Obviously, the realtor never heard of Centralia, PA.
Posted on 06/27/2020 4:50:17 PM PDT by kevcol
Some matches and a little gasoline will take care of it.
Split Level. Part split part level.
At the rate that people are abandoning the NYC metro area, it will be down to $60k in no time.
Honestly that’s nothing. I’ve brought back a LOT worse. I don’t see any holes in the floor so that’s a plus.
Value is in the eye of the beholder.
For myself, I have no desire to live in NY, SF, etc. If I were offered this property for free, but without the right to sell it, I’d say no.
OMG now that was funny!!!! Thank you
That does it, I’m selling ours for $125M!
Gee, and I thought my son’s new house was dirty.
You could have done surgery in it compared to this mess.
I sent the link to all on my email list.
We LOVE fixer-uppers! LOL!
I wonder if the company that remediated Love Canal is still around.
Just needs some ship-lap.
Jeez - even if it wasn’t all overgrown and dirty it would still be a piece of sh!t! Look at that bathtub and the cabinets. And that tile - are you kidding me?!?! I’m gonna barf!
Crap is crap - and this is CRAP!
Believe it or not, for that area of Queens NY, that price is not that far off (still high though), even in the condition that the house is in.
A half-million to $600,000 is probably what you'll see it sell for, if it's bought.
“Fixer upper.”
Ummm. Terror downer!
(Scary!)
It will probably cost, in addition, at least the asking price for hazardous waste abatement including asbestos.
It will end up costing a total of 1.6M just to buy it and tear it down.
Obviously, the realtor never heard of Centralia, PA.
BTW, I will bet that the next owners of that neglected house will be Chinese. They will turn it into a multi-family home full of illegals. That's what they've been doing in Queens for quite a while. They buy normal co-op apartments and divvy them up with curtain walls, they buy houses and immediately add another story, etc. Just what an immensely overpopulated area needs.
So have I. One was a house that had had up to 40 cats for over forty years. You needed a chain saw to cut the stench. You literally had to take a breath of fresh air, hold it, go look, then run out to breath again. The ammonia from cat urine in the air was so strong your eyes were burning before you got out!
I hired ServiceMaster to get the stench out. They used a spray fog they use in building where human remains have been found after decomposing for months to years. They wouldn’t guarantee it for cats but were willing to give it a try. It was deadly poison, and they sealed the house, then two men in bunny space suits went in and put a fog so dense one had to lead the other out following a rope! The fog leaked out where ever the seal wasn’t good and they slapped duct tape on the leaks. 48 hours later it was safe to re-enter. I was shocked. 95% of the stench was gone! Amazing. What was left was in the upholstered furniture, which went straight to a dumpster.
I then hired ServiceMaster/Servepro to wash the house from ceilings to floors. Everything. Inside and out. A kitchen I thought was green turned out to be sky blue. . . cat urine spray, floor to ceiling, had changed the color. Carpets were pulled and sent the dumpster. Hardwood antique furniture was restored. Walnut hardwood floors, ditto. Backs of leather bound books carefully cleaned and leather treated. What was salvageable was salvaged, what wasn’t went in the dumpster.
Expensive, but worth every penny. ServiceMaster said it was the worst cleanup they’d ever done. They said a fire or flood was easier!
I did consider a judicious arson in passing. . .
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