A spectacular end to a spectacular day, 4/27/16, on beautiful Cape Cod!
Hot New FFP Listing!
Consistent with the market, this one came and went in one day. I met the Sellers when I listed a home across the pond last summer and we’d been talking since about listing their home. It’s a sweet house in a very sweet spot! On the west side of Siders Pond, the frontage is special for kayaking, sailing your Sunfish and yes, even swimming – not to mention lollygagging in the hammock watching the sun sparkle off the wavelets.
The location is coveted, with Main Street an easy walk in one direction, the bike path practically at the end of the street, and Surf Drive Beach just down the road.
The house is vintage 1945, with both the charm and the challenges that go with that. I worried that Buyers would complain about the steam heat, the original kitchen and baths, or the lack of central air, but fortunately the few people who saw the house loved everything about it. One family personified the buyer qualities mentioned previously: they came, they saw, and they conquered. In other words – they were the first appointment, they made an immediate full price offer, and their paperwork was pristine. At the end of April, they will be the appreciative new owners of 4 Pond Road.
Come With Me to Work, Part 2
Narragansett is a comfortable home in great condition. Half a mile to Bristol Beach and with Little Pond just a few houses away, the house has everything good going for it – including a new sewer next year!
#21510895
131 Alcott Road, East Falmouth
$429,000
#21511091
132 Sanddollar Circle, East Falmouth
$489,900
Come With Me to Work, Part 1
Friends of mine from college called me last week to talk about purchasing an investment property. Their reasoning was because returns are so skimpy in the stock market, that they’d have more upside potential from a rental home.
I selected homes that are in desirable locations for tenants and that also have renovation potential. We had a good lunch, strapped on our running shoes, and looked at six properties. These houses all had possibilities:
#21509495
75 Lakeview Ave, Falmouth
$439,900
Evangeline Road is in a prime Quissett location for Woods Hole scientists, and the house is in the woods with lots of privacy. It’s not been updated, but academics seem to care less about that than other tenants. A big plus is the quick bike ride to the private and gorgeous MBL Beach access.
#21600113
43 Cachalot Lane, Falmouth
$499,000
My Pet Peeve
It drives me crazy when I see artwork hung not to its best advantage. Having recently moved and renovated – and removed many of the few walls that were there, I’m in the midst of figuring out where and how best to display my own photos. I’m making greater use of ledges than I have before and overlapping the photos on them. For whatever reason, this presentation is pleasing me these days.
Here’s a great article from Houzz.com showing 14 creative formats that will appeal whether you’re precise and orderly or clustered and eclectic. Each section describes the benefit, the wall space and the limitations of the arrangement.
Take a look; you may be inspired, and your whole environment will “lift”.
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