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15 April 2008

A hidden gem in the local housing market! Comes pre-decorated and everything.→[More:]So tempting to schedule a showing, just to go see it in person...

post by: sysinfo at: 14:36 | 24 comments

Tony Hawk meets Mathew, Mark, Luke & John!

That copywriter deserves a medal.

posted by mudpuppie 15 April | 14:39

To be fair, that place looks like it was ugly before the decorating, too.

posted by D.C. 15 April | 14:47

What the?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 15 April | 14:47

Whoa.

posted by Specklet 15 April | 14:52

Bad enough having to live in Iowa... (yeah, I went there), but what kind of a town name is Urbandale? Oxymoron Capitol of the State?

There's also a $110 monthly 'association fee', which means a neighborhood code, otherwise it would've looked the same outside as inside.

Pity the poor realtor stuck with that listing... "Jon Sieck". Yes, the house that made Jon Sieck.

That is all.

posted by wendell 15 April | 15:02

Wow. Just. . wow.

posted by mygothlaundry 15 April | 15:02

I like how they made the bed with a granny type comforter and cleaned the kitchen and all before they took some of the pictures.

posted by rainbaby 15 April | 15:30

It's the 39th best place to live, is what it is, Wendell:

In the case of this Des Moines suburb, more people means more togetherness. As the Chamber of Commerce explains: "volunteerism is the norm [and] neighborliness is expected."

I have to doubt Money's reasoning there, but this house alone has got to bump them up to at least #30.

Also, if your home doesn't have at least five couches, you're missing out.

posted by sysinfo 15 April | 15:33

Bad real estate photos are one of my pet peeves. Like, look at the picture of the porch- how hard would it have been to sweep that crap on the sidewalk up? And move the chairs, either into a proper formation or out of the picture completely? Good grief.

Meanwhile, is it possible this is a foreclosure, and the decoration is revenge?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 15 April | 15:39

I like the inside better than the outside.

posted by box 15 April | 15:49

It may have been a rental - owner lives elsewhere according to the assessor's page. I don't think revenge decoration would have avoided the bathroom mirror & appliances or painted behind furniture, but I really can't explain it.

posted by sysinfo 15 April | 15:55

I'm speechless. Unbelievable.

posted by chewatadistance 15 April | 16:04

Having been to the two California communities on the Top 100 list, #3 Claremont and #62 Moorpark, I'd say CNN/Money is full of shit. But then, they seem to put an incredible amount of weight on a mostly intangible "sense of community" which in my experience has usually meant "intolerant people interfering in your life". Which is why I resist calling MeFi or MeCha "internet communities"; they're both too nice for that.

posted by wendell 15 April | 16:23

#5 Claremont? really? It's not even a real community. Most of the residence are students or professors. The townies will call the cops on the college students at the drop of a hat. It did have a nice spanish restaurant, though, that I completely miss.

posted by muddgirl 15 April | 16:30

That made me laugh! Thanks!

posted by Stewriffic 15 April | 16:50

I hope this is one of those "it looks better in person" kinda things.

posted by meeshell 15 April | 16:58

It would cost more than the $8000 below market they're asking just to scrape all that crap off the walls and get it painted in a way that doesn't evoke all the style and class of a tye-dye shirt booth outside a phish show.

posted by kellydamnit 15 April | 17:20

I can't imagine stumbling into that bathroom early in the morning, bleary-eyed, and not being made ill by the "decorations". I like color, but this? Yeaach.

posted by redvixen 15 April | 17:32

It's the outside that'd depress the hell out of me. THAT's what the neighborhood association enforces?

posted by small_ruminant 15 April | 18:39

The inside was done by a decorator who ate Poprocks and drank beer before vomiting out those rooms. The outside looks a lot worse.

posted by arse_hat 15 April | 23:17

You know what would be great about buying that place? Your before and after pics would beat everyone else's hands-down. ... and here's the kitchen before we redecorated in the eggshell, slate, and pomegranate palette...

posted by taz 15 April | 23:59

either

a) really mesy students rented or
b) someone went crazy with a big helping of Xtian on top

I'm leaning to b as there's a lot of odd religious stuff written on walls. but then the bedrooms "highschool notebook" notes on the wall makes me think students. weird.

posted by dabitch 16 April | 03:56

See, this is what happens when you take the brown acid.

(and I love that they've gone all nuts with the urban spraypaint technicolour vomit look, but kept the suburban development bought-by-the-tonne light fixtures.)

posted by elizard 16 April | 09:17

Holy shit. I do like how the selling agent obviously didn't even try to make the place look presentable for the photographs.

My eyes are burning. If that was here, though, I'd buy it. And paint and prime and prime and paint. A two-bedroom, two-bath unit here is probably in the $300,000's. I weep.

I'm lying: cheapest 2 bed 2 bath is $297,700. Heh. When I reached the $400,000's for 2 bedroom townhouses, my mirth vanished and the weeping started. I will never own a house in the Victoria area. Oh, well.

posted by Savannah 17 April | 01:23

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