The Condo

I suppose at this point… I should say that we looked at many places… but the only places I ended up taking pictures at are places that I saw as a possibility… so.. the house with the back porch falling off that was $850 a month… no pictures… the house with access only by a dirt pull-off on the street, and then a 150ft walk uphill to the house… no pictures… the house that the door frame was pieced together after damage from what appeared to be a dozen break-ins…. no pictures…

But… another possibility was a condo off of Statler BLVD….

This place was 2BR, 1 BA… but the location was pretty cool….

The kitchen was a nice size… new appliances… fans in every room… A/C… gas heat and gas water heater…

The master bedroom had an awesome view of a retaining wall…I liked the feel of this place… but I don’t think it even rated on Virginia’s radar…. but.. it was a condo… it has gas.. and it was one of the smallest places we looked at….

The coolest thing about the apartments we saw through Remax was the real estate agent… She was from the midwest… but moved to Staunton when she attended school at Mary Baldwin…. she stayed in Staunton after she graduated in 1958… Since then, it seems like she has sold every building in Staunton at least 3 or 4 times…. Mainly, she worked with large, expensive, historic properties…. ranging from old women’s colleges to houses that belonged to cartographers from the Civil War…

She also showed us another place that was located on the first floor of a “multi-family” home… that place was…. interesting… It was early 1900’s… but fairly updated… but… it was 1 bedroom…and had a gas range/stove… the interesting thing was that utilities were included… that seems dangerous… if someone else is paying the utilities… I’d be tempted to have a 60 degree house all summer, and a 80 degree house all winter… but… neither the condo, nor the lower floor of a house really screamed out to us…