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in case anyone is interested....
http://www.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?IS=1&ListingID=300038346
been on the market for at least 18 mos. if not more.
btw, pic 9 is where me and the kids go to play!
Glad to see someone else is up at this time of the night.
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Looks like the 3 gables make a couple of dead valleys. But they could have crickets in them, so maybe that's not it?
Or maybe the window with the transom at the bottom rather than the top. Maybe they thought it looked like a railing...
It's late so I'll give it to you. where is the access to the backyard? all those windows face either the Cascade mountain range, or the trees blocking that view, or "hindering". sorry, just ranting on a waste of a spec house. Hey, whatever hapened to yours? :) :) :)
Couldn't see enough of the sides of that one to know if it had back yard access or not - I would never have guessed that.As for the "Spec House from Hell" - When my XW and I separated 2 years ago we put it on the market and it sold pretty quickly. We really lucked out, as the local coal mine shut down shortly afterwards and put 350 people out of work. That's a BIG hit for a small town of 5,000. Then obviously the economy tanked...The young couple who bought it have told me that they are absolutely thrilled with the house, and enjoy it immensely. And that's exactly what I wanted.
glad their happy, looked like a nice place from the pics I saw a couple years ago. Sorry, but this post is probably more venting then a helpful pictorial. I'm looking at either refinancing or selling, and places like that, and others in the area are draggin my price down.
Okay, it's not that bad, but I just cant believe with it's potential they couldnt have done more with it. But come on, who wants to send their kids out the front or side door to access the backyard?
It's late so I'll give it to you. where is the access to the backyard?
Ok, I know I've already replied here but upon closer inspection I have to ring in again.
The access to the backyard is through what looks like a SGD in the middle gable area. Hell of a first riser downstep to the backyard but with no railing present, "access" nonetheless.
Runnerguy
checked on the way home, that's a window. There is yard acces about 25 feet up the sidewall behind that last gable end thingy.
crappy inconsistent design with varying windows and possible dead valleys
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Well the biggest thing is that it's about as ugly as a house can get.
Secondly, it that a set of doors on the second floor leading out onto the make-believe deck?
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Ugly house with dead valleys. Surely the catalog had something better in it.
not to mention no way off of the deck short of jumping...
what's the weather like there???
the valley dumping onto the deck....
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You could build two very nice modest homes
with the material wasted there.
Really.
Where do I start?
The windows look they were leftovers. No two are alike on the second story although the repeating of the gable form would lend itself to repeating opening form.
Let's build a brand new spanking house and make part of it look like it's a 2' cantilevered addition.
Runnerguy
>>>Where do I start?My thought exactly. LOL.A better question might be, "Guess what's right with this house?""A Dog's Breakfast" comes to mind.Scott.
It makes my eyes hurt.
Naive but refreshing !
and it can be all yours for 579k
http://www.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?IS=1&ListingID=300038346
it's been on the market for almost 2 yrs. This is the first time I looked it up. Seems like it started off in the 700k range.
Looking through the pics again just now, why would they put the fireplace in a corner by the front door???
Bunch of those down the street from me (renton), the backs all look as bad as my sheds.
Builders still trying to get $800K for a $150K house. Everything in the neighborhood development 1/2 mi away that is for sale has been on the market for at least a year, seems folks are not willing to take a loss.
After all Frenchy is rooting for a big rootin tootin infaltion ...
My inlaws live on the hill in Kent. There was a builder down there that did at least 3 developments we pass on the way there. There is one home plan in each of them that bugs me. There is a "v" sticking out the back. Kinda like taking one room, spinning it 45* and poking the corner of it out the back of the house 8'. cant imagine how that little triangle is useful space?
the archy has ADD???
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according to statistical analysis, "for some time now, bears apparently have been going to the bathroom in the woods."
Is it an optical illusion, or does the siding run right down to grade?
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Doesn't even look like a real photo of a house; looks more like it was heavily Photoshopped or maybe an acad rendering by some student archy about to flunk outta the local community college.
Who in their right mind would build something that ugly??
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