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  • ProDarwin

    May 19, 2011 10:41 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    UPDATE: 5-23-2012 One of my roommates bought his own house (sucker!) and is moving out soon. We will have a room opening up.

    The house is located in Oakton, VA (22124), on the Reston/Herndon side of things. Its convenient to a lot of places: Reston Town Center, Veinna Metro, 66, 267, Fair lakes, Fair oaks. If you like mountain biking, you’ll be happy to know that we go weekly or even more often, and the driveway directly connects to FFX county trails. The W&OD is only a couple miles away, as is the CCT. Both are accessible via the Reston Glade trails without ever biking on the road.

    Decent sized house, approx. 2 acres, 5.5 garage bays (2 car attached, 3.5 car detached). Probably 3000-3500 Sq. Ft, 5 bedrooms, 3 car garage. Is it super-dooper-fancy? No. But it isn’t bad at all.

    The room costs $565 + utils. Your share of utils will likely run between $50 and $100. Additionally, gas is filled once to twice a year and costs ~$300 ea. There are few rules, and no real lease (or long term agreement). No HOA. Broken cars can be stored here, on jackstands (although we prefer not to have that happen).

    Other notes:
    -There are 3 tenants (i.e. #4 is moving out). All are Mechanical Engineers. Aged 25-33 I think. -Cable internet/Television. Its fast.
    -51" HD TV -Fairly complete Olympic weight lifting set
    -Parking for a TON of people. Some of our BBQs have had probably 30+ cars with room to spare.

    PM me if interested.

    Detached garage porn:
    Old pic, from when the garage was full. All of the cars and bike pictured are gone now. The middle one was a lemons car. It rocked. We may do that again. A few pics from a BBQ week or two ago (Grillgasm 5-12-2012). I believe there are at least two GRMers pictured: Detached garage can be seen at bottom of hill (bottom right of picture)

    Some interior pics... Yeah, it's not an LCD or some new high-tech fancypants TV, but it IS HD, and it gets the job done for movies and stuff.

  • pigeon

    May 19, 2011 11:35 p.m. pigeon Dork

    Where was this house when I was a first year law student at GW? I lived in a crappy basement apt in Arlington. Then I got married and moved to Oakton - nice area and with the amenities you have you shouldn't have too much trouble filling your empty room. Good luck.

  • May 20, 2011 1:23 a.m. Joshua Reader

    But the cars are all Japanese?

    Just kidding, I now drive a Miata.

  • Tetzuoe

    May 20, 2011 8:30 a.m. Tetzuoe Reader

    Oh no, why WHY why why why WHYYYYY I just signed a lease (falls church)!!! NOOOooooo

    This is exactly what I need to get me working on the 944 again :(

  • Duke

    May 20, 2011 8:37 a.m. Duke SuperDork

    Dude, I can fill all your garage space by myself. But I'm still envious - looks like a great setup for the right person.

  • ProDarwin

    May 20, 2011 8:49 a.m. ProDarwin Dork

    Joshua wrote:

    But the cars are all Japanese?

    Just kidding, I now drive a Miata.

    Right now the fleet is:

    -94 Saturn Wagon (my DD)
    -92 Toyota Supra Turbo Automatic Rust Edition (this will be leaving soon we hope)
    -00/01 2.5RS
    -00/01 2.5RS w/ STI Drivetrain swap
    -10 Toyota Tacoma
    -06 S2000 coming next week (my new STR Toy :) )
    -?? DRZ 400

    I've sold 4 cars in the past 5 weeks... a Saturn, a Saturn Lemons Car, a Z32, and a Saab 900 Fail Edition.

    At one point we had 13 cars and 7 motorcycles.

    Tetzuoe wrote:

    Oh no, why WHY why why why WHYYYYY I just signed a lease (falls church)!!! NOOOooooo

    This is exactly what I need to get me working on the 944 again :(


    NO PORSCHES! J/k you have mail.

  • jrw1621

    May 20, 2011 8:54 a.m. jrw1621 SuperDork

    I praise the fact that just the important things are pictured.

  • Tetzuoe

    May 20, 2011 10:00 a.m. Tetzuoe Reader

    Well, its not so much Porsche.. It takes a bit of explaining.

  • AngryCorvair

    May 20, 2011 12:01 p.m. AngryCorvair SuperDork

    Tetzuoe wrote:

    Well, its not so much Porsche.. It takes a bit of explaining.

    so you didn't bail on it? when i picked up the radiator for aussieSMG a few months ago you sounded like you were on the fence.

  • bluej

    May 20, 2011 12:39 p.m. bluej Dork

    I dont need a room, but I do need a home for my new toy car. I live in DC and 2 mo's parking here would be more than i'm paying for it. Much rather rent a spot from a GRM'r. Outside is fine of course. Its an 87 200sx so it would probably play nice with the others.

    Josh dot sennett at the mail of googles is best.

  • Tetzuoe

    May 20, 2011 2:15 p.m. Tetzuoe Reader

    AngryCorvair wrote:

    Tetzuoe wrote:

    Well, its not so much Porsche.. It takes a bit of explaining.

    so you didn't bail on it? when i picked up the radiator for aussieSMG a few months ago you sounded like you were on the fence.

    Yeah Ive managed to draw that out pretty long actually, If I'm honest I really want to finish the damn thing.

  • jimbob_racing

    May 20, 2011 3:34 p.m. jimbob_racing HalfDork

    I might be interested....in a year. I still have to finish up grad school and then hope to move to DC and find a good job. This would be perfect for me.

  • ProDarwin

    May 23, 2011 2:54 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    Bump.

  • ProDarwin

    May 31, 2011 1:07 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    bump

  • motomoron

    May 31, 2011 2:07 p.m. motomoron HalfDork

    The whole "Saturn" thing is scaring people off.

  • speedblind

    May 31, 2011 2:17 p.m. speedblind Reader

    This is exactly what I was looking for when I lived in DC the past few years. Awesome price for cheap housing/garage space. I was amazed at how much I had to pay to get a place w/ a garage in that area. Good luck!

  • ProDarwin

    May 31, 2011 5:44 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    motomoron wrote:

    The whole "Saturn" thing is scaring people off.

    There's only one here, and its a DD. I assure you, the 92 Supra is much scarier!

  • ProDarwin

    June 1, 2011 12:15 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    Bump.

    If anyone knows of any other forums with many NOVA car guys, please let me know. (except Nasioc)

  • Xceler8x

    June 1, 2011 12:46 p.m. Xceler8x SuperDork

    ProDarwin wrote:

    Bump.

    If anyone knows of any other forums with many NOVA car guys, please let me know. (except Nasioc)

    ..or Miataturbo.net.

  • failboat

    June 1, 2011 12:49 p.m. failboat Reader

    vadriven? lol

  • ProDarwin

    June 1, 2011 1:36 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    Xceler8x wrote:

    ..or Miataturbo.net.

    Hmm...

    failboat wrote:

    vadriven? lol

    Hahahaha no

  • Appleseed

    June 1, 2011 4:25 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork

    If this is a canoe, it's berkleying awesome.

  • ProDarwin

    June 1, 2011 4:38 p.m. ProDarwin Dork

    This is not a canoe.

  • ProDarwin

    May 23, 2012 5:04 p.m. ProDarwin SuperDork

    Bump (still not a canoe)

    Another room will be opening up soon. PM or Email me for details.
    First post updated.

  • 93EXCivic

    May 23, 2012 5:08 p.m. 93EXCivic UltimaDork

    Why aren't you down here in Huntsville?

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