ah, progress
Jul. 18th, 2006 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaJust got back from a fabulous backpack and successful thirteener ascent, of which there will be pictures and story coming shortly.
But this is not about that. This is about the house next door, which is for sale again. It was for sale when we were looking to buy 3 years ago; although we loved the neighborhood, $287K seemed a little steep for an 1898 house, maybe 1200sf, 2br/1ba with an odd interior layout (one downstairs bedroom which has a window to an enclosed porch rather than to outside, and an upstairs attic-bedroomy-thing with headroom of maybe 6 feet) and obviously necessary roof and foundation repairs. (We said to our realtor, "Alas, too bad that nice house next door isn't for sale," and a week later he called us and said, "Guess what?" and fifteen minutes later we were there, and fifteen minutes after that we put in an offer.)
Anyway, the house next door didn't sell, and after a few months the owner put it up for rent, and it's been rented more or less steadily, although not for longer than a year at a time. And they did put a new roof on it late last summer, although to our critical eye it was a quick-n-dirty cheap job.
So it's for sale again. For $425K.
Want to be my neighbor?
But this is not about that. This is about the house next door, which is for sale again. It was for sale when we were looking to buy 3 years ago; although we loved the neighborhood, $287K seemed a little steep for an 1898 house, maybe 1200sf, 2br/1ba with an odd interior layout (one downstairs bedroom which has a window to an enclosed porch rather than to outside, and an upstairs attic-bedroomy-thing with headroom of maybe 6 feet) and obviously necessary roof and foundation repairs. (We said to our realtor, "Alas, too bad that nice house next door isn't for sale," and a week later he called us and said, "Guess what?" and fifteen minutes later we were there, and fifteen minutes after that we put in an offer.)
Anyway, the house next door didn't sell, and after a few months the owner put it up for rent, and it's been rented more or less steadily, although not for longer than a year at a time. And they did put a new roof on it late last summer, although to our critical eye it was a quick-n-dirty cheap job.
So it's for sale again. For $425K.
Want to be my neighbor?