End of the Line for the New England, Berkshire & Western?

[ATLANTIC_CENTRAL]

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BATMAN

ATLANTIC CENTRAL

So Brent, I had some of the current details wrong, but the overal result is about the same as it applies to our situation.

Sheldon

Close enough.

Do you have old houses that are designated “heritage houses?”

My Brother-in-law bought two houses designated heritage houses side by side about thirty years ago and has not done that well as far as increasing value of the properties. He is regretting the move I am sure. He is so limited on what can be done with them, fewer and fewer people would be interested in buying a house with such restraints. He has fixed them up nicely but it is two heritage houses surrounded by modern development.

We have a saying up here in Vancouver. “if you ever leave you can never afford to come back”. Real estate prices are so high that in Vancouver proper, 2 million CA will get you the dumpiest place in town.

In 1960 my parents bought a brand new house outside of Vancouver for $16.000.00. I noticed it sold for just over 2 million not long ago. In 1960 it was a nice new middle-class home in a nice new subdivision. The area is still really nice but the house is old and will likely be bulldozed in the near future.

My kids are resigned to the fact they won’t be living in the Vancouver area. My son will if he continues on in the movie biz, but then he will make enough doing so. A decent house will cost you 3 million. That’s $20,000.00 a month mortgage payment. Only New Zealand where our friend Bear lives is more expensive.

[BATMAN]

Very reasonable, houses were I used to live avg. $2,660.000 Cad and in Palo Alto, close by they avg. $3,730,650. A realy nice area is more like $5,550,000 Cad. That is for average.

The 3.7m is about what I would get for my place, but I am an hour SE of Vancouver in the sticks.

[SeeYou190]

Staying right here looks better all the time…

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Yes, I 100% agree. I am going to stay right here also. This place looks great, and even better now.

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-Kevin

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[rrebell]

In Annapolis, there was a court battle over of plastic trellis at a home in the historic district, locally nicknamed the hysterical district.

I’ve seen Sheldon’s house a couple times. And it is lovely.

This was granddaddy’s house. Admittedly a weird design. Built by a bootlegger at around $60K and bought at discount by my grandfather when the owner went to prison. He died too young, as the treatment for hypertension back then was a rice diet.

We have a film of my uncle’s bar mitzvah in 1937. The basement had beautiful brick walls and people were literally drinking like fish and smoking like steam engines. Freshman year in college had nothing on those folks.

As harsh as it sounds, my grandmother sold when an Afro American doctor moved in a couple houses away. This house was turned into apartments at some point. It looks like someone has restored it and from it’s nader.

In 2008 it sold for $371,000

In 2012 Fannie Mae (a US govt mortgage firm) sold it for $163,000 9000 square feet and a view of a lake (reservoir.) That tells you all you need to know about the neighborhood.

In the 30’s to early 1950’s it was the place to live and send your kids to public school. Now not so much. My grandmother made the right decision.

Somewhere there is a picture of me as an infant in or outside the house, I do not remember it or more than a single snapshot memory of my grandfather.

If I could find it, maybe I would break my Baltimore ban and knock on their door with my metal detector. Family history has it that grandfather buried gold coins in Prince Albert tobacco cans in the tomato garden.

Wow, people like you

[E-L_man_tom]

Please excuse my ignorance, but is the NEB&W that famed model railroad on the campus of Rennselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI). As a former upstate New Yorker (Catskill Mt. area), I have read and heard much about that layout. If so. that, to me, is a shocker. I would have thought that, especially being a renowned engineering school, that they would have had it made, as far as permanency is concerned.

[BRAKIE]

lease excuse my ignorance, but is the NEB&W that famed model railroad on the campus of Rennselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI). As a former upstate New Yorker (Catskill Mt. area), I have read and heard much about that layout. If so. that, to me, is a shocker.

Yes, all to sadly that’s the one that was featured in MR some years ago.