Meshugy says "Make Me Move"
Time for a bit more meshugy-schadenfreude
Since he used to make such a big deal of the "zestimate" for his palace, I like to check in every once in a while to see how he is doing.
This time I got a little surprise! Shugy has put a "make me move" on his property. And from the looks of it, based on the fact he has added 11 pictures + put his phone number on the site to contact him - I was thinking he might be serious about selling...
until I saw the price!
His "make me move" is $565k. This is $90k higher than the current "zestimate" of $475k, and $25k higher than the time high of $540k from ~two years ago.
It seems the exhaust fumes are still quite strong over in Crown Hill!
Since he used to make such a big deal of the "zestimate" for his palace, I like to check in every once in a while to see how he is doing.
This time I got a little surprise! Shugy has put a "make me move" on his property. And from the looks of it, based on the fact he has added 11 pictures + put his phone number on the site to contact him - I was thinking he might be serious about selling...
until I saw the price!
His "make me move" is $565k. This is $90k higher than the current "zestimate" of $475k, and $25k higher than the time high of $540k from ~two years ago.
It seems the exhaust fumes are still quite strong over in Crown Hill!
Comments
It's so hard for some people to cope with reality. One can hope that Shuggy doesn't actually expect to get that price out of it, but is putting it up there on a hope and a prayer. If it doesn't happen, maybe he's no worse off. If it does, he can finally come back here and gloat that we were suckers and his house kept on appreciating even during the crash.
On the way down, quite another story. I expect we'll soon see some lawsuits from sellers blaming it for not getting "true value"
I've always though of "Make me move" like a lotto ticket. 99.999% of the time, it does .....nothing (except gets the justly deserved mocking above) .But! should someone who REALLY won the lotto comes along, and wants to buy back their childhood home, that way they know what to offer
If you say with a "Clint Eastwood" tone...it almost dares the borrower to pull out their checkbook.
"Come on....Make...me...move."
" Make me move."
It was all "good" on the way up and he could hardly wait to beat us over the head with how "special" Ballard was.
He was warned....MANY times that this day would come.
Now it is too late.
Here's the link to his house for anyone interested in making an offer.
I know he is reading this. Lil' blue, come back, we miss you!
Re: "Make Me Move" - This 'feature' will go down in the Housing Bubble Hall of Shame - A way for delusional homeowners to quell the post-purchase cognitive dissonance.
Edit: I guess this is the answer: which would explain why the value of the home recently jumped. Apparently the house grew a by few hundred square feet and 3/4s of a bathroom.
Anyway, this guy is delusional....over $550K for that house? 2 years ago...maybe. Now, not a chance.
Tons of inventory in Ballard/Greenlake/Phinney and more coming on the market all the time....
better act now before it increases again!
Proof he can't stay away...
I knew he was reading
Aren't we all just as guilty
Seems that he's peoples favorite "Zestimate" around here.
He keeps a very clean house for a musician with young children, or he's gone through some trouble to stage it for the photos.
It looks like he's cleaned up the outside since the last time was in his neighborhood, something he didn't do the first few years he lived there. (I have relatives that live down the street from him, so I'm in the area often enough)
Both of these lead me to believe he may be serious about selling.
For someone that complained that "rentals are substandard" I expected the interior to be a little fancier. Not that it's bad, but it's not really above what you find in rental homes. What's with the 1985 style refrigerator?
Finally, listing the house on zillow at 25% above market value - isn't that what Ardell did about a year before going into foreclosure? Baby Blue may be the next NTS on the block.
If you look at the 5-year "Market Value Change" graph, you can see that Zillow indicates a pretty sharp change in value at the time of the previous sale. This is because part of their algorithm obviously takes into account the actual sales of a property as data points that represent known market value.
When Meshugy bought his home, Zillow believed it to be smaller than the public records indicated, which is why the pre-sale Zestimate was so low. Anyone who has been here long enough will remember how often Meshugy constantly reminded us of that fact. However, when he paid $431,200 for it in April 2005, that price obviously accounted for the true size of the house, and Zillow adjusted their Zestimate accordingly, even without knowing the accurate facts about the house size and features.
So in effect, although Zillow had up until recently believed the house to be smaller, thanks to the 2005 sale, it was already priced appropriately. For Zillow to update the value again after Meshugy corrected the inaccurate information about sqft and bathrooms is something of a double-dip in the Zestimate correction.
Not that I really care, as I've never put much stock in Zillow's price estimates, but I do find it interesting on the computer programming / algorithm front.
Maybe it's just me.
Meshugy appears to be a garden variety narcicist obsessed with telling everyone how much better his life is than everyone else, and proving it by bragging about his house, his car, his income, his business, his family etc etc etc. He loves it when we envy him, and apparently enjoys the attention.
Ardell confuses me. Honestly, I don't understand what motivates her to share wtih strangers the kind intimate personal and family details she posts on her blogs. It creeps me out, and if I were in her family I'd politely ask her to STFU and leave me out of it. She's a total train wreck - and not the kind that happens out in the middle of a field somewhere, more like a derailment in grand central station.
On a personal note, anyone that has decided to run a business online has had to make a decision about how to present themselves and what kind of personal information they want to make available. Myself, I took a more cautious approach. I know full well that anyone that wanted to sleuth out where I live, where I work, who my family is, how many speeding tickets I've had and a whole bunch of other information could do so - but I certainly don't join discussion forums to spread that stuff around.
the guy made bets on this very forum about his zestimate. I say it's fair game.
FWIW, I didn't post any PII - link, phone, etc. Nothing you could use to identify the address or owner. I think that crosses the line - but updates on bets he made here? not so much.
I posted the link to the Zillow page, so I guess I crossed the line, but I had some help.
From the picture and comment you posted:
1. We know it's on Zillow.
2. We know the make me move price is $565,000 (now $950,000)
3. We know it's on Crown Hill
4. We know what the house looks like
If it takes anyone longer than 1 minute to find his house with that information, then they're not doing it right. The real question is how did anyone determine this was his house in the first place? I suspect he provided the information himself. If he did so publicly, then he shouldn't have any expectations of it not being public.
That's what I figured. I remember him, if not that specific post. I doubt he's surprised by people's reaction to the current Zestimate for his house.
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Actually...that house is directly behind me!!!!!!!!!
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