Clemson13
Evernoob is a douchcanoe
Sometimes it is. Although you lose all the charm an older house brings. Also if the house is historically significant or registered that will present problems. We personally had plans drawn up for an 2000 sqft “addition” for our current house because our location was grandfathered in yet we could never build there again. Setbacks have changed some since 1970.
The charm of a rape shack? I must not be a lower cost old house person. I respect a nice manor, a large plantation house etc, but so many of the smaller old houses you would have to pay me to live in.
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100% the plan going in was to burn everything down
I always confused everyone by describing the house as "a burn-down"
poked around in there and figured I can fix it for much cheaper, really proven right on that one with the current lumber market
I'm only into this structure about $2k and it is sorta kinda half liveable already.
It would absolutely be faster and easier to just plop a mobile home 40' away and let this shithole fall into a pile, except for the fact that when I poked around a little, a single wide mobile home is like $40k, a few years old
Fair enough. I don't feel bad for thinking "Fuck No" about the structure anymore . I had not realized that you were getting into this for so little. It seems like every project i touch on my property costs me 1k min, and I'm sure that skewed my opinion. That is one hell of a cost differential, 2k vs 225k to build a new house is rather significant lol.
I don't think i am a "fixer upper" buyer. I like property fixer up projects like trees, ponds, fixing horrible overgrowth, killing bamboo, driveway culvert issues, fencing, residing the house or window replacement etc while living in a nice interior from day one.