Everybody is a salesperson. They take their property and make it sound as awesome as possible just to get you to come look at it, but leave all the gorey details for the tour. We looked at three houses today, each with its own unique oddities.
House #1: Would have been cool when I was in college and wanted to live cheap with 3 or 4 of my closest buddies. (side note: I've been in and through college and never had the driving desire to live with 3-4 other people). The first floor living room had been walled off, leaving the fireplace in a narrow hallway, inorder to make 1/2 the room a "den". The kitchen needed all new cabinets, and the bathroom, well, the bathroom hadn't seen a makeover in about 50 years. It not only needs paint, but for someone to come remove the last 15-20 layers before adding more.
House #2: Pretty good until you learn the owner just inherited it from their grandparents who passed away. She plans on renting for a "year or so" and then moving in. This translates roughly into "I want your money to finance the remodel". I hate moving and sure don't want to do it twice in the next year or so.
House #3: It was a twin that has been remodeled into 4 units. Three units are on one side, the fourth is the whole other side. Besides the initial overwhelming smell of the previous renter's smoke, the house makes me feel like I was walking through the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum- the one that looks like the upside down house.. The door and window casings are all majorly crooked, the floors all go in different drections and the mastor bedroom/loft is accessed by a set of stairs at the back of the bathroom..... The basement is shared by all the units, some have stairs down, some don't. And the landlord's idea of having a washer and dryer is a pay for use unit. Not only does he make money off of rent, but off of the laundry too.
Well, off to search the newspaper for more...
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