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What's the Catch Here?

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  • 12-02-2020 4:39pm
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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,935 ✭✭✭✭


    https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/38-berryfield-road-finglas-dublin-11/4413130

    185k within cycling distance of O Connelly's st. for an immaculate looking 3 bed? Would you even build it for that inside the M50?

    I'm seeing a lot of this type of thing in Finglas tbh, it's looking more and more attractive to me. I could have that right now with a loan nevermind a mortgage, add a couple of lodgers, cut out the rent I currently pay and I'm rich for life basically. Ive been looking in the Shankill/Sandyford area for the last couple of years but everything there is out of reach even with my 120k deposit. It feels like I see something amazing in Finglas every time I fire up MyHome.

    Am I mad to be looking around these areas? (IKEA in particular, I see a lot around there) Would I be setting myself up for a lifetime of antisocial misery? When you Google the areas the stories are positive, often with REITs buying up whole developments, they've done their research...

    So what's the catch?


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    #2
    bluelamp
    Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭bluelamp


    A quick google news search of the road will give you a fair idea of the type of neighbours you will have.


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    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    There is an old story. Which is the odd one out of Aids, herpes, a Fiat Uno, a house in Finglas?
    Answer
    A house in Finglas.


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    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Jaysus man....location location location. It's always about location.

    That's the type of place you expect to pop up on the news cordoned off with Garda tape with forensics on the way.


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    tommythecat
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭tommythecat


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/joyriders-who-terrorised-finglas-weekend-14655558.amp

    4kwp South East facing PV System. 5.3kwh Weco battery. South Dublin City.



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    Princess Calla
    Registered Users Posts: 5,900 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    To be fair the owner has kept the house gorgeous.

    But yeah you would need to do plenty of research on the area, drive out at night especially weekends!

    Finglas is a big area, not every estate ends up in the news.


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    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,394 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Princess Calla wrote: »
    To be fair the owner has kept the house gorgeous.

    But yeah you would need to do plenty of research on the area, drive out at night especially weekends!

    Finglas is a big area, not every estate ends up in the news.
    Kept well but I certainly wouldn't call it gorgeous. Tastes differ but that is not quality.

    Either way this part if Finglas is not the nice part and the lodgers or tenants that would live there are probably not the type most would want to live with.


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,935 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    185k is pushing it obviously but what about up around IKEA or does anyone know the area and have a list of places I should be looking at out there? Is the whole place a pit?


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