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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kitchen absolutely needs to be gutted and redone. So do the bathrooms. They are small and have no storage. The carpets and wall paper needs to come out ASAP. The walls need to be painted. Not that it would be cheaper to tear down, but the list of must fixes is pretty long. Not totally shocked that people might tear it down.

Would love to see what the pool looks like. [/quote]

I showed he house and it is in much more disrepair than  the photos depict.   It looks like Glebe House before the current owners spent millions to rebuild and renovate the house and gardens.  It was worth it for Glebe House because it dates from the 1850s.  This house dates from the 1950s and similar houses can be found around the Rock Spring  neighborhood, off Little Falls, and in NW Washington, Chevy Chase, and McLean.  It was built in the style of the time for wealthy people. After the first family sold it, a lawyer and his family lived there for some years and then it went to a series of charitable/religious organizations and a woman was given a life estate in the house. When she died recently, the owners decided to sell it because of the work needed.

As for the poster asking about MM housing.   If you have not seen the site, it is a very steep lot, with the house built at the top of the hill with rolling topography.   Sure some MM housing could be built there but it would require expensive retaining walls and re-engineering the dirt significantly.  It is only worth doing if expensive townhouses were built there with elevators to accommodate people who would pay $2M (at least) to live in one.

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