A teeny, teeny house...

[fruitbowlk]

Small but cute.

[Ima saver]

I think the biggest drawback is the one bathroom. Is there any way another bathroom (even powder room) can be added on?

[ScrimpAndSave]

Ima saver,

This is what I think too. I am going to check out the house around 5:30pm tonight and will find out...

[Ima saver]

My mother had a one bath house. She was able to add a toilet and sink to one of the bedrooms and it helped a lot.

[guppy]

Hey neighbor! I live in Allentown - what a small world! I think the house is really cute. If you don't have any plans of ever having children, why on earth do you need a huge house?! I just don't understand why people have an issue with the size. 700ish square feet is more than enough for one person. And if you get married you can reevaluate the situation then to see if he'd like to move in with you, or maybe at that point you look for another place together.

I live in a 1250 sq ft home (3 br, 1 bath) with my husband and two insane cats. To be honest, I haven't really had an issue with only one bathroom, even though everyone warned me about that. My husband and I get up at two different times for work so its never been a problem. Both our families were horrified at the thought of climbing stairs to go to the bathroom - oh well, more exercise!

[ScrimpAndSave]

Yeah I am wondering if the bedrooms are so tiny that I can't put a half bath in there...that is definitely what I would like to do if I can.

[PetMom]

I personally have come to love a smaller home.

It really does have smaller heating/cooling costs, less repair costs (less amount of repair material - eg wood floors), less cleaning costs and quicker to clean and a lower tax base for taxes and even less insurance costs.
You also can purchase the best furniture possible because you need less of it.

It is such a cute house and think of the landscaping you could do - also maybe an outdoor room - a nice overhead lattice roof and little deck with vines/roses for privacy and an outdoor grill and some patio furniture - you got a whole outdoor room in your backyard.

We also purchased an outdoor storage shed (looks like a little barn) painted to match the house which gives us plenty of storage. This quickly paid for itself as we have never resorted to paid storage.

You can't tell if you will like it until you go there and go inside and get the true feel of the house's personality and if it is right for you.

[Troyrb]

My significant other and I lived in a 800 Sq Ft house for five years. We lived in a beautiful little town north of Pittsburgh. The house prices there a very low but the houses are still nice. It was 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. No basement but it did have a attic with decent storage there. We had one med. size dog and two cats in the house and it didn't seem that crowded. I bought the house for $25,000 and put $6,000 in updates in it. We ended up selling it for $55,000 two years ago. We moved into a 1800 sq ft house from there. The main reason for us moving was wanting to be closer to work. I will say that even thou we were happy in the small house we did crave something larger after five years of being in that small of a house. Like other have said. I have no idea if you would like the house in 5 to 10 years down the road but it is defiantly do-able for two people and pets in live in that small of a house and still be happy.

[ScrimpAndSave]

I went to see the house yesterday and while it is very nice, it needs a new roof and it also needs to be completely resided. It also has no room for a kitchen table anywhere (even a tiny bistro one...I would have to put a tiny part of the family room up against a wall). Other than that, the floorplan is nice - but I think that would get on my nerves too much...nexxtttt.

[Ima saver]

Keep looking, you will find something!

[banana]

Keeping looking North Blvd is a very heavly traveled road I have friends that live there and they always complain about the noise from the cars speeding by.

[goldentraders]

A home is better than just being a house... I don't care if it's a little place , If it's cozy with a good ambiance, i'd probably buy it too....

[FrugalFish]

Well, at least you put that one to rest. Better luck on the next find! It's out there somewhere.

Before I saw that you had nixed it, I was going to mention that a laundry room in a good place to look at adding a toilet and a sink. I couldn't tell where the laundry closet was based on the picture, and if expanding it into a room with laundry/half bath would have been possible. We had a combo room like that in a townhouse; you don't see that often, but it really works well.

[reptile411]

Originally Posted by asmom

$155,000?!! Our house was 10K less than that 10 years ago and it has 5 bedrooms and 3 baths plus it was brand new. Now it's only worth about 185K due to the RE fallout but still........The difference in RE prices all over the country is shocking.

I didn't read the entire thread so maybe I am to late but I moved from a 3bd 2ba with a garage rental into a 2bd 1 ba house with wife and 2 kids and no garage. I have sence built a shop out back on our property witch is about .60 acre. We payed 125K for ours. Payments after insurance and tax are under a thousand a month but only $100 more than our rent was. Before the housing bubble popped I have a coworker that sold his 2bd 1ba house for 319K not to bad if you ask me.