With a giant piano illuminated atop a neighboring property’s parking lot, it’s easy to miss the little griffin statue pictured atop a brick column here. It serves as sentry to the unassuming gate of LeMans Townhomes, located on the south feeder road of the Southwest Freeway, just east of Buffalo Speedway. The 1965-built property has a courtyard shaded by trees in place for decades. Today, the canopy buffers part of the complex from passing traffic and from some of the signage for fast food restaurants and strip centers sharing the stretch of freeway.
A new listing asks $72,5000 for a first floor unit that looks out onto the complex’s landscaped commons.
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The 1-bedroom has 726 sq. ft. of living space featuring wood laminate floors, granite countertops in the kitchen, and a “jetted tub” in the bathroom, which has tiles floor-to-ceiling. In the dining area, there’s a breakfast bar and a wall of mirrors. A detached carport has assigned parking spaces.
For R&R, residents of the 54-unit complex share a pool. The maintenance fee, $315, covers cable, clubhouse, grounds maintenance, and water.
Meanwhile, the exit from the property is a straight shot onto the freeway ramp for northbound traffic.
- 3131 SW Fwy. Unit 31 [HAR]
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Love the swords/sabres on the wall in the DR.
Those are light sabers. They go with the storm trooper poster.
I spy, with my little eye: a storm trooper in the hall, a dartboard in the living room, a dragon in the boudoir, and two light sabors in the dining room…
And the Storm Trooper poster off of the living room.
Does the map come with the place? You wouldn’t need a GPS or glasses. Just look where you need to go, zip onto 59 and you’re there. Such a deal.
*Almost* worth it but for the monthly fee.
That is a Fracking map
What exactly are the demarcation lines for Upper Kirby, regular Kirby and lower Kirby?
I live near there and always wondered about the place.
I say it is the wrong side of 59 to be upper Kirby and is actually lower West U.
Oh, you just KNOW that condo has seen a lot of cosplay!
A Fischerspooner poster in Houston? Now that’s something you don’t see very often.
Hmmm… let’s put on Sherlock Holmes cap (cosplay!) and make some deductions.
Kirby + Starwars + Fischerspooner + Gallery Furniture = medical student from NYC now finishing a postdoc at the medical center.
Just love the dirty bath tub and lack of a real refrigerator or accomodations to put one. Who in their right mind only has an under counter fridge?
Dirty bathtub? Do you have exray vision or something?
Look at the people in the mirror reflection. It looks like one might be playing the guitar.