The ultimate Interstate garage

[LB_3]

The realtor wanted best and final at 5:30 pm after the home had only been listed a couple days.

My guess is that some developer (HGTV perhaps?) would be interested in stuffing it with vintage furniture and air BnB-ing it for $500 a night.

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Originally Posted by nvestysly

^^^^^^^ Are the garage doors on the outbuilding are high enough for the van?

.... You didn't bid yesterday but does that mean you can't go back and bid today? ...

(1) Yes, with minor mods possibly needed. The doors are 10' nominal and 9'10" effective (I measured in 3 places), and our van is 9'9" tall. In the event it could not fit due to pavement inflection or simply heart-stoppage on my part at the lack of margin for error, I spoke yesterday with the City building code inspector who assured me that a six inch door adjustment would not be something he would deny - that is not a material change to the property.

(2) The sellers were taking best and final at 5 p.m. yesterday. As of this moment, the listing status has NOT shifted to "pending", which is curious to me. I know they got multiple offers. I don't know if any of them were to their satisfaction. Maybe they are still deliberating or maybe their agent is reserving the sale announcement for a press release - I don't know.

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Originally Posted by LB_3

The realtor wanted best and final at 5:30 pm after the home had only been listed a couple days.

My guess is that some developer (HGTV perhaps?) would be interested in stuffing it with vintage furniture and air BnB-ing it for $500 a night.

To expound, that's what HGTV did with the Brady Bunch house within the past year or so - they replicated the finishes, taking it from an historic property to one that is now an historic AND nostalgic money-maker.

While the Moon landing was not as popular with Americans as the Brady Bunch TV show, neither would the likely investment be as high. So LB_3 and I were quaking in our boots at the prospect of potentially competing with some commercial investor whose pockets are orders of magnitude deeper than ours.

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So, I recently joined this Facebook group that showcases the horrors of bad architecture, and I'm frequently amused by how one man's meat is another man's poison.

I would prefer this facade to be a bit more mid-century in style, but otherwise I'd say that this is spot-on perfect. There are those of us who would be thrilled to live in something akin to a parking garage: