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JOHN: Hi, I'm John Begeny.

CHRISTINE: I'm Christine Louise.

We're coworkers at WETA, which is right down the way, and best friends.

JOHN: We love living in the DMV.

Finding a place to live here can be exciting and challenging.

CHRISTINE: We're going to tour three properties at three different price points.

JOHN: And try to guess the listing price without going over.

And find out what it would be like...

BOTH: If You Lived Here.

Hi Judy.

Hello my friend.

JUDY: It's so good to see you.

JOHN: It's so good to see you.

CHRISTINE: It's so nice to see you again.

JUDY: Welcome to my sort of neighborhood and hometown for me.

JOHN: We've known you a while.

Uh, but we always love when we, you know, meet realtors and they show us their neck of the woods.

And today you're showing us your neck of the woods down Columbia Pike.

JUDY: Right, we're gonna just go down about a block and a half to our first house.

And that's very much at the beginning of Columbia Pike.

JOHN: Yeah.

JUDY: And then we're gonna roll on down and we're gonna end up down at Lake Barcroft.

JOHN: Wow Lake Barcroft.

So we are really doing one end of the Pike to the other?

JUDY: Yeah.

JOHN: Okay.

CHRISTINE: So we did a show on North Arlington.

So we are now in South Arlington.

JUDY: Right, right.

CHRISTINE: So tell us a little bit of the difference and about this area?

JUDY: This is a very comfortable community.

It's extremely diverse.

It's one of like 22204 is one of the most diverse zip codes in the entire area.

Um, you just have a little bit of everybody, a little bit of everything.

And there's parks, there's all kinds of amenities.

It's just really, really a community and I love it.

JOHN: Let's go.

Lovely day.

All right.

JUDY: Let's do it.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JUDY: Okay.

(doorbell).

JOHN: Uh, here we are South Arlington, Columbia Pike.

JUDY: Well, as you know, we're just a block from my house.

JOHN: I gotta say, I might have attended a party or two back in the day in these duplexes.

I did.

Well, I lived right around the bend.

CHRISTINE: Oh, shocker.

JUDY: That's cool.

So anyway, this is house number one.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JUDY: Um, this neighborhood was built originally by the Federal Housing Administration with very solid construction.

And these are duplexes, they share a party wall.

They're their own house.

This is not an HOA, this is not a condo.

They own this part of it.

So we will see what you think.

JOHN: All right.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JUDY: I will be in the backyard where it's cool.

JOHN: Uh, that sounds delightful.

We'll see you there.

JUDY: Okay, great.

Have fun.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: All right, cute space.

CHRISTINE: Open concept.

JOHN: They knocked down walls, cause there are no walls on this floor.

CHRISTINE: There are no walls.

JOHN: I like seeing small spaces, you know, we don't see many of them like this.

Where this floor is about 400 square feet-ish?

CHRISTINE: I would say.

JOHN: But I love to see how people maximize the space.

CHRISTINE: Well, I think standing here you can probably envision the original floor plan.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: I'm guessing that there was a wall right here because that was your galley kitchen.

JOHN: Correct.

CHRISTINE: And looking at that light in the location... JOHN: Mm-hmm.

CHRISTINE: Dining room.

And I bet behind that fridge there was a window.

So they've just taken that all out and expanded the kitchen.

And, you know, I'm noticing the floor's all been redone but you can tell how solid.

JOHN: Oh, this place is solid.

This is like... CHRISTINE: There's no give.

JOHN: Yeah no, there aren't like two by fours underneath here, they're framed out.

CHRISTINE: There's no squeaking.

There's no squeaking.

JOHN: Yep.

So great living room.

CHRISTINE: All right can we talk about this island?

This wood has to be at least four feet?

JOHN: Sure, it looks like it.

CHRISTINE: And look at the length.

JOHN: Yeah.

Well, you know, in a space like this, this is your dining room, it is your prep space.

CHRISTINE: Right it's perfect.

Cause this half you're right it is for prep.

JOHN: Yep.

CHRISTINE: This back half for entertaining, eating.

JOHN: Everything happens in this one room right?

CHRISTINE: It's true.

JOHN: There's no escaping anybody in this room.

Cute level number one.

So we can go down or up.

Let's go down?

CHRISTINE: Oh, let's go down right here.

JOHN: All right.

