Thursday, May 29, 2025

price history


Price history

DateEventPrice
5/29/2025Listed for sale$339,900+78.9%$151/sqft
Source: MLS Now #5125932 
6/24/2023Listing removed--
Source: MLS Now #4240313 
1/15/2021Sold$190,000$84/sqft
Source: MLS Now #4240313 
12/6/2020Pending sale$190,000$84/sqft
Source: MLS Now #4240313 
12/3/2020Listed for sale$190,000$84/sqft
Source: Howard Hanna - Macedonia #4240313 
11/30/2020Pending sale$190,000$84/sqft
Source: Howard Hanna - Macedonia #4240313 
11/16/2020Listed for sale$190,000+26.7%$84/sqft
Source: Howard Hanna #4240313 
8/28/2012Sold$150,000$67/sqft
Source: MLS Now #3332583 
7/10/2012Listed for sale$150,000-6.3%$67/sqft
Source: Howard Hanna - Shaker Heights #3332583 
2/27/2003Sold$160,000+18.5%$71/sqft
Source: MLS Now #2062559 
6/1/1998Sold$135,000$60/sqft



When I visited Cleveland and my "rav" told me to only live in a "place that's growing" this house was sold for $150,000. At that point, frum Cleveland grew immensely and that house now goes for $340,000.

Gotta have a rav. Who's your rav? Do you have a rav? All the yeshivish women ask this on dates. What this amounts to is that you can't get laid without having a rav. In other words, don't be a man. She doesn't want a man. She wants someone who is controlled through a rav. The wives too complain, we don't have a family rav. We need a rav.

You have to mevatel daas to your rav. In the yeshiva world they tell you to be terrified of the world and your own judgement. You must hand over all your decisions to a rav. Who will be this rav? Will he be Rav Moshe Feinstein? Gadolim do not have time available to be the personal rav of every Jew in klal Yisroel. If you are very wealthy, you might have more access to the leading rabbis. But if you are a regular guy, you will have access - and even then only limited - to the rav at your shul, or maybe one from your yeshiva (and BT yeshivas have the guys who couldn't make it in the real yeshivas), or some guy down the block. Who is he? Is he any wiser than you? He hears your question, which you must phrase in 20 seconds or less, and shoots out an answer without thinking. He doesn't know you, doesn't know the world any better than you and possibly less.

This rav of mine had been one of the outstanding yeshiva bochurim in Monsey and was from a family of "chashuv rabbanim." He was as chashuv as any personal rav I was going to get.  He knew that I had no financial support, was all on my own, and had a limited parnassah. 

I needed to live in a place I could afford. But he, like all rabbis, only knew his limited life, was ignorant about anything else, never left his house, but thought he was the expert on everything in the world. Like all rabbis he advised you to be just like him. He lived in a house that today is valued at $1.2 million. Where he got the money I don't know, but I didn't couldn't afford the NY area. Now I can't afford Cleveland either. 

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