The stairs seem kinda rough with a baby/kid (constant fear of them falling down the stairs once they're mobile), but the interior is nice. Assuming it's not done cheaply/poorly to quickly flip.
I like that you can take a shit while doing laundry, lololol.
We saw a house like that and MH and I couldn't believe what we were seeing. We were between laughter and just surprise. Even our realtor had to turn her back to hide her surprise and laughter.
In addition to the concerns about hauling groceries/elderly or disabled visitors/a pregnant belly/a baby up the stairs, I'd be very concerned about the structure and foundation of a house that's perched up on a cliff like that.
We saw a house like that and MH and I couldn't believe what we were seeing. We were between laughter and just surprise. Even our realtor had to turn her back to hide her surprise and laughter.
Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't close off the bathroom part from the laundry part. I mean, I get why they're close together, but the space in this house seems large enough for a wall or some kind of partition.
That would make sense for this house, some sort of divider. The house we saw had the toilet facing the washer/dryer. The sink was in the corner of a hall and the "shower" was in the other corner where the water heater and furnace was on the other side of one of the walls.
It was bizarre. We then understood why the price was much lower than others around it.
You can't fix the outside (easily) or the land on which the property sits, but you CAN fix the inside.
They've just fixed the inside, so you overlook the outside, which is precisely what you're doing.
C'mon, you've seen enough HGTV to know better than to be swayed by clean, nice floors, and paint.
You've got a point. I just hate renovations/DIY of all forms and want to live someplace totally done. But I want SPACE. So sick of condo living. DH is dead set against a long commute.
I agree with the others. The stairs (with a baby in the winter and ice), the lack of any yard, the road, are all things you can't change. This will be a hard house to sell if you ever wanted to move.
Remind me again where work will be? Do you really need to be that close to the city?
Look inside though! It's so roomy! And we'd burn calories!
Have you actually seen it in person? It looks like many of the real estate listings I see now where they use whatever special misleading camera lens/angle to make it look much larger than it is.
If you're set on being in the city, I would rather have something older/cuter that required a little work. I think you said you don't want that though, so maybe this is the house for you. If that's the case, I bet you could get a much better deal on it than what it's listed for since it wouldn't be as in demand as evidenced by this post.
I am terrible at looking at pictures and imagining floor plans, but it seems like some of the rooms are so large that they'll have a lot of dead space, while others have weird enough walls that they'll be hard to furnish the way you want.
No, no, no, NQB. Ditto what pp said about the stairs and winter and babies/children, and about the curb appeal (or lack thereof).
I don't know anything about Medford, but have you looked at Roslindale at all? The houses there are cute, there are lots of young families and it's really easy to commute into Boston from there.