The house in the post below...I couldn't get.This is the candidate du jour. It needs a lot of work, but in my weird financial situation, I may need to get into something that I can pay cash for, and fix up as I go along.
I've heard the advice: "Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood." This house isn't the worst, but I still think it qualifies.
The question will be whether it's livable WHILE work is being done on it. It's nowhere NEAR "move-in" condition as you usually think of it.
But you know what? I don't have a lot of options. I'd rather put my sweat equity into something that's significant, over boring.
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I think it's beautiful, and doesn't even look like it needs work. Am I missing something???
Ohhhhh, see? I said it was good photography! No, it needs A LOT of work. You see everything I see; Eric would see everything Charles saw, meaning everything that was wrong with it. :)
Part of that is cosmetic, of course. "You'd have to strip this paneling off in this room."
"This ceiling is all wrong for the period."
"You'd HAVE to take down that awful light fixture!"
But some of it was more serious.
"Did you see the cracks in the plaster in the livingroom? They're emanating from the fireplace. If that's a masonry problem... Uh-oh!"
"There's not nearly enough hvac registers for the size of these rooms. And there aren't enough returns..."
There are dreadful add-on closets with louvered doors, not only hideous, but in stupid places. It would have been JUST as cheap to buy a nice wardrobe for those rooms, instead of putting up the bad closets.
The fireplaces are all FALLING APART, but they don't show that in the photos.
No, it needs A LOT of work, but if there's nothing CATASTROPIC wrong with it, I think it's work I could do over time and bring it back.
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