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Delawanda Park homes for sale Columbus OH 43214

Delawanda Park is a neighborhood in north Columbus, it is south of the Worthington city line and north of Morse Road.  It is nestled in between Old Beechwold and Graceland Shopping Center.

Delawanda Park is also a City of Columbus Park along the Olentangy River... Delawanda Park is also known as Kenney Park.

Zillow and Trulia call the area north of Morse Road and south of the Worthington city limits, Sharon Heights.  In Sharon Heights are smaller neighborhoods like Delawanda Park, Tremont Gardens (in Sharon Township NOT the city of Columbus), the real Sharon Heights...  and more.

A map for Delawanda Park homes for sale in RealBird (Google Base) TODAY shows the one house in the Columbus Board of REALTOR® MLS currently listed with  Delawanda Park as the subdivision... my listing. The search is for homes priced $80,000 to $130,000, homes priced above would not show on the map. There are homes priced above $130,000 in the Sharon Heights area.   The map shows listings in Tremont Gardens, Beechwold...  RealBird is my new toy, I have had the free version for awhile. I just upgraded.

Delawanda Park homes for sale Columbus Ohio 43214

More about Delawanda Park, the neighborhood

Delawanda Park the neighbors....

Clintonville conspiracy theory... Realtors changing borders

Clintonville area ... Zillow calls it Sharon Heights

Indian Springs Elementary School earns "Excellent with Distinction"  - Indian Springs School is the elementary school for the streets in the Delawanda Park subdivision.  It is not the elementary school for all homes on the map.

Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey?

"Convey" means stay with the real estate.  Fixtures are part of the property.  Personal property sometimes conveys with the sale of real estate.

Bed Bugs are an issue in Central Ohio. Did you know there is a Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force?   Made up of people from the bug industry.

This is the last of a four part series about bed bugs (or is it bedbugs?)

Central Ohio bed bugs... recommendations to REALTORS®

bed bug contingency....

Central Ohio WHO inspects for bed bugs

Bed Bugs are not a sign of poor housekeeping or being poor...look at the ZIP code map on the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force site.  Bed Bugs have been treated in some of Central Oho's finest ZIP codes. 

Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs stay?

In writing a contract to purchase a home, the buyer tells the seller what stays and what goes. Or what they want.  The fridge?  The range?  Window coverings?  The bed bugs?  Not so much.... Seller and buyer agree about what stays with the property, "conveys."

Would the sellers bed bugs remain with the real estate or would the seller take his bed bugs with him? I am certainly not talking a particular seller... this is "make believe seller"... with "make believe bed bugs" for illustration purpose only.

Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey? 

The seller in most cases would be removing personal property from the home when it is sold.  The book cases, TV's, couches, chairs, mattresses, headboards, etc.  are moving with the seller to their new home.  Anything living in the couches, chairs mattresses etc. would move with the sellers... in most cases what is living in the couches, chairs, mattresses would be dust mites.   As unatttractive as those dust mites might be... dust mites are pretty routine... I believe.  I am not an entymologist and don't play one on TV or on this blog.... not playing attorney here either... just an  itchy blogger... from my understanding dust mites are an organism... much smaller than a cat or a dog... smaller even than a bed bug or a flea... but there is not yet Central Ohio Dust Mite Task Force... the seller is taking his dust mites with anyway...  they are in the furniture.

The sellers bed bugs? You might assume any  seller would be packing up any bed bugs onto the moving truck too.  The bed bugs do NOT convey with the real estate.  The buyer does not want the bed bugs to stay.

The bed in bed bugs?

"Though bedbugs are frequently found in mattress seams, they’ll also hide behind draperies, headboards, hanging pictures and dressers as well as in living-room chairs and cracks and crevices in any room, Jones said. “It’s really a misnomer to call them bedbugs.” the quote is from a Columbus Dispatch article by Kathy Lynn Gray titled:

Could some bed bugs stay?  Yes.

Central Ohio home sellers disclosure?

It is important that couches, chairs and mattresses be removed from a property when it is sold.  Not that the couches, chairs and mattresses have bed bugs... but the purchase contract does have a clause that the sellers personal property has been removed.

Removing all window coverings could become more common in the future.  Not that they have bed bugs if the house does not but just to be sure...  Window covering are personal property...  the rods and attached hardware stay...

If a seller had bed bugs and knew they had bed bugs I would think they would have to disclose that to a buyer.  Wouldn't you?   There is a residential property disclosure in Ohio. 

