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Poking at Property
Jun. 3rd, 2023 11:30 pmLet me clarify that we are emphatically *not* looking to move. I mean, *not*. The mere *thought* of trying to pack up this place and move somewhere else is frightening and we really, really like where we are living. And if we *were* moving, it would be because we needed to move somewhere else. Since those conditions don't obtain, here we sit.
This doesn't stop us from looking at the occasional house though. And this house is really, really odd, so the family drove by it to take a look today.
The road running from the main street up to the double railroad track is gravel, but the road on the other side is paved. This is good.
There are what appear to be the ruins of the foundation of another structure that had once been on the property with *two* cars parked in what is now the ruins of the basement. Elsewhere on the property are two decrepit vans and a sedan, along with a motorboat on a trailer.
And there are *two* houses. I have no idea of why, although the main house appears to have been built around 1960, while the other house looks like it dates to the late 1940s or early 1950s. I could be wrong, as I'm leaning heavily on the style of the porch railings.
The property -- all four acres of it -- backs up on the forest preserve. Looking at the antenna and the satellite dish, I would suspect that Internet access is going to be a Starlink project, but maybe not. Comcast claims to service that address and might even be telling the truth.
The listing price is currently $750,000, which seems like a lot, but less than the $974,900 that Chicago Magazine shows it as being listed at two years ago. One concludes that it hasn't sold in that time, nor is it any better for two years (or more) of non-occupancy.
But it's a fascinating place and if we suddenly won the Lotto and had the money to buy it and hire someone to fix it up (which isn't going to be *anything* like cheap), well, then maybe we would consider moving.
Because then we could also afford to hire movers.
Listing inside
This doesn't stop us from looking at the occasional house though. And this house is really, really odd, so the family drove by it to take a look today.
The road running from the main street up to the double railroad track is gravel, but the road on the other side is paved. This is good.
There are what appear to be the ruins of the foundation of another structure that had once been on the property with *two* cars parked in what is now the ruins of the basement. Elsewhere on the property are two decrepit vans and a sedan, along with a motorboat on a trailer.
And there are *two* houses. I have no idea of why, although the main house appears to have been built around 1960, while the other house looks like it dates to the late 1940s or early 1950s. I could be wrong, as I'm leaning heavily on the style of the porch railings.
The property -- all four acres of it -- backs up on the forest preserve. Looking at the antenna and the satellite dish, I would suspect that Internet access is going to be a Starlink project, but maybe not. Comcast claims to service that address and might even be telling the truth.
The listing price is currently $750,000, which seems like a lot, but less than the $974,900 that Chicago Magazine shows it as being listed at two years ago. One concludes that it hasn't sold in that time, nor is it any better for two years (or more) of non-occupancy.
But it's a fascinating place and if we suddenly won the Lotto and had the money to buy it and hire someone to fix it up (which isn't going to be *anything* like cheap), well, then maybe we would consider moving.
Because then we could also afford to hire movers.
Listing inside