INSANELY overpriced listing in Loudoun

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would not buy it at any price.

I see 3 major flaws:
House sitting on flood plane
Well water
Septic tank

See for yourself on Redfin.
https://www.redfin.com/VA/Leesburg/39548-Whispering-Brook-Pl-20175/home/56518792" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.redfin.com/VA/Leesburg/39548-Whispering-Brook-Pl-20175/home/56518792

I looked the property up on FEMAs map, it’s zone X, so nothing to worry about.

And septics and wells are just part of life when you live in the country. It’s a stupid ass reason not to buy a house.

Not really. It's a legitimate extra expense and inconvenience for sure. We were so happy to move and leave the well, septic, water softener, generator and oil behind. Even two of those factors (well and septic) can be too much.

And we moved not further back in, still "out" just within a city limit that offered services. Such a relief. Don't pretend to know people's stupid ass reasons for avoiding a house! That and the easement, maintenance of roads for this house are huge turnoffs.

So many misinformed takes on here about well and septic. They add no additional costs (because you’re not paying a water utility - which more than makes up for electricity running a well pump and septic pump out) and the “inconvenience” is a once every 5 year visit from the septic pump out.

The “inconvenience” with a generator is that some models you have to run periodically to keep the battery charged.

The idea that these would determine your house buying is laughable.

New poster here. Your comments are rude and your reactions make clear you have something to do with this house. I'm another person who would not buy a house with a well. I know a lot about them and the problems that can arise. The combo of well and septic makes it even more unattractive. This is a Mcmansion not a mansion. The lack of landscaping around it and being plopped in the middle of an open field is unattractive. I also know this neighborhood and people who live there. I do think it's a nice house and that the examples the poster gave as examples of comps are not comparable to this house. It is nicer but not 2.2 nicer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am cracking up about people crowing about “old money” in Loudoun. Being wealthy because your mee-maw and paw-paw made some money by virtue of being among the first white settlers in the area and enslaving a bunch of black folk is not something to feel proud and grand over. Then again, that is probably exactly what Trumpsters feel grand over.

That isn't 90% of Loudoun. Loudoun is mostly escapees from Fairfax who started moving in droves 15 years or so ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I am cracking up about people crowing about “old money” in Loudoun. Being wealthy because your mee-maw and paw-paw made some money by virtue of being among the first white settlers in the area and enslaving a bunch of black folk is not something to feel proud and grand over. Then again, that is probably exactly what Trumpsters feel grand over.

Oh sweetie, all the slaves were in Alexandria, including the part that it is now Arlington, Fairfax County, especially along the Potomac River, Maryland and DC. The old money in Loudoun County is from the people who made their money elsewhere and moved to Loudoun County to get away from people like you.

Oh sweetie, tons of slaves in Loudoun. John Mosby and his raiders? All slave owners in Loudoun and Fauquier determined to “maintain the southern way of life”. Most of the sons of the farms in these counties joined the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of REL.

Wait, Loudoun still allows slavery? The people buying these homes are or were slave-owners? I feel like this should be bigger news!

[Anonymous]

House is an bit overpriced. A 2 mil house should have more than a 2 car garage. The kitchen is above average but nothing spectacular. The master bath has a horrible layout and huge wasted tub surround. Also anyone notice they granted driveway access to two other homes off their property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:House is an bit overpriced. A 2 mil house should have more than a 2 car garage. The kitchen is above average but nothing spectacular. The master bath has a horrible layout and huge wasted tub surround. Also anyone notice they granted driveway access to two other homes off their property.

These are such specific things to feel need to be included.

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This house should have never closed at the price it did. It is a tear down.

Who buys a house that the last owner put tile on the deck. Or covered a window in Laundry room, & toured this home, plumbing and electrical are not code and looked like HO did all the work and not in a good way. Floors are horrible. Front of house drains into the house yard slopes towards the house.

This house is a nightmare and yet it sold.
https://www.longandfoster.com/homes-for-sale/12400-Silent-Wolf-Drive-Manassas-VA-20112-361628698

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s funny every time a listing like this comes up, the DCUM crew who think they’re so wealthy and privileged hyperventilate about why someone would pay to live “SO FAR!!”.

