let me warn everybody: if you buy this house to evict me, i will take everything with me when i go. you will be deeply disappointed with what you end up with, which won't be what you thought you were getting.

it's a big space. it's been redone. the hot water and furnace are relatively recent. new inside doors, new flooring in the bedroom. somebody tried to give a fuck and gave up, which left me with a lot to work with and i'm going to finish the job.

i'm sorting through what kind of furniture i need to get to make sense of this new space, which is very big but very rough and therefore very cheap, and i'm realizing i can do some very unusual things with it.

this is a $1000/month basement in the bottom of a house with a busy drug dealer living on the top floor. i have no reason to call him in at this point, and won't so long as i'm not smelling weed, but he couldn't be more fucking obvious. he's got somebody banging on his door every 20 minutes.

for reference, the apartment i just abandoned was $1200 month. it was third floor, and somewhat smaller in total footage, but also more finished. i had three apartments full of potheads polluting my air space. the basement i got evicted from in the spring was less than $800/month and discernibly smaller than either. the basement i got evicted from in 2018 was less than $700 when i left (i signed at $650) and about the same size as this one, overall, but far more finished.

the amount of space in here is quite deceiving. after carefully planning it out, i am actually going to be able to build quite a nice space down here that will have:

1) a small but usable bedroom, partly because a lot of what you expect in a bedroom is going to be moved elsewhere, but big enough for a stereo system, a study/writing desk and a bedside computer pc typing system

2) a large enough bathroom for substantive shelving, full wall mirrors and a makeup table

3) a walk-in closet off of the bathroom (not the bedroom) with built-in laundry and a dedicated sewing area

4) an eat-in kitchen with expanded counter and shelving space

5) a side entrance with dedicated coat and shoe storage

6) a dedicated voip phone and zoom (maybe voip videophone in the near future) area off of the kitchen

7) about 150 square feet of studio space

8) a small area with a couch, stereo and video playback

9) space for an exercise bike off the front entrance

10) a device charging area behind the front door

11) a 150 square foot work and storage area as a functional actual basement in parallel to the apartment, with substantive 2-level storage potential.

12) and sufficient wall space for cd and book storage

it's cheap because of the drug dealer and the various problems a drug dealer creates to property values, but i'm told they're getting evicted. the front door, for example, is pretty brutal. i haven't seen the effects of the drugs yet, but i'm sure i will. i saw somebody passed out beside their shopping cart around the corner, because they couldn't make it over the bridge, and i jumped to probably correct conclusions. he just fell over; might have been technically dead.

it's going to take a few weeks to get this in motion. right now, i'm not sure the furnace works, and i'm waiting for the owner to do some minimal but necessary cosmetic work, but when that gets in motion, this is going to be quite the nice little basement, let me tell you.

i hope i don't get evicted to raise the rent, again. i know i will; i'm planning for it this time. some small houses in windsor are starting to list under $180K.