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For an different perspective, I love having a shithole house that I'm completely rebuilding! Its given me a huge sense of satisfaction from learning all the skills as I go along and bringing the house back to life but exactly how I want it.
I had a smaller starting budget to this and my options were basically limited to
- shithole terraced house in good location
- good (ish) terraced house in shithole location
- small flat in good location (and I hate living in flats)
IMO tired houses that just need a bit of updating take much longer to do up than shithole ones because theres nothing that cant wait till next week/month. As long as you dont have kids, theres no great hardship in "camping" inside a bedroom or 2 upstairs while you take a hammer to the rest (especially with summer coming up). Once you have a bedroom as a safe space and a bathroom to keep yourself clean, the rest is just decadent luxuries.
These old Bristol victorian terraces are simple beasts made of dirt and wood and covered in countless layers of gloss paint and woodchip wallpaper. Perfect first time project houses :)
edit: but i would avoid that house in shaftesbury av tho
- shithole terraced house in good location
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@popdown shaftesbury av one is off the list for sure. That's a really interesting perspective.
Chesterfield road in St Andrews has a busy bit where buses go down then on to Cromwell road, but a lovely quiet bit too with some ridiculous houses.This has just gone up in the good bit, but nowhere to keep/clean bikes.
This has been up since October, and has dropped 10k in that time. Way expensive for what it is even now, garage is shit and in the wrong place, it is dated (old guy lived there last 2o years and has now moved to Brighton), the outside space is weird and shit, needs bathroom/kitchen, redecorating and new light fittings, epc D, GFF has a private courtyard garden. On the plus side, could add value and next door is identical but has a converted loft
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To add to what aggi and silly_savage said. If your budget over around 350k you are defintely not limited to 'doer uppers'. My place is eastville (less than 10min cycle to St werbs, 15 to the centre and walk to centre in 30-40mins) was was 235k in 2019 and good to go, 3 bed (2bed made to 3 so one room is v small) with garden, just improving what we want. House in my road sold for 245 this year, seemed to be in decent condition, just need updating.
Maybe just need to widen the search a bit? St werbs and montpelier are nice but living in shithole/building site will be fucking shite!