Comments on: What exactly IS a townhome? http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/ Seattle's Leading Resource for Real Estate Information Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:08:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Beginning the Home Buying Process - Part 2 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-18562 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Beginning the Home Buying Process - Part 2 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:27:00 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-18562 [...] This is VERY important because a Townhome with very high monthly dues can be more expensive, even though it has a lower price, than a Single Family attached townhome. [...] [...] This is VERY important because a Townhome with very high monthly dues can be more expensive, even though it has a lower price, than a Single Family attached townhome. [...]

]]> By: Dustin http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2887 Dustin Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:06:52 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2887 Sandy, How have you been? It's been so long since I've heard from you! Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen a blog entry from you in quite a while... Are you still blogging? Sandy,

How have you been? It’s been so long since I’ve heard from you! Maybe I’ve missed it, but I haven’t seen a blog entry from you in quite a while… Are you still blogging?

]]> By: Sandy http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2886 Sandy Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:13:15 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2886 Hey, we could always add to the fun by throwing out the phrase "zero-lot line." 90% of the buyers I work with (and a surprising number of the realtors I know...) don't really seem to know what that even means. Hey, we could always add to the fun by throwing out the phrase “zero-lot line.” 90% of the buyers I work with (and a surprising number of the realtors I know…) don’t really seem to know what that even means.

]]> By: ARDELL http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2583 ARDELL Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:34:16 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2583 I love the single famly attached option for first time buyers because the monthly fee is often (but not always) $50 or less. But you have to evaluate the roof and exterior the same as any single family home. No one is coming to fix your roof if the dues are only $300 a year! Giles, I take a piece of scratch paper and draw a street down the middle. I put four attached homes (just boxes, you don't have to be an artist :-) on each side of the street. On one side I leave them all in one big lot. On the other side I draw lines between the homes separating the lots. People get this really fast. Four on one lot equals condo townhome. Four on four separate lots equals single family attached. I sold one in Kirkland on 133rd place in December that had a fee of $350 a year in Upland Green I sold one a week ago in Bellevue that had a fee of $168, and while it was a single family attached (PUD), the fee did include the roof and exterior and pool maintenance There were also special assessments, but it was not a condo. It is important not to make assumptions and to study each one, hoever if the fees are only $350 a year, you can pretty much count on being mostly on your own as to maintenance of your home. Osman, we have the opposite issue. Many want to put the single family attached townhome in with the condo townhomes so that buyers won't miss them Many get permission to list them both ways and put in the remarks "This is a PUD NOT a condo! I love the single famly attached option for first time buyers because the monthly fee is often (but not always) $50 or less. But you have to evaluate the roof and exterior the same as any single family home. No one is coming to fix your roof if the dues are only $300 a year!

Giles, I take a piece of scratch paper and draw a street down the middle. I put four attached homes (just boxes, you don’t have to be an artist :-) on each side of the street. On one side I leave them all in one big lot. On the other side I draw lines between the homes separating the lots. People get this really fast. Four on one lot equals condo townhome. Four on four separate lots equals single family attached.

I sold one in Kirkland on 133rd place in December that had a fee of $350 a year in Upland Green I sold one a week ago in Bellevue that had a fee of $168, and while it was a single family attached (PUD), the fee did include the roof and exterior and pool maintenance There were also special assessments, but it was not a condo.

It is important not to make assumptions and to study each one, hoever if the fees are only $350 a year, you can pretty much count on being mostly on your own as to maintenance of your home.

Osman, we have the opposite issue. Many want to put the single family attached townhome in with the condo townhomes so that buyers won’t miss them Many get permission to list them both ways and put in the remarks “This is a PUD NOT a condo!

]]> By: Giles http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2581 Giles Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:58:35 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2581 I wish you had posted this last week Ardell!! I had someone grilling me about the differences of the two and i was fumbling around trying to get at what you said in this post! :) I wish you had posted this last week Ardell!! I had someone grilling me about the differences of the two and i was fumbling around trying to get at what you said in this post!

:)

]]> By: osman http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2573 osman Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:57:51 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2573 The loose and fast way many realtors interchange terms drives me nuts. In our area, many will use ghost listings or list their home as "residential/attached dwelling" in order to get it to appear in more searches. When I'm analyzing the market in Excel, it means just one more extra irritating steps to clean up the data... Was that venting? The loose and fast way many realtors interchange terms drives me nuts. In our area, many will use ghost listings or list their home as “residential/attached dwelling” in order to get it to appear in more searches. When I’m analyzing the market in Excel, it means just one more extra irritating steps to clean up the data…

Was that venting?

]]> By: ARDELL http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2528 ARDELL Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:06:17 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2006/03/03/what-exactly-is-a-townhome/#comment-2528 If the dues are $300 a MONTH, it is usually, but not always, a condo townhome. If the dues are $300 a YEAR, it is almost always a single family townhome and you are responsible for your roof and exterior of the building. Use common sense. If the dues are not high enough for someone else to take care of the exterior, they probably don't. If the dues are $300 a MONTH, it is usually, but not always, a condo townhome. If the dues are $300 a YEAR, it is almost always a single family townhome and you are responsible for your roof and exterior of the building. Use common sense. If the dues are not high enough for someone else to take care of the exterior, they probably don’t.

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