Earlier today, a reader sent in the listing for this 4+1 bedroom, 5 bathroom semi with a detached garage on a 16.17 x 131 foot lot at 222 Markham Street in Little Italy.

It's a flip of a house that used to look like this...

And it is a flip.

The windows at the front have been replaced but all the other windows seem to be the old windows.  The intake grate in the middle of the dining room floor seems to be the original.  And speaking of that intake, why didn't they move it when the laid the new floors?

I'm not sure why the laundry was moved from the basement...

To the room off the kitchen on the first floor...

Or why they left the tile that was under the washer and dryer...

Or why they left the wet vac in the photos that look like there has been a water leak on the floor (see grout).

And it looks like they haven't touched the basement washroom...

Upstairs, two of the bedrooms don't have closets and the one that does have a closet can barely fit a bed...

And the 'walk-in closet' in the master bedroom is that little door under the roof...

The floors...I'm not so crazy about them.  And that kitchen...there is so much to say.

But one thing that stands out is that it barely looks like you can open the oven all the way...

And that fruit arrangement...

That is a beautiful Carmen Miranda...

Meets Charo inspired masterpiece...

It really puts the cuchi cuchi into the rest of the amazing staging.

This house is listed at $1,698,000.  According to the reader who sent it in, they are apparently expecting it to go for $2,000,000.

A flip that has no closets, a basement that hasn't been updated, and a backyard that looks like this...

That might be tough.

But thanks to that fruit arrangement, while googling images of Charo, I came across this episode of Celebrity Wife Swap (that I actually watched on tv when it aired)...

Starring Charo and Vicki Stubing (aka Jill Whelan)...

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