Overpriced $@$#^% Condos
By kenya on Jun 18, 2006 in Rants
Anyone who reads Express on the Metro or whereever, is constantly bombarded with condo ads. Everyone of them is like: “We’re close to the Metro, pick me.” “Your lifestyle will improve, pick me.” With the amount of money they’re selling these condos for, I doubt that my lifestyle would improve by that much. I might spend less on the Metro getting to work. But I don’t think that save a few dollars a day would be enough that I could pay for these condos. The ads show the lowest price while most of the lowest-priced units are already sold. The thing that gets me is that it doesn’t matter much the neighborhood these condos are in, they’re still expensive. The overall draw of city life is the city life. If you can’t walk anywhere, what’s the point. Many of these condos have no grocery stores or recreation anywhere near them. If I still have to drive everywhere I don’t get it.
With all these ads it’s hard to imagine that there’s a housing shortage. Would developers feel the need to advertise so much if people were dying to have some place to live. The shortage was the justification for the ridiculous market. With the real estate bubble bursting, I wonder if the prices will come down.
Someone else was apparently frustrated with the real estate market. I saw this sticker at the corner of 13th and I Streets, NW. It has since been removed.
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