A house for sale on a magical street in Bethesda

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I just spent an enjoyable half hour down the rabbit hole researching the house’s former owner. Would be very curious to know who is behind the “13 Enterprises LLC” that apparently is the current owner of the home. I have a question for anyone knowledgeable about the foreclosure process: are there circumstances under which you can get your home back after a bank has foreclosed if you come up with enough cash?

Yes, I believe you can go to the foreclosure auction at the courthouse with cash and accomplish this. Interested to hear from others, too.

The LLC's address is on the SDAT record page.

I saw that and looked up the incorporation documents (which include a different address for the company, in Bel Air), but they don’t list any actual people involved with the LLC.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG what a truly embarrassing promotional post. Magical OMG.

I had the same reaction. Please OP, give us a break. And update the listing with a floor plan. The photos don't give any sense of the flow of the living spaces and it's not obvious that there are 4 distinct upstairs bedrooms. And do some grading along with the landscaping, OP. Photo 29 looks like a flood waiting to happen.

Between the flowery wording in the listing that matches the same flowery wording in the OP I agree the agent is trying to promote this overpriced house. Shameful.

There are interior designers who are able to blend traditional houses with a modern aesthetic and make it work. Too bad these people didn’t utilize one.

As for the bathroom with the brass double mirrors: it evokes the set of Star Trek to me.

Lol, PP, I thought almost the same thing. Star Wars, Star Trek- something like that.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stripped of all personality and the street has no sidewalks. Yuk.

The streets having no sidewalks is exactly part of the charm. These are wide streets and pedestrian friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:This house is a huge flip. It was in foreclosure for a long time and finally purchased for 1 million 1.5 years ago. I just don’t see how it’s worth the listing price, when they really didn’t do that much work to it. Notice how the windows and roof are still very old? I bet this house has a lot of issues behind those walls.

The roof is slate. It will be old and not need replacement for probably another decade -- but when it does it will be at least $80k to redo slate.

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Ha, first impression: this is what I imagine the witch’s house from Hansel and Gretel looks like.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stripped of all personality and the street has no sidewalks. Yuk.

The streets having no sidewalks is exactly part of the charm. These are wide streets and pedestrian friendly.

Streets without sidewalks are not pedestrian friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stripped of all personality and the street has no sidewalks. Yuk.

The streets having no sidewalks is exactly part of the charm. These are wide streets and pedestrian friendly.

Streets without sidewalks are not pedestrian friendly.

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I would hate to live in a neighborhood without sidewalks. I don’t want to walk in the street. I think the whole point was to discourage walking in the first place, so you wouldn’t have riffraff walking about.

Idk, this kind of neighborhood is not for me. It’s pretty but nothing about it has changed except explicitly barring people based on race. It’s still intentionally homogeneous and very restrictive. I don’t deny that feels “easy” and “nice” but I’m not sure it really is.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the link:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7814-Hampden-Ln-Bethesda-MD-20814/37171181_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

This one is gorgeous on the inside too, and interior really fits the exterior. I would love to live here!

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Anonymous wrote:It’s stripped of all personality and the street has no sidewalks. Yuk.

The streets having no sidewalks is exactly part of the charm. These are wide streets and pedestrian friendly.

Streets without sidewalks are not pedestrian friendly.

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I would hate to live in a neighborhood without sidewalks. I don’t want to walk in the street. I think the whole point was to discourage walking in the first place, so you wouldn’t have riffraff walking about.

Idk, this kind of neighborhood is not for me. It’s pretty but nothing about it has changed except explicitly barring people based on race. It’s still intentionally homogeneous and very restrictive. I don’t deny that feels “easy” and “nice” but I’m not sure it really is.

I thought that the lack of sidewalks in Bethesda was just Montgomery County being cheap, back when the neighborhoods were developed. Trust me that people that live in Bethesda now definitely do complain about the lack of sidewalks. Many of us bought houses here without noticing that there were no sidewalks in the neighborhood. (Another example of cheapness when the area was developed -- above-ground power lines all throughout Bethesda.)

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People in Bethesda tend to be highly educated, and choose to live there for a reason (to live among other highly educated people). They would likely be welcoming to any new neighbor, so long as the new neighbor makes an effort to take care of their house and doesn't create a lot of noise or problems.

Stop digging -- you're embarrassing yourself. Telling Blacks "we'd welcome you in our neighborhood as long as you take care of your house and don't create noise or problems" isn't as welcoming as you think. If you lived in a neighborhood with Black residents maybe they could explain to you.

According to 2020 census data, the Black population share in Potomac (6.2%) and Chevy Chase (5.9%) is almost 50% higher than that of Bethesda (4.2%). At some point the residents of Bethesda might stop congratulating themselves on their highly educated attitudes and wonder why that is.

No matter where you live, this is a basic expectation - take care of the exterior of the house and don't create problems. We feel obliged to do this, regardless of our race.

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Why would you care how many blacks live in the neighborhood? About the last thing potential buyer is thinking about.

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The other house is much nicer but this one will sell quickly I think.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s stripped of all personality and the street has no sidewalks. Yuk.

The streets having no sidewalks is exactly part of the charm. These are wide streets and pedestrian friendly.

Streets without sidewalks are not pedestrian friendly.

a

I would hate to live in a neighborhood without sidewalks. I don’t want to walk in the street. I think the whole point was to discourage walking in the first place, so you wouldn’t have riffraff walking about.

Idk, this kind of neighborhood is not for me. It’s pretty but nothing about it has changed except explicitly barring people based on race. It’s still intentionally homogeneous and very restrictive. I don’t deny that feels “easy” and “nice” but I’m not sure it really is.

I thought that the lack of sidewalks in Bethesda was just Montgomery County being cheap, back when the neighborhoods were developed. Trust me that people that live in Bethesda now definitely do complain about the lack of sidewalks. Many of us bought houses here without noticing that there were no sidewalks in the neighborhood. (Another example of cheapness when the area was developed -- above-ground power lines all throughout Bethesda.)

It wasn’t cheapness at all, it was part of the marketing of a “country” environment. Private, everyone has a car, and random people don’t just walk by your house.

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People in Bethesda tend to be highly educated, and choose to live there for a reason (to live among other highly educated people). They would likely be welcoming to any new neighbor, so long as the new neighbor makes an effort to take care of their house and doesn't create a lot of noise or problems.

Stop digging -- you're embarrassing yourself. Telling Blacks "we'd welcome you in our neighborhood as long as you take care of your house and don't create noise or problems" isn't as welcoming as you think. If you lived in a neighborhood with Black residents maybe they could explain to you.

According to 2020 census data, the Black population share in Potomac (6.2%) and Chevy Chase (5.9%) is almost 50% higher than that of Bethesda (4.2%). At some point the residents of Bethesda might stop congratulating themselves on their highly educated attitudes and wonder why that is.

No matter where you live, this is a basic expectation - take care of the exterior of the house and don't create problems. We feel obliged to do this, regardless of our race.

In our neighborhood, because of how the history has played out, the houses with poor exterior maintenance tend to be the homes of older black homeowners who can no longer keep up with it and can’t afford to outsource. So it can be a sticky issue that, like everything else, gets tied up in our ongoing racial history.

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Anonymous wrote:The other house is much nicer but this one will sell quickly I think.

I don’t think so without a price drop.