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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Always love a thoughtful EOTR post! We've lived here for 6+ years, in the NE portion of EOTR near the Safeway. Not too far from your third listing. If you visited it in person, you know that it has train tracks in the backyard. As far as neighborhoods, there are lots of nice areas east of Minnesota, between E Capitol and Burroughs (at least this is the area I'm most familiar with). Also, River Terrace. Hillcrest and Penn Branch in the SE portion of Ward 7 are definitely more upscale, but I like the proximity to Metro and lower prices of NE. What is your budget? If you keep looking a little longer, I think you will find a greater selection of nice EOTR homes.

Kids go to a Ward 7 public charter school, but we also found a local DCPS we would have been comfortable with as a backup. On the whole, we love living here as the pros greatly outweigh the cons. Your statement that you are less concerned with how the area is today does give me pause. I would only recommend EOTR if you like it the way it is now (and take any improvement as a bonus). Things move slowly and at least our neighborhood does not feel substantially different now than when we moved in. Which is fine with us![/quote]

Hey there-and thank you. So my budget is $350 and I don't need a lot of space.  I could go up to 475 but that would scrap our full summers in Trinidad which we cannooottttt give up. So i'm with you in terms of lower cost and proximity to metro. I'm happy to hold out and keep looking but my partner wants to pull the trigger given interest rates.

Also I prefer the original classic DC (go-go, people saying hello, etc.) hence EOTR but my partner wants 'transitional'.  I worry about 'transitional areas' (i'm using the congress heights location as an example) because one too many vacant buildings screams crime scene awaits.  the food hall looks great-i saw the ground  break for that over by benning road. But i don't need union market nor ivy city. I'm looking for real/authentic communities and apologize if my post sounds pro-gentrification.

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Newly renovated is going for over $400 in my neighborhood, but you should definitely be able to find move-in ready options for $300-400 in the swath of neighborhoods I outlined above. I would generally not describe it as transitional, rather working and middle class in the true sense (not in the DCUM sense where $300k a year is considered "middle class"). It sounds like you'll find what you are looking for EOTR. Good luck![/quote]

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