Live next door!

The house next door to us is for sale. I know you want to live next door to me. I live right downtown! The neighbours give me cake and borrow cups of sugar (literally)! I am steps from the Don Valley trail! Small children use the laneway to play road hockey!

Seriously. Anyone who ever says the city is anonymous and not-friendly needs to move to Ashby Place. There’s a sitcom waiting to happen on my 12-house laneway: the long-time residents deal with the rapid development and gentrification of the area, a young couple buys a house on the road not knowing what they are in for. It would be like Robson Arms. But way better.

Matt and I have lived on Ashby Place for little more than a year and it is awesome. All my wariness about home ownership and city living is completely gone. I love it and I know whoever buys the house next door will too!

One catch. It looks like this:

A Grey Gardens-style house if I’ve ever seen one. There is a raccoon infestation. (I know this because the raccoon entrance is in our backyard.) No plumbing. No installation. Not much of anything. For $340,000.

I think it’s ridiculously overpriced, but it could be worth it for anyone who has a large cash flow and knows someone handy. Our neighbourhood is rapidly changing, for the better. It’s a heritage home in the centre of the city. And how often to you get to make a house exactly what you want? A smart investor could turn this into a gem and make me extremely jealous.

The listing is here. Matt and I have an appointment to see the inside on Friday. I will take pictures. I cannot wait.

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