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Things to think about.....Almost no one wants to live in a house if it:

1. Fronts or sides to a major street. Sometimes things have been done to ameliorate the problem of backing up to a major street, such as fencing or landscaping. But, still, backing up to a major street is almost as bad as fronting or siding to it.

2. Backs up to or is adjacent to a commercial strip or office building.

3. It is one or two blocks away from the busiest stretch of an interstate in the community. Think what it would be like to live next to I-635 in Dallas (aka LBJ Fwy). I have sold a condo that backed up to LBJ. I found a buyer, but I am a trained professional after all. It wasn't easy.

4. Is adjacent to a major power line. The fear here is cancer. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/risk/magnetic-fields


And, there are people who would prefer to not live in a house it if.....

5. Is next to a cemetery (these people don't even want to be able to see it down the street!).

6. Is next to a creek (they think snakes and mosquitoes in addition to flood water).

7. Across from a school (they want to be close to a school but not THAT close).