Here’s a really nice house, with some nice neighbors. I’d go so far as to say you will never find better neighbors…the Obamas. Of course, you can’t actually go and see the house or make a bid until you have been vetted by the secret service. In fact, I can attest that you can’t even get onto the street to see the “for sale” sign.

You can see the floor plans here. As you can see, the current configuration is only for 8 bedrooms, 5 baths, but there is plenty of room to expand that. The entire bottom floor is just storage room (their laundry room is significantly bigger than their kitchen). I think you could probably get 12 bedrooms out of that. So this would be a pretty expensive house *without* taking the house next door into account.

Unfortunately, they didn’t set an asking price. But, considering they have an entire “sales team” to handle the requests, I think it is safe to say it will be pricey (even though they say it is a “fixer upper”). The interesting thing is that they paid only $35,000 for it in 1973. You might say, “But $35k meant something different in 1973. That was actually a lot of money!” Well, it was more than it is now, but according to the calculation Sara looked up, $35,000.00 in 1973 had about the same buying power as $173,130.59 in 2009. And that house would probably be over $3 million now, even without the president.

But I digress. Buy the house and you’ll be pretty close to some other nice neighbors. I might even let you invite me over for a beer summit (as long as, you know, you don’t actually expect me to drink beer).