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Towards the end of summer, I'll be out house-hunting again, this time looking for a place to buy.
I'm reminded of my house hunt when I was living in Denver. I was looking for something very specific -- a 1920s-era Arts and Crafts bungalow in the West Highlands neighborhood -- and a few of the houses I saw had very ... uhh, interesting features.
For instance, I saw several houses where, in the middle of an unfinished basement, there was a connected, operating sit-down toilet. Literally, just sitting there. Another house had an open, operating toilet in a corner of the basement, up on a platform like a throne.
When it was time to sell, my realtors and I went to visit some houses in the area, trying to get an idea of comps, or what houses like mine were selling for. One house had a room in the basement I called the "death chamber" - there was a working shower head mounted next to a working light bulb socket, with electrical outlets on the wall near the concrete floor. W ...T ...F?
My parents' house in suburban Buffalo was supposedly a model house when the subdivision was developed in the mid-1960s. There were all sorts of space-age gizmos installed to impress potential homebuyers, one of which is still in the kitchen - a built-in toaster.
Ever see any houses with features that made you go "hmmmmmm?"
I'm reminded of my house hunt when I was living in Denver. I was looking for something very specific -- a 1920s-era Arts and Crafts bungalow in the West Highlands neighborhood -- and a few of the houses I saw had very ... uhh, interesting features.
For instance, I saw several houses where, in the middle of an unfinished basement, there was a connected, operating sit-down toilet. Literally, just sitting there. Another house had an open, operating toilet in a corner of the basement, up on a platform like a throne.
When it was time to sell, my realtors and I went to visit some houses in the area, trying to get an idea of comps, or what houses like mine were selling for. One house had a room in the basement I called the "death chamber" - there was a working shower head mounted next to a working light bulb socket, with electrical outlets on the wall near the concrete floor. W ...T ...F?
My parents' house in suburban Buffalo was supposedly a model house when the subdivision was developed in the mid-1960s. There were all sorts of space-age gizmos installed to impress potential homebuyers, one of which is still in the kitchen - a built-in toaster.
Ever see any houses with features that made you go "hmmmmmm?"