" It's a pretty house! Isn't it wonderful it's probably about a hundred years old. I'd say around the 1930s it was entirely redone in the interior to improve its amenities."

" I'd say they didn't touch the exterior and they still haven't."

" Well they haven't touched it in a while. We're being close to the water here and you know things erode very quickly."

" Spectacular water views! Yeah!"

" Isn't it wonderful? That's the highlight of this property. There's 3 acres here."

" Awfully close to the road though."

" Yeah, but on the harbor you've got 250 feet on Outer Harbor Vineyard Haven. That's very valuable and very appealing."

" Wonderful waterfront property, yeah!"

" Yes it is."

" Well the house is real pretty. It's a shingle style house."

" Uh huh."

" Real big too."

" Well the interior is probably about 3,500 square feet in there and just for porch alone I think there's about 1,500 square feet."

" Yeah. I imagine the view from the porch are spectacular."

" Oh yeah, they're sensational. The higher up it goes fortunately it gets better."

" It's got all those features of the shingle style, you know, the kind of a rapid shingles, but then the odd windows and the funny overhang over this bay here."

" Uh huh. It's very ecclectic. Very ecclectic type of architecture."

" So it's only about 3,000 square feet in there."

" Yeah, that's all. Most of the preponderance of the house you see is really this large porch that just creeps around."

" This is very nice, this end of it here with the, it's almost like a tower room, huh?"

" Yeah, isn't that pretty? Look at the beach stone foundation."

" Yeah."

" Up there in that curvature is the drawing room. It's just marvelous! Wonderful place!"

" But"

" It's made out of hardwood detailing."

" The amount of work this place needs is unbelievable! The shingles are all worn out here, the shutters have been blown off, the paint is peeling everywhere, there's broken glass."

" Lots of exterior work."

" Yeah."

" But the interior is pretty good."

" What's down at the beach?"

" Well down there is a rocky beach and they have a little boat house."

" Let's take a look."

" Yeah, let's take a walk."

" And so this is the beach house."

" Down here is the beach house."

" Is it a boat house or is it a?"

" Well, part of it is for storage and then there's a small interior with a beautiful beach stone fire place. And that's probably a place just to stay there or change your clothes."

" I love the lines of this house. The hip roof."

" Yeah."

" And then it flattens out on the east."

" Yeah, very wonderful."

" Very interesting."

" Wow! What happened to the deck?"

" Well this was fine up until this past October when we had the Halloween surge, the no name storm."

" The hurricane."

" Yeah. The water came right up here and over into the wetlands."

" Ouch! This is a big job!"

" Yeah, it'll take a little time."

" A little time and big bucks!"

" Yeah."

" Boy! What a beautiful spot though, huh?"

" It would be great to bring back and have a nice dock here and you could really enjoy it."

" What kind of money are you talking for this property?"

" Oh, over a million dollars."

" I think it's time to look at something a little more modest. Well the size of this place is certainly more manageable."

" Yes it is. It's a lot smaller than what you just looked at. Certainly a contrast from 3-1/2 acres."

" How big is the lot?"

" What you have are about 35 feet on the road and your sides down to about 60 feet, and of course you see it includes the garage and the rear too."

" Okay. It looks like it needs a lot of work though."

" Yes it does, like a lot of properties in town and a lot of the old Victorians, they all require maintenance. And most of it is exterior."

" Uh huh. I love the proportions. This porch is kind of, you know, the outside."

" Pretty. It's a wrap around porch."

" This looks like asbestos siding. It is. Oh that's a great door!"

" Yeah, isn't that pretty? With all the molding and all the detail?"

" Yeah, Gothic-Victorian."

" Yeah."

" Yellow!"

" Yeah."

" Nice staircase!"

" Yeah, isn't that a nice detail?"

" Yeah, beautiful handrail."

" It is pretty."

" Now these walls are just simply 1 board thick."

" Right. This is the exterior wall. "

" So there's no insulation on the wall?"

" Nope. In order to insulate you have to start it out and insulate it."

" Uh huh."

" There's the living room in here."

" There are two rooms that are double-roomed."

" Look at the bay windows. Facing south gets a lot of sun. It's a bright room. When you go over to look at the beams, are they champered? Borders?"

" On the ceilings up there, yeah. Isn't that pretty?"

" Now what's the asking price of this thing?"

" The asking price is 152,500."

" A $152,000."

" Which is a good value for an in-town house."

" Now all the walls are simply one board thick."

" Most of them are for nut-bearing walls. That's correct."

" You could remove them all though?"

" Yeah, and create more space. This is the dining area."

" Yeah."

" Look at these windows. Isn't that a nice detail?"

" It's a nice size for the dining room."

" Create a real intimate setting over here."

" Now these."

" Let's go to another section of the house."

" These are beautiful, Alex."

" Yeah they are pretty."

" So the kitchen beyond."

" What's that stairs leading, kitchen?"

" Upstairs are 4 bedrooms and a full bath."

" Let's take a closer look."

" Uh huh."

" A 152?"

" Yeah!"

" I don't know. A 150,000 sounds like so much for what you got here."

" You may think that Bob, but in-town house have a tremendous demand. We have a full bath up there."

" Uh huh."

" So it's one bath and how many bedrooms did you say?"

" There's 4 bedrooms up here."

" There's one there."

" Come on in here. This one lead into another in the rear."

" So you gotta go through one to get in."

" And that also has a back staircase going back down to the kitchen."

" Down to the kitchen."

" Yeah."

" And they're all roughly 10x10?"

" Yeah, basically about the same size. All the boards. I mean all the walls are just boards."

" Board construction throughout."

" Everywhere you look."

" Yeah."

" Well there are some nice details."

" Nice cathedral feelings. This room has a balcony and a turret. Quirky the way it has all these, you know different angles, you think?"

" Uh huh."

" So there's a turret through here?"

" Yeah!"

" Well, lemme take a look."

" Be careful."

" Well there's not much here, Allen. Maybe 5 feet square?"

" Yeah, that's pretty small."

" Kids would like it."

" Yeah, it's like a getaway."

" But the turret is more like an exterior decorative feature more than an actual room."

" For the most part it is."