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I agree with your wife, it's grotesque, new carpeting, paint and fixtures easily fixed it tho.
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That's how much the projector that's currently attached to the ceiling cost... 15 years ago or so... It's still meets the needs of the room so I'm just going to wait for prices to come down a little bit.
Haha it only shows up amazing in pictures. It needs some TLC... A few of the rocks have fallen out. Already lined up a few contractors to come by and provide an estimates. Mainly looking to put a flat surface on the top and to refill any cement which has fallen out.
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Naah. Assuming Dry Stack is what I think it is It is they are not. Water has seeped in overtime and cracked the "cement." Made a few of the top rocks loose.
Took a screencap from one of the videos I took during the inspection. Town has already been informed the sidewalk sucks ass.
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The media room phone and screen thing there look like its from a 1970's missile control room. Haha.
But it looks like its a good house, will require a lot of money to upkeep and remodel to be more modern. But congrats! How far from work?
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Thankfully its not mounted to anything so I can just pick it up and move it somewhere else.
House is ~15 minutes from work with no traffic. It's a reverse commute as well which is nice so traffic shouldn't be awful. My wife will have her commute reduced from 30 minutes to 10 minutes.
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Got ya. For such a pretty front exterior kind of crappy if you're chilling on the back patio you just stare at a gigantic brick wall. Though I don't know much about the east coast if it is more common to hang out on the front wrap-around porch vs back patio.
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This is common. Houses are super dense. It's rare for a house to even have a porch like this. If you do have one changes are its facing directly into another persons house.
Sample from another area of town. IIRC Somerville MA is the most densely populated city in New England. Houses sell for on average 500-600 / sqft in this town. Very pricey and very quickly gentrifying. Even the sketchy area of town (East Somerville) is being gentrified. Drive through it and tons of houses are getting torn down and rebuilt.
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Where I live just a lot costs 800k-1M so when there's an old house on it they typically tear them down. You see $800k 1930's craftsman houses that immediately get torn down and rebuilt.
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You're also in Texas, land of the free and guns.
The lots that tend to get real tear-downs are the 5000-8000 SQFT ones. Can stick 3 condos on those!
This houses lot is ~5300 SQFT. The current house is just too valuable for a contractor to teardown and rebuild. The margin is too low when they can just wait for a giant shitfest to go on the market.
Often times they keep the old foundation and structure and just reinforce it / build an addition.
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Regional. What are of the country are they in? Prices are getting high but at least in the Boston area we are getting an influx of VERY high paying jobs (Google, Facebook, Amazon...)