We came, we saw, we liked
Mar. 28th, 2004 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiWe made an offer on a house contingent on finding a buyer for ours.
Its weird, the listing isn't up on realtor.com or any of the other public sites so I can't post a picture here. I will once its up somewhere public.
The open house was a madhouse as expected - lots of people coming and going. Its a 3 bedroom "antique" style (I'd call it a Victorian but, whatever). Good sized living room w/ bay windows and hardwood floor, formal dining room w/ built in china cabinet, hardwood floor and chair rail. Large retro 50's kitchen with metal and chrome cabinets, funky red wall tile, large wide old stove (size of a 6 burner stove but its only got 4 gas burners) that was clean and seems to be working.
There were 3 bedrooms on the 3rd floor - 1 small, 1 average, 1 really large that had a bay window and 2 closets. Plenty of closets. Really well maintained. Neat old woodwork (rosettes like we have in our house) though its all painted. Tall baseboards, I swear the baseboards were like 9" high. Thats OK, the paint job was good at least - no peeling.
House had new windows, long driveway, good sized yard (even large enough that we could lengthen driveway and give a little turnaround area to make getting out of the driveway onto the main street that the house is on easier). House was around 1300 sq feet with room to finish basement or expand out. Lot is around 4000 sq feet I think. Its a 1/2 mile walk to Moody Street, around the corner from The Chataeu, right on a bus line. You could watch the 4th of july fireworks from the back yard or walk down to the track to go jogging. Basically, the location has anything we could ask for.
The weird things - the "full" bath is on the first floor off of the kitchen. It has a tub - no shower - its just a tub. Its a newer tub though, and newer toilet, and newer pedestal sink. The washer is in the bathroom too and we didn't see a dryer anywhere. It wouldn't be difficult to plumb a shower in there. There is a little pantry area off the kitchen and stairs to basement which was large, and useable (so the dryer could go there or washer and dryer could just be hooked up in the basement easily). Weird thing #2 was that they have 60 amp fuse service BUT all wires going to it are 3-wire (i.e. no old knob and tube like was in this place), outlets are 3 pronged and so it appears that wiring in the house is grounded. In that case if we got the house we'd have a new service installed (i.e. all current wiring connected to a new circuit box) and we'd add more circuits to the box as necessary.
This feels a lot like the Derby Street house process 2 years ago. The open house was a madhouse, we offered over the asking price (we did 10K over last time, this time we did $5k) and are concerned about a liability (contingency on finding a buyer for our house) counting against us. The last time our liability was that we could only put 5% down. We're hoping our high price, excitement, pre-approval with a letter saying we have an "excellent" credit rating and luck will help us get this house.
But if not hey, at least it was good to see a good place in a good area in our price range - it gives some hope. What's meant to be will be.
The selling broker is presenting all offers to the seller tomorrow at noon (and our broker was driving all paperwork to the office to them today). Here's hoping we hear some good news tomorrow afternoon! Even if they do accept our offer we'd have a couple of weeks to get an offer on our house. If we did we'd remove the contingency (but in the P&S list that closing on the Waltham house was contingent on closing on the framingham house - we still need to cover our butts and all). If we didn't find a buyer in a couple of weeks well, its all up to whether they'd want to sit and wait for us to find a buyer.
We shall see.
The yard is mostly fixed up (there are still some truck marks in the grass in our front lawn - it was too cold today to dig them apart and rake them flat), mulch is sprinkled and some potted plants are out there. We also took out our patio set and put it on the patio so that it looked more patio-like (its the old foundation for our old shed that we tore down because it was just in a silly place, and was falling apart). We're making headway on cleaning up the house. We're having a fireplace fest and burning up old wood that's been cluttering our basement.
Freaky.
Its weird, the listing isn't up on realtor.com or any of the other public sites so I can't post a picture here. I will once its up somewhere public.
The open house was a madhouse as expected - lots of people coming and going. Its a 3 bedroom "antique" style (I'd call it a Victorian but, whatever). Good sized living room w/ bay windows and hardwood floor, formal dining room w/ built in china cabinet, hardwood floor and chair rail. Large retro 50's kitchen with metal and chrome cabinets, funky red wall tile, large wide old stove (size of a 6 burner stove but its only got 4 gas burners) that was clean and seems to be working.
There were 3 bedrooms on the 3rd floor - 1 small, 1 average, 1 really large that had a bay window and 2 closets. Plenty of closets. Really well maintained. Neat old woodwork (rosettes like we have in our house) though its all painted. Tall baseboards, I swear the baseboards were like 9" high. Thats OK, the paint job was good at least - no peeling.
House had new windows, long driveway, good sized yard (even large enough that we could lengthen driveway and give a little turnaround area to make getting out of the driveway onto the main street that the house is on easier). House was around 1300 sq feet with room to finish basement or expand out. Lot is around 4000 sq feet I think. Its a 1/2 mile walk to Moody Street, around the corner from The Chataeu, right on a bus line. You could watch the 4th of july fireworks from the back yard or walk down to the track to go jogging. Basically, the location has anything we could ask for.
The weird things - the "full" bath is on the first floor off of the kitchen. It has a tub - no shower - its just a tub. Its a newer tub though, and newer toilet, and newer pedestal sink. The washer is in the bathroom too and we didn't see a dryer anywhere. It wouldn't be difficult to plumb a shower in there. There is a little pantry area off the kitchen and stairs to basement which was large, and useable (so the dryer could go there or washer and dryer could just be hooked up in the basement easily). Weird thing #2 was that they have 60 amp fuse service BUT all wires going to it are 3-wire (i.e. no old knob and tube like was in this place), outlets are 3 pronged and so it appears that wiring in the house is grounded. In that case if we got the house we'd have a new service installed (i.e. all current wiring connected to a new circuit box) and we'd add more circuits to the box as necessary.
This feels a lot like the Derby Street house process 2 years ago. The open house was a madhouse, we offered over the asking price (we did 10K over last time, this time we did $5k) and are concerned about a liability (contingency on finding a buyer for our house) counting against us. The last time our liability was that we could only put 5% down. We're hoping our high price, excitement, pre-approval with a letter saying we have an "excellent" credit rating and luck will help us get this house.
But if not hey, at least it was good to see a good place in a good area in our price range - it gives some hope. What's meant to be will be.
The selling broker is presenting all offers to the seller tomorrow at noon (and our broker was driving all paperwork to the office to them today). Here's hoping we hear some good news tomorrow afternoon! Even if they do accept our offer we'd have a couple of weeks to get an offer on our house. If we did we'd remove the contingency (but in the P&S list that closing on the Waltham house was contingent on closing on the framingham house - we still need to cover our butts and all). If we didn't find a buyer in a couple of weeks well, its all up to whether they'd want to sit and wait for us to find a buyer.
We shall see.
The yard is mostly fixed up (there are still some truck marks in the grass in our front lawn - it was too cold today to dig them apart and rake them flat), mulch is sprinkled and some potted plants are out there. We also took out our patio set and put it on the patio so that it looked more patio-like (its the old foundation for our old shed that we tore down because it was just in a silly place, and was falling apart). We're making headway on cleaning up the house. We're having a fireplace fest and burning up old wood that's been cluttering our basement.
Freaky.
