Old Blue-Collar Tract POS in San Rafael

Wonderful home with some deferred maintenance-3be/2ba with original hardwood floors, detached two car garage and large back yard. Close to jcc, local k-8 school, open space, farmer's market. Great for first time buyers in marin county.

This San Rafael POS (3 br 2 ba, built 1953, 1542 sq ft) makes me sick just looking at it. I mean, you can see the stains and cracked stucco even in the picture. No upgrades whatsoever. The kitchen cabinets (as well as the carpets) are some sickly yellowish-green in color. The stove looks like it dates from the 1950s. The bathrooms? 1950s era. The junk-filled backyard is a muddy mess where even the grass struggles to hold on to dear life. And for this heap of ugliness you have to pay $645,000. That's six-hundred-fourty-five-thousand dollars, not pesos, but dollars.

It's an old blue-collar tract home and it should be priced like an old blue-collar tract home.

It really bothers me when a realtor says about a POS like this "Great for first time buyers in marin county". No, I'm sorry, but that is just plain BS. Am I the only person who sees a problem with this? No first time buyer wants to buy a wreck like this for that kind of money. Why are we now at the point where the first time buyer has to buy a joke of a house like this for such an astronomical amount of money? This sort of POS should be marketed towards people who make it a business of tearing down crap like this and building something better in its place; it should not be marketed to first time buyers who in all likelihood want to start a family. Would you want to start a family in this POS? Would you have wanted to have been raised in a POS like this?

Folks, it's time to stop the madness. Only you can do it and it has to be a collective effort. Boycott housing for one to two years.