We have the feedback from yesterday's showing. You can probably guess that since you don't see a million exclamation points and the title of this blog isn't WE GOT AN OFFER!!!!! that we didn't get an offer. The feedback, however, was a little easier to take than the standard "the house is too small" response we've been dealt a thousand times before. This time the prospective buyer said she was a little sketched out by the HVAC unit (I'm totally with her on that one, but the ironic thing is that it looks terrible but is in great condition) and she couldn't get over the washing machine being in the kitchen. I guess I take it for granted that I lived in New York City for six years where things like showers in kitchens and toilets in closets is the norm. You wouldn't think twice if you found an amazing deal on a place in the West Village...but the shower is in the kitchen (So what!? It's a real two bedroom for under $3000 in the West Village!); however, in North Carolina things are different. Homeowners like big rooms with big closets and bonus rooms and rec rooms and mud rooms and any other kind of room you can dream up. They like their bathrooms to be bathrooms and their kitchens to be kitchens (what a luxury!).
But in places like Europe, for example, space is more of a luxury than in the U.S., so a lot of homes skip the whole laundry room thing and work the washing machine into the kitchen design. So I think that makes our house pretty cool in a Euro-chic kind of way. In fact, after discovering some of these spaces online, it makes me almost want a washing machine in the kitchen of my next house. Almost.
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