Drive-around 1/5/08

[Pete]

Look at the skyline view from the Okasian house:

[Doug Loudenback]

Whoa! Impressive!

[dismayed]

I would love to see that take off and become a really modern district. So it sounds like most of these homes are owned by the original designer/architect?

[bella]

Yes. The Wells and Okasian House are inhabited by their respective Architects. The corner brownstone was restored by Bewley who no longer resides there. The 2 identical homes on 7th are inhabited by Randy Floyd (Architect) and Michael Smith who beautifully restored them.

[Tex]

It's a little area in Midtown where some renaissance type cats live. At least a couple of them are architects, so I understand.

Here are a couple other shots from over there:

What's the scoop on the blue duplexes? I remember probably a year ago there was an online classified posting in the Gazette showing one of these units for lease. The interior was awesome. I think the rent was pretty high at the time I saw it. Are they being leased right now?

[bella]

They've been leased and typically stay leased.

[metro]

Tex, actually they are a forest green, not blue. The rent is high actually, I think around $1400 a unit and there are 4 units per building. As bella said, they pretty much stay leased.

[wsucougz]

Tex, actually they are a forest green, not blue. The rent is high actually, I think around $1400 a unit and there are 4 units per building. As bella said, they pretty much stay leased.

The one on the left is a duplex, where each unit rents for a shade over $1k, I believe. The one on the right is the owners single family residence. There are 2 smaller garage apartments out back. I think that's pretty accurate, as a friend of mine used to live there, but don't quote me.

[johnnyincog]

mturner, the house IS still for sale. It really is a bargain actually. Unfortunately I don't know if it's just not marketed right or if there just aren't enough buyers that want a more modern home. (I know there are but perhaps they prefer to build their own). Anyhow, the family name is correct however the husband passed away last year so its just the wife who is selling it. I believe the price has been reduced to somewhere around $250,000. Again, its a bargain and a very nice remodel of a very old structure. The interior is VERY nice and was also featured in several magazines.

the house went off the market sometime in the last week but was listed for 214,900 before it went under contract. i think there were some structural issues which caused the low price. the realtor's virtual tour is still up though if you want take a peek inside.

http://www.realvirtualtoursllc.com/c...dex.php?id=221