At Home: Intown Housing Affordability, April To-Dos & Modern Farmhouse Style
Michelle Cavaliere | April 10, 2016 | 11:12 am
- Has Intown Atlanta Lost Affordable Housing for Good? [Atlanta Magazine]
- To-Dos: Your April Home Checklist [Houzz]
- 4 Smart Ways to Reinvest Your Tax Refund in Your Home [Clark Howard]
- Neighborhood Features that Drag Down Your Home Value [realtor.com]
- 7 Garden Trends for 2016 [PureWow]
- House Tour: Modern Farmhouse in Milton [AJC]
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I would at least state that affordable housing, in terms of ownership, is gone in Decatur.
There are a few sub-$175K condos here & there inside the city but they are obviously on the small side (and not near the square). So when I sell mine I need to advertise, “Affordable (for Decatur)!” on the listing?
You can get a small 1/1 condo at the Renaissance just off the square for around $175K. And older 2/1 condos along Church Street can sometimes be had for around $150K. Talley Street somewhere in between.
I see that the list of neighborhood features dragging home values down does not include Walmart. Does this mean that Good Growth DeKalb lied to us? Say it ain’t so!
The one I don’t get is cemeteries. According to the graph, their negative effect is nearly the same as homeless shelters?! When I lived in Decatur, I always considered the cemetery an asset (granted it’s much more of a park-like one than some). Why are cemeteries a drag on home values? Simply irrational superstition?
Was thinking the same thing. I think it would be great. But yes, I think people are superstitious.
No matter how rational one is, there’s always a tiny little suspicion in the back of one’s mind that come the Apocalypse, cemeteries are gonna be ground zero for the sprouting of the zombies. 😀
Yes, but the badly decomposed zombies that come from cemeteries are the easiest to neutralize. It’s the freshly dead you’ve got to worry about.
I think the biggest problem with a cemetery is the fear that Walmart will buy it and build a Supercenter on it.
Some cemeteries are peaceful, scenic, historic, like Decatur’s and lots of old small town cemeteries. But there’s also those cemeteries that look like the graveyard equivalent of suburban tract homes. The ones that look like a shopping center parking lot but have graves instead of cars. Maybe that’s why a cemetery is considered a negative?