Anonymous
05/23/2019 18:23
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:The close in parts of McLean you call Lower McLean has come a long way in the last five years. You'd be surprised at the tear downs and the new developments. It may lack the big prestigious neighborhoods and celebrities, but trust me it is nicer than either Arlington or Great Falls and pretty much on par with the more traditional fancy-pants McLean neighborhoods.
I like it closer to the city. I get the difference but I just prefer to be closer to the city and I don't care about prestige. People like that PP are part of the reason why I prefer being in one of the closer in neighborhoods.
Anonymous
05/23/2019 18:09
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
The close in parts of McLean you call Lower McLean has come a long way in the last five years. You'd be surprised at the tear downs and the new developments. It may lack the big prestigious neighborhoods and celebrities, but trust me it is nicer than either Arlington or Great Falls and pretty much on par with the more traditional fancy-pants McLean neighborhoods.
Anonymous
05/23/2019 17:58
Subject: Re:McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make all the same interior design choices, but I like the house. Franklin Park is a fantastic neighborhood.
FP booster.
Franklin park is the absolute best of all worlds, larger lots and a great falls experience but close to dc
I’d take a big GF lot over this. If I had to live in McLean, I wouldn’t want to be in Lower McLean. I’d prefer something fancier. This is basically Arlington.
Much of Arlington is more expensive than Great Falls now. This part of McLean commands high prices because it’s close to DC, but has larger lots than are typical in Arlington.
And no one uses the term “Lower McLean” IRL.
Yes, but no one chooses Arlington over McLean. Get out of here. Great Falls, fine, but even these parts of McLean are nicer than Arlington.
Anonymous
05/23/2019 07:10
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it a requirement to be rich and have a lot of money that you have to be attracted to and like horrible fugly looking things? Why are so many of these multi-million dollar houses in this area horrible abominations?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your own lot in life?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your lack of taste? -DP with $$$ house.
When posters like you pop up and so obviously betray their jealousy? No.
“Jealousy”? Why so defensive?
I actually like this house. And I like my house which is also $$$.
I think your automatic reaction that PPs who do NOT like it must do so out if jealousy says more about you than them. You feel like you need to tear them down to feel good about yourself. Guess what? You don’t need gobs of money to have taste. And having gobs of money does not automatically give you taste.
PP doesn’t like this house (or probably mine), but that is most likely because she has different taste, not because of the price tag.
When I look at $20m homes (for fun) there are some I like and some I don’t. It’s not about the price tag. I can have an opinion about the style independent of the value.
You should ask PP which $3m homes she does like instead of tearing her down. It makes you look less like a jerk.
Anonymous
05/23/2019 06:48
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it a requirement to be rich and have a lot of money that you have to be attracted to and like horrible fugly looking things? Why are so many of these multi-million dollar houses in this area horrible abominations?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your own lot in life?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your lack of taste? -DP with $$$ house.
When posters like you pop up and so obviously betray their jealousy? No.
Anonymous
05/23/2019 06:14
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it a requirement to be rich and have a lot of money that you have to be attracted to and like horrible fugly looking things? Why are so many of these multi-million dollar houses in this area horrible abominations?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your own lot in life?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your lack of taste? -DP with $$$ house.
Anonymous
05/22/2019 21:46
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Is it a requirement to be rich and have a lot of money that you have to be attracted to and like horrible fugly looking things? Why are so many of these multi-million dollar houses in this area horrible abominations?
Has it occurred to you that your reaction is a defense mechanism to make you feel better about your own lot in life?
Anonymous
05/22/2019 21:42
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Is it a requirement to be rich and have a lot of money that you have to be attracted to and like horrible fugly looking things? Why are so many of these multi-million dollar houses in this area horrible abominations?
Anonymous
05/22/2019 20:03
Subject: Re:McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make all the same interior design choices, but I like the house. Franklin Park is a fantastic neighborhood.
FP booster.
