Domku located at 821 Upshur Street has a new fall menu. Find more details here. I can’t decide if I’m more excited about the pickled herring on blinis or the latkes. It’s like I’m back in the old country…
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Author: Prince Of Petworth
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Dang, I can’t remember where I took this photo. Anyone recognize it? Well, it’s definitely a new building and a pretty unique one. Do you dig the style?
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Lots of folks have been pining for a chocolate shop so I thought I’d inquire about one that recently opened.
Co Co Sala is located at 929 F Street, NW. Has anyone checked it out yet? Thumbs up or down?
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This nice row house split into condos is located at 1312 Florida Ave., NW. The flier says:
“New renovation of 3-unit Victorian end unit * 11-ft ceilings * Brazilian cherry H/W floors * Exposed brick throughout * 2 fireplaces * Large, elegant working kitchen w/ granite & stainless * Private master bath w/ spa shower system * 13 windows + vertical skylights * 8-ft interior doors * Steps to metro, restaurants, nightlife and shopping * LOW condo fee!”
More photos and photos can be found here.
So for this location is a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom for $575,000 a good deal or not?
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 Friday. So anything good happen to you this week?
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I have some questions that hipchick might be able to help me out with. I am constantly stalking carriage houses for sale in DC. I currently rent one, but would like to buy in the upcoming future. I have found a bunch of street houses with alley house/carriage houses for sale, but very few standalone carriage houses. When the alley communities were originally built, the alley homes and carriage house plots were subdivided from the main street facing houses and developed. Seems as that over time most were combined back together. Would it make any sense to try and make an offer on just the carriage/alley house if a seller is selling both as a unit, or would the offer get laughed off the table?
Lastly – is the market really this strong? This stand alone carriage house was bought in 2007 for $150k. Asking a million now, and it’s still a rehab project.
http://www.redfin.com/DC/
Hipchickindc’s response:
“Great question! I get asked a lot about carriage houses. I’ve seen really cool ones that I would love to live in or have studio space in, and recently represented the buyers of two development projects (one commercial & one that will be condo) where the carriage houses will be renovated into usable space. In both of those sales, the carriage houses were included in a lot that had another building on it.
There are two big issues with carriage houses in DC. There’s the one that you mentioned already, where the carriage house is part of a lot that includes a house or other building in front. I honestly can’t say what your chances would be for subdividing off a carriage house lot (or how responsive a Seller would be) due to the second issue.
The second issue is that despite there obviously being carriage houses that people have rehabbed and live in, depending on the location, you may or may not be able to get permits and/or a certificate of occupancy for it. I’ve heard that in some cases it’s because DC firetrucks can’t reach some of these properties, due to a narrow alley or lack of water source, which is a problem if it is residential. Some of these properties don’t have existing water or sewer connections, making the transition to residential difficult.
Occasionally I see listings for habitable carriage houses in Georgetown, LeDroit Park (great one sold a couple years ago between U & V/1st & 2nd), and here is one currently listed on the Hill: http://matrix.mris.com/Matrix/Public/Email.aspx?ID=27329381844
I’d be very interested to hear PoP reader input on carriage house experiences in DC.
Regarding your inquiry about the property on 1st St NW listed for $1,000,000., it is an active listing. Since I live nearby, if someone would like to come along and pay $1,000,000. that’d be totally cool. We could use the bump in value. At the moment, there don’t look to be any sold comps that high.”
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ThePost’s Wire blog is reporting former DC Council Member Harold Brazil’s arrest last night at a Georgetown tattoo parlor! Insane.
The Post says:
“Brazil, 59, entered the Jinx Proof Tattoo shop in the 3200 block of M Street NW with two women, one of whom went to the back of the store to receive a tattoo, police said. When Brazil tried to follow the woman, an employee told him only customers were allowed in the work area, which prompted an argument and then a fight.
It took three employees to subdue Brazil before officers were called at about 7:30 p.m., authorities said. He was arrested and charged with simple assault and taken to the 2nd District police station, said Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes. Authorities released Brazil with a citation and a summons to appear in court at a later date, officials said. Brazil could not be reached for comment.”
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I wondered if it was a good idea to enclose front porches.
I morned the temporary, thank God, closing of Taco Bell on 14th Street.
I picked a house of the day that would eventually sell for over a million dollars.
Following the theme of purely random FQOTD, I’m curious to know what your most profound sports memory is? Mine is the 1996 New Yankees World Series Championship. That third out of game six is burned into my brain.
Although a closer runner up is when the Yankees beat the Red Sox in the ALCS, 2003 I was brought to tears. As a matter of fact it was the year I got engaged to my ex-fiance and at a dinner party over New Years that year we went around the table and recounted our most memorable moments. Instead of saying the greatest moment was getting engaged, I said my greatest moment from 2003 was the Yankees beating the Red Sox in the ALCS. Yeah, that didn’t go over so well…
Oops.
So what’s your most profound sports memory?
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Som Records on 14th Street continues to impress with their awesome album covers.