This is a great shot from hipchickindc. It was taken at MacMillan Reservoir.
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This home is located at 3801 7th Street, NW
The flier says:
“SEE TO APPRECIATE!! $2K BONUS !! This 4Bedroom, 3.5 baths home features a light filled, spacious open floor plan, 3 finished levels of living space. This home is completely renovated including, plumbing, electrical, new roof, new windows, 2 HVAC systems, stainless appliances. All bathrooms comes with upgradded faucets & MORE. 1 BLK to the metro.”
More info and photos found here.
It seems like a fine house but is it possible one can be completely oblivious to the current market? Asking price is $714,950. That seems high even during the height of the bubble. What do you think this house could realistically go for?
You can talk about whatever is on your mind – quality of life issues, a beautiful tree you spotted, scuttlebutt, or any random questions/thoughts you may have. I’ll open this thread every Monday and Friday. Anything good happen this week?
Rusty the Red Panda photo by Steve W Lee
In early February, the National Zoo welcomed the arrival of Tate, the red panda bear sent in from the Cape May Zoo in New Jersey. And no one cared. I mean, it was reported on by DCist and a few local news channels, and given a blurb in WaPo, but the majority of the public still had stars in their eyes from the Zoo’s glamour days with the red-carpet entrance of Tai Shan the baby panda bear. Poor Tate. Most people don’t even notice the red panda habitat at the zoo, bypassing it entirely while bee-lining for the giant pandas. The giant pandas that, if they ever venture to come out, don’t DO anything but eat and stare at their bellies. One time I was there and a kid who was racing to see Tai Shan stopped momentarily beside the red bears just to point at them and call them “boring pandas,” leaving them feeling dejected and undoubtedly depressed. I’m encouraging all to boycott the gluttonous, overrated, Star Jones’s of the Zoo celebrity creatures and instead consider the adorable, livelier, and severely overlooked red panda bears. Tate and his friend Shama are attention seekers. Unlike the apathetic Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, the more colorful duo WANT to be watched. They’re cute and move around more, and play for the (lack of) camera, and deserve more ‘ooohhhs’ and ‘awwwws.’ If you’re ever feeling underappreciated, pay a visit to Tate and Shama and feel their pain.
Also underappreciated – the mouse with the gigantic teeth. Those guys are terrifying.
What other zoo creature gets unmerited neglect? What’s your goto spot at the zoo?
IMG_6932, originally uploaded by Prince of Petworth.
“I’ve told you before about our crazy landlord (didn’t fix the washer for 9 months, outright refuses to fix other things, and is the infamous “artist” of the front yard headboard hose holder that was featured in a past Photo Archives Caption Contest). Well, now she’s evicting us. She’s evicting us because although she hasn’t repaired any other single thing in the building in a timely manner, she’s decided that she must replace the pipes in our kitchen, NOW. I’ve been trying to navigate the various DC rental and legal aid agencies to figure out what our rights are, but in the end, we’re thinking it might be best just to get out, as much as it pains us.
It pains us more because we are hoping to move back to California in the next year, which means signing a 1 year lease elsewhere is not smart. Ideally we would find a month-to-month lease situation or 3 month lease that goes month-to-month thereafter. We have no idea how long it will take to get jobs in this economy, but we would really *like* to be there by summer. I’ve been looking for sublets and lease transfers but there’s really not much out there that meets our needs. I wonder if any PoP readers know of anything that might fit the bill. Ideally, it would be a furnished one bedroom for under $1400, but everything is negotiable. We’d be willing to live anywhere in the PoP readership area that has decent transportation to downtown.”
Wow, what an insane situation. I’d like to think you could fight the eviction if you were willing to go through some headaches. I think if you plan on leaving in the Summer then it may certainly be easiest to fight this. I know DC has some pretty solid tenant laws. Can any readers provide some advice on this front? Do you think this person should try and fight the eviction or would it be least painful to just find a new apartment?
And now for the Friday Question of the Day – what is your craziest landlord story?
I had a landlord not believe me that there were rats in the apartment walls (near the zoo). Finally when I was moving out I was being charged for not cleaning up properly. So I showed the landlord the huge holes the rats had eaten in the wall and said I wasn’t paying a dime. The place was pretty trashed but I got out with my full deposit refunded.
You can see all the great entries here. The winner goes to Thor:
“Takes a lot of balls to have a yard like that.”
In real life, hipchickindc is licensed as a real estate broker in the District of Columbia and Virginia, and as a real estate salesperson in Maryland. Unless specifically noted, neither she nor the company that she is affiliated with represented any of the parties or were directly involved in the transaction reported below. Unless otherwise noted, the source of information is Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS), which is the local multiple listing system. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Featured Property: 456 N St NW
Original List Price: $265,200.
List Price at Contract: $265,200.
List Date: 12/01/2008
Days on Market: 23
Settled Sales Price: $330,000.
Settlement Date: 02/19/2009
Seller Subsidy: $10,000.
Bank Owned?: Yes, Foreclosure
Recent Purchase and Re-Sale?: Well, let’s say recent purchase and didn’t go so well…Last transaction on the books was for a sale at $425,000. in February 2007
Original GDoN Post is: here.
Recent Listing: Click here.
Despite having been immediately blasted last week by an anonymous poster for being, “God, you are such a realtor” for saying last week’s GDoN-R was a good deal, I am, without reservation, calling this week’s GDoN-R, a Good Deal. (And yes, I am a card carrying member of the National Association of Realtors.)
I have actual firsthand knowledge of this property. I’ve been in it several times and represented a Purchaser in writing an offer back in December. The listing agent was inundated with ten offers on this property and my client didn’t win the bid. This was a rare find being listed under $300k, in quite livable condition, and within blocks of Metro, the Sexy Safeway, Chinatown, and Penn Quarter.
The property re-surfaced back in early February when the previous contract holder backed out. Having spent the interim looking at everything else was available in that price range, my client decided it made sense to go after the property more aggressively this time and we wrote a much higher offer. Again, it drew multiple offers and this time it looked like we were at the top of the pile. At the last minute, however, another one came in and bumped us out.
That client is happily under contract on another property, however, he’ll be doing a lot more work than he would have had to with this one.
As seen on PoPtrekker Vol. 2. A classic.
For the record I actually fall into the category of those who likes painted brick particularly when vibrant colors are used. However I found the color choice for this house a bit jarring. So this house had me scratching my head especially because it’s a two family house. So I was wondering if they both agreed to paint it this color or maybe one family lost a bet…
Speaking of two family homes, a friend of mine sent me a phenomenal photo essay from Slate which shows a series of “paired houses” where one is abandoned.
Which reminds me, one of these days I’m gonna get a doorbell…