McLean. That would be a gradual evolution that integrates into the neighborhood better and builds a community.

No argument that being an urban pioneer in DC or S. Arl would be just as fraught, except location of those areas are generally not nestled between the toll road and the beltway and i-66, ie. an island in a sea of highways. There are limits to what can be done with the neighborhood b/c of these significant boundaries.

+10000

[Anonymous]

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
All older neighborhood have a high change of being next to a small rambler. By your definition most of north Arlington is a shanty town with random towering mcmansion you tard.

Different poster here. The existing housing stock in PH is one reason why the new houses there are the "bargains" that you claim they are and why there is a ceiling on the price of new construction there relative to Bethesda, Arlington, McLean, Vienna and other parts of Falls Church. It's not necessarily snobbery, but a lot of people would be very uncomfortable moving into a new house that is so much bigger than the neighboring homes. The houses in North Arlington generally are bigger than the original 850 SF houses in PH, not to mention better construction quality.

Homes in PH are very different than older ramblers/split levels and small colonials/cape cods in N.Arlington/Mclean/Bethesda/FC. Most of the older homes in these areas are bigger in size, usually brick vs.siding and have large basements and often garages. Most older places in PH look like mobile homes plopped on decent size lots.

[Anonymous]

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I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

But, obvs, some people who can afford them ara looking into Pimmit and buying them. There is something in the neighborhood that works for them. They WANT to live there and pay good money to. Why is that so hard to wrap your head around?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

It's not near the GW Parkway. Maybe you meant the Dulles Toll Road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

There have been new houses @$900K in the Falls Place development off Shreve Road. That's a nicer area than PH and I wouldn't be surprised to see additional development off Shreve or Idylwood in that price range.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

There have been new houses @$900K in the Falls Place development off Shreve Road. That's a nicer area than PH and I wouldn't be surprised to see additional development off Shreve or Idylwood in that price range.

True but that area isn't a planned neighborhood with sidewalks and adjacent streets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

There have been new houses @$900K in the Falls Place development off Shreve Road. That's a nicer area than PH and I wouldn't be surprised to see additional development off Shreve or Idylwood in that price range.

True but that area isn't a planned neighborhood with sidewalks and adjacent streets.

And it's not that near to a metro or walkable to anything near. it's a small real estate development of 5 homes not a neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

There have been new houses @$900K in the Falls Place development off Shreve Road. That's a nicer area than PH and I wouldn't be surprised to see additional development off Shreve or Idylwood in that price range.

True but that area isn't a planned neighborhood with sidewalks and adjacent streets.

And it's not that near to a metro or walkable to anything near. it's a small real estate development of 5 homes not a neighborhood.

You asked; I answered. I think it's a more desirable location for an expensive house than PH, which is still mostly much smaller houses, many of them in very poor condition. Not quite as many chain-link fences and yards that haven't seen a gardener in decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't think people who can afford the nice new houses are wasting their time with these people, seriously.

Most of the people who can afford houses that cost as much as a new PH McMansion are looking somewhere else, seriously.

Where can you get a new home with excellent schools,inside the beltway, near 2 metros, a neighborhood with mature trees and sidewalks, near 66, 495 and GW parkway for 1 million or lower? Please tell me!

It's not near the GW Parkway. Maybe you meant the Dulles Toll Road.

5 minutes is near. 3 miles max