… can now be yours for just under a million dollars.
… can now be yours for just under a million dollars.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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Notes of a Neophyte
July 10th, 2012 at 5:55PM
Dear Margaret,
Go for it.
Yours, Thomas Wolfe
July 10th, 2012 at 7:04PM
francofou: I Can’t Afford to Go Home Again.
July 10th, 2012 at 8:09PM
Huh. I just checked and my childhood home is going for $114k.
July 10th, 2012 at 9:12PM
Josh: I win!
July 11th, 2012 at 5:45AM
“A lot of closets” … hmmm.
July 11th, 2012 at 6:26AM
Alan: LOL.
July 11th, 2012 at 8:26AM
Garrett Park is only collecting taxes on an assessed value of $521k. So either the owners are living in dreamland (always possible, but GP is beautiful) or you folks need better assessors.
July 11th, 2012 at 8:27AM
PS- Was the train loud? There’s such a thing as TOO close to metro.
July 11th, 2012 at 8:33AM
Josh: The train can occasionally be loud. I grew up with it, so I don’t notice, but someone should mention the train to potential buyers. As to the assessed value: Yes, the owners might be living in dreamland, but my theory is that they’re putting a ridiculous price on the house in hopes of settling for about $800,000.
July 12th, 2012 at 7:52AM
$150-160K (absolute tops) for it in Mediocrevilleburgton if it’s in my neighborhood.
My childhood home is assessed at $102,000; my parents had it listed at $14,900 in 1971 and eventually had to settle for around $12,000.
July 12th, 2012 at 11:15PM
So is there no garage? Did that lower space used to be the garage? What do you think of the renovations?
July 13th, 2012 at 2:54AM
cheddar: Good eye. That lower space was indeed in my day the garage. Now there isn’t one – the owners park in the long driveway and in the street.
As to how I feel – I was never very attached to the house. It’s kind of a cold house – not the sort of place you’d get sentimental about. My mother’s garden in the back I was sentimental about. We’d sit out there looking at birds and plants, petting her English Cocker Spaniels, and chatting. But the house… The moment it was sold, I failed to think of it as mine in any way. It belonged to the young couple who immediately totally redid it. Time marches on, etc.
My sense of belonging is to the town, to Garrett Park, where I still live. In fact, I live across the street and only a few doors down from this house.