From winterety at sbcglobal.net Sat Jun 3 15:06:22 2006 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:06:22 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] Old North Imagery, Enterprise, 5-17-06 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: John: There is a deeper irony here. . .small semi-decrepit cottages in ON regularly sell for as much or more than houses 50 years younger and 2-3 times as large in the outlying 'burbs.' Market value, yes, but also the old and venerated real estate wisdom: Location, location, location. In using ON as an example, the writer misses the whole point about value. Bruce On May 18, 2006, at 2:05 PM, John Lofland wrote: > Old Northers: > > An amusing image of our neighborhood appeared in the Davis Enterprise > letters to editor section on May 17, 2006. > > I append it for those who missed this chuckle. > > In circulating this item, I am not taking a position in the assessor > election. > > Instead, the interesting aspect is that someone would use an Old North > street as an "everybody knows" example of a place that would deflate > the value of an up-scale home. > > On second thought, perhaps this item is not as amusing as it seems at > first. > > > John > Lofland -06.pdf>_______________________________________________ > oldnorth mailing list > oldnorth at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/oldnorth