Nice carpet.

CHRISTINE: All right it's not super large, but yet it is a great space to do whatever you want.

JOHN: All right.

CHRISTINE: So all the way up.

JOHN: All the way up to the top.

(creaking).

CHRISTINE: Okay so here's our squeak.

(laughing).

JOHN: Yes the, the old character of the house.

CHRISTINE: That's right.

JOHN: Including this, hey, barn door back here just like your house.

CHRISTINE: Just because I was raised on a farm doesn't mean I love every single barn door that we see.

JOHN: Really?

CHRISTINE: Okay.

No I do like them.

JOHN: I know.

CHRISTINE: I know I do.

JOHN: Okay bedroom number one.

Good space, especially because that's a big bed.

CHRISTINE: I'd say that's a king, isn't it?

JOHN: It's a king.

CHRISTINE: And you have plenty of room for a nice size dresser, two nightstands.

JOHN: Yeah.

They pack a lot in this little house.

CHRISTINE: They do.

JOHN: Really adorable.

And speaking of adorable, bedroom number two.

CHRISTINE: Perfect for a home office.

But again, you could fit a full size definitely a twin in here very comfortably.

JOHN: Oh sure.

CHRISTINE: All right, a completely renovated bathroom.

JOHN: Yeah big bathroom.

CHRISTINE: Very nicely done yeah.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: Good size shower.

You know you got great light coming in.

JOHN: That was a good starter on Columbia Pike, so let's go find Judy in the back.

All righty.

CHRISTINE: Hey Judy.

JUDY: Hello.

JOHN: Well that was an adorable place.

JUDY: Isn't it?

JOHN: Yeah, yeah.

JUDY: Really, it's got a little bit of everything.

CHRISTINE: And that island, talk about a multipurpose island.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: Just hold court and live there.

JOHN: And then you have this great backyard, which is a big perk right?

JUDY: Right.

You got a fire pit, nice shed.

JOHN: And you've got great neighbors like Judy.

JUDY: Oh, it's just such community.

You know, you just wander down the street and you just meet people.

They just walk up to you, you meet the dogs, you meet the kids, you meet the everybody.

So anyway, we have two bedrooms, one bath, 850 square feet and it was built in 1939.

CHRISTINE: So I am going to guess a listing price of $520,000.

JUDY: Okay.

JOHN: All right.

Uh, I will make a guess of $550.

JUDY: The listing price is... $599,000.

(laughing).

JOHN: Okay I will tell you one thing, um, that's a good price for this place.

JUDY: Yes, well the next is we're gonna move on down the Pike, and we're gonna go to a neighborhood called Claremont.

CHRISTINE: Familiar with Claremont.

JOHN: We're familiar with Claremont.

JUDY: People who live there will live nowhere else.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: Okay come on let's go.

JUDY: Okay.

LLOYD: The Pike's 211 years old.

It was, you know, built to be the main thoroughfare in, into the district from Virginia.

And then for years it was a very, very rural community.

I guess they paved it after some time in the 20s or 30s.

The New Deal and the war effort, all the garden apartments that are here were built then.

After that, it kind of stagnated.

When I first moved here, the Pike was pretty much working-class White and, and Black.

SCOTT: So if you, if you walk straight down Columbia Pike, that's where Freedman's Village was.

The whole museum here is basically an extension of Freedman's Village.

As far back as 1870, Black people were 80% of Arlington.

The White property owners were on bad times after the Civil War, and a lot of them sold land to Black people.

So some of your prize areas like of course Columbia Pike, um, Ballston area, the Pentagon parking lot was basically a Black neighborhood at one time, uh, called Queen City.

We're celebrating the 60th anniversary of the lunch counter sit-ins, which happened on, uh, Lee Highway.

People would come during their lunch break.

But the thing of it is anybody could buy the food, but you had to be White to sit at the counter.

This picture is shown all over the world, but a lot of people don't know it happened in Arlington.

Here at the drug store was, uh, where my dad worked during this time.

And they asked him to take off all the chairs.

Of course my father said he couldn't do that, but uh, some of them were able to sit.

But as you see they're being totally ignored.

But the very next day, these lunch counters became integrated.

And the thing about Arlington is we're like a satellite, everybody has watched us.

So a lot of things that happen here in Arlington moved down to the next, the next, the next.

