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Thurs. Afternoon Rental Option – Shaw
This rental is located at 1536 8th Street, NW:
The listing says:
“Lovely and Updated, English Basement Apartment,One Bedroom unit, located in the heart of Shaw, Walk to Metro, Convention Center, U Street Corridor, Downtown and everything.”
This 1 bed/1 bath is going for $1,350/Mo.
Category: Rental of the Day, Shaw
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That’s a really cute street, but I would check it out to see how close to all the construction at City Market you’d be, although being underground really limits the noise I would imagine. The pictures also give no sense of how big it is.
It says right in the ad that it’s a basement unit. It’s probably tiny – look at how small the house is. I couldn’t deal with the lack of light, but for someone who can, this is an OK deal.
8th st on the RI Ave side. Not the safest block in the world. I’d guess it’s under 1000 ft2. It’s 1/2 block from metro and shaw library. dunno about pricing. I’d also wonder if it’s a basement unit since those houses are 2-3 br houses.
Sorry, it’s on the P St side. makes it even less safe. 8th is a really cute, quiet street, but has a large amount of burglaries/robberies. Unless this has changed in last two years.
I can assure you, the area has changed in the past 2 years. Not that it’s crime free, but Shaw of now is not Shaw of 2 years ago.
It lists a dryer, but no washer? This apartment, at $1350, would need to have it’s own stack-able washer/dryer or access to the laundry facilities upstairs to be a good deal. I lived in a similarly small English basement in Georgetown (a much better neighborhood) for $1000 and it had a W/D.
*Correction, my rent in Georgetown was $1100.
There is a photo of a stacked washer-dryer in it.
I’m moving out of an equally crappy 1-BR in a much better location for the same price– but my landlord is now listing the place for $100/mo more. It’s pretty hard to find anything centrally located for less than $1400/mo. So it seems an okay deal to me.
This might be the first listing for a 1br that I’ve seen in over a year that didn’t give me anxiety about moving. It may not be a great street and the kitchen doesn’t seem to have a counter but it’s close to everything and it’s not a total cardboard box. I’d say it’s priced about right.
Small or not, I think you’ll have to look pretty hard to beat this in today’s rental market.
I see one window… I would sincerely doubt this is a legal rental.