Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

[Anonymous]

If you want fancy houses and cultured neighbors then move out of the low income neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

re: teardown vs. addition. There are a lot of costs in a teardown that you can avoid with an addition, even a large one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want fancy houses and cultured neighbors then move out of the low income neighborhood.

Genuine question as someone who doesn't spend much time in the DC burbs: Is the neighborhood "low income"? NOT by DCUM standards but by any normal DC/NOVA/Marylander's standards.

I ask because no one interviewed in the news piece about it looked or sounded "low income" by any stretch. I get that it is not McLean or Vienna but it did not appear to be the type of neighborhood where one expects their immigrant neighbor to build what another poster here accurately described as a "three story rabbit hutch."

Additionally the houses on the street seem to be selling for $700-800K. That's not much by this area's standards, but it is often "starter home" territory for most 30-somethings. Are you suggesting that millennial home buyers deserve to live in a reboot of a third world country simply because they can't afford $1.5M houses like their parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like an AirBnB, or a place to rent out by the room.

No, it's they described it as a "multi-family dwelling" to the news station, aka a bunch of foreigners moving their in-laws over to America and making their neighbors suffer for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want fancy houses and cultured neighbors then move out of the low income neighborhood.

Genuine question as someone who doesn't spend much time in the DC burbs: Is the neighborhood "low income"? NOT by DCUM standards but by any normal DC/NOVA/Marylander's standards.

I ask because no one interviewed in the news piece about it looked or sounded "low income" by any stretch. I get that it is not McLean or Vienna but it did not appear to be the type of neighborhood where one expects their immigrant neighbor to build what another poster here accurately described as a "three story rabbit hutch."

Additionally the houses on the street seem to be selling for $700-800K. That's not much by this area's standards, but it is often "starter home" territory for most 30-somethings. Are you suggesting that millennial home buyers deserve to live in a reboot of a third world country simply because they can't afford $1.5M houses like their parents?

No it is not a low income neighborhood by normal standards. If you can see the houses are selling for $700k+, why even ask this?

[Anonymous]

Looks like a future brothel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like an AirBnB, or a place to rent out by the room.

No, it's they described it as a "multi-family dwelling" to the news station, aka a bunch of foreigners moving their in-laws over to America and making their neighbors suffer for it.

Who will monitor that? No one so they will be free to sublet it out to anyone.

[Anonymous]

If it is legally allowed, then the owner should be allowed to build it.

Somebody at permitting messed up and approved something they are not supposed to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like something out of the third world.

The homes that were already there were third world esque directionally speaking!

These weren’t masonry built brownstones!

This neighborhood isn't quite teardown territory yet. The land value is still significantly cheaper than the value of the shitbox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it is legally allowed, then the owner should be allowed to build it.

Somebody at permitting messed up and approved something they are not supposed to.

Doesn't look like it was legal so neighbor has a case.

[Anonymous]

4210 marble lane - the house in question was purchased for 488k in 2019 with a FHA mortgage. The next door neighbor from the video at 4208 purchased in 2016 at a very similar price. With the recent run up, they’ve appreciated 200-300k.

In a HCOL area, you can’t come in having high expectations of neighbors with this level of home. This is a low cost starter house type neighborhood that you move out of as soon as you can. Some folks just aren’t able to so they are stuck with the downsides of a low income neighborhood. It’s like living in the projects and complaining there’s crime to the news.

The 4210 folks would’ve been better off selling and buying in Aldie or similar using the joint family $$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4210 marble lane - the house in question was purchased for 488k in 2019 with a FHA mortgage. The next door neighbor from the video at 4208 purchased in 2016 at a very similar price. With the recent run up, they’ve appreciated 200-300k.

In a HCOL area, you can’t come in having high expectations of neighbors with this level of home. This is a low cost starter house type neighborhood that you move out of as soon as you can. Some folks just aren’t able to so they are stuck with the downsides of a low income neighborhood. It’s like living in the projects and complaining there’s crime to the news.

The 4210 folks would’ve been better off selling and buying in Aldie or similar using the joint family $$.

The ownership of 4210 actually bounces between two people starting in 2010.

06/20/2018 $488,500 N. to P.
03/15/2016 $0 P. to N.
06/28/2010 $0 N. To P.
06/23/2010 $323,000 to unrelated to N.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4210 marble lane - the house in question was purchased for 488k in 2019 with a FHA mortgage. The next door neighbor from the video at 4208 purchased in 2016 at a very similar price. With the recent run up, they’ve appreciated 200-300k.

In a HCOL area, you can’t come in having high expectations of neighbors with this level of home. This is a low cost starter house type neighborhood that you move out of as soon as you can. Some folks just aren’t able to so they are stuck with the downsides of a low income neighborhood. It’s like living in the projects and complaining there’s crime to the news.

The 4210 folks would’ve been better off selling and buying in Aldie or similar using the joint family $$.

Low income projects? This isn't Sterling or Centreville. Some homes in this neighborhood have been selling in the 900's recently.

[Anonymous]

It’s an early late 1960s/early 1970s subdivision. HOAs were not a thing then, but it has a community pool (membership required), tennis courts, trails, two elementary schools within the subdivision, and backs to Chantilly HS (a strong HS).

There are other homes in the subdivision that have been added onto. Most keep with the style of the original home. This is a monstrosity. The original home is a simple two story cape cod. That type of home could be found in Arlington just as easily. Anyone want this eye sore in Arlington? Think not. Fairfax county did the wrong thing approving this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another Asian bringing down the neighborhood.

I say this as a child of an Asian parent who treats her property as if it was Sanford & Son's opening image. Even my uncle, her brother, who is a real estate shark looked at her house and said "I can always tell if an Asian person owns a particular home".

It's a feature of Confucian culture not to prioritize any responsibility towards your neighbor. One's only obligation is to the family and that's all that matters. Clearly here, housing the extended family, even if it means trampling on the neighbor's access to sky is a bigger priority than the community.

What a terrible thing to do to the property values of your neighbors.

This is so not true and it is terrible that you’re negatively stereotyping your own cultural just base on your family. Not all Asians are selfish and most are very considerate of their neighbors and care about the overall aesthetics of the neighborhood they reside. Asians are known to value living in a harmonic neighborhood.