It wasn’t a fixer, I just want to upgrade it to my taste. 8000 sq-ft lot is pretty big, but how big is the actual yard? The pool is your main culprit for most of your cost though. I bet that’s ~$60k of your total cost right there. Most houses do not have swimming pool, so if you buy resale, you might end up having to put in a pool anyways. Also, to find a house w/ the right size pool, the right kind of plantation shutter, the right flooring in the resale market is pretty hard if not impossible. Everybody’s tastes are different. I can see flooring, shutter, and decoration/furniture being around $40k, if you have expensive tastes. Top of the line bamboo (Taragren bamboo) goes for $10/sq-ft (installed) and if you have a 3000 sq-ft house, that’s about $30k right there. Shutters can easily be $5-10k if you have lots of windows too.