Maybe you should have thought twice...

[The Tim]

[Civil Servant]

This article made me irate and embarrassed. I am sure, for instance, that especially someone with professional writing skills could find ample volunteer tutoring opportunities now that school is out. I'd also bet that there are some elderly people in or near the subject's neighborhood who would appreciate help with grocery shopping, yardwork, and car trips to medical appointments. But what does girlfriend do with her fairly well subsidized free time? She starts a hobby blog and builds up her self-esteem. The Seattle Times seems to be placing the subject and her plight on the Effect side of the economic situation, but to me it doesn't look that cut and dried. If you don't like your muffin top, for instance, don't boo-hoo online about having a muffin top -- get out and get some exercise.

I wonder if it was the subject who pitched the article, too. Her background is in PR, and 100ish hits per day on a blog does not typically represent the newsworthy vanguard of a movement.

[deejayoh]

commuting from campus? You can't get much worse than that. Tells me something about the amount of common sense applied to everyday decisions...

Bing maps says 25 minutes. Maybe at midnight

[The Tim]

[jon]

For some reason there are two listings for that $199K property.
The other is $575K.

http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/3326-S ... s-29043009

[The Tim]

[ira s]

That 199,000 dollar house is not in West Seattle at all, it's South Hinds Street, not Southwest Hinds. It's Rainier Valley, and yeah, the Rainier Valley needs more ugly townhomes like it needs a hole in the head...
But Google maps has erred here.

[The Tim]

Huh. Looks like it's not so much an error with Google Maps as it is a problem with the address not being accurate to begin with. The only parcels on S Hinds St. in the vicinity of 33rd Ave. don't match that property's description at all.

Oh well. Current comps aside, point still stands that buying a 900sqft shack for over $300k made no sense for someone working at MS in Redmond.

Update: Looks like the actual address is (vs. 3326 S Hinds in the listing). Also I find it amusing that the current owner is that bought the for $540k a year ago and they're trying to flip them now for $575k. I guess nobody told them that the days of making $35k profit for sitting on a property for a year are long gone.

[ira s]

Yup, even on the listing agent's website the address is wrong.
That should make it real easy to sell.

[WestSideBilly]

I was really struggling to figure out what light rail line was just steps away from Admiral ave in West Seattle...