Mom found this house while canoeing in the Merrimack River, and thinks it is just perfect for us. It does look great! There is a lot of land (13 acres) and a lovely place for the Black Rabbit to launch from.
We have gotten used to Pittsburgh housing prices, so anything is a shock, but this house is fairly expensive in my mind, though probably quite reasonable.
It needs a lot of work, and of course, I would need to find a job, and see how the community is, etc.
Update: the address is
250 West Road, Canterbury, NH. It is 50 or so minutes from my parents.
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Jon Daley on
September 26, 2005, 2:59 pm
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The address is 250 West Road, Canterbury, NH.
I did talk with a friend who is a CTO of a company, who said to call him whenever I moved back to NH. It turns out his company is in Andover, MA, which is an hour away from this house. He said that he wouldn't recommend getting a house north of Concord, that the jobs have been drying up in NH, and you *have* to be closer to Massachusetts.
It was built in the 1700s. It has a basement that is tall enough to use. However, we had some facts wrong about the price. The asking price is $295K, and that only includes 5 acres. And doesn't include the land down by the river that we saw before (those 6 acres are trying to be sold for $250K), but it does include 1000' of waterfront on the other side of the bridge.
A contractor has submitted an estimate on getting it back to working condition at $150K, though Jay says probably $50K if we did it ourselves. A quote from Jay, "If you did something as irrational as taking this on you would experience periods of calling me and everyone who ever insinuated that it was a good idea by very un-Christian names."
Jay thinks the best thing to do is to buy half of the land, at theoretically half of the price, since the house has almost no value. Which would put it back at $200K, with a working house, (us doing all the work) and only 2.5 acres of land.
The town has purchased all of the surrounding land as a conservation thing, so there won't be any other houses for a ways around. Again from Jay, "I'm not convinced that you and Heather aren't crazy enough to take this on and make it work."
However, we don't think that it sounds like a good idea any more. There are other houses, and we don't need to be in a rush about it.