The entire market of western loudoun and adjacent areas is filled with large houses on large pieces of land and owned by people who have lots of money and don’t have to work in the same way DC-centric office drones need to, if they have to work at all.

But to all the inside the beltway drones, these people can’t possibly be spending much on real estate because where does their money come from if they don’t work in a building in DC upstairs from a Chopt?

Wait till you learn there are properties that cost 10x this much.

The real money in the region lives in western Loudoun and they don’t care if you think they live far away and they’re unconcerned with what your commute would be if you lived where they do. To them, the people who are tied to their offices have the lowest quality of life and they can’t understand why anyone would pay millions to be on a 2000sf lot.

My DH and I both work fully remote and we still chose to be inside the beltway in a walkable neighborhood close to metro. Lots of my neighbors are the same. There’s plenty of money close-in and we’re not tied to some office building in DC (hence the dwindling commercial real estate market).

I can’t understand why anyone would pay to live in a McMansion on a plot of land in exurban sprawl (I am someone who needs mature trees and a good coffee shop to walk to).

To each their own, tell all the people in $3M+ homes in Arlington, McLean, Georgetown, CC, Bethesda etc. that the “real money” is practically out in WV.

We get that you "don't understand it." It's clear you don't understand a lot of things. But it's amusing you think your opinion is valid. This is often the case with people who are usually wrong but rarely in doubt, however. Stands to reason.

BTW, the house posted isn't a "McMansion." That's an actual mansion. A lot of the properties out here are.

This is where the old money is. People here aren't wage slaves. We also have mature trees and ... shhhhh ... cawfee. We also have wineries, breweries, mountains, axe throwing venues, charming towns with old fashioned main streets. We have ethnic restaurants and professional sports. All the things. And many things you cannot find closer in.

Ethnic restaurants? For craps sake gramma get out of your bubble.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is likely an agent posting. There's a typical pattern on here where the agent will post, but ask whether the price is too high or point out some flaw, as a way to make it seem like an agent is not posting. But the goal is accomplished -- more clicks on the listing and bringing it to the attention of more people who might not necessarily have otherwise considered it.

I think you're imagining things. Agents don't bother with sites like this. There's no upside.

Think again grammy. Agents are always all over this site and come to talk about their listings often.

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Anonymous wrote:That landscaping (or lack thereof) makes me angry. The house looks like it was plunked down in the middle of a sad field.

That's because it probably was. That house could be any price, but I could never live in it. I just need a tree near me for some shade and some squirrels and birds. Even legit farmhouses in the middle of hundreds of acres have trees around the main house. I hate clearcutting an area to put up McMansions.

All that grass and NOTHING else. It kinda gives me the heebie jeebies. Too exposed. It's like trees are illegal. Even fencing. Something. It's so antiseptic. You need fencing if you have a dog! Just something interesting to look at. [/quote

Not too long ago in neighborhoods like these, people let their dogs run free. I hated parts of Clifton and Fairfax Station because of that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s funny every time a listing like this comes up, the DCUM crew who think they’re so wealthy and privileged hyperventilate about why someone would pay to live “SO FAR!!”.

The entire market of western loudoun and adjacent areas is filled with large houses on large pieces of land and owned by people who have lots of money and don’t have to work in the same way DC-centric office drones need to, if they have to work at all.

But to all the inside the beltway drones, these people can’t possibly be spending much on real estate because where does their money come from if they don’t work in a building in DC upstairs from a Chopt?

Wait till you learn there are properties that cost 10x this much.

The real money in the region lives in western Loudoun and they don’t care if you think they live far away and they’re unconcerned with what your commute would be if you lived where they do. To them, the people who are tied to their offices have the lowest quality of life and they can’t understand why anyone would pay millions to be on a 2000sf lot.

My DH and I both work fully remote and we still chose to be inside the beltway in a walkable neighborhood close to metro. Lots of my neighbors are the same. There’s plenty of money close-in and we’re not tied to some office building in DC (hence the dwindling commercial real estate market).

I can’t understand why anyone would pay to live in a McMansion on a plot of land in exurban sprawl (I am someone who needs mature trees and a good coffee shop to walk to).

