Over the weekend, we did go and look at house #2 that backed to the pond. We had a lot of questions before even seeing the inside. However, Chris and I were already talking about what we would offer for the home before our official interior viewing. After seeing the interior of the home, we had even questions. It did have 4 bedrooms all with bath access (which is a requirement of mine) plus 2 extra rooms that could be an exercise room and an office. The area under the garage had be excavated for a workshop. That area would be a great place for Chris' work bench and the kids' outdoor toys. All four bathrooms had granite as well as the kitchen, and the kitchen was fabulous suited with double ovens. And, to top it off, the home has wooden plantation shutters (and you know how much I love our shutters!). Now if we stopped there, an offer would be made. There were so many questions. The home looked abandoned, but it was owner owned (not bank owned). The home clearly had not been lived in for quite some time (and it was built in 2007!). The expensive entry doors and back french doors to the concrete deck were not hung properly, the deck had huge spaces on the railings allowing Asher to fit through (and potentially fall through). The real estate agent joked it would be the only home in the area with a deck like that (it was an amazing deck!) with chicken wire on it! The problems did not stop there. For not being lived in, the home was just falling apart and looked quite lived in with wall dings, wood work dings, poor painting in areas and patchwork, concrete patch work on the deck, plastic wood floors that were poorly installed instead of wood (now come on....granite countertops in the laundry room with laminate wood floors - that just does not make sense). Asher opened a cupboard door in the bathroom and I thought the entire vanity was going to come apart! Chris and I did like the house a lot - if it were perfect. We saw it as a money pit with problems here, there and everywhere! We could see water problems in our future and hours upon hours of both interior and exterior repairs to get the home to fit our standards. I told Chris I would offer them $175,000 LESS than the asking price! Hah! It was too bad these people ruined such a nice house in such a short time, or Chris and I would be moving. My Dad told the agent we were looking for a house just like that one, but not like that one! Um, that is about right, we think.
So, we came home disappointed, but content with our home in NW O.
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