Re: Any ideas for a guy buying fixer-upper house t

Posted by buickanddeere on September 01, 2004 at 14:03:23 from (192.75.48.150):

In Reply to: Any ideas for a guy buying fixer-upper house to re posted by Bryan on September 01, 2004 at 09:31:56:

Run, don't walk away.
I've spent everything I've made and all my time plus have a smoking line of credit fixing up a house that looked pretty good over the past 14 months and still more to do.
Only 30 years old, brick and new roof. Under that new paint was rotten/moldy drywall. When it began to rain in the fall we found where the water was running in the front windows and door. Then the “new” pond in the back yard began backing up to the patio door. The original drain ran from the “pond” bottom uphill then down again the exit.
At the same time after the smoker's tar was washed of the walls and painted over. The house still stunk from another odor. The &^$%&*&* cat had marked territory on all 3000 sq ft of the carpet. Then when taking up the carpet we found the drywall black and crumbling behind the baseboards in the basement.
The wiring to the garage heat, light, welder were all done home handyman/farmer style without mechanical protection, proper junction boxes, proper wire colour coding or even using box connectors.
The deep well pump was beat to death because they didn't know how to drain the water logged pressure tank. The pump started for every glass of water and would cycle on/off 1/2 dozen time afterwards.
The shed turned out smaller than they stated on the sales bill and the workable acres only 2/3 of what they claimed.
The local Conservation Authority won't let me put a bridge across the creek to get to my fields either. Don't matter my pair of 6 ft dia reinforced tile are large than the other seven bridges over the same creek within 3/4 of a mile from my place. Might damage the fish habitat and spring run off they say. I've been walking across the creek bottom in work boots and not even betting the treads wet since June.
Buy a place the way you want. In a related topic. Some people make the same mistake thinking they can marry someone and change them for the better too.

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