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The first house I owned was a corner house in Levitown. I did like not being sandwiched between 2 houses. The down side was my house was broken into twice when we weren't home. The police told us corner houses get robbed more frequently since it is easier for the crooks to slip behind the house from the side with no neighbor. I can tell you at the time my wife & I were starting a new business and were away for days at a time. I think this combined with being on the corner made us an easy target.
I have not read other comments, only the OP message.
I grew up on a corner house (my parents owned one).
It has it's ups and downs. Obviously when it snows you have TONS more to shovel, you also have more land to "maintain". the good thing is you have a lot more land to do what you want, but it also depends on where the house is on teh land. My parents house was back and to the left, so they had a good front/side of the house, but barely any backyard, so what was the point?
I now own my own non-corner house, and I like it more, less to shovel maintain. But i do miss having all that space to use, palces to park my car etc.
i've always loved corner props. could be due to growing up in the city between cannons of concrete jungle, and wall to wall neighbors. with the corner props, the neighbors are farther away. you see more sky outside your window, and not someone's window.
OP---Seems between all that's been said here and the realtor's statement that 80% of her buyers don't want to look at corner houses you've got your answer. Besides all the problems listed here they're obviously a much harder resale.
I don't think its the corner per se but things that are common with corner properties.
Main roads - you have to roads with a corner to worry about
backyard - a lot of corner properties don't much of one due to house placement on the lot.
setbacks- any restriction on what you can do isn't great
Privacy - sometimes your sideyard is very exposed.
the problem isn't the corner so much as the circumstances that are more common with corner properties.
My parents have a corner house in bellmore, its on 100x100. it has large backyard a 2 car garage and plenty of room on the side of the house. they put up bushes in the backyard that adds some privacy. most of the problems associated with corner propreties aren't with this one.
but if you have a 60 x 100 lot with a cape placed width wise on the 100 boardering a main street.... no thankyou
I wonder how this equation would apply to a corner property where across one street you have much larger and expensive homes than yours, the other street not only dead ends 25 yards past your home, but across that street is state park land, pristine forest, no houses.
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