Bob

Nice cars parked in the garage doesn't mean all that much.

Folks tend to lease more car than they can afford over here and have nicer cars than living spaces....and the drug dealers

There are plenty of shit holes around and they get away with it mostly on timing. There isn't much choice going usually at this time of year and you're usually on the hook for a minimal 12 month lease.

Far more competition and better chance to find nice places at the end of summer college terms going through to September because of all the students who house share or the professors etc.

Arlington is a nice area though.

Galilite

Drug dealers would probably want more privacy which this apartment block does not afford (the majority of houses are standalone, picking this one would be counterproductive), and the neighbours didn't seem too dodgy.

Everything is possible, of course.

Bob

No, the scavy sellers, they live in the shit areas...it's the ones higher up the totem pole

We found that out when we moved to Natick, all the urchins for the gangs were in places like Milford but a huge bust of the higher ups living the custy life in town were all tagged with a swarm of cops armed to the teeth hitting the town green.

Galilite

Not about shit vs. high on totem pole.

I'm sayin', if you have 99 apartments which are standalone houses vs. 1 which is in an apartment block, and you got dodgy characters visiting you and a lot to hide, would you take the block or the standalone one? Try to guess in three attempts .

Not that I really care what my neighbours do for a living, as long as they don't bother us and don't mess with the house.

Bob

You'd be surprised.

The Russian and other mob's are all the same and are good about keep things separate.

It's all besides the point though.

Galilite

I think I know the answer.

It's because the condo association is a bloody police state. "Don't do this, don't do that, coordinate the date of moving in". If only they were mobsters like Bob suggested.

Oh well, but it's quiet, stately, made of brick, and has two garage spaces.

Pulaski

That would do it, condo associations don't like rentals. Many prohibit it, or cap the number, and federal law can kick-in IIRC at 50% rentals, making the units unmortgagable, and therefore effectively unsaleable.

scrubbedexpat091

And here the whole rental market for apartments basically relies on investors buy condos to rent out. Nobody builds apartments for rentals anymore.

Not unusual to have nearly an entire building rented out, even sitting empty if the investor doesn't want to deal with rentals.