Before - After - Thank you NORA

8518 Pritchard Place  - NORA Sale Success

BEFORE

Last 2 Sales/Transfers
Sale/Transfer Date	Price	Grantor	Grantee
11-2013	$38,000	KIRK EVIE A.G.	MCGOLDRICK GARDENS LLC
04-2012	$0	NEW ORLEANS REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY	KIRK EVIE A.G.

AFTER ...... AND it looks GREAT! 

The property was originally on a Auction List but never went to Sheriff's sale.  NORA owned it and did a property swap with a lady named Evie Kirk for her townhouse in New Orleans East.  Evie Kirk then sold it to Peter Gardner. 

8237-39 Apricot

Security Development Company, LLC to Melissa Lopez for $12,000.

This is the burned out and essentially empty lot.

Transfer Tax - a VOTE FOR is actually a vote AGAINST Transfer Tax

Transfer Tax - Nov. 19th Ballot

If you vote "No" the tax will be implemented!

Reminder - 98% of the people in Louisiana are NOT familiar with this tax
on the ballot for Nov. 19 . This is a tax that both buyers and sellers of
a home in Louisiana will pay at the time of sale of their home if this tax
is ever passed . As an example, if you sell your home for $250,000, both
buyer and seller will each pay to Louisiana $4,925.00 as a transfer tax.
And, if this tax is ever passed, it would most likely be raised again in
subsequent years.

This is the tricky part: Most people who are not aware of this tax will
just click "NO" on the ballot thinking they are voting against the tax.
But, they will then be voting FOR the tax. The Amendment starts out with
"To prevent....tax" so vote "FOR "

Voting "YES" prohibits any new real estate transfer taxes in the state.
(Orleans parish already has a transfer tax). Voters must vote "YES" which
means "stay tax free".

We would encourage everyone who lives in Louisiana to go to the following
website: http://www.staytaxfree.com/ On the home page there is a
calculator that figures the tax you will pay at closing if this tax is
ever passed.

This is an excellent website with great info. This website is sponsored by
the Louisiana Realtors Assn which is our watchdog for new taxes. I hope
everyone will look at this site and figure what their tax to Louisiana
could be just for buying or selling a home . You are just one click away.
http://www.staytaxfree.com/


Please pass on to your families and friends who live in Louisiana and
probably know nothing about this tax.

8437-39 S.Claiborne Ave.

Margaret Boh Rienhard and Robert John Rienhard
to
Arialda Swift Helgeson and McGarry and Dennis James McGarry
for $217,000.

Congratulations Margaret on the phase....

NorthWest Carrollton wouldn't be NorthWest Carrollton without your efforts!
Many, Many thanks.

8524-26 Apricot

8524 Apricot LLC to SGH LLC $112,500

Historic Homes... quality construction

Great article on the value of purchasing an older home... they are built to withstand what Mother Nature throws at them... much higher quality than what is built with today's material.....

Because the house was .... raised up on brick piers, the surge water hadn’t made it to the high plastered ceilings but had filled the house up with several feet of sea water before finding its way back out through doors and wall openings. Studying the hand-planed, tall single-board trim around the floors and the water mill-sawn framing, it was clear the structure had been built in the very early 19th century. Katrina was clearly not its first hurricane rodeo.

the reality became clear that the best insurance they had was how they were built. The lime-based plaster walls with cypress lathe held up totally intact after an extended period submerged in flood water, compared to homes that had been re-muddled with modern drywall and were covered with wide bands of black mold. The quarter-sawn heart-pine floors were still pristine under a layer of mud, while the modern replacement floor systems were swollen and buckled beyond salvage. The reality that the older homes were built for disasters, decades prior to the introduction of homeowners; insurance in the 1950s, was becoming glaringly obvious. How quickly we forget how and why we should build to withstand the forces of nature. In today’s world, images of neighborhoods demolished by natural disasters are commonplace, but how many people realize that the real reason we see higher and higher damage estimates has largely to do with how substandard so much of what we build today is when subjected to the powerful forces of nature? In truth, building codes were created for the most part to protect mortgage and insurance companies, but why is the bar set so low? As my builder friend John Abrams once said, “When someone says that everything they build meets code, what they are really saying is that if they built it any worse, it would be illegal.”

8429 APPLE ST

Joliet Street corner Apple Street, square 377, lot C
sold by Cameron Landry to Caleb D. Ford
for $175,000

This property is right next to the Ashton Theatre.

8330, 8330 1/2, 8332 & 8332 1/2 Pritchard Place

Sonia Maret Kenwood to Clifford M. Kenwood and Edward B. Kenwood, no value stated, donation.

Clifford M. Kenwood to Edward Kenwood for $175,000

2517-19 Dante

Steven D. Harpham and Hal Patrick Watson Hooper to Don Maffettone for $144, 200.

Sellers Market? NorthWest Carrollton still had deals

http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/game_of_homes_real_estate_fren.html


"The real estate market across the New Orleans area has strengthened over the past year or so, with an uptick in sales and prices region-wide. Buyers around the city are reporting that it's difficult to find a home in the right price range, the right location, and right condition."