Franklin park is the absolute best of all worlds, larger lots and a great falls experience but close to dc
+1
Anonymous
05/22/2019 20:01
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah Craftsman is the best middle ground
Farmhouse is ok if you go more neutral inside. Most homes have white shaker kitchen cabinets and either white or wood shaker bath vanities.
Should be Craftsman waynescoating not wood panels.
This house is too customized to taste to appeal to everyone.
A farmhouse is only ok if you live on...wait for it...a FARM. Otherwise it's just stupid and pretentious.
There are lot of old farmhouses around here on smaller lots that used to be huge lots but we subdivided almost a century ago. I live in one .
Anonymous
05/22/2019 08:00
Subject: McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:According to the NAR:
“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin. Steering on the basis of any of the characteristics defined under the Fair Housing Act is not only unethical, it’s illegal because it limits the housing opportunities available to that buyer. Steering occurs when an agent limits the housing options available to a buyer by directing prospective homebuyers interested in equivalent properties to different neighborhoods or communities or even different parts of the same development according to the buyer’s race or other characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act."
None of the statements in the listing steer buyers. They promote a house with objectively true statements (Chesterbrook has LLIV) and typical realtor puffery (schools are "exceptional" and known for their "academic excellence") that no one tasked with enforcing the FHA would construe as steering a particular buyer based upon the buyer's race, color, religion, gender, disability, familiar status, or national origin. To make any such argument you'd have to rely on the exact type of stereotype- i.e., AAs aren't interested in good schools - that the FHA was designed to prevent.
While the government can limit commercial speech in some circumstances, it would have a hard time defending the restrictions that you apparently have in mind, and in any event they go beyond the conduct that the FHA regulates.
Exactly this. This law protects against a realtor steering *a particular client* a certain way based on any of the above discriminatory basis. Advertising to everyone doesn't violate this. Some realtors avoid all discussions of schools to play it overly cautious, but this realtor didn't violate any laws.
Anonymous
05/22/2019 01:11
Subject: Re:McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make all the same interior design choices, but I like the house. Franklin Park is a fantastic neighborhood.
FP booster.
Franklin park is the absolute best of all worlds, larger lots and a great falls experience but close to dc
I’d take a big GF lot over this. If I had to live in McLean, I wouldn’t want to be in Lower McLean. I’d prefer something fancier. This is basically Arlington.
Is this a troll or just stupid? Maybe old and elderly trying to sell their 90s Great Falls McMansion Monstrosity?
Anonymous
05/21/2019 23:13
Subject: Re:McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make all the same interior design choices, but I like the house. Franklin Park is a fantastic neighborhood.
FP booster.
Franklin park is the absolute best of all worlds, larger lots and a great falls experience but close to dc
I’d take a big GF lot over this. If I had to live in McLean, I wouldn’t want to be in Lower McLean. I’d prefer something fancier. This is basically Arlington.
Much of Arlington is more expensive than Great Falls now. This part of McLean commands high prices because it’s close to DC, but has larger lots than are typical in Arlington.
And no one uses the term “Lower McLean” IRL.
Anonymous
05/21/2019 22:50
Subject: Re:McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make all the same interior design choices, but I like the house. Franklin Park is a fantastic neighborhood.
FP booster.
Franklin park is the absolute best of all worlds, larger lots and a great falls experience but close to dc
I’d take a big GF lot over this. If I had to live in McLean, I wouldn’t want to be in Lower McLean. I’d prefer something fancier. This is basically Arlington.
LOL. Clueless.
Anonymous
05/21/2019 21:23
Subject: Re:McLean Modern Farmhouse Designed by Lauren Leiss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make all the same interior design choices, but I like the house. Franklin Park is a fantastic neighborhood.
FP booster.
Franklin park is the absolute best of all worlds, larger lots and a great falls experience but close to dc
I’d take a big GF lot over this. If I had to live in McLean, I wouldn’t want to be in Lower McLean. I’d prefer something fancier. This is basically Arlington.