Cheap homes - bad neighborhoods and slanty floors?

[Pittsburgh gramma]

My thought is also that it could be mine subsidence. I would buy Pa state mine insurance anywhere I buy a home in the Pittsburgh area. There were so many mom and pop mines, that are not legally noted on any local mapping. About 12 years ago, our neighbor found a huge hole in the garage, big enough to swallow the car. Fortunately, no one was in the garage and neither was the car. It took 3 days of continuous pouring of cement to fill it, from a cement truck.

[PreservationPioneer]

It seems like a lot of money, but it's a beautiful house now, regardless.

[total_telecom]

Yikes, to think how easily these homes were nearly stolen a decade ago. Where are the next up and coming areas.......

[Buckeye Burgher]

Originally Posted by total_telecom

Where are the next up and coming areas.......

A relative in the banking business thinks it may be the West End, due to its close proximity
to Downtown. I am personally not convinced.

[metalforever]

"I've been lost in Knoxville before. I didn't feel unsafe stopping to ask directions. It was daytime."
:S One time I was walking in knoxville during the day and some dude pulled up in his vehicle and asked me to get into his car. I wouldn't call it ok.

[Goodjules]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Burgher

A relative in the banking business thinks it may be the West End, due to its close proximity
to Downtown. I am personally not convinced.

I keep telling everyone that Crafton is the next big thing!

[sparrowmint]

Originally Posted by metalforever

"I've been lost in Knoxville before. I didn't feel unsafe stopping to ask directions. It was daytime."
:S One time I was walking in knoxville during the day and some dude pulled up in his vehicle and asked me to get into his car. I wouldn't call it ok.

Anyone can pull out anecdotes like this on either side. I lived in Knoxville for six months and used to walk my dog around by myself, and I'm a short white female. The dog was a pup, and he's not a scary breed, so he wasn't a deterrent. Only moved because the landlord was selling the house, and people walking through every day became annoying.

It was the far southern tip though (Wilbur St).

[Buckeye Burgher]

RE: slanty floors

When I was a kid there was a house on Wyoming Street where part of the foundation gave way and one side
of the house began slipping over the hillside. This caused the entire thing to shift, so that all of the framing became off-square.

The house frame itself was not square, the windows were not square, the doors were not square.
All shifted to obtuse angles. Like that old nursery rhyme about the little crooked man in the little
crooked house.

I always wanted to buy that house when I grew up and build a whole set of crooked furniture to
go inside it. But the darned city came along and condemned it.