So a lot of things changed in the southern part of Virginia because of what was happening up here.

LLOYD: When the immigration began in the 70s, there were huge numbers of Southeast Asians, but then other successive waves, largely from Central America moved in.

Uh, there's Eritreans and Ethiopians here, people from Mongolia and Azerbaijan, it's, they're all here.

We're United Nations, in an actual community.

Not that the Pike is much to look at, it's not particularly interesting architecturally.

It's pleasant but plain.

Is that here's this accidental experiment where people came to live in one place and largely lived in relative harmony.

Here diversity is an asset, it's a matter of civic pride.

To me that's something to examine and frankly celebrate.

JANETH: Yeah Columbia Pike is very important because it, it's a place where, you know, different cultures can meet.

You don't need to go to around the world to get what you want at Columbia Pike.

Columbia Pike has everything.

That's why I call this area the heart of Arlington.

(doorbell).

JOHN: And so here we are house number two.

JUDY: A little bit further down the Pike.

It's in a wonderful neighborhood called Claremont, which I believe you are somewhat familiar with.

CHRISTINE: We are a little familiar with it.

JOHN: Just a little bit.

CHRISTINE: Because WETA... JOHN: Is right around the corner.

JUDY: Yeah I mean you can walk there.

It's a community that frankly people don't move in very, they don't have many houses come on the market here.

CHRISTINE: Has this been renovated recently?

JUDY: I think that these folks renovated it and lived in it for many years.

It's not something that was just flipped.

It was something that they did that they loved.

It's a really wonderful again, comfortable, happy community, where people wave at each other and say hello.

JOHN: Yes, we try to do that hi... (laughing).

JUDY: Well, I will see you a little later.

Have fun.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: Okay.

CHRISTINE: All right.

This home looks like it has been completely renovated.

JOHN: All right, so which way should we start?

CHRISTINE: Oh, definitely here.

JOHN: I'm with you.

CHRISTINE: When I saw that cute roof line, I wanted to see what this room looked like.

JOHN: Well you're drawn to this room because of all the great light.

CHRISTINE: Oh, it's so lovely.

I feel like I've walked into a country cottage.

JOHN: It does feel a little cottagey there.

So this was an addition to the original house you can tell.

With all these eaves and all the nice little windows at the top.

CHRISTINE: The windows are darling.

JOHN: This was a good start to this house.

CHRISTINE: Yes it was.

JOHN: Okay into the dining room.

CHRISTINE: Dining room.

So this would've been the original part of the home.

JOHN: Yes, before that extension.

CHRISTINE: Mm-hmm.

JOHN: All right, here we have a den.

CHRISTINE: Or, well right now they're using it as an office space.

But I'm wondering if this is actually a bedroom.

Take a peek and see if that's a new bathroom.

JOHN: Let's see here.

Well, it's a full bathroom.

CHRISTINE: Oh, so this could be a bedroom.

JOHN: And it's perfect for an elderly person, uh, to make this their, you know, main living space bedroom.

CHRISTINE: Well, you know, I always think it's so great just to have a bedroom with a full bath on the first level.

JOHN: Oh yeah.

Into the kitchen.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: Um, it was definitely refreshed in this room.

CHRISTINE: Right.

And it's a galley kitchen, but it's obviously a big galley kitchen.

Now this is really something I think is super convenient, to have a drawer under the stove top.

JOHN: Great for pots and pans.

CHRISTINE: Mm-hmm.

JOHN: And you can get at them in two seconds.

I love that.

Now here's something, you know, there's that old saying it's about form and function.

This definitely has great form.

But as far as function, I would be chipping so many glasses.

CHRISTINE: Well, the question is why, why even do dishes then?

I mean I ask myself that all the time.

JOHN: That would solve all your problems.

CHRISTINE: It would, it would.

JOHN: What do you say we head downstairs?

Into... CHRISTINE: All right.

JOHN: Lower level.

CHRISTINE: So this is a really great space.

JOHN: Okay.

CHRISTINE: So you have a full bath, great space, you know, these fun little corners.

JOHN: Mm-hmm.

CHRISTINE: And you have an egress.

JOHN: An egress window yeah.

CHRISTINE: So that means this could be a bedroom, a legal bedroom.

JOHN: A legal bedroom, yes.

CHRISTINE: All right.