Personally I think the single family home is the perfect offense (offense as in football... offensive rather than defensive) move against bed bugs.  I am no bed bug expert but I  believe bedbugs are more common in apartment living...

Columbus home sale prices are up...  

OK I really am only looking at a micro area...  in July 2010 Columbus Ohio 43214 average home sale price was up 16.4% from July 2009.  That graph is for a slice of Columbus north of North Broadway up to the Worthington city line.  The Colmbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code includes neighborhoods like  Beechwold,  Old Beechwold, Sharon Heights, Tremont Gardens, Chaseland, Delawanda Park, parts of Clintonville and more.   Yet a pretty small area when you come right down to it.

Columbus Ohio 43214 home sale prices are up

Real estate is really, really local.

The graph shows list and sale prices for single family homes in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code for the past 15 months, home prices were up 16.4% from July 2009.

Columbus Ohio home sale prices are...

Macro?  Homes in the City of Columbus School District?  ooooh ick prices down 19.5%.

Macro er...  a bigger area the entire area served by the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS sale  prices of single family homes were up .6%

"All counties 0.6%"  remember this is single family homes only, not all residential.

I believe all homes in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code are in the Columbus City School District.  Best to check for each address what school district the home is in.

Closings in July 2010 were homes sold during the tax credits?  Since the tax credits?  A mixed bag?  August will be interesting. September even more so.

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Columbus home sale prices are up or down....   it kinda depends

By ZIP code change from July 2009:

• Columbus Ohio 43054 average home sales price was down 1.9%
  
• Columbus Ohio 43085 average home sales price was up 4.8% 
• Columbus Ohio 43202 average home sales price was up  1.2%
• Columbus Ohio 43214 average home sales pirce was up 16.4%
• Columbus Ohio 43220 average home sales price was up 1.2%
  
• Columbus Ohio 43221 average home sales price was up 18.5%
• Columbus Ohio 43229 average home sales price was down 2% 
• Columbus Ohio 43230 average home sales price was down 12.3%
  
• Columbus Ohio 43235 average home sales price was up 4.6%

ZIP codes are just mailing routes.

By school district change from July 2009: 

• Columbus schools average home sales price down 19.5%
  
• Dublin schools average home sales price up 11.1%
• Gahanna Jefferson schools average home sales price up .5%
  
• Grandview Heights schools average home sales price up 52.6%
• Hilliard schools up 14.1%
• Plain Local schools up 10.4%
• Upper Arlington schools up 26.5%
• Westerville schools down 10.9% 
• Worthington schools up 4.3%

Above are all single family home prices.

The moral of this story?  If there is a moral to this story... I supppose it is that it's tough to buy a house if you don't know the market.

Back to Columbus Ohio 43214 home sale prices ...in July 2010

• Average active price  $221,000
• Average sale price $220,000
• Median sale price $195,000

This post brought to you by a home in the Delawanda Park neighborhood in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code priced at $114,987,  301 Girard Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214

Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale 

Columbus Ohio 43214 demographics

Published based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of July  2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."   Therefor there is no guarantee from me either.

If you use the Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale link you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site.   You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You are able to know the true status of those properties you are interested in.

Indian Springs Elementary School received a designation of "Excellent with Distinction" from the State of Ohio Department of Education for the 2009- 2010 school year.

Is "Excellent with Distinction" an A+ ?  It is the highest designation.  The six designations for schools in Ohio:

• Excellent with Distinction
• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

The elementary school in the Columbus City School District is located at  50 E. Henderson Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214.  Map

Neighborhoods that attend Indian Springs Elementary School include: *Beechwold, Delawanda Park, Indian Springs, Old Beechwold and Tremont Gardens.   Indian Springs Elementary School attendance area

This post brought to you by 301 Girard Rd, Columbus OH 43214, a listing in the Delawanda Park neighborhood and the Indian Springs Elementary School attendance area.  The link above provide current information on that listing.

The skinny on Columbus Ohio 43202... the Zip Skinny...

43202 is the ZIP code for Clintonville... kinda. 

North Broadway is in 43214?  I had a faux pas a few weeks ago...I thought surely North Broadway had to be in 43202.   It seems the next road south is 43202. 

Clintonville, Crestview, Glenola Heights, Indianola Highlands, Indianola Terrrace, Old North Columbus, University City, University District, Wallhalla Park Place and Walhalla Ravine are some of the North Columbus neighborhoods in the Columbus OHio 43202 ZIP code.

