wonder why there are three electric meters

There will be three meters because the third will be for the common areas – usually just a few lights.

I have toured these units. Unit A will have the basement and first floor and Unit B will have the second and third floors. I think they excavated the basement down a foot or so to give higher ceilings…

The bathrooms are going to be spectacular but the plan for the kitchens was pretty dull. The original asking price was somwhere between 7 and 800,000 each.

Hey PoP,

I don’t know what a “codo” is… but it sounds expensive.

eric — I have to disagree with you, at least partially. I *do* agree that hideous additions to the houses are fugly and unfortunate when they’re done, but I think turning these old rowhouses into condos isn’t always such a bad idea. I used to live in a four story rowhouse in Columbia Heights that was turned into four condos, and I thought it was fantastic to be living in such a beautiful place that kept the character of the original building, and not in the hideous, bland, new pink brick 15-condo building next door. Not to mention how nice it was to really get to know my neighbors in the building, since there so few of us. When you can’t afford an entire giant rowhouse, this is a great alternative.

Though as Criss said, I do tend to think they get way overpriced.

If you do a square footage analysis of new construction, which is really what this is, an 1800 SF condo with top grade finishes, secure offstreet parking and ample outside space for 700,000 in a metro-walking accessible neighborhood in NW Washington is pretty normal. The townhouses you can purchase in the same neighborhood for that price need a few hundred thousand dollars in renovations to equal the same finish level.