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Oh, the Questions That Come Up When Buying A Home

  • March 25th 2009

by Mark Wellborn

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Oh, the Questions That Come Up When Buying A Home: Figure 1

Keith Gibbons is the author of DC Housing Prices, a site that offers amazing data analysis of home and condo prices in DC. And it now appears that he is interested in buying a new home.

In a post on his site the other day, Keith recounted the questions that came up during his initial search. Most were insightful, and some were just hilarious:

  • What were they thinking of when they did that?
  • Do they really think this place is worth that much?
  • Don’t you think there’s a little too much pink carpet / wallpaper here?
  • Why don’t they just come out and call this a tear down?
  • Why is the stairway in the middle of the room?
  • Why is the HOA so high?

If you haven’t looked at Keith’s blog and are in the market, check it out here.

This article originally published at http://dc.urbanturf.production.logicbrush.com/articles/blog/oh_the_questions_that_come_up_when_buying_a_home/707.

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