21 Sep 06 A Climate Conducive To Growth
The house we are leasing is located in a brand new development on the north side of town. The houses are nice, big, and close together. The neighborhood is cheap by Arlington standards but still quite expensive by our standards. The average house price is in the low $500,000! Don’t you just love those signs promoting a particular house development. Now from the low $700,000! I’m travelling in a different circle as the words low and $700K just don’t seem to fit in the same sentence.
During the day our neighborhood is a ghost town. Everyone leaves and goes to work. During the evenings not much happens as well. People come home, some right into their garages, not to be seen from again. Heard from yes, but not seen. Remember, the houses are close together. As a side note, Stockton made the list of most over-valued houses. Hooray for Stockton! Hooray for us! (He said sarcastically as he silently cursed under his keyboard).
Just the other day the fine members of the Stockton PD busted a rather large marijuana growing operation. It seems some creative people had purchased quite a few of these new houses (They have now found 9 total in our area and are finding more as the investigation continues) and turned them into greenhouses. The intererior of the house, every available space, was used to grow marijuana - for medicinal purposes of course. Drip systems, grow lights, timers, dimmers, climate control, specially tinted windows they say it was a pretty impressive set up. Each house contained around 500 mature plants. If you’ve been doing the math that’s one expensive greenhouse.
Two of the house are in our neighborhood. Just two blocks away. In fact, Beth mentioned seeing a bunch of police cars gathering on a nearby street the other night and now we know the reason for the gathering. The creative energy and effort is to be commended. It’s a shame that same creative energy and effort is not channeled in a different direction. So let’s play real-estate listing agent. At some point these houses will be put back on the market. A creative realtor will find a way to "package" these houses and paint them in a colorful light. Take a "crack" at writing your own listing for these soon to be available houses.
I’ll get the ball "rolling" with: "Wide open floor plan . . ."
The most creative listing will receive a box of Swiss chocolates direct from our importers in Switzerland - strictly for medicinal purposes! Winner must pay all shipping and handling fees.
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Hey, just declare me the winner and then there won’t be any shipping fees.
Now I understand though how those houses could be in the HIGH 500,000s.
Atrium living room!
Buy now … don’t let this neighborhood go to pot!
Have Brady send me the chocolate COD.
A must see home in an “upper†type neighborhood. The finest construction including all “joints.†We don’t like to “push†our homes so we do limit our “dealers.†Buy now before the market “bust.â€
5:18 pm EST - Did I win? Brady isn’t flying me out to Switzerland but do I get the Swiss Chocalate?
There has been a lot of “buzz” in the neighbor”hood” about this “joint”. To let this “pass” would be a “wasted” opportunity.
“ere”, dude, let me show you and your “buds”.
Real estate tip: “buy high, get high”