by "ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
Published 04/03/2017 at 18:15
by "ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
Published 04/03/2017 at 18:15
Tags: houselopnik
; old houses
; pray for me
STARS: 6
Also the carriage house is certainly more massive that I anticipated. (Im 5'7" for reference.)
We went to look at the place Sunday morning. There was already a family there looking at it, so we decided to go look at another listing down the road in the meantime. Absolute shit hole, It looked charming from the curb, but up close it was way too hurt for the price they had it listed for.
We went back to the dream home, and went through it thoroughly.
Both bathrooms were recently done, both have bidets! I legit gasped, not that its a must have, but It’s one of those “just because” things I always wanted (that and a urinal, I’m also warming the wifey up to the idea of having a water fountain in the kitchen) The bathroom work will save us money to focus on the kitchen, which will need it.
The walk up attic entrance is in the middle of the second floor hall way, up the narrowest set of stairs I have ever seen. Only Ikea furniture will make it, meaning if its large and can’t be dismantled its not going to make it. Big dilemma since with out that functioning space the house wont be much more than the 2 bedroom it is now.
Enter my cousin, an architect: he suggested the genus idea of reversing the stairs, from counter clock wise to clock wise. This would allow for a second run of full size stairs up to the 3rd floor (loft, w/e), solving the loft problem.
Again we love everything about the property, and house, the inside just needed some renegotiation.
So with the future plans sorted we decided to pull the trigger.
30 min later we get a call from the realtor, the family that viewed the house just before us put in an offer at full asking.... We were going to low-ball, leveraging the 2 bedroom fact, that’s off the table now. Fortunately there offer is an FHA, which has a lot of requirements, and being an old house, its likely it wouldn’t pass FHA standards. We went the conventional route, and added an awesome letter at the suggestion of our realtor. So our offer, though not much more(+500), is much more favorable to the sellers.
Fingers Crossed.
Also found this old post card online with a painting of the street the house is on! Old houses FTW.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
04/03/2017 at 18:23, STARS: 0
wooo hooo! Awesome duuude!
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
04/03/2017 at 18:23, STARS: 0
Man, sucks to have people bidding up the price, especially if they can’t actually buy the house. Hope you get it.
Will you stick with the parquet, or strip down to the original floor?
"Saracen" (manualdoucheelitist)
04/03/2017 at 18:26, STARS: 0
That garage. It is awesome. Any pics of the interior?
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
04/03/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 1
Good luck! I assume all visiting Oppos will be staying in the carriage house?
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
04/03/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 1
Good luck! Sounds like the FHA might do you a favor sometime soon... hopefully that other offer gets rejected. Though I must say, after spending my childhood in my parents’ old houses (19th century) I would never buy one. Ever.
Of course, these are total first world problems, but I spent 10 years in a bedroom with essentially no heat because my radiator was so far from the heater that it didn’t work unless it was under 20 degrees outside. And then there’s my back... which is permanently tense/needing to be cracked on one side after I spent a year in that same bedroom searching for jobs - the floor was so crooked that there was no way to arrange my desk on a flat surface so I was leaning to the left for 12 months. No fun lol.
"Rico" (ricorich)
04/03/2017 at 18:30, STARS: 2
Next Oppo meet at your crib!
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 18:33, STARS: 1
I know! My agent said we could have gone lower, but these people changed things.
We’re going to leave it for now, this way when we are tearing out the plaster etc, and renovating the walls, and such, we wont risk damaging the original floors. It’ll be the very last thing we do.
"MM54" (mm54mk2)
04/03/2017 at 18:33, STARS: 1
I was the third offer on my house when I bought it (was on the market all of 3 days, including a Sunday) and got it by $500, so I wish you luck! It can be done!
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
04/03/2017 at 18:33, STARS: 0
I don’t remember exactly what the FHA requirements are but they are very strict on dry rot, foundation, mold, roof, plumbing, and electrical. So if there are any issues related to those areas the seller would have to fix them prior to sale. When we bought our first house it was an FHA loan and the seller had to have a contractor come in and do about 1,000 worth of repairs to meet FHA standards.
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/03/2017 at 18:37, STARS: 1
Seems like you’re experiencing some similar market pressure as what’s happening around me.
The “reasonably priced” house market here in Madison (which is roughly $200-400k) is red hot right now and has been for the past year and change. People making full price offers on things super fast and snapping them up left and right. We’re talking boring suburban not-interesting houses with varying degrees of “luxury” features.
My wife and I sorta kinda looked at houses last fall without knowing this. I emailed a realtor about one house in particular, and she told me that because I took a whole day to email her back after she asked when I wanted a showing, and suggested a time later in the week, that she thought I wasn’t really interested in the house. Like, “you need to get back to me within a couple hours and schedule a showing same day if you want to get a chance at anything right now.”
We want a house at some point but we just re-upped for another year in our rental townhouse. Buying any house with the stuff we want will be a significant cost increase over what we’re doing now so we’re both like, why buy in to a seller’s market?
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:02, STARS: 0
Yea man its scary. This place is in walking distance of both my parents house and job, and 10 minutes from my in laws. It really is in the perfect spot.
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:04, STARS: 0
Yea, no paint chipping, nothing loose. Its tough. Plus when faced with both options who really wants to do the work, when they can sell it and just be done with it.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
04/03/2017 at 19:16, STARS: 1
Good plan.
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:29, STARS: 0
No, it was full of the previous owners stuff, and I coulnt get into the second floor. Got a peek, and it was more stuff. It looked recent, though.
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:30, STARS: 0
I would imagine they would feel almost at home in there.
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:32, STARS: 1
LOL, they have their quirks err, charms. This one doesnt have any sloping floors it seems like, but you can miss things in a walk through.
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:33, STARS: 1
Sure! If its mine!
"Saracen" (manualdoucheelitist)
04/03/2017 at 19:37, STARS: 1
Well still, it’s yuuuuuuge.
If I was able to get a garage that size in San Diego, I’d have a lift for each stall and a man cave/loft at the back!
"ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper" (thedlo)
04/03/2017 at 19:43, STARS: 0
THATS THE IDEA! lol We have to do stuff to the main house. but at least one lift will get in there by the end of 2018, if everything works out of course.
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
04/04/2017 at 13:08, STARS: 1
The funniest pieces are the janky old school “yeah... we don’t care” carpentry things. For ex the basement stairs in my parents’ house? Held up by a tree. IDK why, but it really looks like they ran out of sick beams and cut a tree to size.