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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hm. I'm not sure that walkable, 5 bedrooms, and $1.2M is going to happen in Arlington or McLean.  It's a pretty hot market for those types of properties and you should expect to engage in lots of bidding wars.  [/quote]

I’m the pp from nyc. We had a $2-3m budget. $1.2 will not get you far in McLean. Sorry. We looked for 2 years trying to find what seems like similar to what OP wants.

I was going to suggest areas around chain bridge but these are some of the most expensive and most desired areas of McLean. Short commute to DC. Top schools. Beautiful homes. Tear downs will go for $1m. You can find a modest home but you will be competing with builders trying to buy that house to turn it into a $3m house.[/quote]

I understand our budget is rather modest for the area, but we don't need a large or nice home and honestly it doesn't have to have real 5 bedrooms, it can be a 4 bedroom with a den or have 2 bedrooms in a basement with only 3 real upstairs bedrooms.  We are currently in 1500 sq.ft rowhouse and make do, if we get a 2500 sq.ft home it would be a huge upgrade.  One of the bedrooms is going to be home office, so it doesn't need to be a real bedroom in terms of size/closets, etc, just a space where I can close the door and preferably have a window for some daylight.   We have only 2 kids, so need only 3 real bedrooms and an in-law bedroom and a den, so technically not a full fledged large 5 bedr house. We also don't care about a yard much, just want a small outdoor space.  But we do not want a TH, as we really don't want to share walls or be so close to neighbors and don't want to pay fees.  It's going to be tough, and we might have to settle for a 3-4 bedr and do some modification, we don't want to increase the budget as we will have to sell in 10 years, we are looking to put the kids through school and then downsize.  We are going to look around some other areas suggested here as well.  Thank you for the links and suggestions,  I do see things that will work.  Need to do some more research on schools, AAP might be a good option.[/quote]

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