Would you live in a "sideways house"?

[Anonymous]

I am about to move out of a place that requires stairs to the kitchen to a place that doesn't and it is 100% one of my most anticipated features.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've never seen one of those ever. What's the logic here?

Are these basically giant detached townhomes? Is the garage/patio bricked entry on the back? Or the entrance to the house is the garage area which is essentially an alley?

Logic is to fit as many houses on the parcel as possible. $$$ for the builder.

How many of these sideways home share the same driveway/alley area? Are they labeled 1468 Sideways Road Unit A / 1468 Sideways Road Unit B?

Somehow my post got merged into prior post or something.

I was saying:

Odd numbers have garage in back. Its like an access road to their garages. But front door on Buena Vista. Visitors park on street and enter front door. Most homes have a front door, plus a separate door to garage. Difference here I suppose is you don't access both from Buena Vista. It actually keeps Buena Vista very quiet IMO. But I never lived there, only visited.

[Anonymous]

House looks nice to me. I’d want the backyard fenced to be able to let little kids run around more easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:House looks nice to me. I’d want the backyard fenced to be able to let little kids run around more easily.

You can’t. Just like you can’t fence in townhomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:House looks nice to me. I’d want the backyard fenced to be able to let little kids run around more easily.

You can’t. Just like you can’t fence in townhomes.

You can fence town how

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:House looks nice to me. I’d want the backyard fenced to be able to let little kids run around more easily.

You can’t. Just like you can’t fence in townhomes.

Uh, most townhome yards are fenced in.

[Anonymous]

For the right price I would. But not for $1.4 million like the posted link unless it was in SF.

[Anonymous]

Here is the pinnacle of sideways houses -

https://www.redfin.com/VA/McLean/1631-Hunting-Ave-22102/home/175591742

you too can pay $2M for a sideways house underneath the Metro!

Sideways house is a deal breaker for me (obviously)

[Anonymous]

Classic sideways houses. Two large houses squeezed into a subdivided lot in Arlington. Look at the street view, and in photo 5 you can see just how close its twin is.

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/6231-Washington-Blvd-22205/home/109522273

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classic sideways houses. Two large houses squeezed into a subdivided lot in Arlington. Look at the street view, and in photo 5 you can see just how close its twin is.

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/6231-Washington-Blvd-22205/home/109522273

This one is not bad but the McLean one above is awful. My only hesitation is if the neighbors are awful, they could park all over the shared driveway, or refuse to do maintenance on it, you could imagine all kinds of issues. Kind of like a really small pipe stem.