private planes lower housing prices

Home prices in most of the San Francisco Bay area
have reached new high's, except in one city, but
there is a catch.

The city of Newark has many people moving out, and many
nice homes for sale after months of being on the market.

Why, you may ask?

It is because of the constant drone of private planes
using the airspace above Newark as their playground.

Most of the flights originate from the Palo Alto airport,
right across the bay, where they have a gentlemens
agreement about not flying over Palo Alto.

Prospective homeowners are told up front about the
"noise condition" they will have to live with, and
many, after hearing plane, after plane, after plane
would never live there at any price.

On 6 Oct 2005 17:39:28 -0700, wrote in
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Prospective homeowners are told up front about the
"noise condition" they will have to live with, and
many, after hearing plane, after plane, after plane
would never live there at any price.

Prospective homeowners are probably unable to afford housing in a
quieter location.

whines:
Home prices in most of the San Francisco Bay area
have reached new high's

I am not sure I understand what you are whining about:
high housing prices? or factors that might contribute
to lower it in some areas and which are -- as you
mention it yourself -- disclosed openly to prospective
buyers. So what's your problem exactly?

--Sylvain

Sylvain wrote:

I am not sure I understand what you are whining about:

He's like lots of other people. He wants to take advantage of the low housing
prices, then get the airport closed so that his land will be worth more. Happens
all over, not just in Frisco.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

George Patterson wrote:
Sylvain wrote:
I am not sure I understand what you are whining about:

He's like lots of other people. He wants to take advantage of the low
housing prices, then get the airport closed so that his land will be
worth more. Happens all over, not just in Frisco.

....and when the airport closes, they sell their house first thing
(to cash in, and because they can't stand the increase in noise
and traffic due the higher population density that soon follows the
development of the late airport);

I knew that, but if we must get trolls once in a while, I would
expect a higher standard; even skylune articulates his
'arguments' better than that...

--Sylvain

Well thank you (I think). Of course, much of the time, Skylune is just
clowning..... (like with the electronic monitoring link)

Reminds me of the Wall Street pros "warning" people not to buy into the
Google IPO, at ~85 or so, and then a year later, recommending that investors
buy GOOG at $300 share.
"Sylvain" wrote in message
...
George Patterson wrote:
Sylvain wrote:
I am not sure I understand what you are whining about:

He's like lots of other people. He wants to take advantage of the low
housing prices, then get the airport closed so that his land will be
worth more. Happens all over, not just in Frisco.

...and when the airport closes, they sell their house first thing
(to cash in, and because they can't stand the increase in noise
and traffic due the higher population density that soon follows the
development of the late airport);

I knew that, but if we must get trolls once in a while, I would
expect a higher standard; even skylune articulates his
'arguments' better than that...

--Sylvain

tom418 wrote:
Reminds me of the Wall Street pros "warning" people not to buy into the
Google IPO, at ~85 or so, and then a year later, recommending that investors
buy GOOG at $300 share.

never trust (completely) someone who works on commissions...

--Sylvain :-)

In article Hzl1f.5716$ar6.2479@trndny01,
George Patterson wrote:

Sylvain wrote:

I am not sure I understand what you are whining about:

He's like lots of other people. He wants to take advantage of the low housing
prices, then get the airport closed so that his land will be worth more.
Happens
all over, not just in Frisco.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

The only problem is -- there is no correlation between housing prices
and proximity to GA airports -- commercial airports, perhaps, but not GA
airports.

In fact, some of the priciest houses in my area are ON an airport, with
taxiway access!

I live near a large lake. I knew it when I bought it and never once
complained about the sounds of boats!

My wife has never noticed the boats in fact rather likes them on Sunday
mornings of the deck! She never even noticed the GA aircraft until I
started flying. I never thought she noticed until one morning she looked up
and said "That's a radial engine, isn't it?"

So what's the problem if you already know the airport is there?
--
Chris Ehlbeck, PP-ASEL
"It's a license to learn, have fun and buy really expensive hamburgers."

"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:Hzl1f.5716$ar6.2479@trndny01...
Sylvain wrote:

I am not sure I understand what you are whining about:

He's like lots of other people. He wants to take advantage of the low
housing
prices, then get the airport closed so that his land will be worth more.
Happens
all over, not just in Frisco.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.