re: Irish Channel House Flip, is Nola this hot?

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I grew up in Gentile Woods

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I grew up in Gentilly Woods in the 1960's through the 1970's. It was sketchy then and yes, it's currently disgusting and dangerous.

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Not sure where all the gays get their money to buy all this stuff.

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Interior of the house

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I grew up in Gentilly Woods in the 1960's through the 1970's

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There is a good chance we know each other.

They even rebuilt WCC Claiborne and renamed it. Lived on Metropolitan Dr.

You New Orleans people sure are uppity.

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Yeah it was disgusting then also

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That hood started going down in the early 1970's. Still, most people kept up there houses and yards. Now, it's a dump. Even the city hasn't did anything with the streets in the past 15 years or so.

is there much of a middle class? seems to me in most black towns you have either the well off who own everything and then a big majority of welfare types.

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is there much of a middle class? seems to me in most black towns you have either the well off who own everything and then a big majority of welfare types.

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Let's put it this way. When I drove thru my old hood, I felt like I was a double stuff Oreo. It was 180 different in the 1960's till early 1970's when outside people under the government started giving them money to buy in.

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my landlord went up 40% on rent, and got it filled within a couple days.

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This is happening all across Uptown/LGD. My landlord wanted to sell her place so I started looking around. Several rentals were seeing a 30-40% increase in rent from last year's price with no improvements being made. The market is hot enough that a lot of owners just think those increases are warranted by the demand to rent here.

Luckily my landlord, after getting two full-asking-price offers two days after listing, decided not to sell. I re-signed my lease at the same price as last year. Next year is going to suck though.

The wife and I almost went to the open house, how was it? I know it's next to a school.

It's in a great location, do you have to walk through bedrooms to get to other places in the house? Are the bedrooms connected by a door or something weird like that?