OK, a very scientific & thoroughly researched post today (not really). I am shooting the breeze with some friends who work at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and as inevitably happens, someone brings up a horror story of a daughter/cousin/former roomate getting scammed out of something! This opens the floodgates and by the time the next round comes I am pretty sure that the proverbial “END IS NEAR!”
So I got to thinking…how is that we can joke about this stuff happening to OTHERS? Primarily because it seems so ALIEN to us in our little village life. So here you go - the list of 10 Things I Don’t Have To Worry About:
- 1. No Twin Towers - or rather no population density high enough to attract the attention of anyone looking to use innocent people to attract attention to their cause!
- 2. No smog - EVER!
- 3. No wildfires, no mudslides, no hurricanes, no tornadoes - in exchange for which we gladly navigate the 8 foot snowbanks that pile-up for 4 months of the year.
- 4. No termites - who, like my dad, don’t do so well with the deep freeze. Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 5:06 pm. Add a comment
The three rings of Hanover houses can explain rational selling prices
Hanover Yellow Zone: Walk-to-Town Ring
Within 5 minutes of being in my car new clients will have been exposed to the “3 rings of Hanover houses” concept. This handy device forms a framework for conversations and explanations on topics as varied as price justifications, zoning & variances, commute times, playdates and seasonal variations in social habits of the Upper Valley. It very well may be the second most important concept for the incoming individual or family that is certain that they want to end up in Hanover, Etna, Norwich or Lyme.
On the surface it’s very simple - we can break the housing options into three concentric “rings” (or concentric polygons for those that who aren’t into the whole brevity thing). The center of the rings focuses on the Main St, Howe Library, Dartmouth Campus (shown by a green “D” on the map above) and the Hanover Food Coop areas. For short form that is the Walk-to-Town ring or the Yellow Zone on the map. This ring is characterized by late 1800s and early to mid 1900s houses on lots of 1 acre or less but most often 1/3 acre or less. The two car garage that actually fits two modern cars is a rare and enviable commodity in the Yellow Zone! If we were to track Selling price per Square footage of houses in Hanover then this zone would certainly be the highest and probably so by a wide margin.
Life in the Walk-to-Town or Yellow Zone is characterized by… Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago at 9:50 am. Add a comment
