Heck with that.
This house is very original overall except for the kitchen and bathrooms. They
have been updated many years ago from the original and need serious help now.
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> On May 30, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Don't forget the granite countertops and stainless steel appliances (unless
> it takes 10 years to renovate in which case those will be passed their best
> before date)
>
> RB
>
>> On 30/05/2017 3:22 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
>> That is a gorgeous old house. Reminds me of my second fixer-upper, an old
>> Victorian. I have no idea what a "fixed-up" value would be on it but it
>> looks like 2 bathrooms and a kitchen would need to be upgraded. The rest
>> looks mostly cosmetic, stripping, paint, etc. and sand the floors and
>> refinish. I'm sure the wiring is ancient, the plumbing too, so that would
>> need to be upgraded. These are all spendy things. How's the roof and
>> paint? I'm presuming no insulation anywhere you can do blow-in for that.
>> If windows are also original you would probably want at least new sashes
>> with double ("bulletproof") glass, those can go into the existing frames and
>> work very nicely. And whatever the foundation issues are, those can likely
>> be addressed fairly easily with some footers and jacks as long as there is
>> not a lot of rot in the sills and joists, we have foundation services all
>> over the place here that do that sort of thing.
>>
>> If I was doing it I'd probably be looking at $25k in materials easy for the
>> bathrooms/kitchen, wiring and plumbing might add up. It would be easy to
>> dump $100k into it if you wanted a nice place, but the market probably
>> suggests cheaping out and basically abandoning a beautiful old house to turn
>> it into a cheap rental or something. Kinda like a cheap Mercedes...
>>
>> Not knowing Mao's skills and tenacity, it might be beyond a weekender kind
>> of project, which is a shame. If Mao is capable of doing some serious work
>> on it (like the electrical and plumbing) then maybe you could work something
>> out, buy materials and pay him some rate to work on it.
>>
>
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