Quote Originally Posted by kboust View Post
I have to say that I disagree with the person who said that the houses are of much lower quality than RO or Ferndale. I bought a house in Hamtramck last year after an exhaustive search and, even though my house turns 100 years old this year it is rock solid. I bought this house because it was the best quality of all the ones I had looked at, including houses in Royal Oak that were 3x the price. Yes, hamtramck is an old neighborhood. The houses are old. There is always work to be done on 100 year old houses. But the underlying quality of craftsmanship is unbeaten.

yes. there are some nicely built homes in Hamtramck and some crappy ones in RO, but if you compare the total housing stock, Hamtown comes out on the short side of the quality stick. a huge proportion of them were thrown up very much on the cheap for immigrant labor