Best Old House Neighborhoods 2009: Fixer-Uppers
Unique, tight-knit neighborhoods are precisely what we looked for in selecting the winners of our second annual Best Old House Neighborhoods contest—places that might not be on your radar but deserve to be. Like last year, we relied on our good friends at PreservationDirectory.com to help us contact thousands of neighborhood groups, real estate agents, and preservation societies to get their takes on the best places to track down, fix up, and fall head of heels for older homes.
These are places where there are still many homes in need of restoration, at affordable prices. They're places like Elgin, Illinois or Kalamazoo, Michigan, where many people are picking up their saws and hammers and restoring the quality housing stock.
