[quote=Blogstar]”But the joe6p family of five I just described isn’t helping their surrounding values”
That’s it, it is not there problem to help surrounding values. I lived in Normal Heights and owned two houses there, both purchased as fixers. The people who couldn’t fix their houses up and there were plenty, never had anything but sympathy from me as long as they were nice people, which very many of them were. Mine were always very tidy but that did not change my views.[/quote]
I have many senior citizen neighbors on fixed incomes who cannot do major repairs but are nevertheless, “tidy.” This isn’t who I am referring to.
I’m referring to the new FTB “joe6p” who has attempted many projects on his property visible from the street and many months later has appeared to have given up on them. It’s not always about money. If one has painted half of his/her house, they already have the paint. Stucco patch, ESP the kind you mix yourself, is CHEAP. Digging out bermuda by the root if you don’t want it is FREE. This particular property is just a comedy of errors …. typical with a resident FTB who doesn’t really know what they’re doing … and isn’t very motivated to complete the many projects they started.
There are more out there just like him.
Had a “flipper” purchased this place instead, it would have been brought up to “neighborhood standards” (and even perhaps a bit beyond) within 60 days of closing and promptly listed for ~170K more than they paid for it.
