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May. 19th, 2013 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiI worry a little bit that while I sit and dither about whether to move to Natick, the weekend comes and goes on which the perfect apartment in Cambridge comes on the market and then vanishes.
I am relieved to report that this is not that weekend. Yesterday I went to the two most promising-looking Open Houses in Cambridge. I did not walk away saying shit I wish I knew for sure that I'm not moving to Natick so I could make an offer on this. I wandered away from one saying eh, and bolted from the other saying eeeewwwwwww.
2 Avon Street is not bad. It's in a lovely neighborhood, just around the corner from Pfoho. However, a little on the far side for commuting to LMA. The apartment is garden-level, and has this weird twisty layout, but it's rather charming. I would nick-name it the Cambridge Bag-End. The bizarre thing about the property is that the owners finished their storage cubicle to convert it into livable space. The basement is a warren of distinct, large, locked storage rooms, one for each apartment in the building; these are so large, the owner of 2B decided to make his into an office for meeting clients. It's a combination home office/music practice space/exercise room. They are, I think, counting this as livable space in the square footage. (Bogus!) But this would so not work for me as a room. The thing about the storage space/office is that one has to traverse the basement level of the building, through a maze of storage spaces and laundry facilities, to get between the office and the rest of the apartment. Not an issue for anyone over the age of 14, but Sophia would get very agitated if I went to the office while she stayed in the apartment or vice versa. Even though you just have to walk through the basement to get from one to the other. So, realistically, I would never really use that room; it would revert back to storage. My feeling is that this is the perfect condo for someone else: someone who needs to be near Harvard, someone who needs to retreat from the rest of the family into a slightly separate but trivially close office or man-cave. Let that person have it.
82 Willow Street looks nice on the listing sheet: cute outdoor patio, plenty of rooms, granite counter-tops, close to everything in Cambridge. However, it smells like something is seriously wrong with the building. I mean literally, it smells. I don't know for sure what it smells like when a building is being digested by mold, but I would guess that maybe it smells like that. All I know is that I was trying to seriously look at the lovely granite counter-tops, and suddenly I had to leave Right Away. Ewww, gag.
Didn't go see the newly on the market unit in 516 Green Street. Living in 516 Green Street would be better than a sharp stick in the eye, distinctly better, but I'm willing to let it go.
I am relieved to report that this is not that weekend. Yesterday I went to the two most promising-looking Open Houses in Cambridge. I did not walk away saying shit I wish I knew for sure that I'm not moving to Natick so I could make an offer on this. I wandered away from one saying eh, and bolted from the other saying eeeewwwwwww.
2 Avon Street is not bad. It's in a lovely neighborhood, just around the corner from Pfoho. However, a little on the far side for commuting to LMA. The apartment is garden-level, and has this weird twisty layout, but it's rather charming. I would nick-name it the Cambridge Bag-End. The bizarre thing about the property is that the owners finished their storage cubicle to convert it into livable space. The basement is a warren of distinct, large, locked storage rooms, one for each apartment in the building; these are so large, the owner of 2B decided to make his into an office for meeting clients. It's a combination home office/music practice space/exercise room. They are, I think, counting this as livable space in the square footage. (Bogus!) But this would so not work for me as a room. The thing about the storage space/office is that one has to traverse the basement level of the building, through a maze of storage spaces and laundry facilities, to get between the office and the rest of the apartment. Not an issue for anyone over the age of 14, but Sophia would get very agitated if I went to the office while she stayed in the apartment or vice versa. Even though you just have to walk through the basement to get from one to the other. So, realistically, I would never really use that room; it would revert back to storage. My feeling is that this is the perfect condo for someone else: someone who needs to be near Harvard, someone who needs to retreat from the rest of the family into a slightly separate but trivially close office or man-cave. Let that person have it.
82 Willow Street looks nice on the listing sheet: cute outdoor patio, plenty of rooms, granite counter-tops, close to everything in Cambridge. However, it smells like something is seriously wrong with the building. I mean literally, it smells. I don't know for sure what it smells like when a building is being digested by mold, but I would guess that maybe it smells like that. All I know is that I was trying to seriously look at the lovely granite counter-tops, and suddenly I had to leave Right Away. Ewww, gag.
Didn't go see the newly on the market unit in 516 Green Street. Living in 516 Green Street would be better than a sharp stick in the eye, distinctly better, but I'm willing to let it go.
