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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And that first floor layout is awful. [/quote]

Why? I like that the put the kitchen in the middle, because then the dining room opens onto the balcony, which is nice. Plus I like how accessible the kitchen feels from everywhere in the house.[/quote]
Not the PP, but I thought the kitchen placement was a problem too.  The island design, which you pretty much have to have for a kitchen in the middle of the house, limits cabinet space.  It's probably also why there's no microwave (there goes some of the limited counter space). And, yeah, the fridge opening away from the kitchen is weird, but might be fixable.  Plus...well, we don't keep our kitchen in showing-pristine condition, so I'm not a huge fan of open kitchen designs anyway, but I've sort of resigned myself to the fact that it's trendy in all the flips.  But an open kitchen right next to the living room just makes the "you can see all the dirty dishes" problem worse.  Yeah, I could be better at doing the dishes, but if I'm going to spend $1.35 million on the house, I'd rather the house fit me than make me fit the house.

As for why it hasn't sold: yeah, that location is a problem.  As others have mentioned, it's a little too close too H & 8th.  The big glass door just screams, "Hello, thieves!  Break on in!"  Plus, the bedrooms are small, the halfway-up-the-wall two-tone paint is weird (and is that brown/blue rectangle in the LR painted on the wall?), and it lacks any green space at all.  There's lots of space, but it's not use efficiently IMO.  I do like the solar, though.

I wonder if having a family room downstairs instead of a separate unit isn't hurting it, too.  It's a lot easier to swing the payments on a $1.35 million house if you can rent out the basement.[/quote]

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