Won't You Be Our Neighbor?

Pedaling down the street on my way to work this morning, I noted that two new for-sale signs had popped up over the weekend, bringing the total number of townhouses for sale on our block to five. FIVE. That's a 41.6% of a dozen, or a lot of very nice (if, yes, rather nondescript) places for sale.


I kinda don't get it. We have a lovely little neighborhood that's getting better as the city improves the nearby park, that's getting more accessible as the city and county fix the road out back, that's full of children and families, that's on the edge of some rather beautiful countryside, that's really less than ten minutes from literally anything in Northfield... And perhaps you heard about the collapse of the housing market. Not many buyers wandering around lately - as the woman across the street well knows, having had her place on the market for about six months.


If I controlled any money at Carleton at all, I'd buy these townhouses up for faculty housing (two are side by side, and a third is just a couple doors down) and then make a killing selling them when the market picks up again.


More realistically, I invite anyone who's in the market for a new house in or around Northfield to look on Sunset Drive - you'll have some good pickings.

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