O.K. so I have decided that we need to find a fixer-upper that we can buy cheap and do the work ourselves. I spent months looking at properties. I still wanted a nice house in a good area but I was looking for a "deal". There are a lot of great ways to look for properties out there, I checked local banks, national banks, fannie mae and freddie mac and I would find a few properties but we live in a rural area and I just wasn't finding the "deal". I am new to think kind of search and it really seemed to me that there were not that many foreclosures coming up. I think that is great for our area, we are still solid, but I wasn't doing much for my house search. I have to say that I drug my realtor on many a goose chase. Thanks Carey!!
With my family loaded up we decided to just drive around and see what we could find. There were a couple of properties I wanted to drive by, again, nothing was working out. Out of the blue and almost too late to turn I said "lets go up here". That is when we found it...this was March. The street is wonderful and the views are great. As we drove along I noticed a house that looked to be in a state of disrepair. If you look at the post picture you can tell the one of the upstairs windows is missing. We didn't get out but we did make note of the address. Could this be the one? Well, you know the answer. What we didn't know was who owned it and the current conditions. When I got home I started a little investigating, it's really amazing what you can find on the internet these days. I was able to locate the tax records for the property and the current owners. They still lived in town. It is really interesting to see how much a property appraises for and the purchase price. I don't know how this is all that usefull for the average personal but it satisfied my snoopy curiosity. I didn't really know what I was going to say but I called them up. I hope I came off a little better than "Hey, I noticed your house was looking a little shabby, want to sell it?"
The Mrs. was very nice and asked if I had seen the back of the house. I said that we wanted to get permission before we walked around. She advised that I may want to take a better look before I considered buying the house. The very next day we went for a little look.
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| the left side of the house, there is a cute screened porch here |
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| the back of the house, roof here is completely collapsed |
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| family room area in kitchen |
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| looking from the kitchen into the dining room |
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| looking from dining room to the kitchen |
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| downstairs bedroom? |
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| downstairs bathroom |
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| upstairs large bedroom |
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| upstairs bedroom looking out over missing roof |
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| from the upstairs bedroom I could look into the downstairs bathroom |
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right side of the house
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I know what you are thinking THIS PLACE IS PERFECT!!!!!!!
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