sillysally
Posted : 8/29/2006 10:43:30 AM
Well, it looks like this isn't the house for us. We looked at it yesterday and were going to make an offer today but the real estae agent called this morning and sid that it was "pretty much sold." DH's supervisers brother, along with a number of other people, have been trying to buy this house to flip it. Apparently his brother's offer was $69,900, which was more than we were going to offer anyway.
After seeing the inside, I guess I'm not all that upset. When they said it needs "some work" that was the understatement of the century! Barring any kind of major structural issue, just about everything would have had to have been replced. It is liveable, but as we would have to do things room by room we are talking years and years of work. Like, the only thing we would have been able to keep was the toilet. It looked like someone redid the lower level of the house in the 70's and never updated, maintained or barely even cleaned it since then. The entire lower level is that weird wood paneling, and the upper level is old plaster--some of it is even falling off the walls. The master bedroom has stained puke yellow shag carpet, the livingroom/dining room has pea soup green flat carpet, and we will not even go into the kitchen carpet, but let's just say I think it's *alive* and leave it at that. The entire floor in the upper level is covered is contact paper--like the kind you put in drawers.
Not that we wouldn't be willing to put the work in, but that is just too much stuff that has to be done for nearly 70k. I'm kind of sad about the yard--that was my favorite part!
We have some more prospects though, including one Sally and I are off to look at shortly (we're just going to drive by and look at the size of the yard). It's already fenced (though we would be changing that to privacy fence), and it has 4 bedrooms!
I guess it just wasn't meant to be.....