You guys have no idea how accurate you are. We purchased a house about 3 years ago on the court house steps. The house should have been demoed, the house was destroyed...no room in the house was livable, full of bullet holes and drug needles stuffed in holes kicked in walls. For whatever reason at the time I thought it would be a piece of cake to do. 3 years later I am still working Packard near every weekend on doing something. The only good that came from this is that we purchased it for 80 and it recently appraised for just over 400, still doesn’t feel like enough after all I have had to do and still need too!
Before:
Just got through knocking out the wall behind the sink and am now tearing up the old counter/ cabinets.
After:
(note the hole in the wall by the door, still the same and one of my honey doos!)
Floor:
This is the floor where I had to cut a 5'X24" hole in to lower a new oil tank after filling the old tank with 275 gallons of heating oil and finding it had a pee stream leak. The previous owners started to do excavation on the outside to access the foundation. I had assumed that it was to add outside access to the basement. I know now what it was for.....thankfully the floor before this was 4 layers of nasty vinyl flooring.
Every weekend I am working on some project of this house....its getting better now but there is still so much to do.
BTW:
The granite counters only set me back about 1200$ (not so bad for 3-8' sections and backsplashes).....the tools to work the granite....thats another story!
