L@@K! Photos from Real Estate Listings (see remarks)

Do you like purple?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79801824

Or maybe hot pink is your thing?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/115580855

attempting the images...

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"decor may need some updating"

I dunno. Looking at those last two made my stomach ache go away.

Would anyone like to join me while I use the restroom pic.twitter.com/mGjQHOkvj3

— Zillow Gone Wild 🏡 (@zillowgonewild) January 12, 2022

- "Is there anything wrong?"

- "No, I just... When the ad said 3 Baths, I assumed they were all in different rooms."

"Hey sis, can you ask mom to pass down another square please?"

Looks like it takes up a substantial portion of the house, too!

eh, it was probably an infant daycare. our kids go to a regular house where the bathroom has like six toilets.

That's not a regular house.

Surprised Goldilocks ever left that place.

my working theory was that there were three kids and nobody used the bathroom at the same time, but the parents wanted them each to have a separate "station" due to some misguided hygienic obsession.

My maternal great grandmother toilet trained her kids by tying them to a toilet whether they needed to poop or not

awkward walking around for a year or two tied to a toilet, but i bet that worked.

yeah i think DC is right. they don't poop together! this is so their bottoms don't have to touch the same toilet someone else's bottom has touched!!!

Oldest house on Hawthorne Ave. Built by Fowle family and used at one point as a girl scout camp.

That's it for me! Goodnight everyone!

This one gives me bad vibes and I can't exactly put my finger on why
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/75-Southgate-Ave-Hastings-On-Hudson-NY-10706/33022662_zpid/?

probably because it costs $800k and absolutely sucks?

lol, yeah that might be it

honestly it's a pretty wild ass asking price. 5,000 sf lot, clearly needs complete renovation, oil heat, who knows what fucked up shit lurks beneath the surface. I know the market is hot but have a hard time believing it's that hot rn.

Having a sink in your carpeted primary bedroom is a bad vibe.

House + close to NYC = $$$

Yeah, it's 20% above appraised value which is aggressive but it's an aggressive seller's market. It's a good school district on a direct train to NYC.

That house would cost at least twice that in California.

I think it's priced high even for the market. I would think more like $650,000-700k, and that's if there isn't some kind of lurking disaster under the surface.

For $50k more you can get this pretty sweet mid-century modern. Admittedly smaller but much bigger lot.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21-Crossbar-Rd-Hastings-On-Hudson-NY-10706/33023190_zpid/

two similarly-situated properties for sale down the street from me, 7000 and 4000 sq ft lots for 325k and 230k. they are listed as lot/land but were recently occupied, definitely worth more to someone who wants to build multi-family homes on them. both are well over their tax-assessed value but that's not unusual.

Unless youre the only person with a big lot in the neighborhood, a big lot is just a sign you live in an unwalalkable bit of the suburbs tbh

10k sf is a nice happy medium, enough to have a yard but your neighbors are actually neighbors.

American suburban brain

But yeah generally a small lot can be a reasonable trade off if you can walk to downtown/school/park/etc

I grew up on a 4,000 square foot urban lot in a big city and it was plenty of room for a garden, a swing set and sandbox, and grilling patio. When you’re 5 it might as well be 100 acres.

i would be fine with a half acre with mature shade trees, woodland, swimming lake, etc. lot as long as everyone else had 20ft wide lots on 3000 sq ft so it was still walkable.

id just buy ten houses next to each other one for each of my pure bread borzois

i would be fine with a half acre with mature shade trees, woodland, swimming lake, etc. lot as long as everyone else had 20ft wide lots on 3000 sq ft so it was still walkable.

For $50k more you can get this pretty sweet mid-century modern. Admittedly smaller but much bigger lot.

I'm going to call bullshit on mid-century modern - that's a split-level no matter how nice they made it.

Yeah curbside is ugly as fuck and split level = horrible thing that did not survive as an architectural concept because AWFUL

I’d live there

I can molecularly date that place to 1976 or nearby, based on a family friend's place.
Loving the IKEA ripoff of Robert Motherwell hanging sideways.

Curbside is ugly but a lot of it is the color.

yeah that's a split but it's an early one--there is a small contingent of spits/"raised ranches" that originate from 60s contemporary homes and lead to the mass-produced split of the late 70s and 80s.

I was ready to sneer at the outside but tbh the inside seemed extremely pleasant and I was quite won over.

we looked at a home extremely similar to that one in the beautiful town of harvard, ma. if they're of the same vintage, the kitchens are set up like isolation units and everything feels like you could punch a hole in it pretty easily.

Yeah that’s a 1963 home, not a shitty 70s split.

it looks nice but it's probably still kind of shitty is my point though

Yeah, inside is nice for a split. The best feature is the triangular windows up under the eaves, which give it the feel of an Eichler house.

Budget for painting the doors red, then blue, then red, and so on, with neither really working.

Whole exterior def needs new paint

I'm in what must be a very small minority of people who like the 70s split levels. My elementary school best friends lived in side splits, which felt so much more spacious and varied than the bungalows in the neighbourhood. I like the sense of separation/distance you get from the levels, plus the two lower levels had options to partition the floors into separate spaces. I'd live in one! The real dream is a house with a sunken living room though.

The second house I bought was a 1964 split level and I loved it, it just felt so different and modern compared to all the normal two-story early 1900s houses I knew growing. Given the choice between that and the 1938 two story I live in now I'd take the split level without even thinking about it.

like all my friends in my hometown lived in these split entry houses where you go in the front door and there's immediately half-staircases down (to a finished basement) and up (to a normal 1 story house layout). is that a 'raised ranch'?

i never got to host anything because i was the only one without a finished basement (the only acceptable hangout spot for teens)