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[vacerator]

Oh, and it has

a wooden deck, requiring washing and staining. We have a 20 ft. by 20 ft. brick paver patio. When a brick paver shifts, I simply lift it out, add a bit if sand under, and replace. Then I sweep sand across the surface and seal it every few years to keep weeds at bay.

 

[lorainfurniture]

Houses

I will say that house is a bit too “McMansion” for me. A lot of long days shopping for decor at target with that one. I do like the kitchen appliances, I believe they are kitchenaid.

And John L is totally right. Their previous washer threw a bearing in 2 years and they bought a speed queen. I get customers like that all the time. Errr, well at least I used to.

 

[askolover]

This is one of my dream homes, not far from me.

http://https//www.rippavilla.org/

 

[vacerator]

Nice Greg!

Even my Joe likes it, and he's not much for old antique anything.
My folks (both deceased now) have a Victorian 6 ft. long gated top, cathedral arched beveled glass 3 door china cabinet. It's a family heirloom, but only us or my youngest sister has room for it. She didn't really want it, but I convinced her cleaning it won't consume her life. Her electronic furnace air cleaner is shot. I told her husband to throw out the inside cells and get a passive pleated 3M type filter.
She has way less dust now.

 

[foraloysius]

Listing?

https://www.realtor.com/realestatea...terling-Heights_MI_48312_M49501-13662#photo24

 

[vacerator]

Yes Louis,

that's it. Too bad the inside isn't a reflection of the exterior.
My step daughter has a quad level like the grey one in the photo above it.
Sterling Heights is a young city. Incorporated in 1968. The last farm was subdivided in 1998.
Grew during the white flight years from Detroit following the 1967 riot.
It is the only suburb which grew from north to south. Warren grew south to north.
Hundreds of thousands of GM, Ford, and Chrysler employees were buying in during the tail end of the baby boom years through 1980.

 

[mattl]

Wow, that is really an unattractive price for a so so house.

 

[vacerator]

Yes Matt,

and the brokers think because of low inventory they can ask those prices.
A family needs a home, but paying so much for one which needs a large budget to update will put the value of that house under water. It will never appreciate enough to recoup the money.
This area does not have a market like Toronto for example, and it's even more difficult for folks up there to afford a starter home.
Other places also have a housing shortage. It drives up prices. The working poor end up renting.
I know of a Chaldean family who lost their store and house in the recession. they were renting a house, and the landlord hiked the rent so high, they had to move to an apartment. They are upper middle aged. The father is a tailor. At least his sons have found better jobs. The former landlord used to live there, and is also Chaldean, more successful. So much for helping out one of your own.
The house they were renting has been sold, but is also mediocre inside.

 

[wft2800]

That place is such a McMansion. It needs at least a radical remodelling (if not total replacement) by this chap...

http://www.benpentreath.com

 

[vacerator]

Richard, are you being coy?

Those are gorgeous homes! Palaces!
A McMansion is a large house done quickly, with cheap low end fixtures and finishes.
Perhaps Britain has fewer than Australia, Canada, and the USA.
I even think Hyacinth Bucket's home is more tastefully done than many larger American homes are.
My parents first home where I grew up was built in 1943 for returning WW2 military buyers. While it was only 980 square feet on a basement, it had wet plaster, cove ceilings, cathedral arches in the lounge (living room) door way openings, nice mouldings and trim, red oak floors, and a nice ceramic tile bath, and kitchen. Also a bay window. The front door was heavy wood with 3 window panes at the top. We do not have doors closing off our living rooms from the rest of the house. Well, at least not swinging doors. Some quality homes in the 1950's had pocket doors between the kitchen, dining, and living rooms.

 

[wft2800]

I live in a fairly ordinary 3-bedroom semi-detached suburban house south of London, but it was built in 1903-4 and, firstly, it's built VERY solidly, and secondly, there's a pleasant 'rightness' to it, no unnecessary ornament, no ostentation, no pretentious bullshit. Sadly, just the other side of the M25, in the stockbroker/Chelsea footballer belt, we've got an increasing number of McMansions - or gin palaces, as we call 'em. Give me a simple humble Georgian farmhouse any day.