I just found a real estate listing from the not so distant past.
The house I grew up in was for sale recently!
Go HERE and then click on the first house on the left.....the red brick one with the single dormer.
Wow!
Did that bring back a flood of memories.....it was a great place to be a kid!
This is the house that had the mulberry trees McVal. ;-)
Wish they had more photos on the listing.
The house is across the street from the Lafayette River. This area got put on the Historic Registry awhile back. I hope they fixed the really bad plumbing in that house first.lol
Anybody got a spare $369K to buy it for me?
Hey, I know all the flaws so I bet you could talk them down to $330K.... ;-)
Sluggy
First off, that is a fabulous house! I love it.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, was it weird for you to see it for sale like that? I think it would be really strange for me to look at my previous homes and see them as they are now.
Wow what a cool house! I grew up in a rental (a bad one at that!) my parents could never afford a home.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous house!! I would love to have a porch like that--and all that wood work!! WOW!! I grew up in so many houses I wouldn't recognize most of them.
ReplyDeleteLisaPie--it was a neat house to live in as a little kid. Tho I don't live down there anymore I have driven by it a few times over the years when I've been in town visiting friends/family. It sure looks alot different now from when we lived there...back in the '60s/'70s it was pretty ramshackle.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn--Well we never 'owned' it. My dad was moving us around alot as a kid. I 'believe' he got ARMs, paid the lowish mortgage payments and then he sold and moved us when the ARM adjusted. He was all about social climbing and appearances as he built his business. I remember living in 6 diff. houses as a kid from age 3 to until I left for college at 18. I'll have to find the 1st house we lived in that I remember...it was ALOT smaller...a tiny prefab-post WWII 3 bed/1 bath ranch w/a carport...maybe 750 sq.ft. Kind of cramped for a family of 5, 2 guinea pigs and an Old English Sheep Dog.lol
Sheila--Like I said...it was not in that condition when we lived in it...it has aged well.lol
I guess I am weird because I remember alot of details about each house we lived in. Maybe I should have been a realtor?lol
Wowsa! That's pricy! Beautiful house tho! Reminds me of my grandmas...
ReplyDeleteI agree with McVal, compared to our midwest prices it seems a little steep. But it's a neat old house, to be sure.
ReplyDeleteMy parents moved us around a lot, too, always looking for either a better rental price or more house for the same rental price. They did own a few houses in the mix, though, and have lived in their current home for the last 37 years.
McVal--Yeah, I wouldn't pay that for it and I'm sure my father didn't pay anything near that back in 1967.lol
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLet me write you a check. Umm...wait. No, I had better not. LOL!