JOHN: Okay upper floor.

CHRISTINE: So full bath, I like the beadboard.

JOHN: Yeah, nice little space but boy they fit everything in.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: And let's head back here.

This looks like the primary bedroom suite.

CHRISTINE: So this would be bath, no.

JOHN: Washer and dryer, which is nice to have on an upper level.

CHRISTINE: Right.

But I thought for sure that was going to be a full bath.

Nice sitting area.

JOHN: Very nice.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: And the bedroom.

CHRISTINE: You know, it still carries that nice architectural roof line.

JOHN: Sure does.

CHRISTINE: Mm-hmm.

JOHN: And it has a closet.

Take a look at that.

CHRISTINE: Well, you said it has a closet, uh, yes it has a closet.

JOHN: So it doesn't have a bathroom, you know, en suite, but there is one right outside of the door.

CHRISTINE: Oh, true.

JOHN: So that's just fine.

Okay to the right.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: What's this little baby, wait look here.

CHRISTINE: Oh.

JOHN: Oh my gosh.

Okay this is a little bedroom.

I mean look, these old homes had smaller bedrooms.

CHRISTINE: It's true.

JOHN: It's part of the original floor plan.

CHRISTINE: Realistically you could put a twin in here.

JOHN: Sure you could put a twin in there.

CHRISTINE: Have a nice little guest room.

JOHN: Yeah.

And bedroom number three up here, another cozy little room.

CHRISTINE: It's, it's just kind of charming.

JOHN: Yeah.

But you have all that great shade too out the back.

Where's Judy?

Let's go find her.

JUDY: All right, welcome back.

CHRISTINE: Look at this beautiful backyard.

JUDY: Isn't this pretty?

JOHN: Yeah.

JUDY: It's really... CHRISTINE: It seems it goes on.

JOHN: I mean it's got everything.

CHRISTINE: Yeah.

JOHN: It's got hardscapes, it's got a raised, you know, deck.

And look how charming this addition looks from back here?

JUDY: Yeah.

JOHN: I mean the whole thing is dynamite.

JUDY: They did a nice job with the peak of the front and the back.

JOHN: They did.

JUDY: Yeah.

JOHN: We okay bedrooms.

We just have some questions.

JUDY: Okay.

CHRISTINE: Downstairs is just a rec area.

JUDY: Mm-hmm.

CHRISTINE: Is that what they're considering just a living room rec area?

JUDY: It was not listed as a bedroom.

You know, we see that a lot where you might have a closet, you might have a window that, you know, serves the egress requirement to get in and out in case there's a fire.

JOHN: Yes.

JUDY: But it's still a rec room or a family room is what people typically characterize it as, as opposed to a bedroom.

All right, we have four bedrooms.

JOHN: Yep.

JUDY: Three full baths.

JOHN: Yep.

JUDY: Built in 1948.

It's 1800 square feet above grade and 464 in the lower level, the basement.

JOHN: Okay.

I am going to give you a very clean number in a box and it looks like a one with lots of zeros.

I'm gonna say $1,000,000 on the nose.

JUDY: Wow, okay.

CHRISTINE: Oh, that's interesting cause you don't usually like do that you... JOHN: Oh, wait, and 99 cents I'm sorry.

CHRISTINE: There we go, there we go.

JOHN: Yeah $1,000,000.

JUDY: Okay all right.

CHRISTINE: I'm gonna come in at a listing price of $940,000.

JUDY: Okay.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JUDY: So the actual listing price is... $949,000.

CHRISTINE: $49,000.

JOHN: Oh, wow you were so close.

JUDY: Yep, yep, yep very cool.

CHRISTINE: But you see I, I really... JUDY: But they're both really close.

CHRISTINE: I really like this home.

I feel a special connection.

JUDY: It's a great house.

JOHN: And now off to house number three.

JUDY: We're gonna go off to Lake Barcroft.

JOHN: Lake Barcroft.

JUDY: Very special community.

Hills, trees, lakes.

JOHN: Yes.

Did you bring your swimming suit?

CHRISTINE: No.

JOHN: Cause we're gonna go swimming.

Okay we don't need suits let's go.

JUDY: Okay.

DEWY: To me the first word that comes to mind is home.

So Columbia Pike is like the main street of my home.

I think this area, just the specific area here that I live in, is a perfect mix of urban and, and nature.

