/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.54755486]

Give me one reason not to buy this home on WA coast other than "old thing bad" or "seattle libtard bad"
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/901-W-Market-St-Aberdeen-WA-98520/55046240_zpid/

[Anonymous No.54755824]

>>54755486
Can't think of a single one. Only 6 days on Zillow.
I say that's a buy. Expect to spent AT LEAST $50-60k in renovations to get it looking presentable, the bathroom needs to be gutted and redone, kitchen looks like shit, the plaster is coming off the walls, it needs a new paint job, bit of landscaping.
Hope you buy OP. Try to get an inspector that doesn't pull punches.

[Anonymous No.54755854]

>>54755486
It looks good but as >>54755824 said, expect to put about 30-50% of the purchase price on top to make it livable / presentable. How much money you spend depends on whether you want to live there or flip it / rent it. Also make sure to get a good inspector to look at asbestos and wood rot issues before closing as they can end up costing you way more later.

[Anonymous No.54755855]

>>54755486
It's not just seattle, theyve taken over all of washington state legislation. But if you're cool living in some sort of fucked up post modern wasteland, go ahead and buy that house buddy. I'm sure everything will be just fine ;)

[Anonymous No.54755856]

>>54755486
>100+ years old

Guaranteed your foundation/sub floor is fucked and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the house was leaning. Get that crawl space thoroughly inspected. I'd anticipate a french drain, vapor barrier, and dehumidifier at a minimum.

[Anonymous No.54755869]

>>54755486
roof is fucked. siding looks like absolute shit. windows are ancient single pane bullshit in weird custom sizes, so the place will bleed absurd amounts of energy in the summer/winter. also the roof is missing most of its insulation, terrible energy efficiency. kitchen is straight out of 1950. numerous walls in the home are stripped to bare lath and plaster. probably knob and tube wiring bullshit and cast iron plumbing considering the rest of the home is ancient. toilet has a message taped to it saying "please don't use," indicating that the plumbing is likely fucked and the place won't qualify for traditional financing.

[Anonymous No.54755876]

Bad location/no privacy.
Too close to the road.
No back yard.
And you better have some diy skills.

[Anonymous No.54755883]

>>54755486
>>54755869
also the place sold for $129k in may of 2021 and all of the concerns in my post have not been addressed. why? because the house is a massive money pit, and the dumbass who bought it wants out.

[Anonymous No.54755887]

>>54755869
>toilet has a message taped to it saying "please don't use,"

This is actually pretty common for home listings. Everything else you've mentioned is pretty accurate though.

OP, there's a reason this place is as cheap as it is and it's only partially because it's seattle libtard bad.

[Anonymous No.54755894]

>>54755486
>https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/901-W-Market-St-Aberdeen-WA-98520/55046240_zpid/


looks like some shit out a horror/psycho gore movie my guy

looks like i could go over to one side and kick it and the entire house would just topple over

inside literally looks like it's falling apart like some rapist used it as his secret torture spot

the fuck would i want this place

[Anonymous No.54755919]

>>54755486
You don't actually want to live there, right? RIGHT?

[Anonymous No.54755940]

>>54755486
Imagine the SHITS taken in this tub

[Anonymous No.54755942]

>>54755486
I’m buying a new construction, for which I’m glad. I hear horror stories about old houses.

[Anonymous No.54755948]

>>54755486
>1907
Enjoy your lead pipes and paint, asbestos insulation, busted roof, mold, and cracked foundation. The price is the price, but I personally wouldn't want to live in that house.

[Anonymous No.54755976]

>>54755942
honestly new construction is probably just as bad considering 99% of new construction homes are built with bottom grade, bulk purchased building materials and assembled by a team of illiterate brownoid spics over a period of like 4 weeks.

[FXanalyst No.54756840]

>>54755486
200k for a shithole
Sounds like a good fucking deal if you ask a retard.

