VA Suburb Couple Thinking of Moving to DC

[Curbed Enthusiasm]

Originally Posted by movin2Reston

We are flexible on possibly have to have some work done. At this point we are trying to get a better idea of where to consider that would be urban core. If are price range needs to be assigned or not having it turn key ready or the amount of square footage, that we can work with; its more importantly on the areas to look at.

If you want to get any meaningful advice from this form, you're going to have to give us a little bit more to work with. We're trying to help you out, but all you give us are vague responses.

This forum can really help you out when it comes to assessing neighborhoods, talking to people who live in the area, learning about nearby amenities and safety. However, you keep focusing your posts on how to find a turn-key property in your price range. If you want help finding a specific home for sale, that's where a realtor comes into play.

We've told you that a home in your price range with your specifications does not exist in an well-established neighborhood. It might exist in a transitional neighborhood that's still a couple years away from being "up and coming." That's just a reality of DC being a very expensive city and one of the few US cities where property values have continued to increase substantially rather than fall.

This might be a dumb question, but have you even driven around DC to get an idea as to what's out there that you could live with? Reston is not far away, and I think that if you begin to explore the areas where you see properties in your price range, you will immediately understand the pros and cons of living there. And from there, if you still want more info about a certain area, I'm sure the folks on here would be happy to help.

[movin2Reston]

We have lived all our life in Northern VA, so increased property values is the norm.

We are planning on starting this weekend to look around, however we were hoping for some preliminary information on thoughts from others of neighborhoods worth considering.

As for us mentioning turn key ready, we were just providing some background information on our preference at this time. Others are just the opposite who prefer to do alot of demo work. So again, we are not even looking at individual listings are we are trying to start at the neighborhood level.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Originally Posted by Curbed Enthusiasm

If you want to get any meaningful advice from this form, you're going to have to give us a little bit more to work with. We're trying to help you out, but all you give us are vague responses.

This forum can really help you out when it comes to assessing neighborhoods, talking to people who live in the area, learning about nearby amenities and safety. However, you keep focusing your posts on how to find a turn-key property in your price range. If you want help finding a specific home for sale, that's where a realtor comes into play.

We've told you that a home in your price range with your specifications does not exist in an well-established neighborhood. It might exist in a transitional neighborhood that's still a couple years away from being "up and coming." That's just a reality of DC being a very expensive city and one of the few US cities where property values have continued to increase substantially rather than fall.

This might be a dumb question, but have you even driven around DC to get an idea as to what's out there that you could live with? Reston is not far away, and I think that if you begin to explore the areas where you see properties in your price range, you will immediately understand the pros and cons of living there. And from there, if you still want more info about a certain area, I'm sure the folks on here would be happy to help.