{"id":821,"date":"2006-10-25T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/10\/25\/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T10:06:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T14:06:52","slug":"should-i-stay-or-should-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/10\/25\/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Stay or Should I Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my condo search, I saw a property that I might consider worthwhile. True, there were some cosmetic issues that would need addressing. But it seems that in my price range, new construction isn&#8217;t really an option.<\/p>\n<p>The place is 900 square feet and\u00a0has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, an eat-in kitchen, a pantry (big enough to use as an office with built-in desk), laundry and storage in the basement, pretty (small) gardens in front and in back, is within a 5 minute walk of Davis Square and less than 2 minutes to Mass Ave in Cambridge. It&#8217;s on the first floor, but because the site is on a hill, the windows in front are practically at the second floor level.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s literally twice the size of most of the places I&#8217;ve looked at so far&#8230;and of better quality than over half of the units I&#8217;ve seen so far. I&#8217;ve provided my broker with a list of questions (age of roof, are the washer\/dryer included?, etc&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, since a picture is worth a thousand words, please give me a thousand words (or at least a few sentences with your opinions) in the comments section. I value your input!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"298\" alt=\"Karls new house 009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Karls%20new%20house%20009.jpg\" width=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Karls new house 0151.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Karls%20new%20house%200151.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"297\" alt=\"Karls new house 010.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Karls%20new%20house%20010.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"282\" alt=\"website 01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/website%2001.jpg\" width=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"282\" alt=\"website 02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/website%2002.jpg\" width=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"309\" alt=\"website 03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/website%2003.jpg\" width=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All right &#8211; I need opinions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my condo search, I saw a property that I might consider worthwhile. True, there were some cosmetic issues that would need addressing. But it seems that in my price range, new construction isn&#8217;t really an option. The place is 900 square feet and\u00a0has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a dining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}