Automan21k
Shared on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 14:39We will not be buying the property we went to look at yesterday. The land is awesome, the layout of the house is fantastic.....however here is a few of the items that need to be addressed;
The deck needed to be removed and rebuilt.
The hot tub was ancient and unsalvageable.
All carpeting and linoleum needed to be replaced.
The electrical panel needed to be torn out and replaced/ rewired (there were 2 power strips hotwired onto other breakers and glued to the wall. With extension cords running all over the basement to provide power to the wall outlets that hung from bent clothes hangers by what looked like old fishing line
The basement needed to be waterproofed and rewired, all lighting had the wires cut and jumpered into about 15 black lights, 5 strobe lights, and a few colored light balls. (at this point it was obvious that the previous owner was REALLY into LSD.
The garage needed to be de-squirreled
The attic needed to have the bats removed.
The septic tank had a broken cap, massive cracks on the top and collapsed in on the side, meaning the entire water table could have been contaminated, and the entire septic system would have needed replacing.
despite being built in 1992; the bathroom fixtures/toilets/tubs, the kitchen appliances and countertops (including what I was told to be a "RadarRange" that appeard to date back to the early 70s), some sections of carpet, and some other appliances were all pieced together from the remains of an old house (50 or 60s by the look of it).
5 trees need to be removed because they were old and hung over the house.
The entire house was freshly painted, but whatever was done to the walls to warrant the repainting showed under the paint.
The insulation in the basement was destroyed, and appeared to have also been salvaged from an older property.
There were groundhog holes against the foundation in several places, and they were beginning to wash out the foundation.
The shed is rotting away, and there were several large objects/structures that looked like old campers rotting away in the woods.
There was damage on the siding of the house where several large vines of poison ivy pulled sections of the siding off/planted roots in the underlying insulation almost the entire way to the roof.
We estimated it at around $70,000 in repairs, $40,000 of which were necessary before we could have even considered moving in.
in short, we will not be buying the house.
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