Are there any parts of LI where you can score a big home for a cheap sticker price like you can in some southern states? (Hempstead: gated community, move)
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My friend has a union job in Yaphank. So MB is perfect for him. It works out. I have met some really nice people down by the water. One guy was wealthy. He was some sort of music producer. Had signed guitars by all the top rock stars. Really nice waterfront house. I saw the future of MB there.
Sounds like a good place to put the nightlife. During the day of course there'd be cultural events held for tourist viewings. Maybe a Museum of Long Island Indigenous Peoples.
My friend has a union job in Yaphank. So MB is perfect for him. It works out. I have met some really nice people down by the water. One guy was wealthy. He was some sort of music producer. Had signed guitars by all the top rock stars. Really nice waterfront house. I saw the future of MB there.
Ugh I hate agreeing with p-trippin (glad he lost some money though, lol j/k) but I looked for deals there b4 the crash and seems to me it's always going to be bordered on 3 sides (at least) by crime, poverty and/or flooding. Can't compare it to Bklyn in any way. LI doesn't gentrify that way. No lofts and warehouses being turned into luxury condos. No Starbucks coming in every 3 blocks or long time homeowners cashing out to move to Boca. It would take some major large scale development impetus to change MB's image and that doesn't happen on LI either. It will take a long time to change based on starving artists priced out of Park Slope or Remsenburg looking for a cheap home. Also, Mastic is the last to rise in boom times and the first to fall in the bad times (particularly if a flood event occurs) so if you want to find a deal to live in, they can be had. As an investment, pretty risky.
Good investments are supposed to be risky. Timing is the challenging part.
Who needs warehouses to convert when you have cheap land on an expensive island.
and even the worst parts of Brooklyn had certain things in their favor: robust public transportation, attractive housing stock, storm/sanitary sewers, proximity to high paying jobs. That part of Suffolk has none of that.
Lol at Brooklyn having sanitary sewers.
Also Brooklyn has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation.
Thank goodness you won't be part of it this time. Hopefully far removed from Mastic Beach. You make neighborhoods depreciate. Let me know when you move to the boros so I can sell at peak.
It is an ugly house. Typical of spot built houses in the area. It is near the water.
In Shirley, Mastic and Mastic Beach,, throw everything you thought you knew about LI real estate out the window. In most South Shore towns, South is good. The reverse is true of the North Shore.
Not in Shirley and the Mastics.
There, North Shirley is preferential to South Shirley. (except in the over priced, over taxed Smith Point Estates - the Mc Mansion development) North Mastic is better than regular Mastic. North Mastic goes by another name. (Manor Park) The houses are tightly packed. Lot's of in-line ranches and in-line high ranches. They attend South Manor Schools.
North Shirley petitioned to have signs changed to "East Yaphank" I don't know if either is actually an incorporated village. See a pattern here? Every better area attempts to change it's name to distance itself from the words "Shirley" and "Mastic".
Where is Walter when you need him?
The only part of Mastic Beach that was not terrible is also north of Neighborhood Rd. It's called Fortuna Gardens. I can't say exactly what streets bound the area, but it's East of Mastic Rd. and across from Grace Lutheran Church.
That new house on Hockey IS in the flood zone - and it is south of Neighborhood Rd. Lots of converted summer cottages and other spot built houses.
Everyone since Walter Shirley, has been saying the Tri-Hamlet Community will draw people and will rival the Hamptons.
If they could see what bombed out neighborhoods in NYC back in the 1980s look like now
Anything can "get got" nowdays
As long as we pay the teachers, we'll be ok
LoL
Bushwick and Williamsburg and Greenpoint and LIC do not compare to Mastic. I’m sorry. It’s a silly comparison you guys are trying to pass. You need to experience the area before you commit to such nonsense. That’s just the way it is. Go ahead and ban me.
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