North Tabor Bungalow 6500 E Burnside St $249,000 3Br/1BA - Spacious, solid 20’s bungalow includes 2 really great bedrooms - one up, on on main - and a larger if so-very-tired kitchen with generous eating nook. A lot of house for around $250K in this neighborhood. Still... hard to ignore the Burnside noise (new windows on the front would help) in the formal rooms, and no backyard to speak of.
Dejected Sweetheart 2413 SE 16th Ave $274,500 2BR/2BA - A truly lovely little house, in need of a lot of wooing - all the goods are there, they just ache for restoration. The ceiling height on the lower level is a real bummer for anyone over 5’10” - which explains the price quite a bit. So does the appearance of a cringing “as is” warning in the listing notes. I did see some newer mechanicals - electrical and furnace - so maybe it isn’t so bad. For under $260K it starts to look like a great rental property, given the Ladd’s Addition address.
Roseway Oddball 3113 NE 71st Ave $284,950 3BR/2BA - This house would be a hard-to- pass buy if the owners had just bit the bullet and removed the ridiculous tile flooring that the previous owner had left in both main floor bedrooms, especially since the listing agent verbally waved an alleged $2500 bid to do so (in order to unearth the fir floors trapped below) in front of me as soon as I walked in. The rest of the home is nice and relatively unspoiled. Neither bathroom was a standout, but they weren’t egregiously dated, either. Good street, and LOTS of nice mechanical updates for this price point.
(Not SO Forgettable) Family Starter 4619 SE 49th Ave $289,000 3BR/1BA - The curb appeal won't incite any squeals, but the inside really went a long way toward making up for that on this nice street. A sensible, 1-to-2-kid-friendly layout with well-proportioned room sizes - given that the house was small, it didn’t feel compartmentalized - plus a clean basement with an easy playroom to be had below. A great yard, (fenced!) an attached garage for rainy days or small-child safety, & new windows throughout.
Alameda English Puzzle 2600 NE Ridgewood Dr 4BR/2.5BA $575,000 - Tastefully updated and decorated throughout, with especially nice bedrooms up, I nevertheless found the home’s layout on the main floor to be counter-intuitive and confusing. The dining room was in the back of the house (behind the kitchen) and one therefore stepped into the kitchen off the formal entry. The living room, off the entry in the opposing direction, was therefore diagonal to the dining room, which is to say, completely separated from it. This, and the bizarre, star- shaped traffic intersection the house sits on, left me a little disoriented.
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