Gouchers' Home For Sale ... Guess How Much

deer adam wrote:

[quote]canspo wrote:

[quote]deer adam wrote:

Granted yes I'm from California, and while you may feel safer in the PNW you can't stop Californians from travelling or moving to the PNW. If you're in Spokane you may have a lot of Russian immigrants, masters at scamming the system for free money. You don't think they will go for gold if you happen to rear end one? They'll show up to court with a neckbrace and a psychiatrist suing for emotional damages on top of physical damages. If all you have is your home (in your name), you might not have that for long.

Are you really an attorney? Do you know much about the legal system? Your statement would indicate you do not.

Yes, when you are sued there is always the risk of an excess judgment, that said, your insurance company is going to defend you and do all they can to settle the case and avoid the risk of an adverse decision at trial. Even a good plaintiff's attorney recognizes there is a risk for taking a case to trial.

Should you get to trial or even arbitration you still have to prove your alleged injury to the jury or arbitrator. Wearing a neck brace and calling a psychiatrist is nice, but juries aren't full of dummies and arbitrators are in many cases attorneys. The defense may even have done a DME in which case they will argue against your injuries unless such exam finds they are as alleged.

Bottom line, if you carry reasonable policy limits - 100/300/50 - you should be fine and so will your home whether you live in California or the Pacific Northwest.

Now back to our discussion of the Goucher house, which might be "cheap" in some small areas of the DC area, but would be expensive in most parts of the country. In Forest Heights it is slightly above the median, but there are a lot of $500K+ homes up there.

Finally, are we sure that is Ben Andrew's wife? I thought he was married to someone else - perhaps he was and has remarried?

Boy Wonder wrote:

Finally, are we sure that is Ben Andrew's wife? I thought he was married to someone else - perhaps he was and has remarried?

I was going off this website

I knew Ben and his wife were in real estate, but I've never met his wife. However, the Goucher's agent works with Ben and her bio mentions working with her husband.

No, I'm not an attorney, just a relatively small real estate investor who works for a very large real estate investor and surround myself in his circle of friends/partners/team.

All I can say to you is, you'd be surprised.

My house is about that size but a fraction of the $$ and looks like a family actually lives there. And there's recently/frequently used cycling crap and camping gear and running shoes out where you can see and the dogs shed a bit and my kids leave shoes out, etc. The yard's cut but not manicured because I'm too busy and tired doing other stuff and too cheap to pay someone to do it. I am not the American dream and I am OK.

phantom wrote:

My house is about that size but a fraction of the $$ and looks like a family actually lives there. And there's recently/frequently used cycling crap and camping gear and running shoes out where you can see and the dogs shed a bit and my kids leave shoes out, etc. The yard's cut but not manicured because I'm too busy and tired doing other stuff and too cheap to pay someone to do it. I am not the American dream and I am OK.

You do realize that they have a professional realtor and have essentially staged their home right? Yours is a strange post.

Mr Mountain wrote:

They probably couldn't afford the taxes. When they bought in 2005, the taxes were 6k. They are now 9.5k !!

When this was just land, the county was getting about 1/10th that.

I doubt that that has anything to do with it. Have you considered that the mortgage payment (without taxes and ins) would be $5000-7000 a month?