If you are up for the renos I'd go for it. Very exciting! It is amazing what a coat of paint can do - but it does tend to make everything else look more shabby than it did at first!
Good luck.
Is the road busy all the time?? We live on a busyish road but it is very quiet at night so we cope. Also we got a lot more house for our money on a busier road (its only 2 lanes)
We had a hideous kitchen (all dark brown timber and a copper range hood) and we cheaply painyed the cupboards gloss white and bought new silver handles from ebay for 99c each. we replaced the range hood (also ebay) and the kitchen now looks totally different.
What is under the carpet?? Can you rip it up and have polished boards?? Would a few well placed rugs cover it until you had the money??
Hire a cleaner to come and do the bathroom before you move in.
I would buy it but thats me you need to do what you feel best about.
it is only a 2 lane as well.
i would say only people who live there would drive there at night. otherwise no real reason - no schools on the road etc.
I said the same to DH - a bit of white gloss on the cupboard doors and some laminate inside the shelves could make a world of difference until we can afford to renovate properly in 5 + years.
The paint i can do myself - actually excited about it lol!
I dont know what is under the carpet... will see if we can see. but i would say concrete as it is a b&t home. We would have to work out if we wanted to tile some of the areas first.
the bathrooms ewww they were grose - i guess i would do a scout for new shower screens.. they always make it look nicer.
we are going to offer $20k less then advertised price.. and use them money to bring back up to scratch... i guess we have to hope it works out!
Gosh if looks were what I considered when buying my house, I would have run a mile screaming. My house was in need of love, lots of love. You gotta look past that and see the potential and evaluate whether you can afford to do what you need to get it to the standard you would be happy living in.
if it is structurally fine (get a building inspection!) then cosmetic things can be fixed easily. My place was horrible when I bought it - still stuck in the 70s, until I could renovate the horrible brown kitchen doors got a coat of paint, the walls got a coat of paint, then I ripped the carpet up in the lounge/dining/kitchen and put down rugs until I could afford to tile it (left ikky carpet in bedrooms). I did a LOT of the renovation in this place - ripped out the kitchen & bathroom, rendered the walls in the bedrooms - then I got professionals in to do the rest including render the walls in the lounge/dining/kitchen and the tiling. I'm in the process right now of repainting the place to freshen it up and to remove all memories of my xh (who picked the last lot of colours).
possibly our new home.... would you buy it or not?
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