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Nina asked:
i’m moving into a new apt. and need to have the kitchen and bathroom redone, flooring too.
i’m moving into a new apt. and need to have the kitchen and bathroom redone, flooring too.
I_Love_McRedneck asked:
Nothing in the area has sold in the last year & nothing is currently on the market….SO how do you determine the asking price of a house? This relates to another question I posted earlier. I’m looking at buying a home where I feel the seller has overstated the value by about 25k, mainly because they claim the house has 4 bedrooms when it only has 2. I’m not willing to consider rooms in the basement without closets as bedrooms.
I’ve put in an offer that’s very fair for a 2 bedroom home. This house has been on the market (and sitting empty) for quite some time now. A year ago, the asking price would have been fair, but not in today’s market.
How do I determine an offer price, and how did the seller even come up with the asking price to begin with?
I want to protect my investment, but the house needs about 50k in renovations, kitchen & bathrooms (1 bath isn’t even usable). I couldn’t sell the house at a profit in 10 years if I bought @ asking price + made improvements. HELP!
Nothing in the area has sold in the last year & nothing is currently on the market….SO how do you determine the asking price of a house? This relates to another question I posted earlier. I’m looking at buying a home where I feel the seller has overstated the value by about 25k, mainly because they claim the house has 4 bedrooms when it only has 2. I’m not willing to consider rooms in the basement without closets as bedrooms.
I’ve put in an offer that’s very fair for a 2 bedroom home. This house has been on the market (and sitting empty) for quite some time now. A year ago, the asking price would have been fair, but not in today’s market.
How do I determine an offer price, and how did the seller even come up with the asking price to begin with?
I want to protect my investment, but the house needs about 50k in renovations, kitchen & bathrooms (1 bath isn’t even usable). I couldn’t sell the house at a profit in 10 years if I bought @ asking price + made improvements. HELP!
silky_vixen asked:
We are moving to Ontario, in the Owen Sound area (within an hours radius from there) and are trying to decide whether to build or buy and then renovate. What would cost more…to build outright (including cost of land) or to buy and then do quite a few renovations…ie bedrooms, bathrooms, laundry room???? We want to do either out in the country side.
We are moving to Ontario, in the Owen Sound area (within an hours radius from there) and are trying to decide whether to build or buy and then renovate. What would cost more…to build outright (including cost of land) or to buy and then do quite a few renovations…ie bedrooms, bathrooms, laundry room???? We want to do either out in the country side.
Hot Mom ALERT! asked:
we have only lived in this house for 3 or 4 months. we’re having plumbing probs so I called the landlord (even though we’re supposed to be responsible for repairs) just to see what advice she could give me. She was against me calling someone right away, (surprisingly) and told me “it’s always better to fix it yourself.”
well, we tried to, and I had to I have someone come and look and they said the plumbing isn’t even up to code. We can pay like 500 to fix the prob for now but in order to get things where they SHOULD be, we’re lookin at 1000+
I know she’s going to give me a hard time with this, can we break the agreement since the plumbing isn’t even up to code? I mean I don’t mind fixing things but if it’s not even up to code.
oh, and my husband and I have already discussed not staying here / not buying the house after the 2 yrs because he has a long commute, but were planning on making the best of it until this happened. And we seem to find things wrong more and more…any advice?
we have only lived in this house for 3 or 4 months. we’re having plumbing probs so I called the landlord (even though we’re supposed to be responsible for repairs) just to see what advice she could give me. She was against me calling someone right away, (surprisingly) and told me “it’s always better to fix it yourself.”
well, we tried to, and I had to I have someone come and look and they said the plumbing isn’t even up to code. We can pay like 500 to fix the prob for now but in order to get things where they SHOULD be, we’re lookin at 1000+
I know she’s going to give me a hard time with this, can we break the agreement since the plumbing isn’t even up to code? I mean I don’t mind fixing things but if it’s not even up to code.
oh, and my husband and I have already discussed not staying here / not buying the house after the 2 yrs because he has a long commute, but were planning on making the best of it until this happened. And we seem to find things wrong more and more…any advice?
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