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12 April 2008

OMG, BIG HOUSE! for about the same price as OMG, tiny house!→[More:]
BIG HOUSE has 4,700 sq. ft., 2 stories, 4 large bedrooms, 3-1/2 bathrooms, a double, attached garage, oversized w/ workshop on a corner lot.

Mrs. Doohickie and I drove by this home this evening. Although the computer listing says $200,000, they've already come down to $189,900 according to the sales flyer we picked up.

The neighborhood is a little older and a little spotty, but otherwise charming. It is near the "inner city" high school were she teaches; the neighborhood is largely African-American.

Once the youngest Doohickie graduates high school, this might be exactly the neighborhood we move to.

post by: Doohickie at: 21:46 | 12 comments

But would you need such a big house?

It's a totally gorgeous house, though.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 April | 21:54

No, actually we'd be content in something half that size or less. Mrs. Doohickie's parents may "snowbird" with us, though, so a roomy house would be nice for the part of the year they were here.

posted by Doohickie 12 April | 22:02

That looks like a cool house!

It's over triple the size of my house... whoa. That's a big ol' rambling house. I like big 60s houses, though, where all the space is on the ground. These new McMansions look big because there's two stories of empty air over your head, but really you're living in about as much space as my little 1950s house.

posted by BoringPostcards 12 April | 22:11

I love that house! I like my smallish house, but big houses are good! There are places to get away. I feel like we're right on top of one another in my house.

The price is definitely right!

posted by LoriFLA 12 April | 22:14

Everything is bigger in Texas.

posted by caddis 12 April | 23:04

What a beautiful house. That'd be a million pound property round here.

posted by essexjan 13 April | 02:37

Yes, it would typically be much more than that around here. But it happens to be in a neighborhood that has slipped in status. The neighborhood is not nearly as bad as the public perception though. If I really wanted a large house I sure wouldn't hesitate to look into that one.

posted by Doohickie 13 April | 09:32

Shuffleboard! Now you have to get it.

posted by rhapsodie 13 April | 11:30

When we lived in Michigan, we bought a house built in 1955. Although it didn't have a shuffleboard "court" or whatever you call that, many of the other homes we looked at did. These were much smaller homes, typically a little over 1000 sq. ft., with remodeled basements, and the tile in the basement was often done with the shuffleboard markings.

Which is a long way of getting around to saying that I think shuffleboard was the Wii of the 1950s.

posted by Doohickie 13 April | 14:19

Shit, $8300 in taxes on less than $200K? That's as bad as western NY. Worse if it's only buying Fort Worth ISD schools and Texas-level county/municipal services.

posted by ROU Xenophobe 13 April | 15:12

That's about the same size as the house we're building. Lots of potential there, but I wouldn't want a house that size once the kids have ~~been booted out~~ left home.

posted by dg 13 April | 15:52

ROU- that stood out to me as well. The rate just doesn't seem to make sense based on what we're paying in taxes.

posted by Doohickie 13 April | 20:38

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