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Anonymous wrote:How much would you offer?

$650K at the most. It's horrifically dated, and I'd be worried about noise from the upstairs owners in a building like this. It's not a high rise, so they probably used wood between floors, which means if your upstairs neighbors play loud music or stomp while walking, you'll probably hear it all.

That’s about $200K less than any similar unit at Union Park has sold over the past year. You aren’t playing with a full deck.

Redfin conveniently linked to a couple of the recent sales:
https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/7421-Backett-Wood-Ter-22102/unit-1311/home/177559736
https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/7405-Backett-Wood-Ter-22102/home/197305506

If you think this one is anywhere close to as nice as those, you're not playing with a full deck. $650K is the right price for a dated condo. Anyone is of course free to overpay.

You are being too generous. I wouldn’t pay more than $350K for this. It’s townhome. It will never appreciate. If you want to throw money down the drain, go for it.

These units are selling for over $800K. You are totally delusional about DC area real estate. Have you considered moving to Omaha?

It’s not worth that price. It’s small, the kitchen/living/dining is small, it’s a one car garage, the bedrooms are tiny, no real counter space in the kitchen. Buildings of less than five stories don’t need steel reinforcement, so it’s probably just wood. So it’d a starter condo for someone who works at Mitre or something else nearby, and those places aren’t hiring right now. If you had the entire stack of four floors and a two car garage it would be too many stairs, but worth more.

Anonymous wrote:You’d need a thick skin to live in a townhouse and send your kid to Langley. They look down on kids who don’t live in big houses.

It sounds like you have a thin skin.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much would you offer?

$650K at the most. It's horrifically dated, and I'd be worried about noise from the upstairs owners in a building like this. It's not a high rise, so they probably used wood between floors, which means if your upstairs neighbors play loud music or stomp while walking, you'll probably hear it all.

That’s about $200K less than any similar unit at Union Park has sold over the past year. You aren’t playing with a full deck.

Redfin conveniently linked to a couple of the recent sales:
https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/7421-Backett-Wood-Ter-22102/unit-1311/home/177559736
https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/7405-Backett-Wood-Ter-22102/home/197305506

If you think this one is anywhere close to as nice as those, you're not playing with a full deck. $650K is the right price for a dated condo. Anyone is of course free to overpay.

You are being too generous. I wouldn’t pay more than $350K for this. It’s townhome. It will never appreciate. If you want to throw money down the drain, go for it.

You’d need a thick skin to live in a townhouse and send your kid to Langley. They look down on kids who don’t live in big houses.