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02-05-2008, 02:45 AM
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What about the Lovejoy neighborhood in Buffalo?
Hello all! My wife and I are thinking of buying a home in the US. We live in Ireland (where cops don't even carry guns) and we have seen a nice home in the Lovejoy area of Buffalo....but are we totally out of our minds to consider moving into that neighborhood (we say neighbourhood, ye say tomato...lol)
Currently we are mature students in our 20's and 30's and won't graduate for another few years but we are planning to buy now. The market is cheap now. We would only visit the US 5 or 6 times ayear (staying for a month in the summer)....so the house would be unoccupied for periods of roughly 2 months. Is Lovejoy a possibility or should we continue looking?
We have also seen a nice house in New Castle, PA and might move there instead.
All info most welcome, thanks!  |
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02-05-2008, 05:55 AM
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I dont know anything about PA, but if you move into Lovejoy, be prepared to see the cops carrying guns. It is definately NOT a vacation area and I would not leave any home unoccupied for that period of time, no matter where it is. You run the risk of not only someone taking over, but copper being stolen along with everything else in the home.
Colleen
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Originally Posted by irish8
Hello all! My wife and I are thinking of buying a home in the US. We live in Ireland (where cops don't even carry guns) and we have seen a nice home in the Lovejoy area of Buffalo....but are we totally out of our minds to consider moving into that neighborhood (we say neighbourhood, ye say tomato...lol)
Currently we are mature students in our 20's and 30's and won't graduate for another few years but we are planning to buy now. The market is cheap now. We would only visit the US 5 or 6 times ayear (staying for a month in the summer)....so the house would be unoccupied for periods of roughly 2 months. Is Lovejoy a possibility or should we continue looking?
We have also seen a nice house in New Castle, PA and might move there instead.
All info most welcome, thanks! |
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02-06-2008, 11:42 PM
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No. Avoid Lovejoy. As a matter of fact, any house here left for 2 months at a time is not going to be too safe -- no matter if city or suburb. You will need someone to check on it, especially in the winter when pipes can freeze or during extreme rains when you can have basements flood. You might be better off considering renting.
The advice holds for most of the north of the country (including PA) -- while you are geographically reasonably close to the same north latitude in Ireland, you are warmed by the jet stream. We get cold and snow; closing up a house for a few months in winter means draining your water pipes ( some people put in antifreeze, esp. in rural areas), cutting the gas and elec. It will make it look like the house is empty... an open invitation for thievery anywhere I'd expect -- be it Ireland or anywhere in the US.
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02-07-2008, 03:25 PM
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There are parts of Lovejoy that are very nice. I lived in one of those areas for 10 years. Very friendly neighbors, clean and quiet street. But just around the block are trashy folks. Now there are 2 different Lovejoys. There is the Lovejoy district, which is mostly "urban ghetto", and the "real" Lovejoy, or "Iron Island". Iron Island contains many nice, safe streets to live on. If you get to know your neighbors well, I wouldn’t worry about leaving a house unoccupied for a couple of months.
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02-07-2008, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by irish8
Hello all! My wife and I are thinking of buying a home in the US. We live in Ireland (where cops don't even carry guns) and we have seen a nice home in the Lovejoy area of Buffalo....but are we totally out of our minds to consider moving into that neighborhood (we say neighbourhood, ye say tomato...lol)
Currently we are mature students in our 20's and 30's and won't graduate for another few years but we are planning to buy now. The market is cheap now. We would only visit the US 5 or 6 times ayear (staying for a month in the summer)....so the house would be unoccupied for periods of roughly 2 months. Is Lovejoy a possibility or should we continue looking?
We have also seen a nice house in New Castle, PA and might move there instead.
All info most welcome, thanks! |
Try Pittsburgh, it's safer. 
Or Cheektowaga, Depew, Amherst in New York. Those three would be WAY safer than the LoveJoy neighborhood. |
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02-08-2008, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by irish8
Currently we are mature students in our 20's and 30's and won't graduate for another few years but we are planning to buy now. The market is cheap now. We would only visit the US 5 or 6 times ayear (staying for a month in the summer)....so the house would be unoccupied for periods of roughly 2 months. Is Lovejoy a possibility or should we continue looking?
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Is this really a concern for WNY or Buffalo? The housing market prices never actually got out of control there from what I understand. You can still buy a house for under $100K in WNY and with talks of recession looming, I can't see that WNY's real estate is going to go up like crazy in the next few years the way it did in other parts of the country. |
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02-09-2008, 02:42 PM
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imho wny is pretty steady with home prices. Now once you get in the burbs every couple of years we get a boom and the prices go up and then of course down. Areas like the city (lovejoy) stay the same, no huge demand to move into that area.
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07-28-2008, 08:35 AM
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I have lived in the Lovejoy area for almost 30 years. It is still a safe neighborhood. What is killing our neighborhood and the whole City of Buffalo is absentee landlords who rent out houses and the tenants do not take care of the property.
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02-27-2009, 12:56 PM
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I lived on Davey street for 27 years, 1930-1957, the Lovejoy neighborhood used to be safe clean, friendly, everyone knew each other. The church St. Francis of Assisi was run by nice priests, the school had nuns teaching up to 8 grade, however now the two priests are a couple of real scammers, both are hustlers, BS artists, money hungry, and I would not trust them. Beware of that neighborhood, it is now a ghetto. There was a murder just a few years ago black gangs at night, scary, attacked a white, knifes, etc.
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02-28-2009, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Nick Molinare
There was a murder just a few years ago black gangs at night, scary, attacked a white, knifes, etc.
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Could this be anymore of a polarizing statement? Your fear is quite transparent. |
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