You can just disappear into this, the woods here and it feels like you're in the woods, it doesn't feel like you're in the city.

So I feel very lucky to have a place like this to explore.

The thing I appreciate the most is this bike trail here gave me a sense of adventure.

And that's how I got to know the Pike.

EMILY: Welcome to Phoenix Bikes.

So we're a nonprofit that combines youth education programs with a full service bike shop.

We work in partnership with middle schools and high schools throughout Arlington and some in Alexandria.

And are teaching young people how to fix bikes and through our signature program which is called earn-a-bike, they're able to earn their own bike for free.

STELLA: You first learn basic mechanical skills, they're, they're called the ABCs.

AKRIM: A as, uh, what's called air and B... STELLA: Brakes and... AKRIM: C for chains.

STELLA: And then you get a bike that was donated.

It usually has a few flaws and you fix it up.

You just make a bike that you get to keep yourself.

AKRIM: And after that, we start making bikes for other people.

EMILY: Some students come through the program because that's the only way that their family can afford a bike.

Some students come through the door because they love working with their hands, and so they kind of catch the mechanics bug when they're here.

We have a really warm, fun, vibrant community of supporters around us.

And we love being on Columbia Pike.

The bikes that our kids work on, the bikes that we put up for sale, the bikes that we donate to community members, 100% of those are donated, which is, you know, huge for our mission.

They're here to learn bike mechanics, but they're here learning so much more.

They're building just a sense of accomplishment.

They're learning about hard work, problem solving.

They're learning STEM skills as they're sort of figuring out all things like levers and torque and all of that.

HAMUDI: I do wanna become an engineer.

And I guess I know how to use I, like I know how to use the tools, I know what to do.

So like yeah, it opened up some paths for me.

EVELYN: I want to see people have as much joy as I got when, um, they get their first bike.

AKRIM: Oh, the best thing is to make a bike yourself and make a bike for somebody else.

ADRIANA: This is the, uh, west end of the Pike, so Four Mile Run is right behind you.

I grew up here.

It's a home for me and my family.

There's a high population of Bolivian Americans that live here.

We love it because it's very diverse.

You can go to, uh, a Hispanic little grocery store, and then right next to it go into an Asian store, you know, it's very unique.

So the first place you see is my mom's hair salon, and it's been here for about 20 years.

She used to have a hair salon in Bolivia.

One day, she said, "Someday I'm gonna have a business here."

(laughs).

And, somehow she did this.

And then the owner asked us if we would be interested in opening a restaurant.

None of us cooked.

(laughing).

Um, and we said yes.

It was only supposed to be coffee and maybe some small pastries, but people kept saying you really should do Bolivian food, so we did.

But then our employees are from all over.

So they started contributing things from Central America.

JANETH: We were looking at places where can we meet and have, uh, you know, to eat and talk.

So we find Café Sazon, and then everybody, you know, that in the county that we wanna have our meetings we go there.

And then I love that the ownership that it only they're also helping to feed families during the pandemic.

Where we used that spot to distribute food, you know, and they always willing to go more and beyond what they can do, uh, to, uh, to help the community in different way.

It's through our heart you know that Sazon Cafe belongs to our community.

ADRIANA: I think that if most of the country were, was as welcoming as it is here and as diverse as it is here, we would get a lot more done together.

(doorbell).

JOHN: Holy schamoley Judy, this is a beauty wow.

CHRISTINE: I didn't know we were going to a retreat.

I thought we were gonna go look at a home.

JOHN: It feels like vacation.

JUDY: Truly.

Well, it is.

And it's like the only sort of like a vacation world inside the beltway.

JOHN: Yes.

JUDY: And it's called Lake Barcroft, the community of Lake Barcroft.

So welcome.

Anywhere you walk, any block you walk on there's just no bad block here, it's just all super pretty.

And the people here all have access to the lake.

They go to the beaches.

You can fish, you can boat, you can swim in these lakes if you live here.

JOHN: Yeah.

If you lived here you'd be able to do all those things.

(laughing).

JUDY: And this home here is a deck house.

JOHN: This is like a kit house almost, it's a designer... JUDY: Yeah.

JOHN: So like Sears homes or Montgomery Wards homes were.

JUDY: That's right.

CHRISTINE: So are you ready?

JOHN: Let's do it.

