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[quote=Anonymous]I've driven past this house several times a week and seen "for sale" signs (as well as a huge American flag on a pole) and wondered why I hadn't seen it on Redfin, so I finally noted the address and looked it up. I thought: neat location, facing the woods but not in them, possible midcentury blank slate for decorating, would be curious to see inside.

It's not on Redfin for some reason, but Zillow has it: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3001-Chestnut-St-NW-Washington-DC-20015/460152_zpid/?

First, I thought, that is some weirdly unironic old-school furniture. A lot of it. I'd expect it in a granny house, but not in a house where there are clearly kids' rooms. It looks like the furniture in friends' houses in deepest suburbia in the '70s. The house last sold in 2005, so the owners brought all that with them in this millennium. The basement is quite something. That must be a serious (read: over-serious) rare book collection in climate-controlled cases, or something? Usually I decry staging, but this is a house I would have staged. Clear it out, paint everything white, move your vacuum-sealed valuables out of there. And take down the crucifixes.

And then I looked at PropertyQuest to see who the owner was.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/district-man-sentenced-46-months-prison-possession-child-pornography

There's much more detailed and more triggering stuff out there if you care to google, but I won't link to it.
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