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misfitmorgan
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The mill street property is nice and the view is gorgeous. The house needs major updates, a new furnace, part of the foundation on the enclosed porch fixed, ingress/egress windows in the two basement bedrooms(only ones in the house), new windows and a new roof. The garage needs a new roof and a window fixed. Both the house and garage need new siding and possibly some insulation work. The barn needs some foundation work. All out buildings besides the barn need to be torn down, the corral need to be taken down. So that means a house the garage and a barn and we would need 100% new fencing. That would be ok but with all the issues a CU is not gonna mortgage it. The current owner bought this place with cash for 70k without any type of appraisal. The actual apprasial value would only be around 50k even with the new barn roof and he is asking 85k. The realtor brought up maybe doing owner finance but even if we did that we would have a high interest rate and by the time we fixed the issues we would have well over 130k into the place and it would still only be worth 85-90k. So i love the view but it just doesnt make sense.
So tomorrow we will go to the other place......this one
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sa...056,-82.154389,43.956247,-84.06601_rect/8_zm/
Not my favorite location but do-able. I can get hi-speed internet there so thats one problem solved. The 2 car garage has a full cement floor and room for a workbench or some deep freezers. There is a breezeway/mud room, two livings rooms a small back deck. There is a large workshop, a funny building they are calling a barn which is not, and a kinda odd carport turn into a wood shed thing. So livestock shelter is needed. The acerage was clear cut so it is left with stumps, logs they didnt want and over grown with autumn olive and russian willow(luckily goats eat that like crazy) so it would need to be slowly cleaned up. The soil needs amendment but that need is from the property being basically woods until 2yrs ago. The house needs updates and the basement has a small amount of water in it. The upstairs of the house is 1600sqft and the basement is 900sqft.
The property has a pond, grapevines, an orchard, rhubarb patch, asparagus patch, berry bushes and some nicer landscaping around the house.
So we shall see.
So tomorrow we will go to the other place......this one
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sa...056,-82.154389,43.956247,-84.06601_rect/8_zm/
Not my favorite location but do-able. I can get hi-speed internet there so thats one problem solved. The 2 car garage has a full cement floor and room for a workbench or some deep freezers. There is a breezeway/mud room, two livings rooms a small back deck. There is a large workshop, a funny building they are calling a barn which is not, and a kinda odd carport turn into a wood shed thing. So livestock shelter is needed. The acerage was clear cut so it is left with stumps, logs they didnt want and over grown with autumn olive and russian willow(luckily goats eat that like crazy) so it would need to be slowly cleaned up. The soil needs amendment but that need is from the property being basically woods until 2yrs ago. The house needs updates and the basement has a small amount of water in it. The upstairs of the house is 1600sqft and the basement is 900sqft.
The property has a pond, grapevines, an orchard, rhubarb patch, asparagus patch, berry bushes and some nicer landscaping around the house.
So we shall see.
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