My old NS house for sale
gpsman
$1.6M (reduced from 1.9!). About $9K/month (30) if you're short a
down.
Caution: "old-timey" nostalgic content follows: reader discretion is
advised.
This was a 2 family when I rented the top floor for $300/mo. in the
early '70s. 3 BR (1 bath), 2 mates and we all lived there for 100
measly bucks (sans utilities).
I had an Ericofon from Hawaiian Bell.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ericofon_1956_2.jpg
We were, for kids, if you'll pardon the expression, "Big Dickin' It".
Of course the house looked nothing like this when I lived there. The
walls were single, the floor was linoleum with a straw mat, usually
containing a high content of sand.
There was a giant picture window facing the water (before which I
learned to brush my teeth away from a sink) with 3 leaky wood louvered
windows below. We used to push the speakers of my audiophile stereo
up against the louvered windows and blast the tunes.
The neighbor girls loved to sunbathe nakeder than jaybirds, and green
glass Japanese net floats regularly washed up on the beach.
Parties included most of the surfers of the era you've ever heard of.
I will never forget this girl who showed up at Halloween in nothing
but body paint and concentric circles painted on her breasticles.
Winter of '75 a storm had waves of 10' breaking on the beach and
slamming into the house while I tried to sleep with all the neighbors
watching and running from each swell underneath my BR window.
25Sep76 (a Saturday), the day after my ETS from the army, I set my
wind-up alarm to go off at the usual weekday 0430, woke up and threw
it against the wall.
The next day I sat on the beach at age 20 and contemplated the
preceding 4 years during which I had been married, divorced, had a 3 y/
o daughter (she be an MD now), and been shot at and missed numerous
times, and hit once.
Do you think they might take $900K...?
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- gpsman
Dennis
> http://listings.listhub.net/pages/HICENTRAL/2903366/?channel=zillow
>
> $1.6M (reduced from 1.9!). About $9K/month (30) if you're short a
> down.
>
> Caution: "old-timey" nostalgic content follows: reader discretion is
> advised.
>
> This was a 2 family when I rented the top floor for $300/mo. in the
> early '70s. 3 BR (1 bath), 2 mates and we all lived there for 100
> measly bucks (sans utilities).
>
They might take $900k. It seems like every other house in the area has
a for sale sign on it. If you buy it, can I rent the upstairs for $300?
Feigel
[Default] On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:42:13 -0800 (PST), gpsman
<gps...@driversmail.com> made a point of writing:
>This was a 2 family when I rented the top floor for $300/mo. in the
>early '70s. 3 BR (1 bath), 2 mates and we all lived there for 100
>measly bucks (sans utilities).
The place I rented on Maui in the late-60's was $30 a month sans
utilities and came with plate sized cane frogs, geckos, scorpions,
mosquitoes, cane spiders and feral cats for no extra charge.
When I had to spend a couple of months on Oahu in the summer of '69, I
shared an airconditioned two bedroom apartment with another guy and
his wife in Waikiki on the street that ran behind the International
Marketplace near the zoo. IIRC the rent was $125 a month split two
ways. I believe that whole area was torn down and redeveloped in the
90's.
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gpsman
> a for sale sign on it.
So I see, and that that place seems considerably overpriced.
> If you buy it, can I rent the upstairs for $300?
Of course not.
If you (and I) can manage to live another 3 years or so you'll be our
guest while you and I replace that picture window, etc.
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- gpsman
Dennis
Three more years? I think I can make it to 60. Have hammer, Will
travel.