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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This one SHOULD FLY OFF THE HANDLE:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/402-G-St-NE-Washington-DC-20002/415407_zpid/[/quote]
[b]This one is still on the market,[/b] with an open house set for this weekend.  It's only been 9 days, but hot houses were selling by the first weekend not that long ago.  Maybe this house isn't as aggressively priced as some think, or maybe the market is cooling down.  Or maybe everyone was too busy watching election drama to look at houses last week.   I wonder if we'll see a price adjustment if it doesn't get any offers this weekend.
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Chuckling at the bolded. If memory serves this is the same house that several DCUM posters talked up (especially in comparison to the one two blocks East that is now under contract). I guess the agent's guerilla marketing campaign wasn't that successful, huh?[/quote]
Almost two weeks later, it’s still on the market.  The sellers seem to be trying a strategy of holding an opening house every weekend instead of dropping the price.  [/quote]

Yup, just poorly priced. Once you are over 850-900, people are going to be underwhelmed by that main floor. It looks tight, the kitchen is updated but not beautiful, the entry is particularly sad... I guarantee that nearly everyone who has walked through that place has muttered "This is going for nearly a million dollars?" to their spouse or realtor.

Absolutely nothing wrong with the house. Just not a 919k house, regardless of location.[/quote]

I would argue the kitchen set up is a major problem. The oven is on the opposite side of the kitchen from the fridge and the sink is awkwardly on the other side of the peninsula.  Anyone who cooks would see this layout as a huge negative. [/quote]

[b]I don’t think there’s any perfect way to do a rowhouse kitchen.[/b] [/quote]

Perhaps, but there’s definitely a wrong way.  And this is an example of the wrong way. They completely disregarded the work triangle - sink, oven and fridge. Cooking in that kitchen will be a huge pain. Maybe even dangerous if you’re carrying hot pots of liquid to the sink from the oven with kids or pets underfoot. [/quote]

look if you want a perfectly proportioned kitchen, you need the suburbs. No Hill kitchen in a victorian rowhouse is going to be spacious unless maybe the whole first floor has been gutted to be open. Even then, it’s gonna be narrow. I can’t tell exactly how this kitchen works, but personally I would accept a little awkwardness to gain counter and storage space with the island. [/quote]

That is the worst designed kitchen I've seen a long while. I have a rowhouse kitchen in a u-shape and it's perfectly fine? I don't need an island. I have plenty of counterspace, but more importantly, everything is in a place that makes things convenient. Can you imagine making Thanksgiving dinner in a kitchen like that? I'd go insane.[/quote]

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