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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thought I'd add our story to the growing list of 'anecdotal' city homebuyer success stories.  We bought our rowhouse in east Columbia Heights in '02 for under 200K.  Drug dealing, trash on our street, etc.  Today, half the houses on our street have turned over, five in the last two years for over 400k, the latest sold a few months ago for over 500K.  We've got a preschooler and a toddler, with our oldest in a DCPS school a five minute drive away with a waitlist in the hundreds and working the various lotteries available here in the city just in case we get lucky again and can upgrade further.  No doubt it's taken some effort to make life work here, and we have long since gotten over our choices not making sense to everyone.  [b]The wealth and position of strength we're operating with now is something we attribute directly to giving this city a chance. [/b] Not saying it's perfect or that we wouldn't ever change where we live -- but it won't be out of desperation.[/quote]

Agreed!  It's the greater risk that yields the greater reward.  In our case, it was a calculated risk, but I don't regret it.  We live in Bloomingdale, and we love it here.  There are houses 4 or 5 blocks east which are going for more than what we paid a few years ago.  I'll agree that the local DCPS options are bad, the neighborhood families we know are all either in 3 select charters (LAMB, Two Rivers, Yu Ying) or else private (WIS).  I know there are children in the neighborhood at Walker-Jones and Emery, but we don't know their families.  If there are people underwater or looking to leave, I don't know them.  It's a small neighborhood.[/quote]

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