If you're going to be living there you should go in person to check it out. Streets in Penn Hills vary pretty wildly.

I won't be living there, just using as a rental. Home is on Glendale Rd.

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Quick Google search says that the ZIP code 15235 includes: Penn Hills, Churchill, Wilkins Township, and Wilkinsburg.

Whoa you can Google zip codes?

/s people are wild sometimes

Good luck

Mainly I'd call it Penn Hills. Lots of very different neighborhoods there, so it's hard to generalize what they're like.

ha! crazy right. If only google could give personal perspective too then we'd really be wildin'.

makes sense, I'll probably be visiting within the next few weeks and seeing if I can get a good feel from the area.

Blackridge is comprised of Penn hills, Churchill and Wilkinsburg.

Check the school tax rates because you'll get screwed living in Wilkinsburg.

*get screwed investing

I grew up in that area if you have a specific question

• Penn Hills - Some nice places but overall not great. Expect ridiculous water and sewage bills. Borders East Hills where someone gets shot weekly
• Churchill - Nice but expensive
• Wilkins Township - Nice and more affordable
• Wilkinsburg - Not great, weekly shootings, high school taxes, some nice areas but only the further you get away from the city

Why do ppl get so offended when the mention of investing is brought up ? Correct me if I’m mistaken but our realtor said only about 47% of homes in that area are owner occupied. Do home owners dislike renters ?

I messaged you.

Because people (justifiably) don't like landlords. You think that people in any given area should be happy that someone who already has somewhere to live is coming into an area that they literally don't know anything about (doesn't sound like you've even been there) and buying up property? When there's a so-called property shortage in no small part driven by landlords who have had no interest in performing improvements on their "investments" while they continue to profit on them?

Whether or not you're as good as a landlord can be is immaterial - landlords mostly fucking suck and you're about to be one if you aren't already.

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Some homeowners do not like landlords but it's typically renters. Like the other person said, some landlords are terrible but from my experience as a landlord, some tenants are horrible and downright costly in terms of property damage.

There is a mental leap though when complaining renters themselves can't afford to buy property for whatever reason and thus need rentals to have housing. The price changes according to what the market will bear and renters pay it (again for myriad reasons some of which are really not their fault) even for shitholes which adds to the anger towards landlords.

All that said and having done it, absentee landlords are the worse and paying a property management company 10% to take care of things is almost as bad. We are almost too involved with our property because we really do care but it's generally gone well for us.

"whatever reason"

Couldn't possibly have anything to do with the people buying up property at a value and then hoarding it to make money off it at a premium, or the ones flipping them into shiny turds

That's one and I'm not a fan of property hoarders but that's different from making a place that was not available to rent from into something that is. Other reasons might be bad credit, low wages causing an inability to save, needing to support their family with medical/legal issues, property taxes too high due to unjust distribution of resources for schools, a bad financial decision made earlier in life, and being shitty with their own money despite making enough.

I’m not reading all that yr not that important 😂

I live on Glendale Road in Penn Hills. It's a very nice neighborhood!

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