JUDY: All right see you soon.

JOHN: All right.

CHRISTINE: Thanks Judy.

JUDY: Have fun.

JOHN: Okay wow through these waffled doors.

CHRISTINE: And you know these doors are heavy.

JOHN: They're solid.

Into this foyer, unbelievable.

Nice mid-century modern light there.

CHRISTINE: Exactly, exactly.

JOHN: Wow, okay.

Where should we go?

CHRISTINE: Well, I'm actually drawn to this room because of these beams.

JOHN: Okay.

CHRISTINE: So let's go.

JOHN: Let's start here.

Oh, so this must be a family room?

CHRISTINE: Look at the windows.

Nature is just coming right in.

JOHN: Yeah.

And how about this window on this far wall?

CHRISTINE: Well, I noticed when we walked in that the tongue and groove ceiling out there was stained, it was natural.

JOHN: Yep.

CHRISTINE: And in here they painted the tongue and groove.

JOHN: Mm-hmm.

CHRISTINE: And you know what, I like it.

JOHN: All right.

Okay first bathroom.

CHRISTINE: Oh.

JOHN: And big bathroom.

CHRISTINE: Yeah.

JOHN: Redone.

CHRISTINE: I think this looks like it's been recently renovated.

JOHN: Mm-hmm.

CHRISTINE: Look at the window.

JOHN: Windows in every room galore.

Into bedroom number one.

CHRISTINE: Look at how they designed the windows.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: So these windows all had to be custom because they revolve around the beam.

JOHN: Okay dining room.

CHRISTINE: Hello beautiful dining room.

JOHN: It's a nice space.

It has all the other characteristics of the house, the ceilings, the beams.

CHRISTINE: Mm-hmm.

And you know what?

House plans.

JOHN: Oh, I love this.

Okay I need something very important, I need my readers.

CHRISTINE: Oh, and they just make you look so smart.

JOHN: Well, they actually help me see which is even better.

Oh man this is cool.

CHRISTINE: Yeah.

And, you know, looking at the, the outside, it has changed very little.

JOHN: No.

CHRISTINE: I don't think it's changed at all.

JOHN: And here is the shipping list of parts.

How cool?

CHRISTINE: Okay.

All right, this is the kind of stuff we geek out over.

JOHN: We could... CHRISTINE: We don't need yeah okay.

JOHN: Stay here all day with that.

CHRISTINE: I know we could take it and just walk around and check everything off.

JOHN: Nice, nice for this house, nice for the owners.

CHRISTINE: Oh, okay.

Again, look at this light.

Look at the windows coming through in the kitchen.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: You've got this bank of cabinets which is really your wall dividing the, the living space.

JOHN: And, you know, there's, I, a lot of people that would come in here in this day and age and say oh, well, let's open this up.

But this wall is very much needed.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

Because I was kind of thinking that too.

JOHN: Were you?

CHRISTINE: Yeah.

That I would just take it out and make it one big space.

JOHN: Well, if you took this out, where would you put your ovens?

Cause your ovens are built into this wall.

And then you have all these great cabinets with deep storage.

This is a ton, it's really deep.

And these are the original cabinets look.

CHRISTINE: Oh, look it.

It's opening all the way.

JOHN: Look how deep they go?

CHRISTINE: There's all these little hidden shelves.

JOHN: Yeah.

And look at that.

CHRISTINE: Oh that's for your onions and your taters.

(laughing).

JOHN: That's for produce storage.

CHRISTINE: Well this whole work area is really nice, but I mean come on.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: It's all about this view, and the light.

JOHN: Beautiful view.

Okay so they designed this house so that, you know, this side faced the east, so that in the morning, light would come in and then she said... CHRISTINE: And then there was a right there.

JOHN: One window... CHRISTINE: Yep, to let the light in at sunset.

JOHN: Which is so intentional, and that makes this house even cooler.

(laughing).

All right, onward because now... CHRISTINE: Let's go around the corner.

JOHN: We have... CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: This is like okay, here's the wow.

CHRISTINE: This is the best view in the house.

JOHN: It's beautiful.

It is stunning.

CHRISTINE: It is.

But, you know, you, it's funny cause your eye is drawn to so many spaces that you forget oh, there's this lovely seating area over here.

JOHN: Hey, there is a lovely sitting.

