My grandfather, my father, and now my son lives not far from the Highlands, and I've walked past this house many a time. It's great to get a little peek inside, because I've always wondered what it was like in there.

There are some beautiful homes in the Washington Highlands.

KHD -- this is the Highlands. The police are going to be very responsive in there.

ROFL -- you said it, I didn't. But yeah -- that style needs some serious updating, to put it gently.

That could get noisy. Are you sure you didn't mean "turret"?

That's just mean and ignorant. I know the owners, and they are not trying to impress anyone, nor are they stupid.

Nonsense. It's the Washington Highlands, which will have police protection, even if surrounding areas go down. It's a little like Hi-Mount Blvd. further east.

Besides, that is a really good price for that house. Something of that size and quality would sell for over a million further west.

Look at the historicals, which will drive the appraisal. Unless some dumb ass comes in with a cash deal(which isn't going to happen in this Obama Depression), that house will not sell until about $450k. Tax bill is about $20,000 per year, which is BS.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'historicals'. If you mean the shifting racial makeup of the surrounding neighborhoods, your prejudices are showing.

Randy is the typical idiot liberal here. EVERYTHING that he doesnt like it IMMEDIATELY racist.

Thank you for your insight into my character and motivations, Donny Show. However when the first post makes reference to the proximity of 'the hood', I'm not too far off the mark.

While 'the hood' can indeed have racial implications, it also implies the higher crime rates that seem to be present in the nearby areas of the city. I know some people that used to live on the east side of Tosa that chose to move because of their perception that some of the bad stuff that used to be limited to Milwaukee was starting to encroach on their neighborhood. They just didn't feel as 'safe' as they did when they moved into the area a couple of decades ago.

I do agree with you that the highlands tend to be something of an isolated community and tend to get better police protection and can resist the property value 'fluxuations' that are being seen in some parts of Tosa.

@CowDung -- I don't think anyone feels as safe as they did decades ago, no matter where we live. Some of it is perception and some of it is reality. Perceptions make the problem worse.

I think it all depends on what is driving those perceptions. If it is a minority family living on the block is what makes someone feel less safe, then I would agree with you. If it is break-ins, shootings or muggings nearby and they are happening more often, then I think that there might be legitimate concern with the relative safety of the neighborhood.

I'm very familiar with the area, Cow Dung. I wouldn't think twice about walking through the Highlands at night -- in fact I have done so on numerous occasions during the past few years.

The people that I spoke of were not living in the Highlands--they lived a bit to the North of there, but still in Tosa. My apologies--I thought I had made it clear that I thought the Highlands are perceived to be a very safe area.

Normally, I'm among the first to make a snide comment about the tasteless excess of some of those McMansions we see posted. But I'm familiar with this house,-- it's one of the largest in the Highlands and one of the finest. I'd hate to see a negative effect for this seller and for the entire area.

Actually, there was a house on Washington Circle that went for $1.1 million on 3/12 which would have been just about the bottom of the market. There are several houses in the neighborhood that would fetch over $1 million.

I think you should call it the "Bush" recession, that would be a lot more accurate.