Could be a fantastic beautiful home or a moneypit. One thing I'm sure you know is houses of this age used REAL WOOD. Slow growth trees that are as hard as iron. The bones of the house are probably still good. A foundation issue would scare me a little. It would definitely be a long term project. Would you try to restore and flip? Or turn it into a rental? Or several apartments?
Don Snook -----Original Message----- From: Kaleb C. Striplin [mailto:ka...@striplin.net] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 6:06 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: [MBZ] OT Old house projects I was scrolling thru local listings the other day out of curiosity on the wifes MLS login. Anyway, I saw this house in town and it looked interesting. I had her show it to me today. It is going to need a LOT of work but it has a lot of potential. It is really a neat old house with impressive wood work and detail you do not see anymore. Alot or most of the wood along the edge of the roof which attaches to the ends of the roof studs (not sure what you call it) as well as sofet (sp) is rotted and will require replacement. Floors are uneven in some spots as you would expect in an old house and that does not really concern me much. All of the windows in the house are the old original wood framed windows and have storm windows installed on the outside. These are these big old windows you dont see in houses anymore. Wife says they all need to be replaced but I told her these unlike new windows can be repaired, or so I think. Just need to to have all the old paint scraped out, remove the old putty that holds the glass in and replace. No they are probably not as efficient as new windows. On one side of the house they have 2 or 3 huge concrete pillars/supports of some sort which butt up against the foundation, almost sort of like buttresses on a cathedral. The only thing I can figure is the foundation started pushing out like it does on old houses and these were installed to hold it in. I have seen other old houses where they have drilled holes in the header plate or foundation with cables stretched across from one side of the house to the other attached to metal plates on the outside of the house which can then be tightened as needed to adjust the foundation. The other side of the house looks like its going to need attention as there is a section above the concrete/brick foundation that is starting to move out. Obviously will need a lot of cosmetics as well. Since its a forclosure in need of a lot of work I thought about offering no more than $15k, and tur ning it into a long term project. Crazy probably but interesting yes. https://www.zillow.com/homes/350-s-cedar-nowata-ok_rb/ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
