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This house is located at 3508 Macomb Street, NW:
The listing says:
“Classic Seven Bedroom Cleveland Park Farmhouse on large level lot with coveted Cathedral view! Details throughout: 9′+ Ceilings, heartpine & oak floors gleam, coffered ceiling and hewn stone fireplace. Powder on main, updated kitchen w/ breakfast room, lower level rec room. Stunning Japanese maple & porch in front, fully-fenced rear w/ hot tub & shed. Walk to shops & Metro!”
You can see more photos here.
This 7 bed/3.5 bath is going for $1,700,000.
Category: Cleveland Park, Real Estate
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1.7 million dollars…rental-level washer-dryer set.
The stove is the same one George Washington used when he lived there… LOL.
It’s got good bones, but the fixtures are low-level Home Depot, there’s no HVAC and the kitchen has been “updated” all right…to 1990. I’m open to hearing that I’m wrong, but I don’t think that’s a $1.7 million home.
I’m gonna guess long-time owner, went in for the cheapest updates possible (Ikea, HD)…and gonna make a killing no matter what it closes at.
the staging is trying too hard! does not match the house at all and I personally think it makes it worse.
Are those laminate counters in a 1.7m dollar house? You can’t do that…just can’t.
Let me just say this. We bid on a house on Garfield of a similar size two years ago and it needed everything. A developer snatched it up for $1.1 million. If you could get this house as a shell for between 1.1 and 1.3, why would you pay for it in its current condition at 1.7? Maybe because the developers with their all cash offers buy the shells, not sure. I still say not a good deal.
On the floor plan, it appears that one of the “bedrooms” (one of the ones shown with a double bed) has no windows. Hoping that’s an error.
I think people are being a little tough on this one… sure, the finishes don’t scream “OPULENCE!”, and the bathroom with the apricot tiles could stand to be redone, but the kitchen looks fine to me. And the washer-dryer set might not be top of the line, but the washer and dryer look new (or close to it).
I’m far more bothered by the house not having central air than by anything else.
For $1.7 I’d expect more than MDF cabinets and a 20-year old electric range.
The lack of central AC, outdated kitchen and bathrooms, and some features that I would change (I love it when the crap stack runs naked thru a bedroom), make this house over-priced by 400K – 500K.
Looking at property assessments for the block, there is nothing below 1.1 M and there a few in the 2′s and even one well into the 3.5 M range. But I’m sure those houses were turn-key ready, whereas this house is just “livable.” Not that livable is a bad thing; but at 1.7 M, you’re going to want to put in AC and make upgrades, and it’s possible that you’d be over-improving this house, as I suspect that buyers in the 2 M range in Cleveland Park are rare birds.
I’m all for getting the most money for your house, but I think the realtor should’ve done a better job at setting a more realistic price on this one.
Needs to be updated as others said but I personally wouldn’t pay over $1 million on a family home that has 4 bedrooms on one floor and only 1 small bathroom.
window units != $1.7M
The house itself is pretty but the furnishings look cheap. Especially those red beds in the kids’ rooms. Not a fan of the front deck, either.
I do love Japanese maples, though.
Did they turn the master bathroom into a laundry room? That seems silly.