Lazy, cheap, or dumb: A short tour of our house
At some point in every home owner’s life, one must think that at least one of the former occupants was either lazy, cheap, dumb or all three. The other factor to consider is that Realtor/Seller often cover problems in a house in order to sell it. The cheapest option is to carpet over any existing floors. I know this because I am asking for estimates on my hardwood floors right now. We bought the house with carpet in the master bathroom (see photo). I don’t know why someone would place carpet in a bathroom (refer to this paragraph’s opening statement), but someone did. Yuck!
First off, I wanted to share with you some photographs of our home as we found it. It is a 2600 sq. ft. tri-level built in 1962. Our Realtor, Sherrill Glick, discovered it only a few weeks after it went on the market. We originally were looking for smaller homes. My original thought was that we would buy something in the 100K-120K range. We believe that five years before the house sold for $15K more than we bought it for. We refused to pay personal mortgage insurance (PMI) and wanted to have a 20% down payment, thus we were somewhat limited in our purchase. We bought this foreclosure with a less than market rate mortgage. The house was sold “as is.” We couldn’t ask for anything to be fixed–it was all about the money for the seller, Wells Fargo. The mortgage approval had a few kinks in it, but overall it went well. Here’s a tip to future home owner’s: Don’t open a credit card account in the middle of the loan process.
Below I have photographs of only the upstairs. We have yet to do much to the downstairs, so I have not posted pictures of those rooms.
