What a million now gets you near American University

[Anonymous]

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/4515-Van-Ness-St-NW-20016/home/9948304


Is this the frat house from Animal House? Holy Hot mess.

[Anonymous]

Are you surprised? My very old rickety house in downtown Bethesda costs the same and is smaller, but on a slightly bigger lot (so same difference, I imagine).

[Anonymous]

Money is just a joke these days. Just little numbers floating around in cyber space.. the market acts like buyers have infinite amounts of money to buy trash heaps like this for that price. I guess there's just a never ending supply of multimillionaires who can pay these prices, knock it all down, and then pay another several million to build new.

Can't wait to leaver this overpriced and overcrowded area.

[Anonymous]

How can you say that, OP? This is clearly someone’s family home that they lived in a long time. Yes, the outside got a little run down and yes, the inside is in its original condition. It needs updating, but it is not a wreck and it’s certainly not a frat house!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Money is just a joke these days. Just little numbers floating around in cyber space.. the market acts like buyers have infinite amounts of money to buy trash heaps like this for that price. I guess there's just a never ending supply of multimillionaires who can pay these prices, knock it all down, and then pay another several million to build new.

Can't wait to leaver this overpriced and overcrowded area.

bye bye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can you say that, OP? This is clearly someone’s family home that they lived in a long time. Yes, the outside got a little run down and yes, the inside is in its original condition. It needs updating, but it is not a wreck and it’s certainly not a frat house!

That kitchen is filthy and very run down if the owner who died had children they should have helped their parents more when alive

[Anonymous]

House has beautiful bones, historic features, original tile baths, and feeds into the best school pyramid. With 150k, this house will be a jewel. So much bile on this board. Yuck!

[Anonymous]

I love old houses - I live in one - but holy hell that kitchen is ugly. Not a problem though, the next owner is sure to gut it anyway.

[Anonymous]

150K to gut and renovate? Maybe in 1991.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:House has beautiful bones, historic features, original tile baths, and feeds into the best school pyramid. With 150k, this house will be a jewel. So much bile on this board. Yuck!

Oh my. Yes, owners lived there a long time it seems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:House has beautiful bones, historic features, original tile baths, and feeds into the best school pyramid. With 150k, this house will be a jewel. So much bile on this board. Yuck!

Oh my. Yes, owners lived there a long time it seems.

You can live somewhere a long time and maintain it nicely. The deferred maintenance on this house is frightening.

[Anonymous]

150k could be spent on just the outside on new roof, new windows, new gutters, new shutters, doors fixed or replaced. new siding, paint on the house and garage. Add in fixing cracks in walkway and a bit of landscaping and maybe a chimney issue and you are pretty close to 150k. The back porch alone looks like it need love as it is flat on ground old and windows are aluminum and looks like is leaking as no pitch.

[Anonymous]

Well, this place doesn't need a gut reno. I wouldn't touch the bathrooms, for example. Refinish the floors, new roof, new air conditioning, new kitchen, rebuild back porch. That's about 150k and you don't have to do it all at once.

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of the house I rented in that neighborhood when I was an AU student a million years ago.

[Anonymous]

Why can't new builds have these beautiful proportions? What a pretty, balanced facade. Of course, it needs a lot of work, but good bones...