I love this house in N. Arlington. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"u stupid"

No, I just prefer not to have a horrific commute into DC across the bridges. Now, if I worked in VA I would definitely live there.

Don't think most would describe the Ballston environs as a "horrific" commute to DC by either drive or metro. You're talking about 4.5 miles to the White House. Even at snail's pace that's a reasonable commute- that's a brisk walk at under 1.5 hours even.

[Anonymous]

I toured this house 2 years ago when we were looking. I was deceived by the outside and the online pics. The neighborhood is great- top notch. hard to get a decent house with land in this neighborhood for under 900k. Tree lined streets, family friendly and walking distance to Westover. The house totally sucks. The pictures are decieving. The lay out is totally odd, and the marble and decor is HORRIBLE . The basement has very low ceilings yet has this huge marble renovation with a very odd grandious bathroom with huge greek looking gilded tub IN THE BASEMENT, which makes no sense what so ever. They had 2 families renting which can give you a sense for how the house is laid out. I would never ever pay 1 million for it. That said, if you had some cash, the land is probably worth a lot if you want to knock down and start over! yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I toured this house 2 years ago when we were looking. I was deceived by the outside and the online pics. The neighborhood is great- top notch. hard to get a decent house with land in this neighborhood for under 900k. Tree lined streets, family friendly and walking distance to Westover. The house totally sucks. The pictures are decieving. The lay out is totally odd, and the marble and decor is HORRIBLE . The basement has very low ceilings yet has this huge marble renovation with a very odd grandious bathroom with huge greek looking gilded tub IN THE BASEMENT, which makes no sense what so ever. They had 2 families renting which can give you a sense for how the house is laid out. I would never ever pay 1 million for it. That said, if you had some cash, the land is probably worth a lot if you want to knock down and start over! yuck.

+1

[Anonymous]

It was a beautiful colonial revival. Now it's a gut job or a teardown. Sale is pending though.

I hope the new owners fix this house.

[Anonymous]

Too formal looking for my tastes. Houses like that just don't feel cozy to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"u stupid"

No, I just prefer not to have a horrific commute into DC across the bridges. Now, if I worked in VA I would definitely live there.

Don't think most would describe the Ballston environs as a "horrific" commute to DC by either drive or metro. You're talking about 4.5 miles to the White House. Even at snail's pace that's a reasonable commute- that's a brisk walk at under 1.5 hours even.

NP here. I live close by there. My commute to DC is either 20 minutes (walk to Ballston and then metro to Farragut), or 20 minutes by car (during rush)/8 minutes by car (off-rush).

HOW HORRIFIC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"u stupid"

No, I just prefer not to have a horrific commute into DC across the bridges. Now, if I worked in VA I would definitely live there.

Don't think most would describe the Ballston environs as a "horrific" commute to DC by either drive or metro. You're talking about 4.5 miles to the White House. Even at snail's pace that's a reasonable commute- that's a brisk walk at under 1.5 hours even.

NP here. I live close by there. My commute to DC is either 20 minutes (walk to Ballston and then metro to Farragut), or 20 minutes by car (during rush)/8 minutes by car (off-rush).

HOW HORRIFIC!

Bullshit, that area is over a mile walk to the metro, no way door to door is 20 min on metro, and it might take you 20 min to drive to the bridge in dc, but not to your office...

[Anonymous]

Not the poster, but I live about three blocks from that house and drive (not walk to Metro) to Treasury every day in about 20 minutes.

[Anonymous]

From the Larchmont neighborhood, it's a 15 minute, 3/4 mile brisk walk to the Ballston Metro at a minimum. Or a shorter bus ride to the Ballston Metro.

The drive down Washington Blvd to DC is very direct. So 20 minutes to parts of Downtown makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Oh goody, lets fight about commute time again!