To each their own, tell all the people in $3M+ homes in Arlington, McLean, Georgetown, CC, Bethesda etc. that the “real money” is practically out in WV.

We get that you "don't understand it." It's clear you don't understand a lot of things. But it's amusing you think your opinion is valid. This is often the case with people who are usually wrong but rarely in doubt, however. Stands to reason.

BTW, the house posted isn't a "McMansion." That's an actual mansion. A lot of the properties out here are.

This is where the old money is. People here aren't wage slaves. We also have mature trees and ... shhhhh ... cawfee. We also have wineries, breweries, mountains, axe throwing venues, charming towns with old fashioned main streets. We have ethnic restaurants and professional sports. All the things. And many things you cannot find closer in.

This house is a mcmansion despite your words to the contrary and you'd better believe people who live in this neighborhood are "wage slaves", what a disgusting term btw, just like everyone else. Ask me how I know dearest pretentious one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This house should have never closed at the price it did. It is a tear down.

Who buys a house that the last owner put tile on the deck. Or covered a window in Laundry room, & toured this home, plumbing and electrical are not code and looked like HO did all the work and not in a good way. Floors are horrible. Front of house drains into the house yard slopes towards the house.

This house is a nightmare and yet it sold.
https://www.longandfoster.com/homes-for-sale/12400-Silent-Wolf-Drive-Manassas-VA-20112-361628698

Is that a drain in the front yard (pic 4).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is quite far. Lots of Trumpers live out there.

Not any more. We are solidly dem out here. You have to go further west to true horse country and they're being taken over as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:traffic in Leesburg is absolutely awful

How cute. Traffic in Vienna, Bethesda, Mclean is worse. Keep trying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:traffic in Leesburg is absolutely awful

How cute. Traffic in Vienna, Bethesda, Mclean is worse. Keep trying.

Agree! I moved to Leesburg from just inside the beltway and that comment made me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s funny every time a listing like this comes up, the DCUM crew who think they’re so wealthy and privileged hyperventilate about why someone would pay to live “SO FAR!!”.

The entire market of western loudoun and adjacent areas is filled with large houses on large pieces of land and owned by people who have lots of money and don’t have to work in the same way DC-centric office drones need to, if they have to work at all.

But to all the inside the beltway drones, these people can’t possibly be spending much on real estate because where does their money come from if they don’t work in a building in DC upstairs from a Chopt?

Wait till you learn there are properties that cost 10x this much.

The real money in the region lives in western Loudoun and they don’t care if you think they live far away and they’re unconcerned with what your commute would be if you lived where they do. To them, the people who are tied to their offices have the lowest quality of life and they can’t understand why anyone would pay millions to be on a 2000sf lot.

My DH and I both work fully remote and we still chose to be inside the beltway in a walkable neighborhood close to metro. Lots of my neighbors are the same. There’s plenty of money close-in and we’re not tied to some office building in DC (hence the dwindling commercial real estate market).

I can’t understand why anyone would pay to live in a McMansion on a plot of land in exurban sprawl (I am someone who needs mature trees and a good coffee shop to walk to).

To each their own, tell all the people in $3M+ homes in Arlington, McLean, Georgetown, CC, Bethesda etc. that the “real money” is practically out in WV.

We get that you "don't understand it." It's clear you don't understand a lot of things. But it's amusing you think your opinion is valid. This is often the case with people who are usually wrong but rarely in doubt, however. Stands to reason.

BTW, the house posted isn't a "McMansion." That's an actual mansion. A lot of the properties out here are.

This is where the old money is. People here aren't wage slaves. We also have mature trees and ... shhhhh ... cawfee. We also have wineries, breweries, mountains, axe throwing venues, charming towns with old fashioned main streets. We have ethnic restaurants and professional sports. All the things. And many things you cannot find closer in.

Ethnic restaurants? For craps sake gramma get out of your bubble.

Um, yeah. Some of the best Indian restaurants are in Loudoun. Vietnamese. Thai. Ethiopian. German -- More Better in Round Hill is awesome. Plus so many farm-to-table places.