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pawz
pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
edited May 2022 in Tug Tavern
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Aberdeen/818-E-1st-St-98520/home/14785856

What am I missing?

Tri-plex generates $1525/mo in rents. Allegedly it is being rented for under-market rents.

The payment on $200k is only $780/mo.

Seems like a good location? Corner lot close to Market street and the river.

I'm sure there is deferred maintenance coming due. But fuck, what's new for a home built pre-1900?


What gives?



@creepycoug


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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,822 Founders Club
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,822 Founders Club
    Someone might have been murdered there
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club

    Someone might have been murdered there

    As far as Washington State law is concerned, that is not a "material fact".
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,285
    edited May 2021
    Finally an area of expertise for Creepy. @RaceBannon and @dflea will stand down on this one, even though they probably know.

    First, that's right on "B" Street (clever name) my broseff. And right on the edge of the worst part of town (yes, there is a "worst"). Just east of there is a neighborhood on the way to North Aberdeen that is truly awful. Tahola awful (sorry @Swaye ). There are people there who smell like mushrooms and who want to hurt you.

    A las, who you gonna rent to? That, right there, is my problem with Aberdeen rentals. Anybody who can't afford to buy a fucking house in Aberdeen has some serious limitations bromando. Serious. I wouldn't pay a dime over $100,000 for that house, and that would be a hard pill. The property itself is worthless. It's only about what you could pull in rent from someone on gov't assistance. No thanks.

    Interestingly, there has been a known quantity of Seattle "investors" over the last several years who have bought Aberdeen properties for rental investment. I wonder what their experience has been.

    One more funny story. If you do the streetview of that property, turn the camera 180 degrees you'll be heading "out the Wishkah". Precisely three blocks from that very location was where, 30+ years ago, I could be found carrying a passed out girl over my shoulders trying desperately to get off B street into the darker adjacent block before a cop came by. Someone's older brother came by with a flatbed pick up and took her and her girlfriends ... home I guess. A party gone awry. A distinct memory. Long story. Creep got into a bit of a bind over that one. We? still talk about it.

    Sadly that whole area used to be solidly middle-working-class. Stewart Field is just down that road about 1/2 a mile.

    Oh, one more thing @pawz ... being close to the river, any river, in Aberdeen is not a good thing ... at all. We didn't call them river rats for nothing.
  • Number1AtNumber2
    Number1AtNumber2 Member Posts: 31
    Being close to the river might not just be about the rats. Is a prior flood claim a material fact?


  • Number1AtNumber2
    Number1AtNumber2 Member Posts: 31
    I am also curious if as a seller you need to disclose that messy weirdo with the leopard print curtains who hasn't paid rent since Feb 1 2020? There was a good article about this in the Sunday paper that deserves it's own thread to raise the age old question of if you would want to own and manage rentals.


  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,822 Founders Club

    I am also curious if as a seller you need to disclose that messy weirdo with the leopard print curtains who hasn't paid rent since Feb 1 2020? There was a good article about this in the Sunday paper that deserves it's own thread to raise the age old question of if you would want to own and manage rentals.


    If those walls could talk...
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,709 Founders Club

    I am also curious if as a seller you need to disclose that messy weirdo with the leopard print curtains who hasn't paid rent since Feb 1 2020? There was a good article about this in the Sunday paper that deserves it's own thread to raise the age old question of if you would want to own and manage rentals.


    Take brass balls much of the time to be in the landlord bidness. I haven't the stomach nor the patience.


  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,740 Standard Supporter
    If you want to become a rental property owner DO NOT DO IT IN WASHINGTON STATE.