PSA

[hel_ana]

For any of you currently trying to lure people down to Tampa, a co-worker just put one of his houses on the market. (He'd been renting it but got tired of late/missed payments from the tenants.)

The listing is here: http://awp261524474.mfr.mlxchange.com/?r=1251269707 (click "Click here to view 1 properties")

The house is a 1925 3br/1br bungalow at 210 W North Bay St, which is about as far south of Hillsborough Ave as Bob and Angel are north of it, and it's just a bit west of them.

He's asking $149K.

Comments

[maladr1n.livejournal.com]

Hrm, I think that is right down the street from me.

I am about 3-4 blocks S of MLK, and just 2 blocks W of Florida ...

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I looked at a few houses down there. Some nice ones for sure. The neighborhood is hit or miss by street, but it's mighty close to the little antique mall with the ice cream shop.

Blast. We don't have any ice cream shops close.

[maladr1n.livejournal.com]

FWIW, it's such an up-and-coming neighborhood. Really. It's far less expensive than Seminole Heights proper. I technically live in Tampa Heights. We priced a lot out, and houses in Seminole Heights that were roughly in the ballpark of what we bought (size, condition etc) were anywhere from $20k - $50k more.

The property value in our current neighborhood is already going up. I saw a house literally a block away from me sell for $170 a month ago and I'm positive it's smaller than our house, and quite a bit more than what we paid.

As far as the neighbrohood, we moved here from Sulphur Springs, so feel like we're practically living on Bayshore. I've had no complaints about the neighbors. There aren't roaming bands of children wandering aimlessly destroying everything in their wake, no domestic calls up and down the street 4 nights a week, no bluegrass band practicing on the front porch across the street, no drug dealers, no prostitutes, no abandoned stolen vehicles in the road regularly ... you get the idea. everyone seems to know each other where I am, and everyone seems to keep an eye out for each other.

Not to mention - who can bitch about a 3 minute drive to downtown and a 4 minute drive to Ybor?

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

We looked at Tampa Heights, but there wasn't anything for sale at the time we bought. While we are in Seminole Heights proper (We're just South of Sligh off Central), we are also 1 street from I-275 so this is NOT the desirable part of the Historic area.

The whole area North of Downtown is experiencing a real estate boom and good for it. Our house has probably increased in value 20K in the 8 months we've been - and that's without all the work we've done.

[warpedwitch.livejournal.com]

*pokes* i'm probably going to have to make some standard spiel about posting address on an unlocked post pretty soon...:o

but my 3br/2ba house is 39k cheaper...wanna move again? ;D

[hel_ana]

But the address is for an uninhabited house that's up for sale several miles away from where I live......

[warpedwitch.livejournal.com]

my gut hunch wants to tell you to shop a bit more, be sure about that price....

but then property prices here are lower....

[hel_ana]

Oh, not considering buying ourselves. It was a courtesy to the co-worker who's selling it, since I know that some of my friends around here have people they're trying to get down here, into that general area.

[warpedwitch.livejournal.com]

aah, ok...:D