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Good Deal or Not? “Great potential” edition
This home is located at 809 Longfellow St, NW:
The listing says:
“Great opportunity to purchase nice 3 bedroom, 2 full bath home. Home features enclosed sun porch on 1st and 2nd level. Full basement with full bath. One car garage on rear. Great potential. Don’t miss out on this one!”
This 3 bed/2 bath is going for $275,000.
Category: Brightwood, Real Estate
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it looks great now while the median is still green. Check it by next summer and it will...
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most people complaining about real estate prices could probably afford this.
Assuming from the lack of pictures that the house needs some work I think 250,000 is a good price.
Off topic- I’m just now noticing that the street numbers are odd on the north side of the streets in Petworth/Brightwood- this house is on the north side of Longfellow and it’s #809
In most places the North and West sides of the street are even numbers. I’m sure there’s a good reason for this.
I thought that in all of NW D.C., odd numbers are on the north side of east-west streets and on the east side of north-south streets.
textdoc is correct.
Thanks.
doesn’t it switch based on the quadrant? I think S.E. is opp N.W.
I’m pretty sure it’s different in the other quadrants, but I remember only how it is in my own.
as you face away from north, east, and south capitol, or the mall, even numbers on left, odd on right.
more than you could possibly want to know about street naming and numbering in dc: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/3151/washingtons-systemic-streets/
Paid $255,000 for mine, 5 blocks south of here. Mine is very similar, but with only 1.5 baths. Seeing what prices have been like in Petworth, I assume they will get list or very close to it. Hoping a bidding war starts
To the first anon, totally true! Great neighborhood, quieter than further south, and super close to the express bus stop at Kennedy and GA Ave that runs straight downtown.
Not as good as it seems. Mold in basement. It’s a short sale. No way to access the house from the garage and a lot of steps to the front door. It’s a cute little house but needs some work to really be livable.
interesting. so if you parked in the garage, you’d have to walk back out the alley to the front of the house?
if there is a fire, you can’t leave the premise through the back of the house?
801 to 813 Longfellow were built beginning in December of 1922; designed by William S. Phillips
If the house has a working kitchen and bathrooms, then this a great deal and a great starter house. The living room and dining room look clean and nice, and the floors appear to be in really good shape. Slap some paint on it and spend money as you are able to on upgrades, and you have a sweet place to live. Love an enclosed porch.
Looks decent but all I care about is that all of the sh!t spilling out of the entryway closet comes with the house.
Is it really that hard to throw that sh!t into a big trash bag before taking the picture? Wow, apparently so.
I’d say the price is right if the condition of the other rooms is consistent with the ones shown. If there’s in mold in the basement though like bag it said then count me out… unless, of course, you throw in the extra sh!t we talked about…
The area is not great – loud, lots of trash on street… but definitely improving. I assume it will be bought and flipped as the flippers are moving North of Kennedy St now.