On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:56:55 -0500, George
wrote:

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.

First impressions is usually a turn-off for some people. I can look
past the first impression - motorcycles stored in living room, oil all
over the carpets or a place that looks like a nightclub discotheque,
black walls, tubs used to wash off car parts, etc.

A sewer plant or junk yard next door I have to pass, though.

The "bones" of the home is the important thing I looked for when I was
in the buying years.