Hard to get a good picture of this but the front yard was MASSIVE! 3BR 3BA 2708 square feet(though I'm not sure how they came by this number..it feels pretty small) 2 car garage, 3 acres POOL (ooo yes! Bonus!) lots of plusses: GORGEOUS! contemporary open floor plan. Wood floors, see through fireplace. Resale value would be almost 200,000 of instant equity (did I mention since its a foreclosure they are letting it go for a song?) Stainless steel stove & microwave hood but the fridge and dishwasher are missing. AT 1st walk through, this place is drop dead show place. Very little to be done (wear & tear painting, buy missing appliances, get the pool back in shape) but not much to do besides that. But after stewing on this, there are down sides for even this gorgeous property:
3 bedrooms...no office for Ray. and the other rooms arent really big enough to squeeze an office in. No play room for RayRay (we would have to give him the big upstairs bedroom down the hall from ours and make 1/2 a playroom...cringe)
unfinished basement with no walkout means we have to put the money in to actually make a studio and all clients would have to come through the house (not a biggie, but something I was hoping to avoid) and of course since my office is planned for a corner of the studio, no office for me until we complete it.
Front yard is huge, but the back fenced area is mostly pool. Great if you have older kids, but since I need a fenced area to let Ray play and not worry, this isnt the best situation. We'd have to put his swing/play set in the side yard, maybe open the fence area to include more of the yard to the left of the house. Actual living area is reduced again to mostly 2 rooms and the room wired for the TV and sound system wont fit our TV since the fireplace is in the way.
Very torn. Beautiful house, but we keep bumping up against the "ooh that wont work". SO since we said that we were only going to do this if we found the perfect house (and even though this is relatively inexpensive house we would still be dropping a largish sum) I think we're going to walk away from this too. My Grandmother is going to lose her mind (lol) and this house will be gone quick. Its very nice and will be the perfect find for some happy family but we are going to keep looking. (which consequently we think our perfect house is the house on old mill, even without a garage)
forgot to add the fact that this would mean no longer would Ray be able to take boogie to daycare..it would be all me. He really enjoys this time with him so he was little bummed over this.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would buy a house with a pool. Too much work, $$, plus it would scare me to death! that one of the kids would get to it
ReplyDeleteIts not one of our buying points, but a bonus if we find a house we like that has one. I'm teaching Ray to float and I love the water. Too bad Big Ray never learned to swim...
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful. You could put in a garage like Andy and use that for a studio. Where is Twin Springs?
ReplyDeletethats a good idea..hhmm. It's off Harrison rd just before Hazelwild farm. Very upscale..they'll probably see Ray's truck coming through the neighborhood and call the cops (lol)
ReplyDeleteAfter going back to this with Ray (obviously we made an offer) since neither of our trucks fit in the garage, it wouldnt be a bad idea to convert the garage space to playroom/studio. It even has a sink for washing little hands after painting :)
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