The Firehouse in Woodside

I've always wanted to live in a firehouse! (or an airplane hanger- but firehouses are easier to come by in urban areas)

This house is right under the 7 train and next to a Mexican restaurant. I'm not going to jinx it by saying that we LOvE it, because there may be some issues....such as the oil tank buried in the yard outside.Living room looking toward the two bedrooms

Kitchen, with a stove that has a grill on it and a great exhaust system.

Side yard. The stairs in the back leads to a restaurant that uses it as their emergency exit.
The oil tank is buried under the bricks.

one of the bedrooms currently being used as an office

garage with very tall ceilings

Elmhurst update

After making an offer, we went back and fourth with the seller, or rather the seller's agent, who is not really a realtor but rather a Chinese immigration lawyer. There was another party interested in this property, but we had the higher offer, and we were more qualified with the bank.

You would think this would make the seller accept our offer........
but in the world of real estate, it apparently doesn't work this way.
The other (lower) offer came from her neighbor, and so we believe she took that one, even though we haven't heard anything back from the realtor for two weeks.

So we are moving on and forgetting about this one for a while.