Post a Comment On: It's Lovely! I'll Take It!

HAH! Nice Say Anything reference!

January 18, 2009 at 6:32 AM

Ugh - this has been the depressingest one in a while. And how should one pronounce the email address of the realtors?

January 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM

What is that pipe beside the back door? Is that the furnace flue? Because ew and ugh.

And I think that door leads not to a little room but to the basement stairs, which makes me wonder if this house contains the most illegal basement suite in human history. No windows at all.

January 18, 2009 at 11:27 AM

Stuart - it's pronounced "Ken-jay-jay."

January 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM

That's quite the impressive hovel and bonus points for looking like it was last cleaned during the Carter administration. All for just 125k? I'm so glad I don't live in California. Admittedly, for this property having the weather be so lovely nearly all the time would be a bonus, you'd never want to go inside your own home. Blech.

January 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM

I'm always on the look out for properties in the San Diego area and I've seen this one quite a bit (North Park is kind of a cute area). I always quickly scroll past if, knowing I will soon become depressed that even a hovel can cost 125K. Stupid California.

January 18, 2009 at 3:21 PM

It's probably meant for a stacking washer and dryer. Some older houses here in California have little outdoor closets meant for that purpose. I lived in a house that did.

January 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM

Ok I am with you I don't really want to know either..... ewwww I think it is about time the sofas move on...

Hugs;
Alaura

January 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM

My bet is water heater enclosure. In Cali, common to have them in a small tin lean-to next to the house. Think they had some excess building supplies so they went "deluxe". Also, it was an anthropomorphic water heater so they gave it a window to look out.

January 18, 2009 at 6:34 PM

It could also be a smoking room. I know a girl who had her mom move in with her, and would not let her mom smoke in the house, but built on a heated and air conditioned smoking room that is not connected to the house, but must be accessed from a door from the back porch. I would think it should be a bit larger if that is the function, though.

January 18, 2009 at 7:47 PM

What a HOVEL. I think its likely an outside storage, but its not big enough for anything. Or its the stairs to the basement enclosed to keep out others.

January 18, 2009 at 8:37 PM

I'd guess decontamination chamber for what ever substances or cooties you pick up inside the place.

January 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM

Fermi Pyle:

You're probably right. My outdoor washing machine closet also housed the water heater. And it had a window in the door.

January 19, 2009 at 2:56 PM

My mother in law lived in a house eerily similar to this one and her little room outside was where the water heater lived. Maybe so if it exploded it would only take the back wall of the house with it, or maybe because the house originally had no indoor plumbing.

January 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM

My guess is that it's the stairway to the basement. It was very common in old houses to have the basement inaccessible from inside the house (since basements are evil) so many houses have strange ways to get into them from the outside. I've seen porches and even small rooms built around the (previously) exterior basement door to people wouldn't get wet getting their laundry.

The lattice on the right implies that it's on a crawlspace so maybe I'm wrong.

January 20, 2009 at 10:40 AM

Maybe it is like an outhouse of sorts?

January 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM

I think it's a storage closet.

June 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM