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Sassyz75
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Dina
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good 2 family home areas?
looking into possibly purchasing a 2 family home, but want one in an area w/ good school district- any ideas of where I should start to look? I've been out of LI for sooo long and DH doesn't want queens.
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Posted 12/13/06 10:06 AM  |
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ckdk
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
Port Washington has a ton of 2 family homes in the "manorhaven" section, very good school district.
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| Posted 12/13/06 10:08 AM |
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kerrycec03
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
two families aren't as common in Nassau & Suffolk as they are in Queens but a lot of High Ranches called "Mother/Daughters" are LI's version of two familes. I hope this helps. High Ranches or Mother/Daughters are found alll over the island in almost every town
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| Posted 12/13/06 10:14 AM |
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CaseyGirl
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
don't leave me 
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| Posted 12/13/06 10:20 AM |
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MegZee
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
Posted by kerrycec03
two families aren't as common in Nassau & Suffolk as they are in Queens but a lot of High Ranches called "Mother/Daughters" are LI's version of two familes. I hope this helps. High Ranches or Mother/Daughters are found alll over the island in almost every town
if you buy a mother daughter, you are supposed to be directly related to the tenants. and the owner also HAS to live there. as opposed to a legal two faimly, and family can live there, and it doesnt have to be the owner.
they will look the same, its how the CO was written. (of course legal two's are more $$ to get permits for)
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| Posted 12/13/06 10:30 AM |
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Eleanor
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Ellie
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
I know that your DH doesn't want Queens - but Bayside is a great place for these. SD #26/Cardozo HS is one of the best districts in the city and bayside is more like LI than NYC, but with much less taxes!
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| Posted 12/13/06 10:44 AM |
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angnick
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
I would look at places that have train stations locally this way you can rent to commuters.
we own a two family in new hyde park- very close to the station.. and, new hyde park also has a good school district.
port washington is also a thought,
floral park as well- but there arent as many in floral park.
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| Posted 12/13/06 3:03 PM |
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DRMom
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
Glen Cove right off Glen Cove Rd has blocks of 2 families. Great neighborhood I think. I vbelieve you can search like this on MLSLI.com
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| Posted 12/13/06 3:38 PM |
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jellybean78
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
Posted by Eleanor
I know that your DH doesn't want Queens - but Bayside is a great place for these. SD #26/Cardozo HS is one of the best districts in the city and bayside is more like LI than NYC, but with much less taxes!
I agree. Bayside is beautiful. School District #26 is one of the best in NYC. Very pricey though but IMO worth it.
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| Posted 12/13/06 4:45 PM |
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Blu-ize
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
Mineola..we lived there. There are some non-legal two families and legal twos..and Mother-daughters..
We rented a house with an apartment upstairs that wasn't legal but it was a great arrangement.
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| Posted 12/13/06 6:41 PM |
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Sassyz75
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Dina
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
what we are going to do- maybe- is buy it and my step sister will rent one portion and me and DH will have the other portion- I know Bayside would be a great area for this- but DH is against it and I doubt I could get my step sister to go to queens.. she's such a LI girl.
I might just go ahead and get my own house and scrub the two family idea- i have to start looking.
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| Posted 12/17/06 10:23 AM |
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sunnyplus3
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
west babylon has a lot of duplexes that are legal. I think the schools are good, but I'm not sure.
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| Posted 12/17/06 11:25 AM |
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julz33
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Re: good 2 family home areas?
there is an option to search on MLSLI.com for multi-family homes... I just did this for suffolk and a ton came up!
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| Posted 12/17/06 11:43 AM |
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