What am I missing about this Alexandria house?

[Anonymous]

The ceilings do look really low. Has anyone actually visited this house?

[Anonymous]

It’s the poor schools + the market/interest rates now. The neighborhood is not safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the poor schools + the market/interest rates now. The neighborhood is not safe.

Ok...here's the point where the thread will devolve into Del Ray-adjacent haters arguing there are maurauding bands of criminals crawling over the entire neighborhood.

But, ok, I'll bite. Why do you feel the neighborhood is "not safe"?

[Anonymous]

Is there ANY closet or storage space?

[Anonymous]

No garage. Bamboo.

[Anonymous]

I don't have any insight into comparables in your 'hood, but we are selling a house in FCC that is going to hit the market in about a month, and our realtor priced it at 1.2M last spring, but then our tenants wanted to stay another year but bought a place and moved out this month, and so it is going on soon, and we are now listing for 1.1M. The market has cooled slightly, and you don't want to overprice.

That doesn't explain why it didn't sell before, though. But agree with PPs that the yard is definitely not a selling point, nor is the awkward layout that seems to have everything wrong with MCM style and none of the charm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the poor schools + the market/interest rates now. The neighborhood is not safe.

Ok...here's the point where the thread will devolve into Del Ray-adjacent haters arguing there are maurauding bands of criminals crawling over the entire neighborhood.

But, ok, I'll bite. Why do you feel the neighborhood is "not safe"?

+1

And it's ridiculous and ignorant and arguably xenophobic and/or racist every time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the poor schools + the market/interest rates now. The neighborhood is not safe.

Okay that's just laughable - this is probably one of the safest neighborhoods in all of Alexandria.

As for the schools, George Mason is in the middle of a major expansion and will be brand new when done. ACPS has its share of haters, and it's not for everyone, but that school gets a lot of love in the neighborhood and soon will have the nicest building in the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ceilings do look really low. Has anyone actually visited this house?

I’ve been in this model of house - there are many in that immediate neighborhood. They mostly had similar core layouts and designs when they were built in the 1940s, but almost all of them now have some form of rear addition so there’s more variation from one to the next.

In the main living and dining area, the ceilings aren’t low…I think they just look that way because these photos have been stretched horizontally.

These houses can have a much nicer and more useful main floor layout. You take down the short wall that’s currently separating the dining space and the office. Where the office is is where historically there was a galley kitchen. You make that side a larger living room/couch/tv area, then put the dining table on the other side of the now big open room.

[Anonymous]

It's ugly.

[Anonymous]

No off street parking.
Slope down to front door.
Slope in back yard.
Bamboo.
Master bedroom has no privacy from house next door (which looks very close).
Hideous front facade. (The antithesis of curb appeal).
4th bedroom is in the basement.
Half bath off the kitchen eating area (yech!).
2 small bathrooms upstairs.

[Anonymous]

There’s also no bathroom on the basement level. Anyone using that bedroom would have to go up two flights of stairs to take a shower in the tiny 5x7 main hall bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the poor schools + the market/interest rates now. The neighborhood is not safe.

Ok...here's the point where the thread will devolve into Del Ray-adjacent haters arguing there are maurauding bands of criminals crawling over the entire neighborhood.

But, ok, I'll bite. Why do you feel the neighborhood is "not safe"?

The crime and poverty nearby this house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s also no bathroom on the basement level. Anyone using that bedroom would have to go up two flights of stairs to take a shower in the tiny 5x7 main hall bathroom.

Least it looks like there is a Pittsburgh Potty in the basement (for non-Pennsylvania folks this = a basement toilet that’s just…there exposed and not inside an actual bathroom)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What you’re missing is the bamboo. RUNNNN

Omg, a friend of mine engaged in a full out war against bamboo in Alexandria. It was coming under the fence into her small, architecturally- designed back yard. The neighbor refused to do anything. She resorted to cutting the new canes and pouring gas down it but even that didn’t work. She gave up and moved. Bamboo can grow 3 feet a day and spreads fast underground via a rhizome system.