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[jaeclectic]

I have decided that I'm going to make an offer on the place on Lakeshore, although I'm still trying to decide exactly how much.

Meanwhile, I am counting on you, my faithful readers, to assure me I am not insane.

In the absence of any photos of the actual unit, as reference I offer the listing for a different unit, and oh what the heck, yet another unit in the same building, each of which sold last year. These are kind of the "after" picture because both units are clean and tidy, and the first in particular has been really beautifully fixed up; what I will be getting is a "before" picture which I assure you is not nearly so pretty.

Oh, and the view is something like this, maybe not quite that good, because this picture is from one floor further up.

Thoughts?

Comments

[eac.livejournal.com]

Looks cute, as long as you like the light in the apartment itself.

[jafitz.livejournal.com]

The place has big windows / french doors all along one wall, but is somewhat dark in the interior, especially the bathrooms. One of the fix-it items would be to improve the lighting fixtures, in part to alleviate that, in part because the current fixtures are shabby / missing / broken / not to my taste / all of the above (oh wait, if it's missing, I guess I can't be absolutely sure it wasn't to my taste when it was there :) Also, I would probably paint all the kitchen cabinets off-white, which would lighten up the kitchen a lot.

[ztepfinat0r.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're buying a condo but there's coin laundry? Can you put a washer/dryer in your unit?
Aside from that question, the examples you gave look very cute!

[jafitz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a tough one. Problem is, most of the places in my price range don't have in-unit laundry :(

I'd like to put it in, but it's complicated: needs plumbing, preferably gas line, 220V elec. And of course, the wild card with buying a condo is that the HOA gets some say about what people do in their units, so they may or may not allow it (e.g., because of risk of flooding the unit downstairs if something went awry).

So anyway, it's on my list of "see if I can manage this" rather than my list of "must have to move in".