MA Real Estate is CRAZY (Boston, Belmont: private schools, live in, professionals)

[CaseyB]

For that kind of money you'd expect something nicer. It doesn't need to be gutted to the bare walls and I'd hate to lose some of the architectural features, but it needs a substantial amount of work.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

Contrary to the modern wave of Russophobia, Russia does actually have a lot of admirable cultural traits.

Russia nearly always has the best figure skaters.

[catchit111]

There seems to a be a slight heroin problem in Waltham?



10 overdoses in 10 days (June 2018): https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...qbN/story.html



heroin, attempted murder, drug ODs (2018): https://patch.com/massachusetts/walt...am-police-logs


$200,000 worth of drugs seized (2017): https://patch.com/massachusetts/walt...around-waltham


triple murder drug related in waltham few years back, still not solved i believe. definitely some heavy drug dealers around in the area: The Waltham Triple Murders | Sword and Scale



in lowell bulletproof wearing drug dealer was caught with 1 kilo of heroin on him (street value >$100,000) in march 2018: https://www.masslive.com/news/boston...proof_ves.html


Not as bad as Cape Cod heroin problem but still..


Drugs may go away or may stay, who knows. Waltham used to be not a good neighborhood not so long ago maybe its just a remainder of what it used to be.

[jayrandom]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

I'm not at all. Russia has a rich history...back to the 1800s...of producing world-renowned mathematicians and physicists.

Math was the Soviet thing. Not a huge surprise they’re good at it.

[tysmith95]

Originally Posted by catchit111

Drugs may go away or may stay, who knows. Waltham used to be not a good neighborhood not so long ago maybe its just a remainder of what it used to be.

Heroin is a problem everywhere.

[rethcir]

Originally Posted by bugelrex

Getting back to California prices: There is a *sick* tax law that allows a family to pass down their home to kids/grandkids and LOCK in the low property tax for your entire family line forever!

Eg. you bought a house in 1980 for 200k, your property tax at the time is $2000 a year. You pass the home down to family generations and 100 years later in 2080, your family still pays around $2000 a year while the new neighbor pays $50000 a year. For a liberal state, this is sick

https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/ar...ay-2878099.php

No wonder the demand is crazy, no one ever sells and everyone wants to buy to lock in todays property tax for eternity
Does MA have something similar?

No, but it seems like the assessor doesn’t make his or her way around every house every year. So some people are most certainly underpaying the true value of their home.

[Vanderbiltgrad]

Originally Posted by tysmith95

Heroin is a problem everywhere.

Not really everywhere but it a nation wide problem.

[catchit111]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

Math was the Soviet thing. Not a huge surprise they’re good at it.

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

I'm not at all. Russia has a rich history...back to the 1800s...of producing world-renowned mathematicians and physicists.

Let's not forget about Russian chemists too - Mendeleev did invent periodic table of elements. Kind of like inventing an alphabet...

...too bad it's such a corrupt country.

[catchit111]

Originally Posted by tysmith95

Heroin is a problem everywhere.

Uuhhh not to this extent...i don't know about your town but in mine we don't have an overdose everyday and/or heroin selling drug dealers walking around in bullet proof vests... And I hope it stays that way. Lol

Mass did decriminalize weed so maybe it will help with heavy drugs. Time will tell.

I know that if I'm spending half a million to a million (a fortune by world standards) I'd definitely want a better place to live in. That's just me.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

And if you look at the box chart you see TNs 75th percentile is well below MA 25th.

If you've ever been in Eastern Tennessee or Memphis, you'd understand why. Nashville is the only city with a high concentration of white collar professionals. Even there, it's concentrated in Williamson County.