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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew it was the right house when I saw the photo on Redfin, in all its resplendent decrepitude. We had looked for more than a year, and bid and lost for houses that were in our desired location but for which I had not felt anything in particular.

Persuading DH to bid on it took 6 months, though! It was a cute (to me) 1920s white Dutch colonial with an ugly concrete parking in front instead of a proper yard (the owner had not lived in it, but just used it as a convenient parking near downtown Bethesda). Now it's well on its way to becoming a garden again, and we painted the door robin's egg blue.

I think it was the crooked roof corner that did it. Structurally there's nothing wrong with it, but it gives the house a charming personality. For me, of course.

Crazy, I know. Most people want new construction.[/quote]

We also bought a dump..ahem I mean treasure.. in our desired location. We knew the price was fair and the location was perfect.

Op, the location is the one thing you cannot change about a house - get that right and you have a huge margin of error on everything else.[/quote]

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