Search  Columbus Ohio 43202 homes for sale

Without further ado there is some info about the demographics in the Columbus Ohio 43202 ZIP code from Zip Skinny:

All will be updated soon of course, this is 2000  census data. And remember a ZIP code is just a mail route, not an area.... really. Click on the widget to go to the Zip Skinny site.

Columbus Ohio 43214 -   The skinny on the ZIP code north of the 43202 ZIP code, the Clintonville ZIP code... part of Clintonville is in the 43214 ZIP code too.

Columbus Ohio 43202 home prices

Columbus bed bugs.... not just City of Columbus of course... Did you know there is a Central Ohio Bed Bugs Task Force.... and their site includes a page titled "realtor recommendations" ?

Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force  (CentralOhioBedBugs.org is the url) The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force's "realtor recommendations"  are a .pdf (Acrobat Reader document.)

The Central Ohio Bed Bug Taks Force recommendations to "REALTORS®" (site reads "realtors")  says:

"the responsibility of discovering bed bug infestations is in your court"

Really?

Who is the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force?

The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force According to their site the Steering Committee of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force includes people from the Franklin County Board of Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus Code Enforcement, the Ohio Pest Management Association and the Ohio Department of Agriculture.

*The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force site says to REALTORS®  * ...although the site says realtors I'd think they include licensed real estate agents in Ohio who do not belong to the National Association of REALTORS.  The term REALTORS® just means member of a trade organization, the National Association of REALTORS.

The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force has a colorful map but I do not see the legend to know what the colors mean...   The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force says:

"Selling residences and commercial buildings is an already complicated process, as you well know. Until recently, the only insect issues that realtors had to be concerned about were wood-destroying insects, such as termites and carpenter ants. Now, add to that the risk of a building being infested with bed bugs and the process can become a nightmare. This page is offered as a list of practical tips and resources to assist realtor in maintaining their success with selling developed properties, despite the threat of bed bugs."

I disagree... real estate agents have always had to be aware of any infestation that affects the sale of a home, insect issues include wasps, hornets, fleas... but the Central Ohio bed bug task force is totally focused on bed bugs.  Bed bugs are a problem in Central Ohio.  I have not run into bed bugs personally or professionally.  

Although I have never had any experience with bed bugs, I would not wish bed bugs on my worst enemy.   This is the first in a four part series about Central Ohio bed bugs.

Come back to read about:

• The Columbus Board of REALTORS® PURCHASE CONTRACT bed bug contingency*....
• Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey?
• Central Ohio WHO inspects for bed bugs

I am itchy and I just took a shower...

* Here is a hint that RUINS the whole next post in the series...  there is no contingency for this pest or any other pest, in the CBR contract.  EDITED to add "PURCHASE CONTRACT."

Columbus  ...  WalkScore.com's scores used to be "as the crow flies."  Recently I thought there had been a change in at least one address I care about, on WalkScore.com

The home at 301 Girard Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214 in the Delawanda Park neighborhood lost a point in the change to WalkScore.com  The Walk Score for that north Columbus address is now 71.  A Walk Score of 71 is still considered 'Very Walkable'  byWalk Score.  301 Girard Rd. is very walkable.

Worthington WalkScore

I wrote a old post long ago about Olentangy Hills, a neighborhood in Worthington having a  great WalkScore.  You can walk to Worthington Square, downtown Worthington, offices on W. Wilson Bridge but walking to the Marcus Cinema from Olentangy Hills would be tough (crossing 270.)  The WalkScore.com change should reduce that Olentangy Hills addresses' Walk Score and make it more realistic.  Olentangy Hills is just south of W. Wilson Bridge Rd.  There are neighborhoods in Worthington with good Walk Scores,  Most Old Worthington addresses have good Walk Score.

Clintonville is a very walkable Columbus neighborhood.  Weinland Park, Victorian Village and Downtown are on a list with America's most walkable neighborhoods, on WalkScore.com

How walkable is your Columbus neighborhood.  Do you see a difference since the change?

Walk Score

Sharon Heights is a north Columbus neighborhood...   The Toledo Blade called the Columbus neighborhood that President Obama visited yesterday, "Sharon Heights."

"Microphone in hand in town hall-style, the President spoke and took questions from a small crowd sitting at picnic tables in the backyard of architect Joe Weithman, his wife, Rhonda, and their two children in the tree-lined, residential Columbus neighborhood of Sharon Heights. The family benefited on more than one front from the $787 billion economic stimulus package that Mr. Obama pushed through Congress last year almost exclusively with Democratic votes."