[Anonymous No.54758035]

OP I'd be very cautious to take any opinions ITT at face value
Put a contingent offer in and get a good inspector, that's the only way you'll know how bad the situation is. Worst case you back out and you're down $150 max from inspection fees. Don't rush into it for the love of God

[Anonymous No.54758049]

>>54755976
Those spics still have to follow modern regulation or else hier slave owner will get royally raped

[Anonymous No.54758304]

>>54755486
>120 year old house
>2 hour drive from Seattle
>entire house is rotting
>seller wants 2x what he paid 2 years ago
if you have money left over, I have a bridge I want to sell you

[Anonymous No.54758791]

>>54755919
Looks good to me. Mainly I'd care about paying to get rid of the mold and lead pipes, asbestos, the poisonous stuff. Other than that looks peak comfy. I don't even mind the bathroom. Don't care about insulation

[Anonymous No.54758847]

>>54755486
>on WA coast other than "old thing bad" or "seattle libtard bad"

So you just want to disregard the most important part of real estate, location?

[Anonymous No.54758859]

Aberdeen is a depressing ass town. its where kurt cobain grew up lol

[Anonymous No.54758912]

>>54758859
If it was a nicer house i might live there just to be that close to the Hoh rainforest/pacific route but 8 months of the year its just freezing rain and high winds

[Anonymous No.54758978]

>>54755940
Imagine all the cunny that has first awoken to womanhood with the deft movement of tiny fingers in that tub.

[Anonymous No.54759002]

Aberdeen is where Kurt Cobain is from
you have to buy it and live out your rocker fantasies!!!

[Anonymous No.54759017]

>>54758978
get help

[Anonymous No.54759088]

>>54755486
that house is going to fall apart over the next 10-20 years unless you do some serious maintenance on it, it would be easier (and possibly even cheaper) to just buy an empty lot and start from scratch instead
>>54758978
you have mental problems

[Anonymous No.54759183]

>>54759017
>>54759088
I just saw big brother get out of the bath.
He was so so strong.
Now I can help but think about him at night.
I've never looked at him that way before.
He was so big.
Is that big thing going to go inside me?
>schlip schlip schlip schlip schlip schlip

[Anonymous No.54759507]

Cascades will all be underwater after the subduction fault slips and creates a mega tsunami

[Anonymous No.54759754]

>>54759507
So we merge with eternity and join the ranks of mythical lands such as Atlantis, Shangri-La or Eldorado
Sounds glorious Anon

[Anonymous No.54759770]

what is a 2.4% buyers agency fee

burgers paying gratuity to the seller's realtor now lmfao

[Anonymous No.54759779]

>>54755486
That's a teardown but from your post it seems like you wouldn't be dissuaded anyways. R.I.P. your money.

[Anonymous No.54759809]

>>54759779
if it stood for a hundred years on old growth wood, it'll for sure outlast your plywood boomer boxes

[Anonymous No.54759828]

>>54755883
this. Honestly just buy it man, it'll be funny. Real estate is actually NOT always a good investment. Buy it though, and check back with us. At that price even I could afford it LOLLLL

[Anonymous No.54759842]

>>54758859
>>54758847
I really enjoy the PNW coast. It's like a magical fairyland to me. How is property right on the coast - next to the largest cities of the entire PNW - a bad location?

[Anonymous No.54760014]

>>54759842
dude its not that close to Seattle or Portland. You would basically never go there.

[Anonymous No.54760050]

WA anon here, you don't want to live in Aberdeen. Its a dilapidated shithole full of tweakers and spics who spend all day stealing anything that isn't welded in place, and all night smoking meth and fentanyl. There is a 100 percent chance you will have to shoot someone within a year if you live in that house. If you insist on living on the Olympic penninsula, look at Forks, La Push, Westport, or Long Beach, in that order. Or do what I did and move to the Oregon Coast (not Lincoln County tourist shithole towns, think North Coast: Gearhart, Hammond, Astoria).

