Austinist: Hot Real Estate Listings

Kat

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:44:44 -0600

Please don't list 78745 houses as alternatives to 78704 houses. I live in the ghetto and I like it that way. Don't make me move to Houston.

Ian

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:21:09 -0600

Hey! That first one is MY HOUSE! I mean, I don't own it, but my wife and I are living in it right now (renting it). That's our stuff in those pics. Heh. I can recommend the house and location. Except we don't want to move out, so ... um ... it's full of ghosts. And, huge, uh ... spider monsters. I kid. It's a great place, and if any Austinist readers would like a tour, we'd be happy to provide. Email me, ivarley@spamcop.net. Note that that SF rating includes a garage apartment, so the house itself is smaller than that makes it seem. But having a garage apt. is pretty cool I guess.

Shilli

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:14:30 -0600

I don't think its bad, except for the teal and some of the interior deco choices, all of which are pretty easy to replace. I haven't actually "seen it in person." Nice trees, interior beams, some nice stone (I know I bag on stone a lot, but I like it on older houses, as long as it looks like it was built out of stone, not crusted over with stone). I think it could be great with a little white paint. Plus, the realtor's website is awesome. I actually picked it in kind of a rush, since the one nearby that I had planned to use changed from Active to Pending this morning. It seems like houses in this area are selling pretty quickly at the $150k price point. Your house has almost certainly escalated in value - housing in Austin is mad hot, even though the rest of the country has cooled off.

Tim

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:03:34 -0600

How do you pick these houses? Either you've just picked the ugliest house in 78745 or my house has crazily escalated in value. Maybe it's the fact it's within walking distance of the High School? I do like the direct comparison between 78704 and 78702 though. For an extra bedroom and less than 200 more square feet you can anti up an extra $100,000.

allen

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:39:03 -0600

John Kelso has a hilarious, if somewhat bitter, column about it this week: 78745: It's not just a zip code, it's an escape from all those yuppies in 78704

Jooley Ann

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:30:04 -0600

Those 78745 bumper stickers are brilliant.