<div dir="ltr"><div>For what its worth, I would definitely be in favor of pursuing this. Yes, I want my home value to increase (or at the very least get back to what we paid for it.) There are a number of reasons besides re-sale for this including refinancing etc. Our homes are really nice and it kills me that they are worth significantly less than the hyattsville homes just up the street solely because of the zip code.</div>
<div> </div><div>Furthermore, i believe when our house was worth more, we paid less in property taxes due to the homestead tax credit (tho i cant be sure - i dont handle the mortgage).</div><div> </div><div>Catarina Correia</div>
<div>Riverdale Park, MD</div><div> </div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Sue Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wheadle@yahoo.com" target="_blank">wheadle@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I'd think the town would have a lot more important things to work on, but that's just me..... maybe put it up for vote at the next election, see if the people in town actually would support something like this? <var></var><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Sue Collins <<a href="mailto:wheadle@yahoo.com" target="_blank">wheadle@yahoo.com</a>>; Bruce Wernek <<a href="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net" target="_blank">bruce.wernek@verizon.net</a>>; "<a href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" target="_blank">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" target="_blank">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 25, 2013 12:58 PM<div class="im"><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [RP TownTalk] Community Message: Overnight Shooting on Carters Lane<br>
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<div><div class="im"><br>Except the the real estate market uses the 5 digit zip code not the 9 digit when looking for "similar houses in the area". Being their listings are by zip code (the number not a name) it does make a difference, no matter what people call us.<br>
<br>The news stories are another matter. We "know" all news papers and reporters check their facts, and then check them again to get thing right. So I guess we are luck we are not called Calvert Estates or what ever this area was called in the 1800's. Other peoples old habits are hard to break. But now is a good time to try, with Riverdale Park showing growth, in addition to the Cafritz project.<br>
<br>Lou<br></div>O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop HTML mail - <a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org/" target="_blank">http://www.asciiribbon.org/</a><div class="im"><br><br>Sue Collins wrote, On 10/25/2013 10:37 AM:<br>> ... I doubt the zip code change will make much
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