[Anonymous No.54760052]

>>54760014
2 to 3 hour drive at max. Not bad if you have a friends couch to crash on for the night

[Anonymous No.54760060]

>>54755486
It looks like its made from cardboard

[Anonymous No.54760081]

>>54758978
based

[Anonymous No.54760094]

>>54760050
Well, that is why its so cheap compared to the places you list
Any hope for gentrification? I think its a nice spot geographically

[Anonymous No.54760133]

>>54760052

i live 3 hours from a major city and i go there when i am flying somewhere or meeting sb:s.

3 hour travel time and you are in any capital of europe if you live in zurich you are coping hard

[Anonymous No.54760229]

>>54760052
I've lived 2-3 hours outside a major city before and it just never ends up happening in practice. Not worth the time and effort. Like twice a year tops.

[Anonymous No.54760236]

>>54760133
america is not europe. In america being right at the coast while only being 2 hours away from a major with international airport is a lot more valuable. You could be living in the bumfuck dustbowl

[Anonymous No.54760249]

>>54759809
>projecting
You literally proved my post right while responding to it. You're retarded. Buy it.

[Anonymous No.54760274]

>>54760094
>any hope for gentrification?
Very slim. The peninsula is too remote for mass migration from King County, the areas where it is happening are directly across the puget sound (Poulsbo, Sequim, Port Orchard, etc). Maybe in the further off future when Seattle goes full Detroit, but it seems to me like most people who want out of Seattle are leaving the state entirely and moving to Idaho and Montana. The peninsula is hands down the best part of the state, but Aberdeen is literally the worst settlement out there. Look into Forks, it isn't horribly expensive and its way nicer

[Anonymous No.54760333]

>>54760274
I'll check it out. Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.54760367]

>>54760333
No problem. Just out of curiosity, where are you from?

[Anonymous No.54760384]

>>54760367
Netherlands, mostly acquainted with NW oregon

[Anonymous No.54760731]

You can see the black mold from the outside.

[Anonymous No.54760784]

>>54760731
He's not looking for actual reasons why he shouldn't, just looking for opinions that validate/agree with him. You see these kinds of threads on /g/ all the time. Someone buys something or have already made up their minds to buy something and just want to see people agreeing with them.

[Anonymous No.54761354]

>>54755486
>aberdeen
Make sure you get it tested, high probability it was a meth lab at one point, no larp

[Anonymous No.54762506]

>>54755486
It will be a good investment, especially if you buy with a crypto card like CryptMi where earn cashback and don't have to pay for any transaction fee

[Anonymous No.54763372]

>>54755876
The house needs a complete renovation

[Anonymous No.54763487]

>>54762506
Even with a cashback offer on that house, it's still not a good investment for me because it looks too hold.
I'd rather use that crypto card to pay for something different

[Anonymous No.54763501]

No land, liberal fags

Not as good as west virginia

[Anonymous No.54763502]

Found this gem on zillow but it actually sounds like a good deal. Co-op so the assessment ($400/mo) pays for everything (heat, electric, etc) especially property taxes which is a huge benefit.

>hood ave
kind of on the nose for the location lmao

[Anonymous No.54763604]

>>54755486
During that early post-high-school depression, like that first summer where you don't know what you're gonna do, I had some fascination with coastal Washington. I've never been, not even once, hardly ever been once in my life. But I'd seen that movie Safety Not Guaranteed and it looked so beautiful. I thought I would go WWOOFing on some apple orchard, or just get a job in a souvenir shop in Port Angeles. I've still never been. It's a fantasy land in my head. But when I see a name like Aberdeen, I feel a warmness. I think of those days when it seemed like anything might happen, and instead basically nothing did.

[Anonymous No.54763667]

>>54763502
Is that the hood? I'm actually condo-shopping at the moment not far from there. The whole North Side is a vast and pleasant expanse in my mind. The building sure LOOKS like a housing project, but I would have thought that was a decent place to be at least just looking at the map.

I'm not looking to buy property I couldn't rent, so I'm out on that anyways. But what do you know about that area? One of the parts of town I'm looking at is that uptown-edgewater-rogers park corridor. How old is that listing, anyway? Must be pretty outdated, I would think....

