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5/10/2010 3:50:26 PM

The Dawson

W Morgan st.

As far as actual quality and location, it really can't be beat

5/10/2010 4:07:24 PM

dawson's allright....locationwise in the middle but nothing much around it....but if i'm paying that much for rent, i'd want some amenities and a deck!

5/10/2010 5:01:02 PM

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"why is gunzz a fucking prick in every god damn thread?"

hahaha this piece of shit calling someone else a prick made me laugh out loud

5/10/2010 5:12:35 PM

krazedgirl i could sell you my condo in bishops park.

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"oberlin court might be a little cheaper being that it is not technically downtown?"

oberlin court is an apartment complex, you can only rent.

5/10/2010 7:55:59 PM

My house will go on the market this week. $335,900

5/10/2010 8:00:51 PM

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"dawson's allright....locationwise in the middle but nothing much around it"

uh, three blocks from the times and berkeley, four from landmark/slim's/busy bee/tir na nog/pour house/humble pie

the borough is in the goddamned building

5/10/2010 8:02:55 PM

i :heart: the borough. i wish it was in my backyard

5/10/2010 8:05:31 PM

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"just make sure you're not overlooking the prison and you should be ok"

Hey, maybe I want to overlook it so I know when the prison break happens

Has anyone on here bought one of the beater houses downtown and redone them? I've seen a lot of those homes on real estate sites recently. It seems they'd have to be basically torn down and rebuilt but the prices can't be beat. I just wonder if they're in that grey area of nice downtown and drug central downtown. Downtown Raleigh has changed a lot over the past four years so I don't know where that line is anymore.

5/10/2010 8:36:01 PM

wolfpackgrrr feel free to send me links of any areas you're talking about. i have a pretty good feel for up and coming areas of downtown that are really starting to move in an upswing and areas that are drug infested and probably will be another 10+ years before it gets cleaned up.

i would suggest google mapping every address of a home you find you might like to flip. if it's anywhere near Raleigh Blvd or New Bern Ave, don't think about it. those areas still have a ways to go before they're cleaned up.

anywhere around Peace College, Bloodworth (but only until you hit about Davie St) and the Mordecai area are pretty good and definitely have seen a lot of renovations.

5/10/2010 8:39:18 PM

I live at 150 st marys, right on the edge of boylan heights, and love it.

5/10/2010 8:49:28 PM

^^ Next time I do the rounds I'll definitely send you a PM

I don't have the cash right now to buy a home but it's definitely something I've considered. I would love to live in the downtown area and be close to everything but I don't want a crack den next door lol.

I also wish they would open a freaking supermarket in downtown proper (I'm assuming this hasn't happened since I've been gone). Do it like Europe and Japan and have it in the basement level of one of the new high rises or something.

5/10/2010 8:55:31 PM

The velvet cloak inn is selling condos and the price has dropped from what I understand. It is near downtown but not that close.

5/10/2010 9:01:49 PM

I remember going to a wedding at Velvet Cloak Inn many years ago and the place creeped me out. Hopefully all the renovations have improved the ambiance of the place.

5/10/2010 9:04:21 PM

There's that new place called HUE.

If you're filthy rich.

5/10/2010 9:49:00 PM

HUE has technically been open now for a while but because they don't have enough people willing to buy places in there, it's empty. also i had a friend who toured the building and said it was made really cheaply for the price that it was.

5/10/2010 9:50:50 PM

been rumors of HUE going apartment style for awhile.

5/10/2010 9:52:35 PM

this thread does me no good so i'm not gonna post in it.

5/10/2010 9:53:10 PM

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"uh, three blocks from the times and berkeley, four from landmark/slim's/busy bee/tir na nog/pour house/humble pie"

exactly what i mean, you have to walk to either fayetteville or glenwood south as opposed to the condos that are already in these areas.....paramount, west, 222, hudson, rbc, palladium

don't get me wrong, the dawson area will be great when the warehouse district builds up more


Hue is cheaply made but also cheaply priced...in the sense that it's one of the cheapest condos in town compared to other 1BRs and 2BRs....if hue is for the filthy rich, then no one can afford a condo in downtown raleigh

5/10/2010 10:16:43 PM

the HUE has come down on their prices a lot. the problem isn't that they were ridiculously priced but that they were built and opened during the recession when it was tougher to get a loan from a bank. since a certain percentage of the building has to be sold before it can officially be open, this has put a damper into anything really happening. at least thats what i've heard from people.

i lived and own a place downtown.....i've seen the fluctuations and i agree, HUE is far from ridiculously expensive.

5/10/2010 10:19:06 PM

yeah i was/am actually thinking of buying a 1BR at the Hue..it's only $170K..cheaper than any other 1BR condos in all of downtown raleigh, but like you said...the unknown factor of being able to close....i thought Bloomsbury was in the same situation but I'm hearing that people are moving in...

i feel sorry for Hue....it has potential..good location, all amenities...