CHRISTINE: With, I know with a wood burning fireplace.

JOHN: With a wood burning fireplace.

And how about the wall that separates this?

CHRISTINE: You, I know, you have completely sold me on the separating wall.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: Because it works so well, especially when you're on this side.

You know, during the fall, I would never leave this home.

JOHN: It would be stunning.

CHRISTINE: For the month of September, October yeah.

JOHN: And you've got this gorgeous view from up here too.

CHRISTINE: You just have all these dramatic pauses in this house where you just wanna stop and be like, wow.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: And just pause and just, just stare out the window.

JOHN: Speaking of pretty house, look at these pretty shelves.

CHRISTINE: Oh that's, see that's a perfect use of space right here.

JOHN: Love it.

Okay bedroom number two.

And they're using this as an office, could be a bedroom.

CHRISTINE: I would so love this as a bedroom.

JOHN: To the left.

CHRISTINE: Let's go here.

This... JOHN: Good size bedroom.

CHRISTINE: Do you think it's bigger than the room we were just in?

JOHN: Yes, it has its own sliding door out to its own deck.

CHRISTINE: Let's keep going.

JOHN: Here we go.

Onward to... CHRISTINE: Additional closet space.

JOHN: Very nice to have.

CHRISTINE: All right.

Nice redone bathroom.

Oh, and a skylight.

JOHN: Into the primary bedroom, which has its own fire place.

CHRISTINE: Oh, that is a... JOHN: But of course.

CHRISTINE: Lovely.

But my eyes are going here now.

JOHN: Yeah.

So look at that.

Oh it's oh, oh so you can look down at your kitchen, you can be like I wanna order eggs for breakfast.

CHRISTINE: Or like, I need some coffee.

JOHN: Yeah.

CHRISTINE: Some coffee.

JOHN: Mm-hmm.

CHRISTINE: All right okay.

You, you would like the kitchen view so you can have that.

JOHN: Yeah.

And then... CHRISTINE: Nice sized bathroom, double vanity, skylight.

JOHN: Yeah.

Thumbs up.

I can't believe our tour is over.

I don't want it to end.

CHRISTINE: It's very sad for you.

Hey Judy.

JOHN: Judy that was a fabulous house.

JUDY: Yes, it's really something else.

CHRISTINE: So I mean obviously the first two things, the view out the windows and all the windows.

JOHN: Mm-hmm the windows were beautiful.

CHRISTINE: It's just bringing nature right in.

JUDY: Right.

CHRISTINE: And then the beams.

I mean, I know granted this is the core of this home.

JUDY: You know, and a lot of these deck homes are out in nature and in the woods because they're designed to bring in the outside.

I mean that's why it's partly, it's just a work of art.

It's four bedrooms, three full baths, 2116 square feet.

So are you ready to guess the price?

CHRISTINE: I'm just gonna come in at $1.2 million.

JUDY: Okay.

Thank you.

JOHN: I will say $1,050,000.

JUDY: Okay, all right.

$1,107,000 for all of this.

JOHN: That is a bargain.

I wouldn't leave this house.

There's no reason to leave.

CHRISTINE: Wow.

JUDY: Why leave?

JOHN: Well Judy, you showed us three great homes today, no surprise coming from you.

And it was great to see you again.

JUDY: We do have one more surprise, so I hope that you will now follow me.

JOHN: All right.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOHN: You're full of surprises.

CHRISTINE: I trust your surprises.

I don't trust John's surprises.

JOHN: Well, no surprise there.

MARTIN: If you lived here, you would find it hard to be bored.

WIM: If you lived here you'd be my neighbor.

And you would get to experience, um, the kind of community feel that we have had.

SCOTT: People in history, they lived here.

They were here.

RASHNE: If you lived here, I would just spend as much time as you could out on the water enjoying it.

Get a boat.

I would also suggest getting a boat.

JOHN: Judy you have the best surprises, a boat.

CHRISTINE: I can't swim.

JOHN: That's okay.

LISA: I think you might need one of these, let me help you on.

CHRISTINE: We're actually on the water here.

LISA: We are, we are.

JOHN: This is a fabulous surprise.

JUDY: We have arrived oh my God.

LISA: Beautiful day.

CHRISTINE: Uh, can you slow it down just a little?

JOHN: We're only going like two miles an hour.

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