Today Harry and I planned on driving around and looking about over 20 homes in the Van Nuys and Pasadena area. It's funny how one street can be beautiful and quiet and then the next street over is run down and old looking. We found about seven homes to look at in Van Nuys/Lake Balboa. We even found another really nice neighborhood over my the Van Nuys airport.. very excited about that because the houses were nice looking and it seems there were several in our price range.
Our trip to Pasadena wasn't so great. We had five homes to look at there and the first one was okay on an okay street. The part of Pasadena we were looking at is very old and the houses are very old. Most of the streets and houses were very "lived" in and I felt comfortable driving down some of them. So needless to say our experience in Pasadena, at least the area that we could afford was not a good one. We did find one home actually on Kenneth Way that was nice looking and the area looked okay but it was right next to the freeway.
So we emailed our Realtor Mary our finding and hopefully will be able to look at some of those house that we liked from the outside. And that ends day two of our house hunting. We were excited to find the two nice areas of Van Nuys and that gives up hope that we might be able to actually find a home that is nice looking and in a nice area.. keep your fingers crossed.
Ooh, I hope one of the places that appeals to you both works out! I totally understand the need to find a house in a good neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the coming steps of house hunting!
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Dinah Saur
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I am not quite sure from your post if you think "lived in" is a bad or good thing! Good luck finding the perfect house that suits you both. :)
ReplyDeletePS Get a jacuzzi.