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re: America had a love affair with ‘fixer-upper’ homes. That may be over
Posted on 7/17/26 at 11:15 am to McLemore
Posted on 7/17/26 at 11:15 am to McLemore
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i've had to do two things at our property this year that i absolutely could not do on my own: replace a deep well pump and some significant repairs to a steeply pitched metal roof (a fall would probably result in death or paralysis). Both were very expensive (though not what I'd consider out of line for the work).
I had a couple of older black guys come out and put my well pump in. They had to pop the roof off the well house. They got it done quite inexpensively.
Yours was probably deeper though.
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Posted on 7/17/26 at 11:17 am to chryso
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New builds are shoddily made crap.
Not necessarily. A lot of it comes down to the builder's foreman and how many houses they're running at the same time. The last new build I did, the foreman was going through ball cancer treatment, and had 2x as many houses as he should have. That resulted in me finding shite like a chimney vent that went up at 90 degrees, turned left, and then angled down for about two feet before going 90 degrees straight up. While I'm not a home inspector, physics seems to dictate that would have been a great way to suffocate everyone in my house overnight.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 11:37 am to Paul Allen
Good, leaves the good stuff for people like me (although I'm retired from all that now).
Got my 30 acre Va farm off foreclosure (2019 - yes lucky). Been through many fix / rent / flips since the 90's.
Wife and I looked at the house, it was totally trashed inside by the prior immigrant farmers. People we know were horrified - "walk away". Wife and I looked at it and said, "it ain't too bad". Now it's all worth three times what we paid for it. Not that I would sell - it's my forever home now.
Got my 30 acre Va farm off foreclosure (2019 - yes lucky). Been through many fix / rent / flips since the 90's.
Wife and I looked at the house, it was totally trashed inside by the prior immigrant farmers. People we know were horrified - "walk away". Wife and I looked at it and said, "it ain't too bad". Now it's all worth three times what we paid for it. Not that I would sell - it's my forever home now.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:06 pm to Paul Allen
Why is covid capitalized? It's not a proper name.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:10 pm to Bonnie Blue
Good catch, Bonnie Blue.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:20 pm to Paul Allen
Translation: H-1B applicants (Indians) don't want to fix up homes, they just want a new home to absolutely trash and then move into another one.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:26 pm to Paul Allen
I did a fixer upper. Pure regret. A money pit.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:26 pm to chrome_daddy
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Good, leaves the good stuff for people like me (although I'm retired from all that now).
Got my 30 acre Va farm off foreclosure (2019 - yes lucky). Been through many fix / rent / flips since the 90's.
Wife and I looked at the house, it was totally trashed inside by the prior immigrant farmers. People we know were horrified - "walk away". Wife and I looked at it and said, "it ain't too bad". Now it's all worth three times what we paid for it. Not that I would sell - it's my forever home now.
In 5 years, there will be a massive wave of completely destroyed homes from the foreign horde. Around DFW, it's going to be make people bloody rich.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:32 pm to Paul Allen
It's not a lately thing.
Thirty years ago it was a thing in several states we lived in. Realtors priced fixer uppers accordingly.
Thirty years ago it was a thing in several states we lived in. Realtors priced fixer uppers accordingly.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:47 pm to dinner roll
Fixer upper are money pits if you hire people to do everything.
I bought a fixer upper in 2019. Learned how to do a lot of house stuff myself. The skills I learned are invaluable
I bought a fixer upper in 2019. Learned how to do a lot of house stuff myself. The skills I learned are invaluable
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:56 pm to Paul Allen
ZILLOW is a piece of shite system. Far from accurate and all too often unreliable. Zillow has struggled for 20 years to become the end all be all of real estate market data and real estate sales.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 12:56 pm to Paul Allen
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first-time buyers embraced the idea of trading sweat equity for a lower purchase price.
This is a BS statement. Sweat equity is not hiring people to do all the work to renovate a house. Of course, younger people consider it “sweat equity” and complain that even fixer-uppers are too expensive. Yeah, if you pay people to do everything.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 1:09 pm to Paul Allen
Aren't you gay? Most of yall love fixer uppers..
Posted on 7/17/26 at 1:18 pm to UptownJoeBrown
There is a lot of value in fixer upper’s if you have basic skills.
I bought a fixer upper in a great area and sold it in worse shape than I bought it. We didn’t lose our arse because it was still a great area and lot but the work we were putting into it got out of hand. 80+ year old house. Floors not level, walls not square, original wiring, lattice and plaster walls, rotting galvanized plumbing.
Lot of value but you have to be realistic about your abilities especially if you are going to live in it while working on shite.
I bought a fixer upper in a great area and sold it in worse shape than I bought it. We didn’t lose our arse because it was still a great area and lot but the work we were putting into it got out of hand. 80+ year old house. Floors not level, walls not square, original wiring, lattice and plaster walls, rotting galvanized plumbing.
Lot of value but you have to be realistic about your abilities especially if you are going to live in it while working on shite.
This post was edited on 7/17/26 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 7/17/26 at 1:20 pm to MobileJosh
Do we have a problem here?
Posted on 7/17/26 at 1:24 pm to Paul Allen
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Do we have a problem here?
By problem, do you mean gay sex?
Posted on 7/17/26 at 1:28 pm to migui8618
I highly doubt that you would have the wherewithal nor the guts to say that to my face.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 1:39 pm to Paul Allen
you want him to gay sex your face?
Posted on 7/17/26 at 2:30 pm to TheFlyingTiger
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here's plenty of fixer uppers made from virgin timber all over the country... in places you don't wanna live, and there's your issue. there's definitely some money to be made buying (formerly)beautiful old homes for their bones, but you'll have to go into hellscapes that haven't yet been razed.
Present, my whole block was abandoned except for me and my neighbor. And he just left one day. Beautiful bones though, the whole neighborhood. Now it’s filled with families, I refinanced during covid took a bunch of equity out and did a whole house renovation.
Posted on 7/17/26 at 3:54 pm to chinhoyang
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Yours was probably deeper though.
I always forget the depth but we watched the two old brothers chain smoke some brand of cigarettes I don’t think I’d ever seen before and pull up a big pile of 6’ PVC pipes for a very long time. One was missing a finger which my 5yo stared at and is still talking about. They got to the pump and were amused that their dad had installed it 25+ years ago. They recognized his handwriting on the plate.
I guess theoretically I could have done it but I’d probably still be there pulling out pipe by hand. They had a bed-mounted crane thingy.
This post was edited on 7/17/26 at 3:58 pm
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