"In June, there were 132 single-family houses for sale in the neighborhoods of the Garden District, Uptown and Carrollton, which amounted to a two-month supply, according to statistics from the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors' Multiple Listing Service.
Months of supply means the time it would take for all houses on the market to be sold at the current sales pace. Those figures include houses at all prices and state of repair.
In general, a six-month supply of housing is considered to be a balanced market. Any more, it's a buyers' market. Much less and it's a sellers' market.
By comparison, in late 2008 and early 2009, as the housing crisis rippled through the national economy, months of supply in those neighborhoods hovered between 10 months and two years before beginning a long decline."

8141 Apple

8141 Apple sold
by Department of Housing and Urban Development
to Maddison Jude Bruno for $57,333.

Old Houses are worth MORE than charm

Taken from InsideOut  June 14, 2013 Marni Jameson's column

"It's a national crisis," said Curtis. "Historic homes are on demolition lists all over America. We have so few perfect examples of old architecture left in this country that are intact and well taken care of. We need to preserve them."
Her advice to buyers like these: "If you don't like old houses, don't buy one. Find some vacant land and build there."

Here, according to Nicole Curtis, host of HGTV's Rehab Addict, are six reasons why more Americans should care about saving old homes"

Because tearing them down is wrecking our history. Countries rich in culture value history and buildings. "In Italy and France, you see 300 year old buildings housing subways," she said. "They make them work, they don't tear them down."

Because it's bad for our Earth. Most of the wreckage will not be salvaged. All that glass and plaster goes in landfills.

Because you can never replicate these houses once they're gone. The woodwork alone came from 200 year old trees. These homes were built before electricity and were made by hand with handmade nails.

Because we don't need new homes. "We have enough vacant homes to put everyone in America in a house," Curtis says. "We need to take care of what we have."

Because we are losing our uniqueness. "There is something beautiful about traveling through America and seeing its distinct neighborhoods. Houses that get torn down and rebuilt erase that character."

Because of their quality. "When you have a 100 year old home made of timbers not particle board, it is solid. These homes have withstood decades of human life and natural disasters. But not city commissioners and other self interests."

Ladder Truck stays in NorthWest Carrollton

Changes are a foot in the New Orleans Fire Department....

Read more here at Uptown Messenger
http://uptownmessenger.com/2013/05/firefighters-union-joins-effort-to-keep-arabella-ladder-truck-in-service/#more-30788

But Engine 25 & Ladder 7 will be at Carrollton and Claiborne.....
right here at home in NorthWest Carrollton.

We appreciate our firefighters and it's also wonderful as it is one of the things that helps lower home owner's insurance.

Check out the map and watch the meeting video at Uptown Messenger
http://uptownmessenger.com/2013/05/new-orleans-fire-department-public-meeting-on-redeployment-live-coverage/#more-30572

8426-28 Fig

Beverly Eddins Loar to David Bryan Kelsey and Michelle Talbot Kelsey for $50,000.

2522 Cambronne

Posted by Michael Toso on the Central Carrollton Facebook page:


"As most of you know it is almost impossible to find a decent house in Central Carrollton (river side of Carrollton) for under $200,000. Buyers who are being priced out of Central Carrollton are beginning to look in the area known as “Northwest Carrollton”. NorthWest Carrollton has a strong neighborhood association which has helped the area improve over the past few years. There are many other homes that have been and are currently being renovated in this area.

I owned the home next door located at 2518 Cambronne Street. I put it on the market a few months ago and within a few days I had an offer. I just listed another house located at 2522 Cambronne Street. It is about the same size as the other home and I’m asking $139,000. The floor plan was reconfigured and it was extensively renovated in 2007. It has 3 independent bedrooms and 2 full baths, which include a master suite. The interior was recently painted and the carpeting in the bedrooms is new.

 Please see this link.

If you know anyone who might be interested please contact my agent David Toso (also my brother) at (504) 621-3283 or you can call me at 813-4913 (I am the owner). "



And if you buy this house... contact us at nwcarrollton@mindspring.com
We'll be planting trees this fall and can get you trees for the front of your house for free!

8500 Belfast

Carol Ann Rocker Sullivan to Cynthia Sullivan Sellers
$12,500 Donation

2708 S. Carrollton Ave

Sold by Kim Carver & Kristyn Carver
to Curtis Guy Hamilton & Karen Anne Hamilton
for $470,000

Thank you Kim & Kristyn for all you did for NorthWest Carrollton.
Welcome Curtis & Karen.

8517-19 Belfast

Sold for $97,500 First National Bank USA to Daniel J Condron Jr.

Delight & homebuying

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-04-26/features/os-marni-jameson-just-right-home-20130426_1_new-book-last-house-buyers

"You don't just buy the house, you buy the whole neighborhood."

"Where you choose to live — whether in a bustling city or a quiet neighborhood — has a tremendous impact on how you spend your days."

"Delight has to be an equal player with function and cost, yet delight gets ignored because it can't be quantified on paper. How many bedrooms, kitchen size, appraisal value and costs are hard facts. When function, cost and delight work together, they keep each other in check. Combine the three, find the sweet spot and there you will find the right home."

2625-27 Leonidas

Whitney Bank to Doka Investments LLC $56,000