[Anonymous No.54763721]

>>54763667
That area is... ok. I'd look somewhere closer to the lake if I were you. That's in West Ridge which is primarily an ethnic jewish/indian enclave neighborhood. The benefit of that condo though is it's right off the new peterson ridge Metra stop and right by that giant target, but I still wouldn't buy.

I'm not in the market right now (own a condo, looking to upgrade to a 2-3 flat soon though), but pic rel is much, much better. If you look up the listing, the floorplan is what sold me. It's listed as a 1-bed but has a separate office and an easily enclosable dining room which could be a second bedroom. This one's in Andersonville.

When I was shopping for my condo my criteria was to be within a 5 min walk of:
>a gym
>an EL stop (preferably brown/purple/blue)
>a grocery store
>a dive bar I can go to regularly
Very few places meet that critera but this one does, sans maybe the dive bar.

[Anonymous No.54763830]

>>54763721
There's worse "ethnic enclaves" in the city than Jewish/Indian, though... Sounds kinda nice honestly. I always imagined it was a decent place where you could find a deal because it's both very far north but also not near the lake. I like RP in general though most of my time there has been along Sheridan.

Honestly what you shared is a little out of my price range for a condo at the moment, I'm hoping to find a 1bed that's ~1400-1600 monthly after HOA's. I don't want to think of that as unrealistic at the moment (I'm looking other places as well, not just that corridor, but we'll see) because there's some interesting listings that have come up in the $125-175k range with modest HOA's. But we'll see. I literally pay $650 a month in rent, no roommates, on a month to month contract (and no, I didn't have to blow a guy to get it) so I'm content to stack my paper and see how everything shakes out in the meanwhile.

[Anonymous No.54763888]

>>54763830
>I literally pay $650 a month in rent, no roommates, on a month to month contract
That's fucking awesome. My first place in the city was a 4-bed duplex in wrigley in 2019, a friend of mine's dad owned it and my rent was also $650/mo.

I bought my condo in the depths of the pandemic for an insane deal and a great interest rate when people were fleeing the city and it's really paid off. Not sure you'll be able to find a similar deal with the interest rates there are now.

But yeah if you want a deal like that you're going to want to look in Rogers Park or Edgewater. Probably the safest neighborhoods that are still cheap. Expect your value to rise dramatically once RPM is complete, too. Look into that plan, it's going to totally transform that neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.54763922]

How about instead of that you give us one reason to buy this home

[Anonymous No.54763990]

>>54763888
Yeah it's nuts, and in a nice area too (kinda, not tryna dox myself, it's safe and nice but kinda out of the way) but literally saw an ink-on-paper sign scotch-taped to the front of a big old apartment building for a number that literally did not make sense. Stone-age management hadn't even heard of The Internet. And the place was decrepit when I got here, sure, but I basically treated it like a fixer-upper of my own. The building sold in February so I might be nearing the end of my sweet gig, though new mgmt hasn't raised my rent or forced me to sign a contract yet. Still, not a bad time to have my shit together and cash on-hand.

I definitely missed the Great Pandemic Opportunity, and even some good opportunities as late as early-2022 when my shit was not yet together. I had other concerns at the time. But yes, Edgewater is where I'm hoping to land.

I don't know this RPM (googling just gives me the steakhouse) is that the Peterson metra stop you're talking about? I'm out of touch with the area but, as bad as the CTA is, the metra fuckin RULES. I'll keep that in mind. Hot tip, anon, thanks much.

[Anonymous No.54763992]

>>54763604
It wouldn't be that hard to move out here, you can still find fairly affordable property (at least by WA standards). The Olympic Peninsula is a unique and special place, very scenic and pretty remote. There are some downsides you should be aware of: You will not see the sun for 8 months out of the year, and during those eight months it is going to be cold, windy, and dumping rain. Also people from WA are very strange; you have 1488-tier redneck schizos mixed with the most gigafaggot trannoid libtards this side of california. And everyone is mentally ill and on drugs. Overall the WA coast would be a great place to NEET, but not a great place if you have career aspirations. Personally, I moved to the Oregon Coast as I have no career aspirations aside from being a beach bum, and I just couldn't handle the WA taxes and shitty gun laws anymore.

