If so….maybe this is the one you should buy. Not only is it cheap ($799,000 for probably
1,000 square feet) but it comes with ghosts and pestilence!
This is actually a picture I took with my phone, because I was trying to capture this listing before it got taken down, so it's kind of blurry and illegible, but totally worth it if you can squint to see it. I'm not sure if you can make it out, but here is the description:
ROOTS GROWING UP THROUGH THE FOUNDATION. HOUSE IS UP AGAINST STEEP HILL IN BACK. LARGE CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION IN THE FRONT AND BACK. YARD HAS PESTILENCE, INCLUDING LIZARDS. SUICIDE COMMITTED ON PREMISES. TOILET DOES NOT WORK, CENTRAL AIR AND HEAT DO NOT WORK. ASSESSOR'S RECORDS STATE 2 BEDROOMS, PLUS 1 BATH, BUT ACTUALLY 1 BEDROOM, PLUS LOFT AND 1 BATH. PROPERTY SOLD AS IS.
I whited out the listing agent's name and the actual listing number, since I'm 99% sure this was a hacking incident, and my realtor friend HM said she'd never seen anything like this. I'm telling you, this could only be better if it included “built on top of Indian burial ground.” This is WAY too honest to be a real description, in my opinion.
Sure enough, when I checked again this morning, the listing had been changed to a far more benign "ASSESSOR'S RECORDS STATE 2 BEDROOMS, PLUS 1 BATH, BUT ACTUALLY 1 BEDROOM, PLUS LOFT AND 1 BATH. PROPERTY SOLD AS IS."
Oddly, this is the SECOND suicide house I heard about last week, as our friends mentioned that they lived down the street from Richard Jeni's house, and did we want to buy that, since it's now available? It's been reduced, after all-- perhaps to give you an incentive to clean the tiny pieces of brain out of the grout from where the guy blew off his head with a shotgun. I'm going to have to also give this one a "no thanks," as well, just because I tend to be a little superstitious anyway, and I don't want to end up like the Winchester Mystery House lady.
I am in Portland for work, and I have to say, it's my first time ever in Portland, and I LOVE IT!