What ever happened to the 1100 SF Starter Ranch? (Brookhaven, Rocky Point: 2009, new construction)

[dman72]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Um...no.

I take it every day.

I go nowhere near Mt Sinai...Im a Billy Floyd man.

15-20 tops.

I do prefer the LIE down by you ; )

Just kiddin'

Happy Holidays

crooks

Oh, that's where you get your 15-20 mins from.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by dman72

Oh, that's where you get your 15-20 mins from.

Ya got me ...Im a lead foot.

But no lie- I can make the Ronkonkoma RR in 25 without getting arrested.

: )

crooks

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by I'minformed2

Yes, exactly. The City of Rochester gets a ton of state aid, and has significantly lower taxes but with older housing stock (not that I mind the older houses in the nice neighborhoods, they have a ton of charecter and are well built) and poorer schools. I live in the suburbs of Rochester. We don't get state aid, and the town I live in (Greece) is among the heaviest taxed municipalities in the state. Most of the houses in my town were built in the 60s-90's, and now on the northern and western edges of the town there is a decent amount of new construction. A typical 3-4 bedroom 1800 square foot house here will sell between $140k-$170k....new or existing; and have taxes between 5 and 6k. I grew up in one of those 1100 sq ft "starter ranches" in an older part of Greece in the 60's and 70s (house was built in the 40's) that my parents just sold for $80k with property taxes of 3k. The fact is that here, home prices and taxes have the opposite effect on eachother as they do down there on LI. Our property taxes are proportionaly so high that it keeps the asking prices for homes down. Granted, we have always had modest appreciation in our homes which are still rising in value right now; but our taxes have always been at a much higher proportion of the prices of our homes and of our monthly payments.

I saw a carpetbaggin' in NC comment earlier in the thread as well and had to laugh because eventhough our property taxes in Upstate NY are through the roof (no pun intended)...we did choose to move back here after living in NC from 1994-2007.

I heard good things about Rochester of late.
Seems like a good value for Western NY.
You are right the bubble seemed to miss the area on both sides of the bust.


crooks

[AlexisT]

Rochester is a nice area, but its economy got hit badly, which is a big part of what kept prices down. Hard to ask huge prices when Xerox and Kodak are pink-slipping everyone.

[TeamExit]

Originally Posted by Johninwestbury

Sound Beach, Rocky Point, Centereach, and Ronkonkoma dont have significant "minority population". In fact they are pretty darn nice areas to live in, so it's good that some one can get a starter home in a decent area.

right, those areas dont, but most of the other ones i listed do

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by TeamExit

theres TONS of homes listed for under 275k in brentwood, ci, bayshore, amityville, wyandanch, hempstead, roosevelt, uniondale, coram, gordon heights, bellport, shirley, mastic, sound beach, rocky point... also still a good amount in ronkonkoma, patchogue, medford, port jeff, huntington station, selden, centereach, farmingville, lindenhurst, copiague, riverhead... you can find something for under 275k easily in any of those places, and truth is, most of them have a significant or majority or minority population..

and on a side note, a good portion of the properties under that range in riverhead, are mobile homes

You forgot Ridge, I bought my 5 bedroom, 3 full bath (which was a total fixer & unusually large for my neighborhood) for $250K in 2004. There are several true starters in Ridge now for around $250. A tiny bungelow on my block closed for 123k a few months ago.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by KellyFG

You forgot Ridge, I bought my 5 bedroom, 3 full bath (which was a total fixer & unusually large for my neighborhood) for $250K in 2004. There are several true starters in Ridge now for around $250. A tiny bungelow on my block closed for 123k a few months ago.

Agreed.

Panamoka has some terrific strters by the Lake.

crooks

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

Im sure they did.

Still a fairly cheap fix considering its N of 25a and walk to beach.

Sadly many of the bungalows are gone.You know the drill....leave one wall up, put a 3000sf extension on and tell Brookhaven its a renovation and not new contruction.

Theres still a few really really gorgeous ones left.
(and a few for tear down)

I think the area has alot of charm for the $.

crooks

The leave the wall the up rule has come and gone. Anything over 50% is now considered 'new'.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

The leave the wall the up rule has come and gone. Anything over 50% is now considered 'new'.

As of when OBH?

Could it be neighbors ratting out neighbors up by you?

I still see plenty of 1 wall renovations out here.

Best,



crooks

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

As of when ?

Could it be neighbors ratting out neighbors ?

I still see plenty of 1 wall renovations out here.

Best,



crooks

The Town of Huntington changed that rule several years ago.