Swamplot Archives by Tag: Glenbrook Valley

Monday, August 3, 2009

Swamplot Price Adjuster: Glenbrook Valley High?

The Swamplot Price Adjuster needs your nominations! Found a property you think is poorly priced? Send an email to Swamplot, and be sure to include a link to the listing or photos. Tell us about the property, and explain why you think it deserves a price adjustment. Then tell us what you think a better price would be. Unless requested otherwise, all submissions to the Swamplot Price Adjuster will be kept anonymous.

Location: 8107 Glen Dell Ct.
Details: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths; 2,757 sq. ft. on an 11,307-sq.-ft. lot
Price: $245,000
History: On the market almost continuously from March 2005 to February 2006, then again from March to September 2006, and after a couple of weeks’ rest back on again until March 2007. Returned to the market from February to August of last year. Listed again since July 3rd of this year. Price reduced from $259K.

Here’s our reader’s nomination:

The home has a lot of good bones, flagstone exterior & some flagstone floors, big windows, angled rooms, pool. But the things done in the name of updating haven’t helped it. Lots of cheap ugly ceramic tile, Home Depot pedestal sinks, overdone moldings, and the original flagstone posts were taken down in favor of plain square wooden ones. There is no landscaping to speak of, and the pool is drained, now that will show well.

So, then . . . what might be a better price?

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

HISD Neighborhood Lunch Program: The Eating of Glenbrook Valley

In a letter demonstrating the virtues of direct and forthright language, HISD has notified the owners of 8 homes on Glenloch St. in Glenbrook Valley that the new Lewis Elementary School will eat up their property:

This letter is to inform you that growth in Houston has created a serious shortage of permanent space within the Houston Independent School District (”HISD”). In a response to this need for space necessary to provide the best education for our children in your area, HISD will be replacing the Lewis Elementary School facility and it will be necessary to expand the existing school site.

The Superintendent of Schools has recommended, and the HISD Board of Education has designated, a tract of land for this expansion. This tract includes property you may own (see attached map).

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Glenbrook Valley’s Battle of the Halloween Lawn Decorations

Halloween Tombstones in Glenbrook Valley

Glenbrook Valley’s not-so-neighborly Battle of the Flags moves on to a new set of weapons: Halloween tombstones! In advance of the holiday, neighbors put up this frightening display, apparently for the benefit of longtime Confederate-flag-fan T.C. Burton, who lives across the street: Individual tombstones for Bigotry, Racism, Discrimination, Cruelty, Intolerance, Prejudice, Hate, Violence, and a few other demons.

“Sparks should start flying soon,” commented one chronicler of the display in an email to friends.

And sure enough, Burton has unleashed a marked grave of his own:

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Two Flags Over Glenbrook Valley

Rainbow Flag and Car in Glenbrook Valley, Houston

Driving around Glenbrook Valley for this past weekend’s open houses, Mr. Kimberly finds two very different home flag displays. Here’s his photo of one. The other is below:

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Weekend Open House Tour: Glenbrook Valley

If you’re looking for a cool, low-hanging Modern home, Glenbrook Valley is your best bet! This week: Glenbrook Valley’s “Mod-palooza,” courtesy of broker Robert Searcy. Three of the homes below are listed as Houston Mod’s Mods of the Month.

8119 Stony Dell Ct., Glenbrook Valley, Houston

Location: 8119 Stony Dell Ct.
Details: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths; 2,665 sq. ft.
Price: $199,900
The Scoop: 1954 brick L-shaped ranch on actual Houston hill at end of cul-de-sac. Carpet and tile floors; stone patio in back. Wood paneling in Den. Listed for just under 2 months.
Open House: Sunday, 2-4 pm

More moderately Mod-ish moments as the tour continues . . .

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Where To Pick Up Travel Gifts on the Way Back from Hobby, Cheap

99 Cents Only Store Under Construction on Broadway near Bellfort, Houston

Landed back in town, only to realize you’d forgotten to buy something for the kids on your trip? Well, if you’re headed north to I-45 from Hobby Airport, you’re in luck . . . or at least you will be once the new 99 Cents Only Store about to go up on Broadway (just south of Bellfort) is finished. Hey, most of those doodads are made in China anyway, and they’ll be even cheaper here!

A reader sends in this photo, and says it’s on the site of an old office building that had been demo’ed about a year ago.

Guess we’ll have to wait even longer for a 99 Cents Only store inside the terminal.

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