[Anonymous No.54764100]

>>54763990
>I don't know this RPM
Red-Purple Modernization. Essentially rebuilding the entire red/purple line north of belmont on brand new viaducts. Part of the plan is building apartments/retail on all of those parking lots down Broadway in Edgewater and that is going to add a ton of young professionals to the neighborhood.

Basically, your 45 minute red line trip to downtown is going to take 25 minutes when it's complete, and all of the dingy, crappy, 100 year-old stations are being completely redone. HUGE improvement.

[Anonymous No.54764212]

>>54764100
Juicy. Very juicy. Thanks again.

[Anonymous No.54764295]

>>54755486
>"seattle libtard bad"
Seattle libtard is a hobo on meth who poops in the streets and claims to be a communist wich is why they work for starbucks to destroy your house.

[Anonymous No.54764952]

>>54755856

Exactly this. I wouldn't pull the trigger without a full inspection by a professional. And if stuff isn't up to snuff jew them down because you'll have to spend so much on repairs.

[Anonymous No.54764962]

>>54755486
I've seen better in texas

[Anonymous No.54765007]

>>54763604
I just moved here from across the states for the reasons you said. Lived in one of the fastest growing areas and left all my friends to chase the scenery out here. Don't spend your life wondering what if just do it. You can always return and you'll be better off for it.

[Anonymous No.54765032]

>>54758978
based

[Anonymous No.54765040]

WA just passed an assault weapon ban it’s indistinguishable from California at this point. Only arguable benefit is no state income tax but there are random high sales taxes. And they are close to passing an income tax anyways.

[Anonymous No.54765054]

lol imagine paying 200k for a cuckshed

[Anonymous No.54766158]

>>54755824
>>54755854
100K renovations maybe 150k
Electrical up to code
Plumbing up to code
Wood rotten floors
No central Air
Windows and wood rot
Roof
Cosmetic/landscape
Insulation
Be prepared for le can of worms
But those old houses look great when their fixed.
Home&Garden tier

[Anonymous No.54766203]

>>54755486
You can see the mold even in these grainy pictures. If it's not a total tear-down, you will at least have to strip it down to its frame and re-build. The only way it's worth 175k is if it's on a nice piece of land.

[Anonymous No.54766228]

>>54760050

This anon knows, literally one of the highest crime-rates in the state.

[Anonymous No.54766230]

>>54755486
go ahead and buy it idgaf

[Anonymous No.54766245]

>>54766158
It literally says central air right on the image

[Anonymous No.54766249]

>>54755486
9.0 Earthquake predictions

[Anonymous No.54766276]

>>54755486
looks like its worth $60,000 just from the pictures

[Anonymous No.54766507]

Do you have $175k cash? That house won't finance

[Anonymous No.54766526]

>>54755486
Well you've obviously never lived on the coast before. First reason is you're absolute shit at researching an area. I'll let you figure the rest out on your own.

[Anonymous No.54766770]

>>54755486
Honestly this place looks kino as fuck.
Imagine the brooding sessions you could have here.

[Anonymous No.54766815]

>>54758978
based
>>54759017
>>54759088
failed normalfags

[Anonymous No.54767240]

>>54763604
As a washington native, I will say this. The coast is just as beautiful as the movies make it out to be, but actually living on the coast sucks. Visiting is awesome, permanent residence is not.

[Anonymous No.54767277]

>>54766158
Just do it yourself. I did my kitchen and put in wood floors the quoted prices to do what I did were 3x the cost of materials just for labor. People charge too much and they do shit work, they don't care at all about the finished product. I had to redo everything myself the last time I hired someone. You could easily fix it up for 50k. Unless it needs work on the foundation that is, get that checked out first.

[Anonymous No.54767342]

>>54766770
That does not look kino. That house needs a ton of work. The paint on it is shit and flaking off. You can bet you will need new vinyl siding, fascia, and soffit. The windows look all original. They will all need to be replaced. The interior walls have cracks. They will need plaster work and new paint. When a house is visibly neglected this much, there will be a ton of other things you can't immediately see that also need work.

