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blackbootz  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 19, 2017

Today's Wednesday. Friday I close on this beautiful buxom babe.

Already have a roommate, their deposit, and their first month's rent. Monthly mortgage is about the rent I'm collecting. The neighborhood is on the up-and-up, and that's only a little bit wishful thinking. Baltimore isn't the conception of the next it thing but we're benefitting from a few promising trends. Moreover, I fucking love my city. Just didn't think I would be buying a house so soon. :) I don't have a stick of furniture yet but that's ok. Someone is moving and giving me their lightly used bed and I have three friends hovering on their neighborhoods' listservs looking for good deals. I'm giddy like a ten year old on Christmas morning. Almost there!





ButterflyEffect  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude. That is the house you're buying!? Gorgeous! And you're probably in a good spot by not being the next it thing. Sooner or later the northwest housing and rental market is going to crash and it's going to crash hard.

blackbootz  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The insane hype has actually made it to Baltimore, albeit nowhere near the extent elsewhere. Even though the Census recently released data that Baltimore's population still hasn't bottomed out--it just hit the lowest it's been in 100 years--there are still neighborhoods seeing a lot of construction, primarily in the form of big apartment buildings holding hundreds of units. But that's more a point for the thesis that the hype is stupid, less that Baltimore needs new apartment buildings.

elizabeth  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Looove those red bricks!

cgod  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Congratulations!

It's a totally cool looking house, hope to see some shots of the inside.

thenewgreen  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed! That place looks amazing. Tons of character. Congrats blackbootz