Just Like That ... Goodbye Cleveland Park

The goddess divine and I had been keeping relatively silent on the housing front. We didn't want to jinx things or incur the wrath of the housing karma gods, but I guess it is time I can take a deep breath, relax and realize that I am now leaving Cleveland Park after nearly six wonderful years.

We listed our house on a Thursday. By Monday we had six highly competitive offers, and we accepted one. We were thrilled and shocked all at the same time. We just were not expecting things to move that fast. In the meantime, we had begun searching for a new place to live, with little care initially for neighborhood, style of house, whatever. Everything was on the table.

We did have a close call, as we put in an offer on a place and then everything fell apart when we found out the home inspection was a disaster. So after giving the wife oxygen and having several "talks" to chill everyone out, we revved up the engines and started the search over again.

On Saturday we thought we had found the place. It came down to a rowhouse in Capitol Hill and a house in Takoma Park. We were all ready when the wife Saturday night was trolling around and found a newly listed house. We loved the photos and the potential it showed, so we decided to go over and check it out during the open house Sunday.

We loved it from the start. The neighborhood is great. It's close to the Metro and it has all the things we wanted. This house has some great potential for down-the-road upgrades but doesn't have anything that needs instant addressing. Just needs our furniture, our dog (and hopefully a second one), some of my photos on the wall and a brick pizza oven in the backyard.

So goodbye, Cleveland Park. I will miss you.

And hello, Takoma Park. Looking forward to injecting The Campbler into the hood.

Wanna see our new digs (with the current owners' stuff inside)? Check out the slideshow.