For those looking in N. Arlington and frustrated about inventory:
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The Dickerson street house isn't awesome, but for the price it's not that bad, especially for North Arlington. I live a few blocks away and it's a nice neighborhood. You could put in $50K of work and have a nice house feeding into great schools.
I wouldn't buy any of the 3 houses for sale on Glebe around 66 (the gray one is nice, but the location- ugh) but I would probably consider the nice red brick one a 1/2-1 mile or so up glebe from there. I would think carefully before buying in Highview park - some of the streets are still really sketchy, which is why even nice houses are a lot cheaper than they would be in other neighborhoods. This one's nice, though a bit close to 50: http://franklymls.com/AR7839965 This one's nice: http://franklymls.com/AR7838979 This one could use some kitchen work, but the neighborhood is nice and this part of patrick henry isn't too busy: http://franklymls.com/AR7834878 This one is very close (too close?) to Westover: http://franklymls.com/AR7835056 This one is nice: http://franklymls.com/AR7833741 This one is cool: http://franklymls.com/AR7834377 This one has nice finishes, but on a busier stretch of patrick henry, and the 3rd bedroom in this colonial plan tends to be REALLY small and mostly unusable as an actual bedroom: http://franklymls.com/AR7832575 |
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Man...these are all so narrow and cramped. You'd think Arlington was a town of hobbits when they were built. Why do they leave so much space for grass out front and make the house so small? |
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I think they were built when people were skinnier.
Honestly, I have no idea. When we were house hunting, very few houses had usable square footage if you are over 6'. The bedroom ceilings and basements were usually so short! |
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Houses used to be a lot smaller. The average size of a house depends on when it was built. In the 1940's, the average house was a lot smaller, and Arlington has a lot of houses built in that period. Houses got bigger in the 1970's, but it was not an especially attractive period for residential architecture, so I'm not sure that was a better deal for everyone.  (I grew up in a 70's-era split level that was a decent size but oh so ugly, like most of the houses in my midwestern neighborhood.) Around here, though, the bigger your budget, the more likely you are to get a renovated, bigger house or a bigger new infill house. Or you could move further out.
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