About Kirkland's East Of Market

I've always liked boxwoods, and while walking home this afternoon in my town of Kirkland WA, I saw this very boxlike boxwood. I just love the idea of being able to form shaped hedges. I think I've liked the idea since I visited Versailles. What magnificent shaped gardens they have.

I have a "doughnut" boxwood. At least that's what I call it. I can display anything I want in the middle of it. Right now the geraniums have "center stage". At Christmas time it's a tree of swirled lights with a star on top that stands 5% tall. My boxwood below creates a stage and I can see whatever I put "on the stage" from my living room window and front porch.

The simple pleasures of life are always within reach. I love that about my life.

Often a home inspector will call the gutters as overflowing and clogged, based on their outward appearance. When you pay someone to go up and clean "out" the gutters, make sure they also clean the gutters themselves, while they are up there.

Besides giving your home that extra sparkling curb appeal, dirty gutters are a sign that there is a problem. So when you get the problem fixed, remove the affects of that problem too.

How many home sellers get mad at the inspector for being "wrong"? If you have a 3 story house, often the inspector won't be climbing up to check those gutters. So get them nice and white, after you resolve the problem that is causing them to overflow for the length of the gutter.

Affordable Downtown Kirkland Condos are more often South of Central vs. East or West of Market, which is why I really like the location of Soho. It is one of the few condo complexes East of Market and that makes it easier for visitors to park on the street. It also is much easier for residents to get in and out of town without hitting traffic jams. It's between 5th and 6th Street on 7th Ave.

The prices are currently set a bit artificially low as they were undergoing improvements by the builder during the most recent market upswing. That and 10 foot ceilings make it a still affordable condo complex amongst a sea of many that may be overpriced two years down the road in hindsight. When it was built in 2000 it won design awards and was one of the first buildings to go with the 10 foot ceilings. Several of the more favored buildings of its time had 8' or 9' ceilings and were built in the 90s. Today it stands as one of the most reasonably priced buildings with 10' ceilings in the units.

Soho has 58 units. As in all complexes, the first and top floors being the more desirable and selling generally at a higher price per square foot than those with units both above and below them for the normal and obvious reasons. Though position within the complex and view considerations will outweigh the which floor is it on consideration.

There are currently 3 one bedroom units for sale from $329,000 to $365,000, the lowest priced one being more than 100 sf smaller than the two higher priced units. There is a two bedroom priced just over $500,00 with the square footage being 40% more while the price is 33% more making it attractive if someone can afford the difference in price.

You have to be careful about price per square foot as the worst location in the complex may want to price at the price per square foot of a view unit. So pay attention to the detail and not just the face value of the comps without reasearching the location considerations.

Convenience of getting in and out of town quickly and having several options to do so without hitting any big traffic logjams, but still being very close to everything and walkable to everything, is Soho's biggest claim to fame.