New Project!

The beginning of the year is going to be extremely busy. We have another project, this time on 510 East Waldburg Street. Despite my best efforts to avoid it, the project found me. It had previously gone under contract, but it fell through and the seller’s agent called me. We worked out a deal, which is closing tomorrow, and so off we go. This is an unusual house for the Victorian District, because it was built in a Mediterranean style in the 1930s. I don’t know whether there was an earlier house on the lot, which is sometimes the case with these homes that are later than the other homes in the neighborhood. It’s an upstairs/downstairs duplex, with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath and about 1250 square feet in each unit. The bedrooms are very good sizes for a home this age—about 12 x 12 ¾ for the larger and 12 ½ x 10 ¾ for the smaller bedroom. Each unit has a kitchen, breakfast room, separate dining room, living room, and a sunroom. For SCAD purposes, that sunroom could turn into a third bedroom, but a more elegant use would be as a den or office. The breakfast rooms will turn into laundry rooms, with extra pantry storage.

The house needs the usual suspects—upgraded plumbing, electric, new paint, new cabinets, HVAC. The HVAC, we hope, will be a slightly less involved ordeal, because there is actually central heat. Not sure why it’s just a central heat system without central air, but at least the ducting is in place. The hardwood floors appear to be in pretty good condition, and the hardwoods are still in place underneath the vinyl and linoleum in the kitchen and breakfast rooms. We have a bathroom floor that has seen too much water and needs to be rebuilt, but in general the structure appears to be solid. The upper unit also has an attic—did I mention yet we’ll be doing a new roof—which houses some ducting but also has plenty of room for storage.

I’m excited—the house in on a good block and we should be able to put in back on the market at an attractive price.

Front Exterior