On 2/9/2013 10:22 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:34:41 -0500, Norminn
wrote:

On 2/9/2013 7:47 AM, HeyBub wrote:
A web site devoted to real estate (and tips), home improvement, tax
considerations, etc. It's worth a look for ideas and comparisons.

http://www.zillowblog.com/


Zillow was our main tool when we were looking for our house. With
interior pix of most homes, it eliminated facing realtors to sort out
the truly ugly, trashy stuff....never seen such ugly wallpaper in my
life...one house had some version of red/green wallpaper in every room,
different upper half and lower half with a border thrown in. It would
have taken my remaining life expectancy to get rid of all the wallpaper.

Ended up with plain beige/vanilla, but for the mauve and gray in the
kitchen. Cozy, good shape, nice neighborhood.

So if two identical houses were offered and one had ugly wallpaper and
one was bland, you'd choose the bland even if the price difference was
huge?

Ugly can be a visual turn off, but you have to consider everything and
maybe get a great deal after the painter/wallpaper guy is done.




That always cracks me up on the various "house hunter" shows. It always
goes something like "well the price is really good but that purple paint
in the bedroom just isn't going to work so we don't want this house..."

Buy the place for $25k less and hire someone for $1k to paint the room
and be $24k ahead. Amazing how most people never use such simple
financial reasoning.