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Apr. 13th, 2002 06:56 amWe looked inside at house #2 yesterday, some pictures are here: http://www.diabolis.net/~bunicula/images/house2/ . I would have liked to have had more but B doesn't take pictures of EVERYTHING like I do. We're going back today to look at it with my Dad (a contractor) and if he doesn't find any major utility/structural issues we're going to make an offer.
This is very weird for me - usually I'll look around at 10 billion alternates before making a decision to do anything. But we REALLY like this house, the area, all about it. And the price is good (we'd even pay asking price - though of course we'll make an offer for lower). Our options buying in this city are limited since the prices are so high and most of the other houses on the market in our price range are styles we don't like (Ranch) or are teeny tiny and right on top of the neighbor (in the North side of the city).
I know there are many houses in general in the market (i.e. outside of this city too) but we'd like to stay here. We'd definitely be paying for the convenience of location and for the recent yuppification. I guess - we're thinking that it would be a better investment than an area that hasn't seen any development in years.
I would totally kick myself if we passed this one up to look at 5-10 more and then came back only to find it sold . . .
So this is totally not dancer-like but we want it. I'm not getting TO excited yet because I know that anything could happen with it. But I'm crossing my fingers. It HAS been on the market for 21 days (I'm guessing because its an old house and because its in a busier part of the city). But I love this part of the city, I KNOW this part of the city since I grew up only 5 blocks away. No matter where I live (off of Moody in this house or elsewhere), I'll always be a South Side girl :)
I'd love to still be walking distance from the http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Boston/EmbassyCinema.htm , from the many restaurants on Moody Street, from the Charles River and from the Watch Factory http://www.waltham-community.org/phWatchFactory.html . I like living in a place that has so much history http://www.discoverwaltham.com/index.html .
Okay, I'm a big sap . . .
This is very weird for me - usually I'll look around at 10 billion alternates before making a decision to do anything. But we REALLY like this house, the area, all about it. And the price is good (we'd even pay asking price - though of course we'll make an offer for lower). Our options buying in this city are limited since the prices are so high and most of the other houses on the market in our price range are styles we don't like (Ranch) or are teeny tiny and right on top of the neighbor (in the North side of the city).
I know there are many houses in general in the market (i.e. outside of this city too) but we'd like to stay here. We'd definitely be paying for the convenience of location and for the recent yuppification. I guess - we're thinking that it would be a better investment than an area that hasn't seen any development in years.
I would totally kick myself if we passed this one up to look at 5-10 more and then came back only to find it sold . . .
So this is totally not dancer-like but we want it. I'm not getting TO excited yet because I know that anything could happen with it. But I'm crossing my fingers. It HAS been on the market for 21 days (I'm guessing because its an old house and because its in a busier part of the city). But I love this part of the city, I KNOW this part of the city since I grew up only 5 blocks away. No matter where I live (off of Moody in this house or elsewhere), I'll always be a South Side girl :)
I'd love to still be walking distance from the http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Boston/EmbassyCinema.htm , from the many restaurants on Moody Street, from the Charles River and from the Watch Factory http://www.waltham-community.org/phWatchFactory.html . I like living in a place that has so much history http://www.discoverwaltham.com/index.html .
Okay, I'm a big sap . . .
