Stop Renting and Start Living in Kingston’s Rondout District, $89,900

  |  September 11, 2015
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You know what we love about not renting? When you own your home, you can do anything you want to it, and when we look at this little two-story townhouse on the Rondout, we envision new paint, refinished floors, and the two upstairs bedrooms minus the dingy greyish/beige carpeting. We also see obvious disadvantages to living here. There’s no separation between the first and second bedrooms aside from a door. So they’re basically one room with a door. It’s small at just over 800 square feet. The kitchen is tight. The lot size is a postage stamp. The house is built right up against its neighbor, meaning not a whole lotta privacy happening here. But there’s lots of reasons to live in a small space, including feeling the need to reduce one’s possessions (you know that whole thing about what you own owning you? It’s true), wanting to own a home but not wanting a massive mortgage (we assume this is a cash-only situation here), and living near a neighborhood you like, and the Rondout is a likable Kingston neighborhood. Could you hack it in a tiny house? We’re not so sure we could, but it’s definitely tempting.

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48 Tompkins Street, Kingston (Win Morrison)

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