More Expensive Ugly Houses

I thought that raising my price limit would mean that I would get to see nicer houses. Boy was I wrong. I looked at 8 houses today between $75k-$90k. They were just as ugly as the last ones except more expensive. Actually, one house was remodeled and priced right at $82k, it just didn't have what I was looking for which is block walled yard, tile floors and covered parking. I did find two that could have potential with a lot of work and money to fix it up. I think I will just have to wait and see if anything new comes on the market.

Here are the highlights....

Oh no! Falling down wooden fence! Not good.

This was a cute bathroom but the yard was too small and the wooden fence was falling down.

The old kitchen at the house with the cute bathroom and wooden fence.

Nice beehive fireplace. I think that was the only thing nice at this house.

Original 70's kitchen cabinets. The wood grain paper was peeling off the fronts.

Why oh why would anyone put pavers over their ENTIRE yard???

Ahhh....lime green. Not my color of choice. The counter top had a bad tile job too.

This was the master bath in the remodeled home. It was very creative. It goes with the sea turtle shower down below and the nice kitchen right below.

The kitchen was newly remodeled as was the whole house. My realtor was freaked out because a big fat cockroach was sitting on the oven burner. He was just minding his own business.

And the lovely sea turtle tile. Very cute. Too bad the back yard of this house wasn't what I was looking for and the neighbors had large barking dogs that were trying to throw themselves over the fence. Not that I'm against dogs or anything...just lunging, growling ones.

The house I thought had some potential had one remodeled bathroom with blue paint on all the walls and even the back of the door!

This is the kitchen of the blue bathroom house. They seemed to be in the middle of an upgrade but ran out of money or something. They are asking $85k, much more than the other house that I wanted to buy that was only $72k. I don't know if I will ever find a house to match that one. If I do, I should buy it right away!

This is another house that had potential but they wanted $90k for it and I didn't like their upgrades. Who needs fancy tile in the hallway and bedroom?

It did have a nice kitchen but the floor looked like it had already been ruined by water. Nice back yard but no covered parking. They had turned the carport in to a giant room. I would rather have a carport or better yet, a garage!

I can't decide if I want to put in a low ball offer on the blue bathroom house or not. It really does need everything. I made a list and I'm trying to get a rough estimate of the cost to make it livable. If I could find a house like the sea turtle house except with a nice yard, more tile and less laminate, then that would be great.