5/10/2010 10:22:10 PM

oh i agree. the location is fab and it has so much potential!

i heard people are moving into bloomsbury as well. someone just mentioned that they went to a friend's place there and had dinner.

i will say though....in terms of owning (i dont know if you've bought places before) but try to get a 2 bedroom. it's better for resale than a 1 bedroom (easier to sell and can make more money off of it down the road).

5/10/2010 10:26:31 PM

for the past 2 months i've been helping a friend find a condo in downtown....(i'm a part-time agent)...in these past 2 months i went from not knowing anything about the condos to knowing almost everything about each condo building (except for bloomsbury)

to make a long story short, i tried to steer my friend to a 2BR condo but avg prices for 2BR were at $300K or more vs. 1BRs at around $200K and my friend didn't want to take that kind of risk....also my friend preferred downtown proper area vs. glenwood south

Hue would have been his choice if only he could close...in the end he chose to go with true condo high rise living

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 10:37 PM. Reason : k]

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 10:38 PM. Reason : k]

5/10/2010 10:35:53 PM

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"exactly what i mean, you have to walk to either fayetteville or glenwood south as opposed to the condos that are already in these areas"

Man, that's kind of sad if 3 blocks is considered "far away." No wonder Americans are fat

5/10/2010 11:15:19 PM

well for the same price, why would you want to be 3-4 blocks away as opposed to right on street level from the places you want to be...not so much about the walking as it is about the resale value.....

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 11:31 PM. Reason : k]

5/10/2010 11:30:44 PM

You like the room plans better? You don't have to deal with as many douchebags outside your door on weekend nights? It makes your commute easier somehow? You don't mind walking?

There's a bunch of reasons I can think of.

5/10/2010 11:32:18 PM

what places are you comparing....my friend didn't like dawson....no decks on the 1BR floorplans, no amenities, yet high HOAs

5/10/2010 11:35:32 PM

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"yer mom's vag"

5/10/2010 11:36:08 PM

^^ I'm not comparing any places. I'm playing Devil's Advocate. My ass is too broke to afford any of those overpriced condos downtown

5/11/2010 7:22:04 AM

My friend that moved in to Bloomsbury was actually played for a year and a half by Hue. He was one of the first people to sign up... and of course, the price kept getting lowered and lowered and they would tell him every couple of months that he could move in the next month. He really loved the location and held on but finally his girlfriend found Bloomsbury and he decided to move there. No problems at all and they love it! The top floor condo there is a cool million and is super nice. Except no bath tub in the master bedroom.. Main reason it hasn't sold I'm sure. They get more expensive the higher up you move (each floor).

5/11/2010 9:30:36 AM

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"They get more expensive the higher up you move (each floor)."

Isn't that usually how it works for those sorts of condos? That definitely seemed to be the case in NYC when I was living in that area.

5/11/2010 9:32:09 AM

Yes it is - just wanted to mention it in case anyone was interested in looking at it.

5/11/2010 9:33:27 AM

who doesn't put in a bathtub in a million dollar condo??????

good job builders.

5/11/2010 9:46:05 AM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=591814

5/11/2010 9:50:53 AM

^learn2link on tWW

5/11/2010 9:52:44 AM

link works fine

5/11/2010 9:53:56 AM

Well that's the thing - it has 3.5 bathrooms and two of them have tubs but the master just has a shower. I don't understand the thinking there.

5/11/2010 9:59:57 AM

^^http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=591814

now what happens? yeah exactly.

use /message_topic.aspx?topic=591814 next time...

[Edited on May 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM. Reason : ^]

5/11/2010 10:00:30 AM

who the fuck cares? are you the link police? if it works who cares?

5/11/2010 10:07:00 AM

^^^ i agree. that makes no sense. i would prefer to have a tub in the master bathroom and just have a shower in one of the other bathrooms.

5/11/2010 10:08:39 AM

I checked out the RBC plaza condos. Honestly i didn't like the one that was available. Tiny and overpriced. $1600/mo for a 1BR studio

5/11/2010 10:12:58 AM

dharney - do you remember which floorplan it was? was it Unit 11 cuz that's the one I checked out since it was for rent via CL. http://rbcplazacondos.com/floorplans.htm

ncsuGALxcPaC - yeah my friend was played too by Hue...kept telling her it'll only be a month before they reach their sales minimum and look where they stand today....

5/11/2010 11:12:51 AM

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"if only a moderator had that power."

5/11/2010 11:16:43 AM

i'm pretty sure it was unit 11


it was advertised as a 1BR but it's clearly a studio apartment as there is no door separating the living room from the bedroom

5/11/2010 11:24:11 AM

yeah none of the RBC 1BR floorplans have a door separating the bedroom from living room

5/11/2010 11:29:11 AM

complete bullshit

5/11/2010 11:30:06 AM

5/11/2010 11:30:17 AM

^^^ That seems incredibly dumb to me. I can understand it for studios, but a 1br?

5/19/2010 3:01:08 AM