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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the street and time you are parking.  We live on a 1-way street right off 14th street, and there is usually lots of parking with the exception of (1) street sweeping mornings (M,T, spring, summer, fall); and (2) Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings; and (3) Saturday and sunday daytime.  Some streets are busy all the time. Like P street and Q street between Logan and Dupont.  While you can live in the area without renting a parking space, if you're coming home at 5:30 every night, you will definitely have a couple days a week that you need to circle for parking.  Also, you have to have a vacation parking plan during street sweeping months because you can't leave your car out for a long weekend. So if you go out of town for 2 weeks, you either need to find a friend's house to park at, or park at the airport.  Another big thing we considered was having a young kid without on-site parking.  It would be doable but a pain to have to park 2 blocks from the house and lug home our haul from Target or Giant (when we do a big run every few weeks) with a kid in tow.  We decided access to paid parking was a must-do for us, given all that.

We looked at some places without parking, and checked craigslist.  There were usually a spot or two available within a couple blocks for $300 a month.  Metropole near whole foods I think was the same price.  But consider that if you're doing this for work every day, you have to walk a block or two just to get to your parking spot. That would get old for me.

Also consider that housing prices are affected by lack of parking. While not at all a big deal with a 1-bedroom condo, row houses will have trouble gaining value relative to others with parking.  There reaches a price point where people expect to have parking (like, if you're paying $1.5m for a rowhouse, you want parking). We found that the rowhouses that sat longer on the market often didn't have parking. [/quote]

+1. I could have written this. Very accurate. [/quote]

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