I think the yard and location was all it was good about it. To make it work for us it would have required a lot of work, and perhaps we would have been better off tearing it to the ground and building a nice 2 story small house on it.
First thing – the bedrooms. There is no way those bedrooms were the dimensions stated – weird shaped (corners were cut for example). I know that for a fact since we live in a 3 bdr with the exact same dimensions – and I checked those in my house. We couldn’t have even fit all the furniture. It was more like a 2 SMALL bdr + office. Not enough if you have kids. An additional good bedroom was required. Second – kitchen was a disaster. It needed to be redone immediately as the cabinets were broken, and tiles missing. BTW, it fell out of escrow after an inspection and we’ve hear there was a water leak somewhere, not surprising. Anyway, kitchen was WAY too tiny. But the sizes of bedrooms and kitchen was the real deal breaker.
Then, it had a lot of termite damage; garage was a half-a$$ job – made of planks! No way one can fit 2 cars in that garage either.
Trees were way too close to the house, including a ficus and driveway was already raised by roots. It probably was affecting the foundation too.
The drainage of the soil and patio was an issue too. there was some mold in spots as well.
Tiles everywhere made it very cold but that wasn’t a deal breaker. Very nice yard and large family and living (family rm was clearly an addition, as it was one of the bedrooms)
Probably need it at least 100K work done to make it nice and still the space wouldn’t have been enough for us.
Otherwise the location and neighborhood was nice, but this house simply wasn’t worth the trouble, even it would have been 300K. There is no way in hell that house goes for 500K. This was not a cosmetic fixer for us.
