Does anyone live/has lived/familiar with this area?

Any opinions? Good/Bad?

It seems like a great buy, and a terrific investment. It's got to only be a matter of time before anywhere that's on/near the lake is going to shoot up in value. Comments....

Thanks again, all....

-Geiginni

as an investment: probably good place to buy

as a living space: you're gonna be dealing w/crackheads and crime

rogers park has been the about-to-break neighborhood for, like, a decade. in the meantime, roscoe village, lincoln square, andersonville, my little corner of edgewater, even avondale and places like that have done better.

there's something weird about rogers park. i know, it seems like it should be the tip for the top, but there's something about it that is holding it back. i think its block-by-block good/bad neighborhoods have a lot to do with it.

personally, i'd not buy there

this is a marginally well-informed opinion, but i hope it doesn't bum you out. maybe the real estate agents know something i don't.

once again, i agree with tim, the midge, midgett...i used to work with a guy who left to become a security guy at Loyola, which is located there...the storys he told about shit going on over there were pretty messed up...also, one time i was going to a friends apartment in the area and after i parked my car, a very interesting gentleman harrassed me and followed me from my car telling me that he, in fact, was going to steal my car and there was nothing i could do about it. at this point i stopped and turned around and was distracted by a woman sitting in car across the street, drinking a beer, holding a baby, who rolled down her window and yelled "Dont mind him...HE's Craaaaaaaaaaazy!" to me...

andyk

Wouldn't be in my top five neighborhoods to live in, despite the fact that ERP rents haven't soared like other previous " bargain areas" have. The earlier poster nailed the vibe there: good block followed by bad block, lots of traveling bad karma coursing through those streets, not as unpredictably anti-social as Uptown but not that different, either.

I lived in Humboldt Park for six years, and while I didn't like a lot of what I had to deal with, at least I felt like I was able to "learn the neighborhood" enough to recognize where I wasn't so welcome. I'm not sure you can ever gain that awareness in ERP. Way too many shifting gang/drug areas, too many poorly-lit blocks, too much easy access off the Red Line.

You can do better.

don't do it.

i lived there on and off for five years. in that time, i was followed home four blocks from the loyola L stop and my apartment was robbed (they broken down the back door because some jag left the back gate open - i lived on the third floor). parking also blows around there and the alderman's a dick.

it's always been one of the "up and coming neighborhoods" for at least the past 10 years. new development doesn't seem to keep the bad element out, however.

if you're going to buy anywhere right now, i'd say uptown before it completely gets yuppified.