July 31, 2006

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Found A House!

I found a house. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that a house found me. My summer housemates in San Fran told me that they always check the Room Wanted postings on Craigslist before they ever post anything, in case they find cool people. Before that, it had never occurred to me to post in the Room Wanted listings. But I did. And it worked spectacularly. I got about twelve responses a day since posting. Not all the responses were reasonable. Many were all the way out in Alexandria or--gasp!--Clarendon, or asking for rent of, for instance $1300, despite my ad clearly saying that I wanted to live closer to the city and that my total price had to be under $1000. But there were many gems. This one stuck out.

The house is gigantic. It's like a museum, like it would be the summer home of a B-list celebrity, or an A-list politician. It's a five-minute (okay, fine, eight minute) walk from the Cleveland Park metro stop. My roommates so far are two twenty-five year old girls from Tulane. There will be two more roommates as well. Let me know if you're interested. The house is in the woods just down Porter from Connecticut, on Klingle.

My room is tiny, which is part of why I could afford it. The other reason is that the house is owned by the mother of a friend of my roommates. She intended to sell it, but the housing market apparently just crashed, so she couldn't get the asking price ($1.8 million, but don't tell anyone I said that). She isn't trying to profit from the renting, just recoup her taxes and all. The other two available rooms are $1200 and $1300, which are amazing deals (they're approximately sixty thousand times the size of my room). My Alice In Wonderlandish nook of a room is $750, but I have plenty of private space in my wing of the house in which to store things. And my room will fit a bed and desk, which is all I really need in my room. But the room is seriously small, as you can see in the first two pictures below. That's okay, because the rest of the house is friggin' huge.

Perhaps best of all, I have an enormous kitchen in which to cook delicious meals, and a huge deck, dining room, breakfast nook, and den in which to entertain guests who will eat my delicious meals. In fact, I'm planning on throwing (weekly? bi-weekly? monthly?) dinner parties. And the house is perfect for giant party parties as well. So get ready.

My ideal location would not have been Cleveland Park. It would have been U-Street, Dupont, or Adams-Morgan. But this is a unique opportunity, and it wouldn't exist in those locations. And even if it did, it would be unlikely that it would have some tiny little servant's room that I could afford. But I'm happy with Cleveland Park. It's an alright area. Maybe I can join the Cleveland Park Men's Club now!

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