Girls looking to buy a home - don't you hate this?

Original post by Gonnacatchapeacock

Mar 14, 2005 12:11 PM

Take a small cape...update the cabinets at home depot and the countertops of famica (spelling?), paint a few walls, update a bathroom by taking down wallpaper and replacing a potty.....suddenly you can ask $500,00????? for an OK school district...

or

YOU GET a construction worker who buys a cape w/ NO GARAGE & NO BASEMENT....updates it w/ the nice hardwood floors, again, cheap cabinets & counter tops and says they are 'state of the art'....those nice crown moldings throughout house...make a few sky lights....redo the staircase...do a basic bathroom update....in an 'OK' school district....and ask $540,000???

i don't get it.

They are trying to rob us!

M&LSept1606 Posted: Mar 20, 2005 07:02 PM

Re: Girls looking to buy a home - don't you hate this?

Posted by Gonnacatchapeacock

exactly ladies..they are using the cheapest materials ... so 'chincy' if that's a word LOL..

If you know quality....you won't get ripped off. It's just so tiresome to search for someone selling a house for what it is worth.

I am not handy - neither is my FH.. I don't know...
People say to make your first house an investment house and then upgrade to your 'forever house'.

In my permanent house I would hope to have an original kitchen that I can do up the way I Love (cherrywood cabinets....granite countertops....backsplash w/ my style....stainless steel appliances...)

What do you think? Buy an OK house make a few bucks on it and then upgrade?

Or, search for the right location and right school district (for the kiddies) right away and stay there forever?

I say buy an OK house, and then upgrade. The kiddes won't need school for at least 5 years.