That's why there's no photos inside. We do like how Movoto encourages us to Go See This Home when the listing copy tells us we can't. November 12, 2012 Listings tend to fall into certain kinds of categories here at Burbed .  There's your all around crapshack, usually sold for the land value and no pictures inside.  There's your overbuilt flip that's wrong for the neighborhood.  There's your overbuilt "dream home" that's wrong for any neighborhood, and its cousin, the nightmare home whose builder ran out of money. Burbed reader Tracy Tea House has found us something else entirely over in East San Jose: winner of the wtf tag. Split level home with so much potential. Three bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs. Open floor plan with large living room. Inside laundry. Downstairs bedrooms may be locked but rest of the house is view-able. Large separate storage room outside, detached workshop. Some double-pane windows. Home needs front and back landscaping, has nice decorative stone wall. Good handyman special. November 11, 2012 We're always interested in ways to measure how Special a place is.  A website called areavibes.com has a Livability Index that has some interesting assumptions. First, let's see what it makes of some places most of us agree are Not Particularly Special (by which we mean we wouldn't live there for free and we also wouldn't live there unless we were paid Larry Ellison's stock options). Detroit, MI is "Somewhat Livable."  The only "A" grade it received was in cost