{"id":3376,"date":"2011-06-11T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2011-06-11T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:06:33","slug":"you-cant-go-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/you-cant-go-home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t go home again"},"content":{"rendered":"

…. or at least, you can’t buy your old home again. The house my parents owned from 1967 to 2000 was a big, old, Pittsburgh house. Built in 1911, 3000+ square feet, above ground basement, attached garage, real plaster walls, 12-foot ceiling in the first floor. Five toilets: sink & a toilet in the basement (enclosed, with a door, and even a mirror, not out in the open); half bath on the first floor; two full baths on the second floor, although I suppose the realtors might count those as 3\/4 – one had a claw-foot tub, no shower, and the other had a big tiled shower; and on the third floor, a bathroom with a new in the early 70s when I moved up there for my sophomore & junior years of high school shower. My mother never thought the plumbing was adequate in any other house I ever lived in. Six or seven bedrooms – on the third floor there were three rooms – my bedroom, my dad’s study and a pool room. On the second floor, there were four rooms – two connected on each side of the stairs. My brother and I had had one set – till I moved upstairs – and my parents had the other set for their bedroom and TV room. We never <\/em>had a TV in the living room – that was just not done. The living room was for talking to other people, cocktails, and listening to music.<\/p>\n

My parents paid somewheres in the $30,000s for it in 1967. My mom sold it in 2000 for $175,000 – she complained a lot about all the people who looked at it who really didn’t like or understand old houses.<\/p>\n

The other day I was wondering if there was a property look up for Allegheny County, like there is for Madison<\/a>, and sure enough<\/a>. So I plugged in our old address, and the people my mom sold the house to sold it in 2008 for $315,000. I kept looking at that and trying to figure out how in heck they got so much for it – and then I checked the date – they sold in June of 2008 – a.k.a. right before the economy collapsed. I feel sort of sorry for the people who bought it – it’s still assessed at $179,000. I guess they’re the definition of underwater on their mortgage, unless they made a huge down payment in ’08.<\/p>\n

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The ancestral manor in Pittsburgh PA<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…. or at least, you can’t buy your old home again. The house my parents owned from 1967 to 2000 was a big, old, Pittsburgh house. Built in 1911, 3000+ square feet, above ground basement, attached garage, real plaster walls, 12-foot ceiling in the first floor. Five toilets: sink & a toilet in the basement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,42],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-memory","tag-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}