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  • From: Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: OT: House for Rent
  • Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:40:41 -0400

Hey Folks,

Please forgive this, the longest rental ad ever; it's just that I love this house and I have a lot to say about it. Here's the bottom line, to save you time: 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, brick ranch house in a very convenient location to UNC, Duke, RTP, wooded lot, $895/month, available June 1.

We've lived in the house for almost eight years, and we have really loved it. It was built in the early 1960s and it's located across the street (NC 54) from the Mardi Gras bowling alley, Millennium Fitness, and the Tsunami Japanese noodle shop I was raving about on this list just a few months ago. It takes about two minutes to get onto I-40, 10 minutes to get to the corner of Franklin and Columbia in the worst traffic, and about 20 minutes to get to Duke's West Campus. The house has hardwood floors, except for the kitchen and dining room, which were recently redone in a slate laminate that looks quite cool. We've repainted the whole place twice, and there isn't a lick of wallpaper left. (You may like to have the walls in our little girl's room -- she's four months -- redone; they were lovingly painted in green and yellow, with Carolina blue on the ceiling.) The dishwasher and range are new, and the refrigerator and stacked washer and dryer are newish -- within the last three years. The living room/kitchen/dining room area is fairly open with nice sight lines into the back yard through the sliding glass door, from almost anywhere in those three rooms. To break it up a little, we added a new kitchen island/peninsula with storage on the kitchen side and bookshelves on the living room side. It's been a really useful addition, and we do a lot of cooking. All the bathroom fixtures have been updated and replaced, all the cabinets in the kitchen have been repainted and have received updated hardware.

The living room is wired for cable, and so is one of the bedrooms, which I've used as an office -- the cable was for my cable modem.

It has a big deck out back, a porch with a porch swing out front, a fairly large kitchen garden out the kitchen door with plenty of space for tomatoes, peppers, and our growing crop of oregano, rosemary, lavender and three kinds of thyme. It's on a wooded half-acre lot in a small neighborhood that abuts one of the waterfowl impoundments, which means we get more than our fair share of song birds coming to the backyard feeders, which we typically hang from a few of the fifteen old dogwoods that are scattered around the yard underneath the huge longleaf pines, oaks, sweet gum and tulip poplars. (I can provide a list of the different species of birds I've spotted while eating my breakfast -- it's more than 20 now, including ruby-crowned kinglets, Eastern towhees, downy and red breasted woodpeckers, and the coolest songbird I know, the brown-headed nuthatch. If you're a goldfinch fan, we've got plenty of those, too.) In front, I've established a couple of raised beds in the sunny part of the yard, and at times I've had great success growing vegetables out there. For the last couple of years I've been experimenting with odd perennials in those beds, but you'd be welcome to do whatever you want with them. Or, I could get rid of them and re-seed with grass. I've also planted a tulip magnolia (deciduous), a couple of American holly trees from my Dad's yard in Maryland, to go along with the _giant_, old, gorgeous camelia (pinkish white blooms) that lives along the side of the house, right next to the big gardenia. There's also an acuba off the side of the porch that is unusually large and flourishing; I think it's quite old, too. Of course, the house has the required azaleas, a butterfly bush, and an old rhododendron.

The only reason we're trying to rent this house is that we've fallen in love with another, older, slightly bigger house, and this house -- which is 1,200 square feet -- is a little cozy for three adults and a baby. If we move, it won't be so far away that I won't be available to take care of things, or to make sure they're taken care of quickly. I have no desire to be an absentee landlord. We're also not looking to make a killing on the rent, as you can tell.

We'd like to find some folks who would appreciate the house. It holds a lot of sentimental value for us.

If you're interested, please call me at my office, 919-933-1091, or e-mail me. I'm available to show it anytime, day or night. And please feel free to pass this along to whomever -- friends, couples, couples with kids, grad students, you name it -- you think might be interested. I've got pictures to send, and I'll do that on request.

Thanks,

Duncan

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RattleJar www.rattlejar.com
3 Winston Place
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
o: 919.933.1091 fax: 919.933.1092





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