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Bob Tours Homes on Martha's Vineyard

Bob and Alan visit a 1930s shingle-style Victorian just outside of Vineyard Haven with a 1500-square-foot porch and a boathouse with a fireplace. Bob, however, is looking for something more modest than this multi-million dollar property. Next stop is a smaller �in town� Victorian on a tiny lot with a Gothic entrance door, a walkthrough bedroom upstairs and a small turret. Bob decides this house does not exactly fit his criteria for the project.

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" The pretty now -- wonderful it's probably about a hundred years old. And they were 1930s it was. Ireland redone -- room with a minute I'd dated it and that's the exterior ending. -- and a well I haven't touched it while being most of the water here you know things rug very spectacular water views yes and it went to collect the highlight of this property there's three acres here awfully close to the road but on the -- got 250 feet on outer harbor Vineyard -- that is very valuable very. Very appealing wonderful waterfront property yeah. Well -- the real pretty it's the shingle style house on. Real big active. Well interiors probably about 35 records where it is there. And just before what you want it and that -- and I imagine that -- from the portrait spectacular there's patient. Higher though is that it's got all those features of the shingle style you know the reality the kind of of the rapid shingles within the odd windows and the funny overhang over the bay here it's very eclectic. I've worked so it's only about 3000 square feet in there. Almost of and the preponderance of the house is really large -- we -- this is very nice this end of it here with via. Visited some of but it tower room -- a -- debates don't foundation yeah. And up there Internet curvature drawing room and it's just marble. Wonderful -- we're -- would be the amount of work this place needs is unbelievable shingles are all worn out here. The shutters have been blown the paint peeling everywhere it is broken last. Lots of exterior work terriers. Went down the beach well down their Iraqi page and they have little boathouse. Mystical. But. And so this is the beach out here's the beach house that a boat out there that well part of it for storage and then there's a small interior with a beautiful beat stone fireplace and that's probably place just the standard change your clothes I love alliances without the hip roof and flattens out on the -- area directly. Wow what happened to the deck well this this with fine up until this past October when we had great Halloween surge that no -- storm. The hurricane -- out the water in right up here over into the wetlands. Out this big job. Up if it'll. Make a little time. A little time big box you know what when a beautiful spot though that'd be great to bring back -- nice dock here and you can really enjoy it. What kind of money -- for the property all over a million dollars. I think it's time to look at something a little more modest. Well the five to this place is certainly more manageable yes it is. -- Of course it includes -- garage career do today. It looks like it needs a lot of work yes it does like a lot of properties in town and a lot of the old Victorian it that they all require maintenance and most of its exterior. A lot of love the proportions the porches and yeah -- it's a wrap around porch that looks like asbestos siding. Is. But the great -- critic of the molding LDL gothic Victorian you know. Yellow. Up. It next decade -- hell yeah you handrail print out these walls are just simply one -- thing right this is the exterior wall. So there's no insulation no longer ordered inflate at -- started out minutes later. This letter writer called -- two rooms that are built in front living room but it debate windows facing out -- plus sun's bright room. People over to -- the -- other camper borders on the ceiling area that Bernie what's the asking price that the asking price is 1525. Hundred and -- witches and good values that were in town house where all the walls are simply one board that promotes a market not airing all that's correct. You could remove although yup and create more space to the dining area yeah debate window is it detail it's a nice size -- reactionary element setting over here. Yeah no other section these are beautiful out yet they are. So the kitchen beyond what did you there's an eating kitchen upstairs or or bedrooms and we'll bet. Take a closer look 150. Through. I don't know 150 pound felt like so much fruit. What you got here they think that -- have a tremendous demand. An awful bat up there that one bath and how many bedrooms there's four bedrooms up here. One there have -- here this one leads into another career. We gotta go through went ahead also have a back staircase going back down action in the kitchen now and they're all. Roughly ten by ten yeah basically about it all the boards are all the water -- a construction for a regular. -- So there's that chart -- area let me take a look. And others not much here Allen in the may be five feet square yeah that's pretty small. Kids would like it now these get away but deterred is really an exterior decorative feature more than an actual room for the most part of it."

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