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Looking for info on this neighborhood. Seeing some affordable housing popping up and wondering what is causing prices to drop in this area. I saw a few houses with 6-7 cars in the driveway. Is this becoming the new Hispanic area of Fairfax?
If you are counting 6 to 7 cars in the driveway alone that is a red flag. Best bet is to check the neighborhood out on a weekend. See who your neighbors are going to be. Alot of real estate agents will drag customers out during the week in the daytime to avoid the reality you will be moving into.
I have seen some of the most liberal of people change their tune when they live next door to the problems. When it comes to their most expensive investment, suddenly they become conservatives. Homeless shelters, illegal alien work centers and twenty people in a house are fine as long as it isn't in their neighborhood.
You can also do a check through the county website to see the assesed value of a home and what the others are going for. A few clicks into it you can see when they last sold.
I grew up in fox mill estates, and my brother now owns the house we grew up in. My family never lost connection to the neighborhood. Additionally, a coworker of mine recently moved there.
It seems no worse than when I was a kid. There were always a few houses with too many cars, even back then. In fox mill, it is a tradition to have a few white trash individuals who run small-time auto repair or sales out of their driveway. Some of the larger families in the area may have many cars, also. My family had 5 sitting in the driveway at one point, but there were 8 of us in the immediate family, and we are quite white bread american.
Also keep in mind that fox mill has two sides, pinecrest and then the rest of the neighborhood. Pinecrest was always more low-rent and run-down. Buy a house on the other side of the school.
There were always a few houses with too many cars, even back then
Another common thing might be someone renting to a bunch of just-outta-college-age kids. When I lived in Vienna we had a house full of six 20-something year olds next door, they all had their own cars and the driveway was always packed day and night, people coming and going at all hours. I have friends in Reston that live in the same type of place- some old guy renting his whole house to 4 "kids", but 5 or 6 actually live there. They have parties alot and play loud music, I'm sure it bugs the neighbors.
Can u say wetbacks, spear chuckers, moon crickets, porch monkeys, etc, etc, etc. just like Annandale. Used to be white middle class. Then the beaners started moving in, then for some reason the Koreans. So now it’s a filthy ghetto and 90% of small businesses you can even read their sign unless you speak wetback or gook