E. Kanawha Avenue? ...That is Sharon Heights, Clintonville area... Zillow refers to it as Sharon Heights

Monday all of the local news I heard called the area that the President would visit "Clintonville" .... my office was all concerned on Monday about traffic west of interstate 71 Oakland Park and E. North Broadway ... which is Clintonville. 

Where does Clintonville begin or end? South of the sign in the image above.  The sign welcoming you to Clintonville is at the south end of Worthington

High St. Columbus OH 43214 - Sharon Heights neighborhood.

I have a listing right near Bob's Bar the self proclaimed 'Cultural Hub of the Midwest ' but I never thought I would actually go into Bob's Bar....  for so many reasons.  I was surprised when a co-worker sent the whole office an email on Friday morning saying "be there or be square"  about Bob's Bar.

The "be there or be square" was about meeting at the north Columbus bar for happy hour.

I have a picture of the Bob's Bar sign in a previous post about my listing at 301 Girard Rd. Columbus OH 43214.  Bob's Bar is walking distance to that home. An easy walk.

Why I never thought I would ever actually go to Bob's Bar?  Why I never thought I would actually set foot in  Bob's Bar...  "The Cultural Hub of the Midwest"

1. I don't go to "bars" 
2. I am not a beer drinker.
3. A series of funny YELP reviews. The YELP reviews made me expect a dirty place with snotty, immature clientele and bad service. 

Here's just a snippet of one of the funniest YELP reviews of a Columbus business...  Melanie a 20 Something who has reviewed Bob's Bar three times on Yelp wrote:

"Every thirty-something on the north side whose biological clock is about to explode and / or who is recently divorced or cheating seems to hang out here.  I have only encountered skeezy people at this bar and all of them have bad taste in music. "

That is just a small piece of one of Melanie's funny reviews of Bob's Bar.  I wish I would have reread it before I went I could have looked for "skeezy people", I would have listened for those clocks ticking...  I worried I would feel very, very old at Bob's Bar...

Bob's Bar is at 4961 N. High St. Columbus Ohio 43214.  It is just south of Graceland, north of Morse Road.

I was pleasantly surprised by Bob's Bar.  Only five of us showed up.  The rest of the Real Living HER Worthington office are squares? To be fair it  was the second "Happy Hour" with the office we were invited to this week.  The first was in Powell...which while nice is certainly not The Cultural Hub of the Midwest.

Delawanda Park neighborhood the best of all worlds

Clintonville businesses don't judge a marquee by it's cover another funny YELP review of a N. High St. business... YELP calls it a "Clintonville business."

Pita Hut or I guess it is Pita Hut N Grille is right next door to Bob's Bar.  I got a twofer Friday evening.  I met some co-workers at  Bob's Bar,   "The Cultural Hub of the Midwest" for "happy hour" on Friday.  There were only 5 of us who went to Bob's Bar.  The "be there or be square" was not a big enough challenge for most in our Worthington office.  Only two of us went to Pita Hut.

The hungry ones.

Pita Hut N Grille is at 4965 N. High St. Columbus Ohio 43214.  The north Columbus area might be referred to as the "Clintonville Beechwold area" or Sharon Heights.  The residential areas nearby are Delawanda Park and Old Beechwold.  This not so pretty strip mall is just south of Graceland Shopping Center.

I took the photo of Pita Hut N Grille when I listed a house at  301 Girard Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214 which is nearby, walking distance.  I had never eaten at Pita Hut before...  I should have taken a photo of my food with my cell phone Friday night.  What kind of a poor excuse for a blogger am I?  I am not a food blogger, obviously.  I had the kebab sandwich and fries.   My friend had a falafel sandwich.

I don't eat bread but I am very shy about asking if I can order a sandwich without bread especially the first time I eat in a restaurant. Especially if it is an ethnic restaurant, I don't usually ask if I can order a sandwich without bread or ask how things are prepared.  There were forks!!!  The people at the restauarnt were very nice...  I guess I should have just ordered kebabs no worries about bread.

When I ordered a Diet Coke...  the man waiting on me did not say "Pepsi no Coke"  ;- (

Pita Hut N Grille describes it' self as "Fine Middle Eastern Cuisine."   I will go back.  It was OK.  It was fun.

More about the area:

Graceland Shopping Center  -  history

Sharon Heights everything turns out all right - recent history

The Delawanda -  a business on N. High  in the 1920s.  The Delawanda Park and Ride is where The Delawanda stood in the 1920s.  Wondering how wide the frontage  of the property was.  I wonder if this strip mall is on what was The Delawanda too.  I believe it was.