One of the Capital Region's oldest homes is back on the market – and for almost half the price it was originally listed for two years ago.
The Yates house in the city's Stockade neighborhood, which was built around 1725 and is considered possibly one of the only examples left of an urban Dutch Colonial home in the Unites States, is being offered for $198,500 — significantly less than the $389,000 it was listed for in 2011.
Too funny, Ask a price way over a home's value, then take it off the market, list it again for roughly half the price and claim it's asking price is a "reduced price."
Interesting that the news reporter failed to get the details:
- The house was put on the market for sale in December 2010 asking $389,000 with "realtor #1."
- The house was removed from the market in March 2012 when it's asking price was down to $289,000
- The house was put on the market for sale just one month later in April 2012 asking $219,000 with "realtor #2"
- The house was removed from the market nine months later, in January 2013 when it's asking price was still to $219,000.
- And now 3 years and 4 months later the house was put on the market for sale March 2013 asking $198.000 with "realtor #3"
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Too funny, Ask a price way over a home's value, then take it off the market, list it again for roughly half the price and claim it's asking price is a "reduced price."
Interesting that the news reporter failed to get the details:
The dem lead mayor and asessor have assigned an assessment value of $247,000.
As an asssessment value is defiined as market value which is defined as the price a willing buyer will pay to a willing seller, it is the obligation and duty of the dem mayor and his assessor to explain WHY there will be willing buyers at a price of $247,000 because that is the assessment value they have assigned to the house.
A side note, taxes are just over $11,000 per year which means the taxes will be well more than the combination of the principal + interest + insurance!
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Too funny, Ask a price way over a home's value, then take it off the market, list it again for roughly half the price and claim it's asking price is a "reduced price."
Interesting that the news reporter failed to get the details:
The dem lead mayor and asessor have assigned an assessment value of $247,000.
As an asssessment value is defiined as market value which is defined as the price a willing buyer will pay to a willing seller, it is the obligation and duty of the dem mayor and his assessor to explain WHY there will be willing buyers at a price of $247,000 because that is the assessment value they have assigned to the house.
A side note, taxes are just over $11,000 per year which means the taxes will be well more than the combination of the principal + interest + insurance!
be well more than the combination of the principal + interest + insurance! This is the story of our lives here in Schenectady. Did you hear the county needs a larger courthouse?!?!?!
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[b].... Did you hear the county needs a larger courthouse?!?!?!
Needs a larger courthouse?
Why? To accommodate all the thousands who are forced to turn to the court system to get their assessments reduced because of the dem puppets on the board of assessment denying grievances?
ROFL
Oh wait, then to add to the court calendars the mortgage foreclosures and tax foreclosures.
Then there should be increasing suits against the city for damages to cars from the lousy streets and other actions against the city for failing to do what they are supposed to do.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
talking to someone today who has been trying to sell their home (2 family) for 8 months. well they finally got a buyer from QUEENS, NY. they are suppose to close by end of this month. the code enforcer went to the home and said that they had some peeling paint on the garage. (very minimal might i add) so now the present home owner has to pay to either paint the garage or put money in escrow for the new owners.
and as a side note....the property is in very very very nice condition.
the present home owners are so pi$$ed off that they said that if this prevents the home from selling.....they are just going to walk away!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Will this house be added to the mayor's taxpayer-subsidized grand bus tour of Schenectady homes for sale for the next gala open house event in late April?
HGTV wouldn't even be successful selling a house in the city
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
be well more than the combination of the principal + interest + insurance! This is the story of our lives here in Schenectady. Did you hear the county needs a larger courthouse?!?!?!
And a bigger jail. DA for life Carney is running again-unopposed. We don't need no two parties. Can the State takeover the entire County?
talking to someone today who has been trying to sell their home (2 family) for 8 months. well they finally got a buyer from QUEENS, NY. they are suppose to close by end of this month. the code enforcer went to the home and said that they had some peeling paint on the garage. (very minimal might i add) so now the present home owner has to pay to either paint the garage or put money in escrow for the new owners.
I invite anyone who has gotten a warning or citation from code enforcement for something so minor to contact me. The house next door to me, a house that the city "took over" had its windows busted out many weeks ago, have contacted code enforcement and made council aware after windows were not boarded up and STILL nothing done, the glass lays there and an invite to vagrants.
The code 'sweeps' in my neighborhood seemed to miss some obvious violations on property owned by people who knew somebody. I'm sure it was just an oversight.
The Stockade is actually a pretty run-down area. People's memories of it are not the reality. They've taken their fair share of abuse and neglect from the city. Just what does $11,000 + per year in taxes get you?
it's the reverse psychology used in business....the code enforcer goes to those that make the code enforcer look like it's effective.. at work they give incentives to those who 'don't really try' because those who have that work-pride don't need incentive....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I invite anyone who has gotten a warning or citation from code enforcement for something so minor to contact me. The house next door to me, a house that the city "took over" had its windows busted out many weeks ago, have contacted code enforcement and made council aware after windows were not boarded up and STILL nothing done, the glass lays there and an invite to vagrants.
Take a pic and send to ALL local news.
Take a video and post it to ALL local news face book pages.
Send such video to local news people, like Greg Floyd and his "you paid for it" segment; to whomever you send it to, ask those reporters to invite facebook friends in Schenectady to contact them if they've gotten cited by the city, for stupid things like minimal paint peeling, lawns a 1/4 inch too high (what IS the city's maximum allowable height anyway-ask them), house numbers allegedly too small, etc so they can do a story and make the connection between the stupidity of the city vs the city failing to take care of their own properties. Ask the reporters to find out if the city carries homeowners insurance on that house and if YOU are listed as being insured if a house next door to you goes up in flames.
How about this, find a picture online of Proctor's interior and line it up next to a pic of the that house and post it on Proctors facebook page (do they have one?) with a caption "The taxpayers lost it because the taxpayer had to pay for it."
Be a squeaky wheel. Just remember, it was our work as squeaky wheels that resulted in the news finally looking into King Philip's illegal STAR exemption.
(It would be nice, now, for the news to report IF he paid it back and to find out how King Philip chose to lie on his second STAR exemption by answering "no" to having a STAR on another house when he damn well knew that he DID have the exemption on his city house!)
Don't give up.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
The code 'sweeps' in my neighborhood seemed to miss some obvious violations on property owned by people who knew somebody. I'm sure it was just an oversight.
The Stockade is actually a pretty run-down area. People's memories of it are not the reality. They've taken their fair share of abuse and neglect from the city. Just what does $11,000 + per year in taxes get you?
The welfare building owned by Galesi has 100 square feet of crumbling stucko.
The code enforcer drives by it to get to Bellevue and Mt Pleasant.
Logged
And a bigger jail. DA for life Carney is running again-unopposed. We don't need no two parties. Can the State takeover the entire County? 
