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Place we visited yesterday is a 2 bed semi with a biggish walled garden and substantial hard standing in the front which could be joined up as one large space. The house is also set further back from the street than the neighbours (and also down a hill) so there's potential for a ground floor extension that wouldn't block any sea views. There's also an existing (albeit dilapidated) conservatory to one side.
The garden is completely overgrown and the hard standing has been used as a dump: all sorts of rotten furniture etc piled up. There's also a lot of crap inside the building which was previously tenanted and in a bit of disrepair. There's mould on several spots which the estate agent claims is largely condensation from poor ventilation. Without a survey there's no way of knowing. It's double glazed but not the type with vents built in - there are instead those little wall mounted things nearby.
The kitchen to back garden door is kicked in and boarded over with chipboard. The electrics probably need redoing (it's metered for starters). The boiler is new at least. There's a gas fire which needs to come out. New kitchen and bathroom. We'd want to re-do the floors (rip out the shit and put in wood). Basically a fuck load of work.
We're told if we put in an offer 10 grand below the asking price (which is already 20 or 30 lower than comparable 'nice' houses in the area) we'd get it.
Still even if it was structurally sound at that price I don't know what our cash flow would be like after paying for it and we'd want a fair bit of work done before we even moved.
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