[Anonymous No.54769535]

Just buy 40 acres somewhere instead.

[Anonymous No.54769691]

>buying anything in Chicago
why on earth

[Anonymous No.54770003]

>>54767240
>the coast
Fuck seagulls. Fuck em all.

[Anonymous No.54770381]

>>54755486
aberdeen isn't seattle. it's really not even close to seattle

[Anonymous No.54770449]

>>54760050
man I fucking love Gearhart for some reason. This anon knows the pacnw

[Anonymous No.54770471]

Just be aware that you're probably going to need to dump $40k or so on that thing to fix everything that needs it

[Anonymous No.54771741]

>>54770449
>for some reason
Its because only locals live here, tourists don't even know it exists. They all go south to shit up Seaside and Cannon Beach. Also, Gearhart has the oldest golf course west of the mississippi. Nothing beats a comfy beer at Mcminamins after a leisurely 18 holes

[Anonymous No.54772605]

>>54755486
This house is fantastic if your hobbies include ...
>murder
>kidnapping
>rape
>torture
>ritual sacrifice
>bomb making
>manifesto writing
>black market dealings
>illegal science experimentation
>violating the natural laws of God
>4chan shitposting

[Anonymous No.54772638]

>>54755486
Looks like a massive money pit.

[Anonymous No.54772923]

>>54771741
>Nothing beats a comfy beer at Mcminamins after a leisurely 18 holes
my girl's family used to own a beach house on the road right next to the golf course. we went down there every year for years and then they sold it. I've been wanting to buy property there ever since

[Anonymous No.54772983]

>>54766245
Needs an update

>>54767277
Check

[Anonymous No.54773025]

The frame is probably rotten. It's basically a tear down. So if you're cool paying 175k for a lot in a shitty WA coast town go for it anon. I live in WA btw. Are you not aware of the big one? It'll happen any day now, so that investment will be underwater anyways.

[Anonymous No.54773133]

>>54772605
kek
what? a hobby is a hobby. dont judge

[Anonymous No.54773375]

>>54763502
That’s a pretty nice (if boring) neighborhood. They’re building a metra stop a few blocks away that’ll be opening in a year. So commuting downtown will get better soon if that’s important. Andersonville is nearby and has nice yuppie dining and shopping. Lots of cheap ethnic grocery stores and a target nearby.

Great find anon. Coops are such steals in Chicago desu. The ones that aren’t high end high rises atleast

[Anonymous No.54774281]

>>54773375
>40k median income
>24% white
>Little India
>"pretty nice"

This board is just full of broke Zoomers at this point.

[Anonymous No.54774393]

>>54774281
Sorry there’s not an axe throwing bar or a barcade for you

[Anonymous No.54774762]

>>54767240
As a Florida native this is also what I tell people.

[Anonymous No.54774789]

>>54774281
And where do you live anon

[Anonymous No.54776062]

>>54755486
but it. There is 200k of meth in the walls

[Anonymous No.54776222]

>>54758978
baaaaaaaased

[Anonymous No.54776267]

>>54774393
you missed the point. its full of poor indians

[Anonymous No.54776397]

>>54772923
Sounds comfy, too bad they sold it. Buying property there would be a great idea, areas full of richfags and vacationfags are pretty much immune to housing market downturns. If Gearhart is too expensive for you, could always go north to Hammond or Warrenton. Slightly further from the coast itself, but you're right next door to Ft. Stevens Park which is nice. Astoria is a good option to, but housing there is rapidly becoming more expensive due to Portlandfags trying to escape the dystopic hellhole they created

[Anonymous No.54776408]

>>54755486
unless you're buying it solely for the land you're retarded
>buying a 100 year old rotten cardboard shithouse, Jesus you people are crazy, in eastern europe you could build a brand new house from concrete and bricks, 8inch insulation, ceramic tile roof, floor heating etc, why aren't americans building houses from bricks anymore? I think I know why, because they would last generations, and the jews don't want that