Sick of Me Yet?
It seems like real estate talk has permeated nearly every single posting on this blog for the past few weeks. A few times the whole post was real estate related, other times it was just a sentence or two. I’m beginning to sound like a broken record.
That said, I shall continue (can’t teach an old dog new tricks). I’ve discovered a property that meets my criteria (top floor, newly renovated, within blocks of the subway, in my price range). Randy drove me by it last night and it appears to be in very good shape. My guess is that it was a single family converted to a 3 family. The photos online look good. The exterior of the building looks good (it could use a new fence on the front “lawn”). At noon today I’ll check out the interior. All three units appear to be available since it’s a brand new conversion.
There’s also another property I discovered online at Craiglist. This one is near Porter Square (slightly less desirable/charming than Davis Square, but it would be walkable to work for me). This one is also top floor, with new kitchen/applicances. The difference here is that it is a 2-bedroom instead of a 1-bedroom (the square footage wasn’t listed). It’s $10,000 more….but I wonder if I could talk them down?
And, if I got financially strapped, with a two-bedroom I could always get a room mate for a while (and also help pay down the mortgage). I couldn’t do that with a one-bedroom.
OK – and to at least have one part of this post NOT be real estate related, here’s one final photo (goofy) from this past weekend in Concord. I like it…I look thin.
HMMM – speaking of goofy photos…I figured I’d go into my archives and post some others. Why I’m doing this is beyond me, but here are a few more photos to be ashamed of*:
Off the cliffs near Lands End in San Francisco (1997)
With Miss Richfield 1981 in Provincetown (2005)
At the Witch Dungeon Museum in Salem, MA (2003)
At Herring Cove Beach (2004)
“Glamour Shot” from my old apartment in Brookline (1995)
All right – I dare you other bloggers to post your embarassing photos!
*Actually, this little activity of posting old photos was rather therapeutic and distracting…I needed that.
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Wow, the one from Salem has all sorts of ideas going thru my head *wink* and the three after it are very provocative as well.
Thanks for sharing them, I’ll have to see what I can dig up of me.
🙂
Love the last one – very James Dean/Rough Trade.
Thanks. eh he. I’ve been told that last one is very George Micheal (in the old days).
I guess I’m showing my age with a James Dean reference. Belive me, you’d rather be him than G. Michael. Actually more appropriate too, because Dean slept with women and despite his videos I don’t think George has.
Nice one but I think the world has enough of my humiliating photos in circulation, so I’m going to give this challenge a miss.
I thought that last pic was very bon jovi of you.
I miss when you had hair. Ah well.
Nice one but I think the world has enough of my humiliating photos in circulation, so I’m going to give this challenge a miss.
I thought that last pic was very bon jovi of you.
I miss when you had hair. Ah well.
And about the new place… are we talking a triple decker??? Where the hell is this? This does not sound like your usual preference as far as digs go!
Oh–Brookline 1995 is VERY hot. The hair works for me big time. And you don’t need a picture to make you look thin–you ARE thin.
Hey. Just found you thru Chris’s blog … hope you don’t mind me looking around.
And wow … very nice pics man.
Seriously. Wow.