For $3.5 million, you and VP can be neighbors
WASHINGTON — For the modest price of $3.5 million, you can have a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion along Embassy Row in Northwest D.C.
The nearly 100-year-old Mediterranean-style villa is bank-owned and priced to move, down from its original $4.5 million price tag.
The catch? The neighbor to this house at 3400 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. is VPOTUS himself, the vice president of the United States of America. His home at Number One Observatory Circle is a bit bigger and sits on a larger chunk of prime real estate called the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Don't worry, current residents say the VP isn't much of a bother. In fact, Vice President Joe Biden has never even asked to borrow a cup of sugar.
"He has not, and I'm just waiting. Like, 'Hello, when's the block party?'" Marie-Louise Murville, a nearby resident said.
Just imagine pausing to chat over the fence with the vice president about your tomato plants or your rose bushes. Maybe you could wave to the next-to-commander-in-chief as he fetches his mail or mows the lawn.
It could happen.
"I think we saw him once. I think it was him," Liliana Gomez, a neighbor said.
OK, it probably won't happen.
But you'll definitely see and hear the vice president drive by from time to time in his motorcade, which features flashing lights, blaring sirens and heavily armed escorts.
Do neighbors mind the constant presence of those Secret Service agents?
"It's kinda comforting to think that if you need to call the police they're here in like five seconds," Murville said.
And if you don't get along with the vice president, no worries. A new one will move in every four or eight years.