We ended up looking at five houses today.  Starting with an abandoned old farm house in Hugo that I liked and Lindsay hated.  Then we moved on to a tiny charming little place in White Bear that was very nice but just did not even have a single conforming bedroom.  Then we went to a gutted house close to the lake, we still like that one but only because we think we could make some money off of it.  After the gutted house we drove down Mcknight to a rambler on 7th street, it’s my favorite so far.  The price is right but the kitchen is needs to be rebuilt before the house would be livable.  Around the block there was an open house that our realtor knew about so we peaked in on it, the house was charming.  Good sized rooms, full basement and a very fine kitchen, but no dining area!  There was room enough for a tiny two person table in the kitchen, but aside from that there was no place for people to eat.  I can’t imagine how a house can have such a nice kitchen but no room for people to serve dinner!  Oh well, after the open house we ended the day with a little rambler in Saint Paul, I was gung-ho until I realized that the house was in a different neighborhood than I thought it was and the crime was a little bit higher.  I’d like to thank Teresa Boardman for pointing out this link to me of crime stats for Saint Paul neighborhoods.  Teresa has a great blog about Saint Paul real estate and one of the easiest home search tools around, the only thing I’d like to see is a dynamic rss feed for home search results.

-Josh

Posted on March 25th, 2007 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants