House Tour

 My German wife has hyped up the idea of buying into a condo (apartment) property in the city (Wiesbaden).  The chatter goes along the lines that city life would be so wonderful.  The fact that we live barely 2 miles outside of the city limits....never seems to figure into this concept.

Last month, she found another place to go check out.  

I should state....there are about 12 conditions to this ideal property in her mind (balcony, 2nd bathroom, 1st floor preferred, parking spot, etc).

So we get  to the property and the guy is showing us around.  It is 4-star and pretty much what you'd expect for inner-city life.  

In fact, it met all conditions....but it had two issues.

First, this  place was built around 1905 and a lot of the ceiling decoration business.  But in the living room....there's this one demonic devil's head figure above the doorway.  Being southern bred.....there's a part of me that simply gazed at the demon's head and gave me a odd feeling.

I checked....yeah, it could be yanked down, without serious damage.

Oddly, I never said anything much to the wife, and throughout this hour-visit....she never noticed this 'head'.  It was fixed about 18 inches above the exit doorway.  It bothered me in some way that she didn't notice this.

But then we come to the second issue.  I stood on the front balcony....full view of a major street, and across the way was a sign for a German 'Jesus-Center'....basically a hangout for homeless folks to come....sip coffee, and I would imagine....talk Jesus-stuff.  It's about 200 ft across the street....direct-wise.

It is an odd part of the city....where a fair number of people do hang out all day.  

I'm not anti-Jesus, but having this as my view.....well....in my mind, you'd have to knock off 20,000 Euro off the price for the location issue....with some homeless characters walking around.  

Luckily, the wife found other negatives, and I didn't have say too much negative.