Post details: The Runner Up
The Runner Up
I really loved this house, but since we only need one at the moment, we've got to let it go. The pictures I took were really huge and impossible to link to individualy.
This layout is very common in Hamtramck. The "owner unit" on the first floor has a living room or bedroom to one side of the door, two bedrooms off a formal dining room, bathroom, and eat-in kitchen with a large pantry in the back. Stairs in the back lead to an upstairs apartment. The layout is roughly the same as the unit downstairs. I'm told the unit upstairs will rent for $400-450, about the same as the mortgage payment for the whole house.
Normally, paneling is a bad sign, but this was the nicest paneling job I've ever seen. As horrific as it seems, this house is decorated with paneling. The original plaster ceilings aren't covered and the medalion in the dining room is intact. Given that there are wood floors upstairs and marble windowsills throughout the owner unit, there are probably wood floors under the carpet.
