Yes. Without question. You can always close off part of the house. Close the vents. Use for storage, etc. I'm honestly not sure how that is even a question, TBH. Unless price is an issue.
2100 right now. Ideally I would like about 2500, but property is more important. So I would be ok with 2100, just with land and in the country. Finally got the wife thinking the same way, so this will hopefully become reality.
Well, either way If you can afford it, and the house is not some massive "money pit" project, then yes, I would still take it without question. Who knows what the future might hold? And if you are getting it on the cheap, it could be an amazing investment property in the future.
Dream house vs dream property, the property is winning out every time. You can change, remodel, rebuild over time. Location, location, location.
tear down/block off half of the house. Remodel/fix up the other half. Check the Foundation! A house is only as good as it's foundation. But for the right price wheel a mobile home in there until you can fix up the house. Done.
Matt, 1. Are you comfortable with the price with the home in its present condition? 2. Can you afford to make the improvements, payments, and taxes? 3. Is it what you want? If the answers are yes, to heck with what others think, do it.
with that much square footage, you could always turn part into a B&B and have the place paying for itself in not time.
2200 sq ft and a basement. We have 2 kids. No limit on size of house. . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
This is all a very, VERY testing the waters situation. At this point it's more likely to NOT happen than it is to happen. That being said, 1. Yes. Most of what needs done, I'm fully capable of doing. 2. Yes. However, I'm still of the school of thought that cheaper is ALWAYS better:D 3. Sort of. There's NO way I would build a home anywhere near that sq. footage. It's a bit absurd, and I actually feel embarrassed to say I'm considering it on a public forum (I think it sounds excessive and materialistic living or buying a home this large). If I bought a piece of ground and built my home there, this is not the home I would build. I'll give the basic background so you all don't think I'm nuts. Those of you who have been members here long enough know I've done a lot of work to our first home (purchased in Feb. 2009). We bought this place knowing it would never be our "forever" home. While I know it cannot be expanded any further and it's perfectly sized for us and one child, we know it won't suffice past that point. I really like our lot, our barn, and all of the outdoor living space work we've done. However, there are plenty of things we want in our next house that this one can't give us, so we know when the time comes, we would move on. We don't have a kid yet, so it's a bit (ok VERY MUCH) haste to even consider buying a home yet. Our plan was to find land first. Buy it and sit on it. When the time was ready, we would build. I've been watching the market (literally daily) since before we bought our home (I'm a bit obsessed with real estate), and it's becoming unfortunately clear that land in this area just isn't going to come for sale often, or ever due to the major gas exploration in the area. One piece of ground over 30 acres has gone for sale in the last 6 years where we want to live and that was last November. I dropped the ball on organizing finances, and lost it at a great price to someone else. I have since become much more proactive in trying to find land, using our online county database to locate parcels on a map, look at topography, recent prices paid for the land, etc., and contacted 12 landowners so far. Shot down all 12 times. So, this listing comes up a few weeks ago. It caught my eye because in the house description is says "other lots available." That caught my eye, so we drove over, took a look at the lots, and while it was only 8 acres, you were on top of the world up there. I was beginning to start to wonder if I should just settle for something that small. The house was never of any interest. Yesterday, we went to the open house, and my wife loved it. I'm indifferent. I don't need 6000 sq. ft (why would you??), nor do I really want it. However, we know a little about the owner's situation, and he's very hard up for money, in poor health, and just wants out of the home as it's too big and costly for him. He wants to sell the house with all of the lots (would total 14.3 acres) as a bundle rather than separate and is very flexible according to the realtor. The realtor obviously can't disclose this, but she looked at me once and said, "seriously just make ANY offer...we know there's not really a large market for this type of house." I'm waiting to hear back about some major things (gas rights being one of them). I'm not ready to move, and don't want to move yet. The ONLY reason I'm making this absurd consideration is location (the view is seriously absolutely ridiculous, and very private), and I'm not sure what the likelihood of finding 10+ acres in our area is going to be in the next 3-5 years when we will NEED to move because of kids. Most likely he won't accept the offer I have in mind (which I don't care), and there's A LOT of questions, calculations, figures, etc., that need run before this is even being taken serious on my end. I was just hoping someone in here lived in or would consider a home this big so they wouldn't make me feel bad:D
Years ago, the wife and I went to a little B&B isolated along a river and loved it. That B&B is usually booked up to a year in advance. Then, we looked at a huge place once that would have worked square footage and layout wise as a B&B, but there was nothing there to draw the customers in so we passed. A 6000 sq ft house with a view could very well be a money maker waiting to be realized.
1775 Sq ft, ranch house with a finished basemnet of 600 Sq ft and unfinished basement (utility room) of another 600 Sq Ft. I'ts just the wife and I so this is all we need. We bought this 4 + beroom, 1-1/2 bath house when the kids were small, so it worked out nice. The wife is saying we should sell and downsize ?
True, but it sounds like he wants a place to raise a family. Not a 24/7 job with strangers living under the same roof.
