Thursday, August 17

Welcome to Valleywood Dr.



This is the home that we selected to place an "Offer to Purchase."
This home was built in 1988, is one floor with 3 bedrooms & 2 full baths, 2 car garage, deck, and needs work. We were deliberately looking for a home that could give us some projects to do with fixing it up some....within our knowledge level of course tho. For example in this home, the vinyl kitchen flooring obviously has been just "thrown down." It was not glued or trimmed, but I had no doubt that we could definitely do a better job replacing something. The carpets were all old and every room, door, closet, etc would need painting. The kitchen has an island with an old stove in it that is clearly a fire hazard due to lack of safe walking room around it and is absent any type of venting. Both of issues would of course have to be addressed quickly. There is a french door in the dining room leading to the deck in the backyard that was poorly installed and left without exterior trim. (This leaves the interior frame of the opening for the door exposed to weather....ie rain!)

Having stated all these negatives, you might wonder, as my own Father did, "Why do you want a house like that?" As I stated, we deliberately want a house that has some projects for us to spend time on. We enjoy these kinds of things and this is why we chose this house over the other one we were looking at to make an offer on. The other house was "move in ready" and other than some landscaping there was nothing to do. This house does have many positive features that we were looking for. It has a nice back yard, altho we have discovered that at least one of the trees with have to be cut down and possibly two. There is plenty of room and it has the larger kitchen we want.

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