I was curious how many people were clicking through yesterday’s post to look at my home on Redfin, so I ran a quick database query at work to find out the most-viewed homes on all of Redfin for Friday. Here are the resulting top three homes on Redfin for Friday (#4 and lower all had <500 views):
- 1,492 views – 3601 Wetmore Ave Everett, WA 98201
- 1,045 views – 14003 Aubrey Rd Beverly Hills, CA 90210
- 914 views – 1249 W Dickens Ave Chicago, IL 60614
Number one was my house. That’s pretty cool. Number three is a funky contemporary home that was featured on a bunch of Chicago-area blogs (like Curbed Chicago). Number two is somewhat notable… it’s Charlie Sheen’s house, just listed earlier this week for $7.2 million.
The Tim: 42.8% more popular than Charlie Sheen. Heh.
Winning!
RE: johnnybigspenda @ 1 –
winning!
The Tim, where he belongs, running with the big dogs. . .
I said it before you are THE KING. Heck you even made it in the PSBJ: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2011/05/seattle-area-housing-market-at-bottom.html?page=all
RE: The Tim @ 2 – OMG. I am gonna laugh about that one for a while
Like I was saying…Auburn
http://www.redfin.com/WA/Auburn/223-16th-St-SE-98002/home/214310
$94,900
Auburn, WA 98002
Beds: 2
“Great commuter location. Close To freeways, bus, & Sounder. Spacious kitchen has been updated with new cabinets, countertops, Pergo floors, eating bar, and stainless steel appliances”
RE: Lo Ball Jones @ 7 –
By Lo Ball Jones @ 26:
Yep, that house and Tim’s house are exactly alike, except for the location. Well, location, size of house, number of bathrooms, number of bedrooms, size of lot, quality of kitchen, house style, quality of rest of the house, etc. Except for those things, it’s exactly alike.
RE: Kary L. Krismer @ 8 –
Ok. I hear you.
But the real question is…would he or someone like him be just as happy?
RE: Lo Ball Jones @ 9 – It depends on what they want. For example, Tim probably only needs the extra bathroom right now for resale considerations (that and the wild home warming party where he’s going make a Charlie Sheen party look mild). If it were me the kitchen wouldn’t be that important, but the exposed wood would be. Other people would be the reverse. Similarly, some people would prefer the one story style and some the two story style. If commuting by train were important, I’d much rather do it from the south, because the north gets shut down by mudslides too frequently.
But the point is, that same house in Auburn wouldn’t sell for what you claimed. This is a closer comp, but still doesn’t have more than one bath, the same quality kitchen or the exposed wood (what I was referencing with quality of the other house), and it sold for $180,000 in March.
http://www.redfin.com/WA/Auburn/312-F-St-SE-98002/home/218499
RE: Kary L. Krismer @ 10 – Plus then I’d have to live in Auburn.
“location location location”
Now if we could just convince John L. Scott to use Tim as an example of how to buy a personal residence.
1) Intensely study the housing market for a minimum of 5 years.
2) Put a minimum of 20% down.
3) Buy a home way beneath your means.
4) Use a discount RE service to handle transaction.
5) Expect future depreciation.
6) Understand so much about the process by the time you buy that you can take your pick of any RE job in the industry. :)
And wouldn’t you just know it? Charlie listed his home at a bubble fantasy price. But don’t worry. If you can afford to pay $75K/yr in property taxes on a $5.8 million assessment, you can probably afford Charlie’s price.
RE: Jonness @ 14 – But he’s leaving the drug and porn collection.
Of those three houses, Tim, I like yours far and away more than the others. Tim wins the internet!
Tim, you deserve credit for putting your money where your mouth is…in this case, making your purchase publicly known for analysis. You stuck to your guns and educated us to boot. (Cue Sinatra’s “My Way.”)